Aspiring U.S. senators have to raise and spend millions of dollars to win election. Should it surprise us that aspiring U.S. senators who hope to win appointment to that allegedly august body have to do the same? The allegations that the governor of Illinois attempted to sell Barack Obama's vacant senate seat are nevertheless shocking. The seat "is a f---ing valuable thing, you just don't give it away for nothing," the hirsute governor allegedly explained. Other charges include putting a pricetag on official state business and seeking to subsidize a Chicago Tribune construction project in exchange for the World's Greatest Newspaper firing employees unfavorable to the governor.

Obama was born and reared in the most corrupt political environment in the United States.

Do we expect that the ‘ACORN’ will not fall far from the tree?

And this from today...

"A former Illinois bank official, now claiming whistleblower status, says bank officials replaced a loan reappraisal that he prepared for a Chicago property that was purchased by the wife of now-convicted felon Tony Rezko, part of which was later sold to next-door neighbor Barack Obama."

Going to be a long four years.

"Going to be a long four years."

If you don't like it, you can just geeet out. *hick accent

Now you know how I have felt for the last 8. Sucks doesn't it. You are just going to shake your head for the next 4-8 years in disbelief, wondering why nobody will enforce the constitution and the integrity of the POTUS office. Life will seem unfair for a long time, then the pendulum swings.

I'm just glad your racist buddy Strom Thurmond is dead. I call him "the last of the mohican enslavers".

There’s is some evidence surfacing that points to the fact that once Obama’s transition team got it’s fingers into the Justice department and got the 411 on this probe and what was being found out, they put the squeeze on them to kill any further investigations.

I’d be willing to bet that the President Presumptive is up to his eyeballs in this mess and is attempting to put the whole thing down.

Is this the ‘Change’ we can believe in?

What is un-believable is that this slimy guy will be sworn in as POTUS in January.

Some have marked Bill Clinton's Presidency as the most corrupt. We're going to see an administration that will make Clinton's look like a gaggle of choir boys.

BTW: the Rev. Wright is back in the pulpit of the T.U.C.C.

Shocking, eh?

More 'Change' we can believe in.

"Some have marked Bill Clinton's Presidency as the most corrupt. We're going to see an administration that will make Clinton's look like a gaggle of choir boys."

That kinda reflects the last 8 years as well though. I would just as easily say, "Some have marked W.'s Presidency as the most corrupt." that makes Clinton's look like a gaggle of choir boys...

Horse- you need to stop guzzling the socialist kool aid. Everything you post about conservatives, come straight from the little red book of propaganda, which all of the weak "do-gooders', such as yourself, regurgitate or parrot.
Those people with the hick accents keep the weak and cowardly,like yourself free. Look at the makeup of the military and check out the geography of the vast number of military members.
I know in your little world,in which reality,plays no role, if enough people like yourself and a wingnut like Dennis "whimp" Kucinich,just could only talk with all the misunderstood terrorists, we could make everyone like us with words.
If you want to talk about racism, what about your boy, Robert Bryd,who was a certified member of the KKK.
Your lack of knowledge about the south is mind boggling, which you continue to flaunt with every post.
You have never held a job,where there is accountability and consequences for your actions,therefore, you are easy pickings for the Marxists propaganda. Memo to you: you are nothing more than a mascot or useful idiot, which is fine with you considering your weakness as well as unwillingness to make sacrifices. You stand out like a bastard at a family reunion.
You have tried to convince us your not a socialist,however, that is BS, like most of the nonsense you spew. Obama is a socialists or Marxists,who learned about America through the eyes of a committed Stalinist,Frank Marshall Davis,who was a certified member of CPUSA and was kicked out of the NAACP.
Obama,lied about his past, due to shame or most likely, to play you and your kind for fools.

Billy Ayers,the racist minister J-Wright,Louis Farrakahan, Rashid Khalidi, etc. are real swell guys aren't they?

You,like other leftists moonbats, go bonkers when you are held accountable,like the corrupt Democratic machines in most large urban areas.
You always make some pathetic attempt to defend the indefensible, which is George "Gestapo collaborater" Soros, has proven to be a scumbag since his despicable acts during WWII,however,you people have no shame about associating with Nazi or Marxists killers, afterall, in your world the ends justifies the means. Social justice is your magic elixir,which is why the Marxists used that as justification for murdering over 100 million civilians,while individuals like you stood silent or even worse, your leftist heros in congress enabled this murder to continue,by preventing America for stopping communist aggression.
Social justice,the magic elixir,which are meaningless words,however,give you such a warm,fuzzy feeling in your little tummy.

