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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 9:20pm

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Patrick Fitzgerald is a straight shooter and I have had the pleasure of being in his courtroom...
 
{#Whisper}  The Patrick Fitzgerald in this case is not a judge, so he doesn't have a courtroom.  This Patrick Fitzgerald is employed by the scandal-ridden US Department of Justice.  Also, straight shooters don't tell whopping lies before news cameras.

If Fitz does not get a felony conviction, the legislature is going to look like a bunch of pikers.

No kidding!  And since the federal code doesn't have many misdemeanor options, I'll bet that Fitzgerald is praying hard that the threatened (by the GOP before the election) terrorist attack against Obama happens soon, to distract the world as he slips away like a thief in the night...


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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 5:14pm

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No, but I do love a toasted "everything bagel" with lox.

 
I LOVE everything bagels, hold the lox.

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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 5:12pm

 hippiechick wrote:

Oh, you're Jewish? Me too! {#Wink}

 

No, but I do love a toasted "everything bagel" with lox.
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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 5:07pm

 AE5X wrote:

Weirweinberg

 
Oh, you're Jewish? Me too! {#Wink}
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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:50pm

 hippiechick wrote:

So what's your last name, Smith?
 
Weirweinberg
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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:46pm

Patrick Fitzgerald is a straight shooter and I have had the pleasure of being in his courtroom, but I get the impression he is in deep water here. I think a conviction on anything significant is a 50-50 proposition at best. Fitz needs 12 jurors and Blago needs 1. It will not be hard for the (ex) governor to make his case in court. He is populist and charismatic, and performs well in settings like courtrooms.

If Fitz does not get a felony conviction, the legislature is going to look like a bunch of pikers.

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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:46pm

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And that beautiful-sounding name .
 
So what's your last name, Smith?

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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:42pm

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Cool, now I will ridicule him for his scar and his hair.

 

And that beautiful-sounding name <sarcasm off>.

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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:35pm

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"Don't cry for me, Argentina." :You won't have Dick Nixon Rod Blagojevich to kick around anymore."

And the next time he compares himself to Gandhi or Mandela or MLK Jr., I'm going to hurl my nachos.

 

You forgot one...
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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:33pm

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" I did not have sex with that woman " ..{#Lol}
 

"Don't cry for me, Argentina." :You won't have Dick Nixon Rod Blagojevich to kick around anymore."

And the next time he compares himself to Gandhi or Mandela, I'm going to hurl my nachos.
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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:28pm

 manbirdexperiment wrote:

Cool, now I will ridicule him for his scar and his hair.

 
I resemble that remark...

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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:27pm

Reporter:  "Did you ever consider resigning?"

Blagojevich:  "No, I did not."

Sadly he probably was forced to be "fired" so that he can collect unemployment insurance.  No matter how you feel about him, his two young daughters are innocent, and deserve at least the basics in life.


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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:26pm

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Rod Blagojevich is holding a news conference right now.  He seems renewed, like a great weight has been lifted from his shoulders.  He's in very good spirits, sharing his stage with local children who wanted to get on TV.  He's speaking coherently, and not over-emotionally.  Mighty gracious in defeat.

BTW, for those who have ridiculed him about his hair: he has a big scar on his forehead that extends down to the bridge of his nose, and almost to his left eye.  You can see the bottom of that scar clearly.  I imagine that if he didn't wear his hair that way, that people would look at him like he was a cyclops.

 
Frankly, he got my sympathy with that speech and I really agree with him.

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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:25pm

 Servo wrote:
Rod Blagojevich is holding a news conference right now.  He seems renewed, like a great weight has been lifted from his shoulders.  He's in very good spirits, sharing his stage with local children who wanted to get on TV.  He's speaking coherently, and not over-emotionally.  Mighty gracious in defeat.

BTW, for those who have ridiculed him about his hair: he has a big scar on his forehead that extends down to the bridge of his nose, and almost to his left eye.  You can see the bottom of that scar clearly.  I imagine that if he didn't wear his hair that way, that people would look at him like he was a cyclops.

 
Cool, now I will ridicule him for his scar and his hair.
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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:24pm

Rod Blagojevich is holding a news conference right now.  He seems renewed, like a great weight has been lifted from his shoulders.  He's in very good spirits, sharing his stage with local children who wanted to get on TV.  He's speaking coherently, and not over-emotionally.  Mighty gracious in defeat.

BTW, for those who have ridiculed him about his hair: he has a big scar on his forehead that extends down to the bridge of his nose, and almost to his left eye.  You can see the bottom of that scar clearly.  I imagine that if he didn't wear his hair that way, that people would look at him like he was a cyclops.


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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:23pm

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Rod is standing in front of his house and making a speech. He's taking it well, and still claiming that it was just a set up job.

 
" I did not have sex with that woman " ..{#Lol}

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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:20pm

Rod is standing in front of his house and making a speech. He's taking it well, and still claiming that it was just a set up job.
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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:16pm

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(Blagojevich) stands convicted by his own words, and by his own bizarre refusal afterwards to explain himself coherently or play by any known rules.
 
The same can be said for Daschle, and with a whole lot of evidence to back it up in Daschle's case.


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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 4:05pm

 Servo wrote:

You say that in jest (and ignorance), but as a resident of Illinois I've been infuriated by a General Assembly that has refused to do its job on a regular basis.

Right now the news is talking about "now Illinois can do something about its budget deficit", as if it was the Governor's job to submit a balance budget to the Governor.  No...that job is, and always has been that of the General Assembly!

In this game of political brinkmanship, Tom Daschle and his cronies won, and the People of Illinois lost.

 

In the scales of ethics and responsibility, let's put Daschle in one side and Blago in the other, and...let the psychostasia begin!

Blagojevich can play the populist friend of the people all he likes. The revuslion against him is practically universal. He stands convicted by his own words, and by his own bizarre refusal afterwards to explain himself coherently or play by any known rules. We're not discussing Marlon Brando, here (though we are talking similar eccenticities). There is, and should be, a severe standard applied to prominent public servants. They serve at our pleasure. When they screw up—and Blago did so, however you want to slice it—it's dulce et decorum that they go, and go swiftly.  
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Posted: Jan 29, 2009 - 3:57pm

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  I think you should demand his "political inferiors" respect Blago's authoritah!
 
You say that in jest (and ignorance), but as a resident of Illinois I've been infuriated by a General Assembly that has refused to do its job on a regular basis.

Right now the news is talking about "now Illinois can do something about its budget deficit", as if it was the Governor's job to submit a balance budget to the Governor.  No...that job is, and always has been that of the General Assembly!

In this game of political brinkmanship, Tom Daschle and his cronies won, and the People of Illinois lost.


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