Posted by
David Zublick on Sunday, December 14, 2008 9:49:16 AM
The latest scandal involving Barack
Obama's senate seat and Illinois Governor Rod
Blagojevich threatens to erupt into something the likes of which has not been seen since the days of Watergate.
The
very fabric of this nation could be torn apart as Obama, who had
promised open government but has given us anything but, tries to make
us believe he had no direct discussions with
Blagojevich over who would succeed him in the Senate.
While
this notion is ludicrous on the surface, even if it were true, someone
in the Obama camp must have been negotiating with the governor over who
the new Senator would be.
Rahm Emanuel,
Obama's designated chief of staff, is the most likely suspect among those who would have been making backroom deals with
Blagojevich. While Emanuel denies that any kind of deal was struck over
Obama's preferred successor, it's obvious from taped conversations that he failed to report the offers to sell
Obama's seat to the highest bidder to authorities. Even if Emanuel turned
Blagojevich down flat, promising him nothing but gratitude for appointing
Obama's choice, the stench surrounding him can be smelled from miles away, and his silence on the matter is deafening.
Obama
claims he is conducting an internal investigation and will, in a matter
of days, release the results of that probe. Does anyone seriously
believe that
anyone's head will roll?
No,
if anything is to be discovered, it will be through the diligent
efforts of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and his team of crack
investigators. How this all plays out with the America people remains
to be seen. This could be a tremendous blow to the incoming Obama
regime, or it could roll off of his shoulders like every other piece of
information regarding his tainted past.
My guess is that this will go nowhere, just like The Reverend Wright, William Ayers, Tony
Rezko and Father
Pfleger stories. It will be blown off as a "distraction", the same as the constitutional crisis over
Obama's birth records. It will be relegated to the scrap heap of history as an asterisk which signifies nothing.
Nevertheless, the right thing to do would be for Emanuel to immediately step down as
Obama's
chief of staff. As a matter of fact, Obama himself should end this
presidential charade before it begins. The appearance of impropriety
itself is enough to warrant an end to this lunacy that has been the
Obama coronation.
It will not happen, of course. But for the sake of our nation, it should.
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