Jackson the Five (Rod)

Jesse Jr. said that when Reverend Lightworker's done with the Presidency, there will have to be a new book added to the Bible. I'm wondering if this week's events will be part of that scripture or whether they'll be filed away as part of some new apocrypha or some new batch of gnostic gospels for some future Dan Brown to unearth with an eye toward revising our grandchildren's view of the One.

Let's see--it's already evident that the now jailed Rezko was the now arrested Gov. Blagojevich's bag-man and (with all due respect and I mean that) Rod, you seriously think that 41 days from the Inauguration there isn't "any potential pressure to keep names out of it"? Am I misreading you? What will be interesting to watch is what kind of information Blago himself will be willing to sell to the Feds when he cuts his deal with Fitzgerald and how close to Obama any of what he gives them will ever get . . .

Why do the misdeeds of Jesse Jackson Sr. or Jr. reflect on Obama? Just curious.

Matt, Hartford CT,

You're right. It's sort of like the way you just didn't like George W. Bush, cause you just didn't like Christians or Texans or whomever. Be honest. It had nothing to do with neoconservative foreign policy or neoliberal economic policy. Neoconservative foreign policy and neoliberal economic policy would have been fine by you, with the Reverend in charge. In fact, they *are* fine by you, now that the Reverend's in charge. Again -- come one, be honest.

Honestly, I hope this doesn't touch Obama in any substantive way. We really, really don't need the new president at this time in our history to come into office with an ethical cloud hanging over his head. One wonders how anybody could have come through Illinois politics without being meaningfully compromised. But I would have said that about Bobby Jindal and Louisiana, but he seems to have done so.

That Blagojevich may have thought that he could get money out of Jr., or that Blagojevich claims someone offered money on Jr.'s behalf, is not quite the same as establishing that Jr. did anything wrong. For all I know, he may have done something wrong. But some patience, please.

Elizabeth Anne makes a good point. And I agree with Rod that we don't *need* the president elect to enter office under a cloud of suspicion. But if there is a connection between Blagojevich and Rezko and the land deal for Mr. Obama and his wife in Hyde Park (i.e. if the Rezko facilitation of the purchase of the Obamas house is connected to tainted money that's connected to Rezko's work on behalf of Blagojevich) and if there was any illegality involved well, then, yes, we need to know about it. We listened for eight years and will listen for several more to the need to investigate the Bush administration on suspicion of illegalities and I don't think that the President-elect gets a pass. And the dying MDM's life depends on straight shooting with this president. The tapes so far show Blagojevich to be a political sleaze-bag at the least and a criminal at worst. Of course he'd blow a gasket if he thought his efforts to curry favor--by any means--with the Obama admin. were for naught. But Obama has consistently been linked to shady character from whom he's suddenly distanced himself and so far, even in light of his calling for Blagojevich's resignation, his response to this tenuous connection to the Illinois governor sounds eerily similar to his response to Rev. Wright, William Airs (sp?) and Rezko. So, lets see real reporters do what they are supposed to do and, with Fitsgerald, really get to the bottom of this. The sooner the better.

Because, you know, the truth does not fear the light of day.

If Jackson is #5, what does that mean? What is #5 accused of doing?

Yikes!! Another Whitewater!! Doesn't the RNC ever get tired? Don't they have anything useful to do with their time and our money?