Being a social worker, you measure success by the warm,fuzzies,as oposed to results. If you really cared about the poor, you would be raising hell about Obama and the left's lies about their committment to public education. The left sends their children to exclusive private schools,however, being held hostage,by the worthless who run the teacher's unions,refuse to allow poor families the same opportunity.
Do you believe spending money on education,without accountability works? Even the left realizes this,which is why Obama,Kennedy,Pelosi,etc. wanted no part of the DC public schools they are in charge of maintaining. The DC schools spend more money per pupil than any school district in the country,so if that is all that the left,believes is required for quality public education,why are the schools providing just pathetic results?
The left is the party of teachers unions and consistently put the unions,along with their campaign donations,ahead of poor children. That makes you proud doesn't it? Then again,you may be so blinded by the kool aid,that you are incapable of seeing what Ray Charlles could recognize.

Just curious, do you "do gooder" social workers,ever advise individuals or families, to be accountable for their actions? What about the need to don't have children, out of wedlock,until they finish school or are married?
Then again, that would go against everything you have built your self-worth upon, the disdain for personal accountability and the weak excuse that misfortune in one's life is always someone else's fault.

You and your blighted worldview never ceases to amaze me.
I protected all the cowardly state department/diplomat types for close to 7 years and like you, they believed good intentions matter more than results.
Words,without the threat of severe consequences, is pure appeasement and nothing more than a deranged fantasy.

Horse-you and your kind talk the talk,however when it comes to walking the walk,especially if personal security is in danger, you are a complete crippled. Myself and others like me are tired of providing you with a wheelchair or pulling your weak behinds out of danger.

Take off the glasses and more importantly grow up. Life is about reality,not theory, results,not intentions,and action,not meaningless words of those with twisted minds.

P.S. Horse, why do you continue to ignore the role,your beloved UN played in the Iraq war? 17 UN resolutions broken in 11 years and the weak european socialists,as well as corrupt, did nothing but attempt to hide their fear of enforcing international law.
Why can't you come to terms,with the reality that the UN is a corrupt,racist,wortless,organization.
The UN is anti-semitic and anti-US,even though the USA pays the bills.
The UN is nothing more than a grown up version of Disney World,where the left,can live out their inmature fantasies. Nothing turns the left on more than blaming the USA,for every problem the world encounters. You fall into that same category.
You claim not to believe in god, however,you believe a weak,narrow shouldered man,like Obama is a messiah,who will provide you with eternal salvation. Just like the left believed "social justice" or "hugging trees", are the key to saving their soul. That is weak!

I can't wait for some pathetic attempt to defend the UN.

So let me get this straight: Obama doesn't know anything about Blago, didn't know Bill Ayers, didn't know Tony Rezco, didn't know what Jeremiah Wright was saying every Sunday for 20 years, didn't know he had a half brother living in a cardboard shack in Kenya. Are we to believe that Messiah MENSA had no clue who these people were and what they were up to?

Apparently, 52% of the electorate believes that.

And this guy will be President when?

Thomas, I think he's just a guy from Obama's state.

@Horse: You can say what you want about the Right, but leave Strom out of it -- you carpetbagger!

Strom's daddy shot a man up in Edgefield for less, and got off on the charges because he just said: "Your Honor, that man questioned my honor. And I have witnesses."

The rest of y'all are full of crap about Obama.

To use Blago's preferred mode of speech (which makes Nixon look like a schoolgirl): Y'all don't have an 'effing clue. Why don't you just sit back and watch the next four years and see what happens? At least let the guy get sworn in first. Jaysus. Then, when Obama has actually completed a term in office, we'll talk about corruption and compare notes.

"Strom's daddy shot a man up in Edgefield for less, and got off on the charges because he just said: "Your Honor, that man questioned my honor. And I have witnesses."

Sounds like a good reason to have used capital punishment on Strom's daddy. And please explain what you really mean by carpetbagger, because I am just glad that the sole surviving congressman that was a teenager when women couldn't vote and whose family happily owned slaves, is out of the picture. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/25/AR2007022501518.html)

"Those people with the hick accents keep the weak and cowardly,like yourself free. "

Guess what, those people with hick accents also cook meth, poison children, and kill people in DUI accidents, but I don't carry a full fledged stereotype of 'hicks' because I know that they are all different. Do you recognize that ghetto children of all colors are also defending your right to be arrogant? My line about the 'geeet out' was a reflection of the major criticism against the anti-Iraq war movement. Did you ever tell any liberals to 'geeeet out'?

