Don’t hold your breath
Wednesday, Aug 17, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller * Ain’t gonna happen…
No way is this gonna happen. No way. Blagojevich and Obama were never close. In fact, Rod left the 2004 Democratic National Convention in a huff because Obama was getting all the media attention. Rod saw himself as Illinois’ rising star, and he never got over the fact that Obama was the one who caught lightning in a bottle. Obama, for his part, mostly kept his distance from Blagojevich. They did share a fundraiser (Tony Rezko), but there wasn’t any other significant overlap to my recollection, so the former governor has nobody with strong Obama connections to make his case. And their families weren’t close, so Obama wouldn’t have a personal feel for their current pain. Also, Blagojevich was initially convicted of trying to sell Obama’s US Senate seat. A commutation or pardon would be seen by many tinfoil hat types as an admission that Obama was somehow in on it. Not to mention that US District Judge James Zagel did a pretty good job the other day of explaining why Blagojevich didn’t deserve a reduction in his sentence. And then there’s the pathetic response to the online petition. Nope.
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The people Blagojevich left behind
Monday, Aug 1, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller * The Sun-Times published a very good story about several former Rod Blagojevich staffers and insiders. Here are a few excerpts…
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