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WATCH: Schock Says Obama 'Team' Elected Blagojevich

Posted 03.21.2012

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U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Tuesday and criticized President Obama's ties to what he called the "Chicago machine...

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Site Linking President Obama To Rod Blagojevich Launched By Swift Boat Funder

Posted 05.25.2011

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Those who happened to hear any of the comments Rod Blagojevich made about Barack Obama when he was being recorded by the FBI know that the ex-gov was ...

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Blagojevich Trial A Distant, Unwanted Headache For Obama

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — The corruption trial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich – for allegedly trying to sell President Barack Obama's own Senate ...

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Blagojevich Motion: Redacted Material Claims Obama Pushed Valerie Jarrett For Senate, Took Money From Tony Rezko

Huffington Post | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a part of the ongoing circus that is Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial,defense attorneys for the indicted former governor of Illinois moved to sub...

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Blagojevich Defense Moves To Subpoena President Obama

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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Defense lawyers for Rod Blagojevich have moved to issue a trial subpoena to President Obama, asking him to testify at the former Illinois governor's J...

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Blagojevich Esquire Interview: 'I'm Blacker Than Barack Obama'

AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 05.25.2011

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Rod Blagojevich apologized Monday for saying he's "blacker than Barack Obama," but the disgraced former Illinois governor sa...

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Blagojevich, Illinois Governor, Arrested (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Update, 2:40pm AP reports that Blagojevich's Deputy Governor, Bob Greenlee, has resigned. Spokeswoman Kelley Quinn says Deputy Gov. Bob Greenlee res...

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Advice To Blago: Invoke Caesar

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

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If only he had invoked Caesar from the start, instead of civil rights heroes whose legacies are so sacred to so many, perhaps he could go down more gracefully (or at least less offensively).

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Blagojevich 2.0

Lloyd Garver | Posted 05.25.2011

What Blagojevich did is so shocking that it could make "Lincoln turn over in his grave." But Caroline getting the seat because of her zillion-dollar fund raising ability wouldn't do the same?

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How About Some of that Blago to Go?

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Blagojevich, by any reasonable standard, ought to be beside himself with embarrassment over the 114 to 1 vote to impeach him. Yet he's reciting Tennyson in front of cameras.

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Blagojevich May Show Up At Obama Inauguration

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich may end up attending the inauguration ceremonies for Barack Obama. Or he may not. As Governor, Blagojevi...

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Senate Violates the Constitution in Turning Away Roland Burris

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

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From a legal and Constitutional perspective, the question of whether or not Burris should be allowed to take his seat as the Junior Senator from Illinois is not especially difficult. He should.

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In this contest of wills -- the governor's rightful authority to appoint a senator as opposed to the Senate's power to judge the qualification of its members -- the last word simply belongs to the Senate.

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Replace Harry Reid?

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Democrats should cut their losses and seat Burris. Perhaps they should cut their losses with Reid, too.

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Enough About 'Roland Burris, Good Guy'

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011

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It doesn't matter how clean his record was when he was in office a decade ago or if he didn't pay a cent for his appointment: Roland Burris is a willing pawn in a very corrupt game.

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A Lesser Class of Rogue

Allison Silver | Posted 05.25.2011

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Though Blagojevich is regularly described as the apotheosis of the shady Illinois politician, he does not come close to the finesse and style embodied by masterful machine politicians. He's no McGinty.

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Obama Aides Avoid Testifying In Blagojevich Case

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attorney will not get to call key aides of President-elect Barack Obama to testify at impeachment hearings after U.S. Atty. Pat...

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ABC's "The Note" Embarrasses Itself on Behalf of Beltway Journalism

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Doing its best to prop up the beyond soggy Blago/Obama "scandal," The Note worked feverishly to convince fellow journalists that they didn't make fools of themselves hyping the non-story for weeks.

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Blago and Me

Neil McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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In electoral politics we want to avoid the rich and famous in favor of the modest but qualified. But we make it impossible for anyone but the rich and famous to get the jobs and then keep them.

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Blago Should Still Appoint Diane Nash

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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Diane Nash is a pillar of the civil rights movement who happens to be a blue ribbon Chicago citizen and is certainly more qualified than Caroline Kennedy to be a US Senator.

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Welcome to the Blagosphere

Thomas Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Blagojevich scandal is widely seen as a heavy blow for the incoming administration, but in fact it's good for Mr. Obama that it happened early on.

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Trib Columnist Compares Obama Blago Reaction To Bush On 9/11

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the wake of the Blagojevich scandal, plenty of media types have worked hard to whip up a seamy role for Obama to have played in the matter. But as bad as it's been, nothing quite exceeds the ridiculously hyperbolic false equivalence drawn by Tribune columnist Steve Chapman.

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Obama Blagojevich Scandal Involvement Believed By 45% Of Voters: Poll

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Blogger Matt Yglesias has been in Finland lately, studying up on their education policy, but all it took was a single viewing of Morning Joe to bring ...

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Elect Hillary's Replacement

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

There would be the added cost of a special election, but that's a small price to pay for a Senate seat (which, as Governor Blagojevich so eloquently reminded us, is no cheap thing).

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's been amusing watching the media try to turn a scandal affecting the governor of Illinois into a scandal affecting the president-elect. Every detail was milked for maximum ominousness: a recent handshake between Obama and Blagojevich, a list of favored replacement candidates delivered by Rahm Emanuel, Rahm's "beet-red" face, David Axelrod's work for Blago in the 90s. All inflated to fill a sparse news cycle. But wouldn't it have been weird if Obama hadn't shaken Blago's hand, and weirder still if he'd shown no interest in who his successor would be? Trying to turn any of this into a suspicion of pay-to-play carries about as much weight as the Obama citizenship case. Sorry, guys, but Blagojevich said it all: the Obama people were "not willing to give me anything except appreciation."

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