"Look at the makeup of the military and check out the geography of the vast number of military members."

Are you surprised that California sends far more soldiers than any other state?

"If you want to talk about racism, what about your boy, Robert Bryd,who was a certified member of the KKK"

Someone who says, "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time." is obviously not a white supremist. Your point is moot.

"You have tried to convince us your not a socialist,however, that is BS, like most of the nonsense you spew."

Good argument... it was very concise. you should read your own post about profanity and cripples. You should also realize that I am far from a socialist, and am actually more of a fiscal conservative than most conservatives claim. I applauded Clinton's welfare to work program, despise the bailouts, and think we abuse subsidies. I am a social liberal though, you know, having the government guarantee equal rights to all, instead of standing in the way. Your socialist and communist lables are just sensationalized fear monger criticism with no reality to back it up with. Why don't you quote me being a socialist, and form a real argument? Why is because I never make any socialist statements, because guess what, here's the kicker, I'm not socialist. Next you'll just call me a fag or some other ungrounded petty insult.

"Being a social worker, you measure success by the warm,fuzzies,as oposed to results."

I measured today's success by bringing furniture to a family in a transitional shelter that just lost everything in a fire due to their 'unaccountability'. Results. I also think preventing evictions and reconnecting heat is fairly results oriented. My job obviously isn't money oriented like yours.

"you are nothing more than a mascot or useful idiot"

I am really impressed with your empty mud slinging.

"The DC schools spend more money per pupil than any school district in the country,so if that is all that the left,believes is required for quality public education,why are the schools providing just pathetic results?"

Of course there needs to be accountability, but we also need halfway decent teachers. There are many factors contributing to bad schools, bad teachers, lazy parents, lack of resources, urban blight, and general hopelessness are some to start with. So to fix the problem, McIdiot wanted to put soldiers in the classroom right after combat... you are familiar with the effects of PTSD I assume (being such a big, strong, G.I. Joe) Great idea!!!

"Just curious, do you "do gooder" social workers,ever advise individuals or families, to be accountable for their actions? What about the need to don't have children, out of wedlock, until they finish school or are married?"

This one takes the cake... I bet you imagine a poor black or mexican family when you said that, but would you tell Sarah Louise Heath Palin's daughter (Pfifer or twig, or whatever her name is) the same story??? News flash, you can't control teenagers (with sex, cars, guns, or anything adult), abstinence only education doesn't work, you are living in a world of theory, not reality. Did you vote for McCain? How could you vote for a VP without enough accountability to stop her daughter from getting pregnant? Or were they accountable because of the buku oil bucks could provide for a bastard child?

"...the disdain for personal accountability and the weak excuse that misfortune in one's life is always someone else's fault."

You really generalize too much. It reflects on your worldview that is sooooo big. I hate gov. dependence just as much as anyone else, and no I don't believe or say that "misfortune in one's life is always someone else's fault."

Way to put words in other's mouths.

It seems to me that you are the one with a 'blighted worldview' thinking that the majority of people I help don't deserve it and that they are poor because they want to be. The first thing I do with a client is an assessment to see how and why they are in their situation. I don't give every Joe $5 who asks for it. There are systemic regulations in place to help prevent dependency, and yes I often have to enforce those rules. Its not just some liberal conspiracy to give away your money. You previously mentioned donating your money to a private agency where the gov. couldn't touch it. To which agency do you donate, because I'm fairly certain that whatever it is, they probably serve people you don't want to help.

And by the way, you speak like a hoosier, can't build a argument on functional and valid premises, and you sound like you have an anger managment problem and an inferiority complex talking about how you depend on no one for your safety.

Wring as usual horse, I am not arrogant unless you believe being mature enough to understand or realize the difference between right and wrong is arrogant. You are also correct if you call arrogance, the beilef in moral equivalancy as the sign of a weak mind and too inmature to know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, or the courage to speak the truth.

You claim to be in all these bad assed neighborhoods, I have walked the back alleys of Belfast,Beruit, Bogota,and other hell holes,so why would I ever be afraid of some idiot that holds a pistol sideways?

