Patti Blagojevich: Illinois's Hardball First Lady

NBC 5:

llinois First Lady Patti Blagojevich grew up in the home of a powerful, old-school Chicago alderman, so it's no surprise that she's well-versed in hardball politics. But excerpts from the wiretaps gathered by federal investigators in the case against her husband reveal the private Patti for the first time - when she isn't leading the charge against food allergy awareness or announcing the latest selection in her Children's Reading Club - and it isn't pretty.

It turns out she's just like Rod. Call her Public Official 1A.

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Comments

[dzmiller]

Most people who know both Blagojevichs consider Patti the brains in the family. I'm not implying she has done anything wrong, or directed Rod into this mess. But she's not "just like Rod." She's much brighter. Rod has never been interested in the necessary details of governance. I do not know to what extent this is due to lack of motivation, or that he simply doesn't get it.

[NABNYC]

The Scarlett Letter is no longer an A. Now it's a B. B for "Bleep" Word. The Illinois Governor's Cursing Wife, accused of no crime, never charged, no wiretaps authorized against her, no 4th amendment warrants or probable cause ever considered, no constitutional rights of privacy respected by the Bush Regime -- the Illinois Governor's Cursing Wife who happened to use the Bleep Word when yelling at her husband in the privacy of her home -- she's now been taken down by the Bush hitmen. Publicly ridiculed and demeaned. Her crime? Yelling at her husband and using the Bleep Word.

Why did the Prosecutor decide to reveal such personal information about the Governor's Cursing Wife, a woman accused of nothing? Maximum lethal potential. Shock and Awe. Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine writ small. Like the death squads: take the whole family unit out. If they've got kids, they'd better look out because some schoolyard bully has probably been wearing a wire.

Just like when the Bush regime wanted to go after Joseph Wilson for writing the article saying Hussein did not have WMD, and they took out Wilson's wife Valerie Plame as revenge, the Prosecutor in this matter has gone after the Governor's Cursing Wife and taken her down.

More at http://NABNYC.blogspot.com

[jalowe1957]

Lady MacBeth? Madame Nhu would be a far better composite description.

[tdterry1999]

i agree with NABNYC post.she is as innocent as a new born baby.i don't really agree with NABNYC .some people will fall for anything.i can see why we have the problems we have in this country.wa­ke the hell up people.