en-us Copyright 2008 - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:43:24 GMT 15 By Mary S.--Editorial Editor
Democrats all over the country are high quality role models, men with the highest of moral standards—men who lie under oath, who drive their cars off bridges and leave their dates to drown in the water below and who are involved in countless sex scandals. Rod Blagojevich was just an unsuspecting Democrat and Illinois governor trying to fit in and be more like his peers and, fit in he did when, on December 9 th , he was arrested for political corruption.   He must not have paid very much attention in history class, otherwise he would have known to hide the scandal until after he was out of office or dead. Blagojevich was impeached by the Illinois Senate in a unanimous decision for various reasons, including abuse of power, for trying to censor editorials being written about him and most notably for attempting to sell President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat. What’s even less surprising about a Democrat failing to have any integrity is Blagojevich’s upbringing and personal life. When his family moved from Serbia to the United States, they took up residence in Chicago, the heart of political corruption. And while his wife isn’t an alcoholic and he seems to be a faithful husband, his father-in-law is a Chicago Alderman who used his influence to get Blagojevich elected. His sister-in-law, Deb Mell, is also a member of the state’s House of Representatives. Despite his best efforts at trying to maintain his innocence, the people of Illinois are not buying his nice guy act. Blagojevich continues to tell the media to stand by and let his tell his side of the story when really he should be keeping a low profile. He still faces criminal charges that can do a lot more to hurt him than just an impeachment, the more he says the more corruption he risks slipping out. Blagojevich also has ties to President Obama. Despite the Democratic Party’s best efforts to portray the two as being estranged and unrelated, information linking the two has leaked including the fact that Antonin Rezko, who was convicted of a multimillion dollar kick-back scheme, was chief fund raiser to both of them. Additionally, Rahm Emanuel, the man who took Blagojevich’s congressional seat when he was elected governor was also appointed Obama’s Chief of Staff. Furthermore, according to Emanuel, he, Barack Obama, and co-chair David Wilhelm, "were the top strategists of Blagojevich’s 2002 gubernatorial victory," they met weekly and "basically laid out the general election." If that’s not enough to connect the two, nothing is. If the events of the last few months have shown us anything, it is that Rod Blagojevich is just another crooked Democrat. Eliot Spitzer, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, James McGreevey and more recently, Rod Blagojevich—they are the role models for today’s youth, the people teenagers are supposed to become and we wonder why more and more teens show up in the blotter—they are just living up to their leaders. (Some information courtesy of www.chicago tribune.com, abcnews.com)   ]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:27:11 GMT