No thought, no reason, just hurling drek in every direction. Thanks, Spike ol’ buddy. I am always grateful when a moron like you jumps in and demonstrates the essential emptiness of what we will, for lack of a better word, call your “arguments”.

How very typical of the garden-variety wingnut. There is no evidence that Obama had any involvement with Blagojevich’s selection of Burris, and in fact Obama opposes allowing Burris to be seated in the Senate. But the facts are of no interest to wingnuts like Cassie. It’s all about finding mud — any mud at all, no matter how thin, no matter how lacking in any factual basis — and slinging it, hoping desperately that something will stick.

Remember, folks — the wingnut is your best entertainment value.

Whenever I see some scumbag on trial and represented by a scumbag defense attorney, I have to remind myself that even the scummiest of scumbags is entitled to a legitimate defense to protect him/herself from the scumbag prosecutors and cops who lie in order to obtain no-knock warrants with tragic results.

I’ve lived here my whole life. Politics is a contact sport in Illinois.

That case in particular is a famous one here, and I’ve read a lot about it.

The guy who quite obviously should have been charged all along, Brian Dugan, is already serving a life sentence for a similar murder and is going on trial for the 1983 murder very soon, like within days. He offered to plead guilty to that murder about 15 or more years ago, in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table, but the DuPage prosecutor said “no”. More important to hang somebody than to prosecute the right guy, I guess.

It’s stunning and sad the kind of power games that politicians play with people’s lives in order to gain the voter’s favor.

When they finally brought charges against various people in the prosecutor’s office in the late 90s, they were found not guilty, and the jury and the defendants went off *together* to celebrate at a local restaurant. Hmmm. Nope, nothing strange there!

As for Burris, he strikes me as a typical Illinois politician: sharp as a footstool, lacking in moral fiber, and probably with his hand in the till.

Congratulations, America! Nice “change” ya got there.

I point that out because that’s what a George W. Bush scandal, with regard to matters of murder and justice, looks like.

I see you predicted buyers’ remorse in the year ahead for Obama voters. I predict some will wax nostalgically for Obama’s predecessor and his more benign form of “scandals,” although in a century or more, they’d never admit it.