I am sure that his team was making a case for someone, and it appears that they quickly realized that the governor was not someone they wanted to negotiate with.  

Today the twerp was claiming that Obama didn't have control of his people.  "Just whose people," I asked loudly, knowing that Blagojevich was hardly any friend of Obama's.  "Oh, he (and Axelrod) are just making Mafia-style statements."  Next thing you know, Hannity will be preaching that Jesse Jackson, Jr. or Sr. was Obama's bagmen. Idiocy reigns.

Any politician right now cursing out Obama, on tape or off, would be out of his mind.  The public is giving the man a lot of leash to let him work.  Obama ain't even set foot permanently in the White House for the Faux Noise-makers to try to hang a scandale du jour. around his neck.  I will say, however, that it doesn't look good for not only Blagojevich but for any one of the numbered candidates who was caught on tape playing footsie for the post.

And if the Reverend and/or his son is knee-deep in this muck, as I am surmising, both of them will not live this down.  Jesse's ambulance chasing and womanizing apart from his years-long advocacy have garnered more embarrassment than praise lately.

An untypical Negro

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I've seen it happen a number of times in democracies (or "democracies") and monarchies/dictatorships. Good person with great ideas for the country and its people goes into politics "to make a difference". If he wants to have a chance to implement his great ideas for the country and people he has to keep or improve his position, so over the years it becomes increasingly about keeping his job or advancing, and decreasingly about implementing his great ideas for the country and people until pretty soon it is all about keeping his job or advancing and not at all about "making a difference".

And politicians who will not play the games at all never gain the kind of power and influence as those who do play the games.

Regarding Guantanamo:

• To Americans in terms of their politics it does not matter whether it is closed in two weeks or two months. However, to those who have been suffering there for years in that cruel and inhuman limbo, every additional hour they spend there is a crime against them. Think about that.

• Their ultimate fate also matters. Obama's plan to create a special legal classification and process for "the worst of the worst" is a compromise of principle and utterly unacceptable - how is that different in principle from Bush's military tribunal kangaroo trials? Either they are released, or they are tried in the existing system with absolutely full legal and human rights.

• Those who are guilty of nothing should be compensated. At the very least the United States taxpayers should be responsible for their physical and mental health care for life, and they should pay for the education of those children they kept there and whom they robbed of their childhood. The taxpayers have a responsibility for the lives they allowed their government to destroy. They also have a responsibility to the families whom they robbed of the company and support of those men.