You are a fine one to be mentioning anger management issues, you have so little self control or composure, you are incapable of making more than a couple of post before you start calling posters names using foul language,which happens to be acrutch for a weak mind,conversational cripple, or to make your mother proud.

You post stuff on this board and call individuals names, you would in no way have the courage to do to their face.
Where I come from you earn respect, not by meaningless, feel good words, but by action. If you called any adult with an ounce of pride, the P word (part of the female anatomy, you would be dropped with one maybe two blows)

Give up your old,tired fanatsies, and make a difference in the world. I would suggest you sign up for the marine corps, just to give you a taste of reality and aid in your maturatuion process. It won't be easy, but anything worth having,including self respect, doesn't come easy.

BTW, I don't believe a sheep like yourself, live in a neighborhood full of gang bangers. You would last a day in any rough neighborhood in New Orleans, Birmingham,Al, Memphis,TN.,Atlanta,Ga.Houston,TX, Jackson,MS,or Baton Rouge,La.
Nice try, but I am not buying any of that NY Times quality stock.

Try making a difference with actions and positive,measurable results, not with words and good intentions.

BTW. you still refuse to answer or defend your beloved euro and third world, anti-semitic,and anti-American crowd that wastes my tax dollars on a daily basis.
Time to implode that abortion of an organization and the world would most likely be a much better place.

"If you called any adult with an ounce of pride, the P word"

Are you dense? I don't believe that McCain is a P word, I was using ASDF's logic that the name makes the man. As well, responding to his wonderment of the origins of a name that have existed for 2000+ years, so I say, "What the F* kind of name is Sydney". I am not dumb enough to judge McCain on his name, or the origin of his name, because you can obviously see how stupid and racist it can sound when talking about a 'muslim' or a black person.

It wouldn't have mattered if he said, "What the F* kind of name is Shenaynay LaShawnshawn DeWardson?" It is racist. Do you make fun of an Asian named 'Wang'? If you do you are an ignorant SOB.

"I don't believe a sheep like yourself, live in a neighborhood full of gang bangers."

Do you think private social workers make enough money to live in nice parts of town? A+B=3

"I would suggest you sign up for the marine corps,..."

Great, brainwashing and murder. Cool!

"Try making a difference with actions and positive,measurable results, not with words and good intentions."

Once again, empty statement. I have already expounded on results, actions, and real lives changed. Stop with the emptiness.

As for the UN... it is 62 years old and you expect perfection of the first time in human history that Nations have put down nationalism to the point that we could create such an entity. It is a never before seen attempt at world peace and justice that is in it's infancy yet you want to tear it down. How antisocial of you.

Was it anti-semitic of the UN to establish the state of Israel in 1948, protect it in 1967, protect it in 1973, and maintain forces in Southern Lebanon and expelling the PLO from Beirut in the eighties?

Or was Israel acting aggressively in the Gaza strip (then controlled by Egypt) and also in invading Lebanon in an effort to 'root-out' the PLO. I understand the the PLO was largely made of terrorists that attacked civilians in Israel, but I question if their measures in the 80s and 90s stepped beyond self-defense. As well, how do you justify Begin's policies toward the occupied territories? (http://countrystudies.us/israel/32.htm)

Or are you talking about Resolution 3379?

Do you deny that policies towards South Africa and the Lebanese territories were imperialistic? I am not the best with Jewish history, but Zionism (the reclaiming of historic Israel) appears to be based on ethnic rights over another ethnicity, aka, my race is superior or deserves something that your's doesn't. Reclaiming the occupations was thought to be their right from Yahweh given to their ethnicity. It was their form of Jihad that ignored the current political landscape.

So is it racist to stop a Jewish Jihad? It doesn't matter because the same anti-semitic UN repealed the same resolution 27 years later.

As for the Libel resolutions, those are indefensible, but as I said, it is an organization in it's infancy and is going through the process of self correction, but what would you know about that?

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf13.html
This is a fun, although biased, set of criticisms that I am sure you are a fan of. Along with http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/unantisem.html

but here is a concise list of UN actions:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/timeline_of_united_nations_actio.htm

I'm sure you will call me anti-semitic for playing the devil's advocate, but remember I am Agnostic and hold no religion or people higher or lower than others (besides mormans). Don't get me wrong, mormans are largely good people, but the story of Joseph Smith makes me laugh.