BS: Blagojevich names a name

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: Riginslinger
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 10:03 PM

"...until we uncover all the scum in Chicago..."

    "People from Illinois will know that this can not and will not (nor should it be) done."



                     Why shouldn't it be done?

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 09:52 PM

Blagojevich has not been convicted. He has the legal authority to appoint a successor to Obama.

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 09:44 PM

Here's the best I can do on the thread drift subject, from today's Chicago Tribune. Not that I want to pile up on her, but you asked: She doesn't ask for privacy, but she has the nerve to chastise journalists about the quality of questions they should ask her, while at the same time not saying anything of interest or quality:

Caroline Kennedy hard to figure out
December 30, 2008
We were left scratching our heads after the New York Times released a transcript of its recent interview with the would-be New York senator, complete with her snooty swipe at her interrogators—"Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a women's magazine or something?"—and her surprisingly graceful recovery.

So we tallied up the arguments on both sides:

Reasons to hate her

•For that women's magazines comment. Um, Princess? A lot of people would kill to work for those magazines.

•For refusing (at least four times!) to answer the very basic question: Would you have run for the office, if that had been the option on the table?

•For boring us.

Reasons to love her

•For admitting she didn't have an interesting story about the exact moment she decided to compete for the Senate seat.

•For not concocting an interesting story.

•For sounding apologetic after the women's magazine comment, which was prompted by repeated requests for an interesting story about her decision to compete: "I wish there was [an interesting story], I'll think about it."

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 09:34 PM

...until we uncover all the scum in Chicago...

People from Illinois will know that this can not and will not (nor should it be) done.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 08:56 PM

When The New York Daily News asked if President Bush's tax cuts on the wealthy should be repealed immediately, Kennedy replied:

"Well, you know, that's something, obviously, that, you know, in principle and in the campaign, you know, I think that, um, the tax cuts, you know, were expiring and needed to be repealed."

(That's not it - it's more than a failure to have any ideas she can articulate (I think) - I believe there are excerpts showing she deliberately withholds opinions on issues. Sins may have also been referring to the financial nondisclosure, but I think there is more than that. She certainly should be prepared to articulate at least one idea, to dispel the default notion of an unspoken entitlement.)

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 08:47 PM

Quick answer - I can look further later: It's an interpretive description of what she has been (not) saying.

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 08:02 PM

Question: Where has Caroline Kennedy recently said that she "wants her privacy"? I'm serious. I googled it and found only this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: heric
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 06:06 PM

"Meantime Caroline Kennedy wants her privacy and a Senate seat. Very realistic."

Chuckle. Well, said.


"Why do I want to be a Senator? Who do you think I AM?? Please, uh, you know, stop, you know with the uh, imbecilic questions."

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 04:14 PM

Burris has to know his name will be tainted by this. Why is he up there grinning?
The arrogance is unbelievable.
Meantime Caroline kennedy wants her privacy and a Senate seat. Very realistic.

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: Riginslinger
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 04:05 PM

It's important to keep the drama going until we uncover all the scum in Chicago. Blago is just doing his civic duty.

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 03:55 PM

Dave-

Well said!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 02:35 PM

Poor Mr. Burris! I, for one, wouldn't want Blagojevich to touch me with a ten-foot Pole. Or even a fifteen-foot Lithuanian!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: BS: Blagojevich names a name
From: PoppaGator
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 02:00 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081230/ap_on_re_us/illinois_governor

No matter how upright and honest this nominee might be, there are bound to be plenty of questions.

WIll it be necessary to replace the governor before any possible successor to Obama's Senate seat can be considered acceptable?