Vacancy

Joe, where is Joseph Welch ("have you no decency") when you need him most. This guilt by association crap has got to stop!

Hope you read this post, Scherer.

Joe, here's hoping Scherer reads your post. He's nearly in "it would be irresponsible NOT to speculate mode again." Poor guy. Has he been palling around with Sprinkles Sidoti, again?

Clearly from now on a public servant must be prescient enough that his or her soul enter a fetus residing in a state devoid of controversial characters. Of course, failing this they must at least have the ability to unmeet anyone who could be construed at some point down the road as a negative association.

Dee hard to do if you're from Illinois, or from this planet.

Anagram for Rod Blagojevich: "Jihad Blog Cover." You fools!

Reposted for your perusal Joe. Note the marked difference in approach, and while they were not written by the same author, I'm sure not even you would claim that Carney would have written anything markedly different than Scherer. Obama. Bush. Let me think....what's the difference between the two? Can't quite put my finger on it.
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"Of course! It all makes perfect conspiratorial sense! Except for one thing: in this case some liberals are seeing broad partisan conspiracies where none likely exist."
(translation: sure theres smoke but come on people there's no fire here. Move along.)
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2007/01/17/running_massacre/
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"What's more, as far as anyone seems to know, Barack Obama has nothing to hide. He says he never talked to Gov. Blagojevich about any of this. So what's up? "
(translation: sure there's no fire here, but mind if I roll up the windows and hot box these right wing talking points?)
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/12/10/the-ongoing-investigation-thing/

You know, Hilary Clinton was originally from Illinois, too! I just know this all ties into TravelWhitewaterBlowjobGate somehow.
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Nice to see the media wakening from its slumber... hopefully they'll get around to, you know, scrutinizing the stuff the president actually does.

That f--ker Cincinnatus, he always posts stuff like 10 seconds before I do...

I notice no reporters are digging around for a Durbin-Blag connection. This whole thing is weird.

Thank you, Joe. It is driving me nuts. He gets called a "M*****F*****", along with multiple "F*** Him's" because he would only give Blago "appreciation" or "nothing" for appointing someone he wants and this makes him a crook or something.

I don't think the tapes could make it more crystal clear yet to hear the yapping heads, he was in on Blago's pay to play.

It is really starting to piss me off.

I live in Iowa and I visited Chicago over the summer - had a great time - I feel like I must be a crook now simply by proximity.

That's Mr. F@cker to you Elvis. Kidding.

Hee hee hee.

Let's see, was Obama behind the death of Studs Terkel, too?

Barack Obama comes from the same state as Rod Blagoyevich. That is really suspicious!

Truly "suspicious" indeed. That'd be like saying that because of Sarah Palin, all Republicans had a bottom-of-the-barrel IQ.

Joe:
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You know, this may seem irrelevant, but really, it's not!
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I was talking with the lady next door, and in the middle of our conversation, she reach into her pocket and pulled out a $5 bill.
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She said: "Wow! I had no idea that was in there!". Then, the sun came out from behind the clouds (this is Seattle...).
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I replied:
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"Look at it this way: The sun is out, gas is $1.67 a gallon, Obama's our new president (yes! I know...), and you just found five bucks! What more could you ask for?
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She laughed.
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And I still havn't changed my mind. FOX can go to hell...

great to have you back Joe. The worst has been the RNC chair demanding! that in the name of transparency Obama has to determine what the SEIU knew - and Ron Brownstein basically agreeing.

"That'd be like saying that because of Sarah Palin, all Republicans had a bottom-of-the-barrel IQ."
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That's only true of the Republicans who still think she's their wave of the future...

Finally the RNC sees a ray of hope! Maybe the Blago scandal will become 'Obama's Burden'. We could spend years complaining about all of the 'unanswered questions' we can dream up. Think of the fun we could have and the innuendo we could peddle.
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Maybe someone should call Ken Starr and see if he's still available. He worked out great last time. Got the president impeached for a BJ and the press pretty much ignored the conclusion of the investigation he was actually hired to do (i.e., Whitewater).
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Better get a memo off to Bush, though. It wouldn't look good if he pardoned the currently imprisoned Republican Illinois governor and didn't pardon the soon to be imprisoned Democratic one. Sorry Ryan.

Like I wrote earlier, people are burned out on the economy and the war. Bored media and sour Republicans ginning up an as yet unproven link between this scandal and Obama for the sake of making noise. Come back to me when you actually have proof that Obama was really aware of any of this. Until then, I remain unmoved.

Poor Mikey, to be mocked like that by Swampland's Elder Statesman.

Barack Obama hid Al Capone from his enemies in NY when he fell out w/ the Five Points gang and may have been behind the Valentine's Day massacre, or at least he won't refute the charges. He's also the guy that poked Jim McMahon in the eye w/ a pencil. He also wrote several of Chicago's albums(a bad thing) and was the one that pressured Lovie Smith into going w/ Rex Grossman and not going after Jeff Garcia.

But Joe!
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Haven't you read this completely responsible piece of pure fact-finding by some other writer no-one's heard of?
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I quote:
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...Fitzgerald is going to continue to follow the facts, which means many more questions for people close to Obama. So regardless of Obama's innocence, this will continue to be a burden for the president-elect and those around him. Politics, like life, is not fair.
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Don't you see, Joe? "Many more questions for people close to Obama" will magically appear out of thin air, relentlessly posed by angels, fairies and other invisible beings apparently responsible for the substance of our daily political discourse. The behavior of a vapid, disconnected national political press corps (and an individual writer or editor) has nothing to do with this phenomenon. It's just, you know, "life". It happens. We don't know why it's this way, we just know that it's "unfair". Oh well!~
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When pressed on the reasons for this bizarre set of events with no cause and no interested parties apart from innocent bystanders like himself, the young writer explained:
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"My point was not about Obama's guilt. My point was more basic: In politics, scandal has its own gravity, drawing in even the innocent...I am just describing the physics of political scandal."
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So you see, Joe, it isn't that there's something fundamentally wrong with an industry that happens to be specifically enumerated in the Constitution, assumed by our Founding Fathers to be tasked with (and consciences encumbered with) protected duties inextricably bound to the dissemination of truth --no, not at all!
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It's the very Laws of Nature that compel nauseatingly repetitive speculation and worthless smearing gossip into their flatulent creation!
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It's physics, don't you see, Joe? Like gravity...
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We, all of us --you and your young colleague the Newtonian savant, I and the rest of the dupe public, and Barack Obama the potentially land-deal-in-Arkensas-involved President-elect-- are all simply whistling spectators and gape-mouthed bystanders in this mechanical carnival over which we have no influence. It's the "physics of scandal", man!
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What gods would we imagine ourselves to be if we were to cry out into the machinery of this cold universe "Why? Why must it always be this way?", and expect an answer?
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Well, Joe? Is it or is it not inevitable that Barack Obama must be tainted with guilt? Is the political press corps squarely to blame for taking our national eye off of the ball in this time of crisis? Who is right: you (and I) or this genius colleague of yours?

Short 'N Sweet Joe...you nailed the whole thing in just one small paragraph! Thanks...

Btw, Joe... it's not just "cable news." Might want to check your own house, before throwing stones at the teevee:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1865370,00.html

"Can Obama Escape the Taint of Blagojevich?"

(And all of Scherer's posts, as well... as all have noted above.)