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		<title>By: JLenardDetroit&#8217;s blog &#187; Who BlahGo (IL-Gov) should appoint to US Senate NOW, and why they should accept? Plus, Special Election, Mike Ditka, Special Prosecutor, and more&#8230; ::</title>
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		<dc:creator>JLenardDetroit&#8217;s blog &#187; Who BlahGo (IL-Gov) should appoint to US Senate NOW, and why they should accept? Plus, Special Election, Mike Ditka, Special Prosecutor, and more&#8230; ::</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] be hearing from Oblahblah that BlahGo is just another &#8216;guy in the neighborhood&#8217; and how there are not enough Buses in IL for all the people Obambam will now have to throw under them. Like he had to do with Wright, Ayers, Rezco, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] be hearing from Oblahblah that BlahGo is just another &#8216;guy in the neighborhood&#8217; and how there are not enough Buses in IL for all the people Obambam will now have to throw under them. Like he had to do with Wright, Ayers, Rezco, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: - Are You Riled Up? - &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Moe_lane’S Blog » and the Fun with Blagojevich has Just *Started*. ::</title>
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		<dc:creator>- Are You Riled Up? - &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Moe_lane’S Blog » and the Fun with Blagojevich has Just *Started*. ::</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Another possibility to have a GOOJFC would be to have the goods on somebody who could issue a Presidential Pardon . On the other hand, the GOOJFC game is dangerous. I would not be surprised if, in fine Chicago tradition, that Blogo did &#8230;[Continue Reading] [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Another possibility to have a GOOJFC would be to have the goods on somebody who could issue a Presidential Pardon . On the other hand, the GOOJFC game is dangerous. I would not be surprised if, in fine Chicago tradition, that Blogo did &#8230;[Continue Reading] [...]</p>
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		<title>By: ChooseTheHero.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Who BlahGo (IL-Gov) should appoint to US Senate NOW, and why they should accept? Plus, Special Election, Mike Ditka, Special Prosecutor, and more…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] and beyond all these immediate/current concerns, will everyone learn the Lesson!?!? ALL States should amend Laws/Constitutions to REQUIRE a Special Election in these cases to avoid any potential for corruption. There is an alternative, and the one that I [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] and beyond all these immediate/current concerns, will everyone learn the Lesson!?!? ALL States should amend Laws/Constitutions to REQUIRE a Special Election in these cases to avoid any potential for corruption. There is an alternative, and the one that I [...]</p>
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		<title>By: ChooseTheHero.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Who BlahGo (IL-Gov) should appoint to US Senate NOW, and why they should accept? Plus, Special Election, Mike Ditka, Special Prosecutor, and more…</title>
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		<dc:creator>ChooseTheHero.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Who BlahGo (IL-Gov) should appoint to US Senate NOW, and why they should accept? Plus, Special Election, Mike Ditka, Special Prosecutor, and more…</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] We&#8217;ll get to WHO SHOULD BE APPOINTED to the seat IMMEDIATELY, but next let&#8217;s look at the continued news/potential. Immediately after the news broke over BlahGo (yes, that is not how the beginning of his name is spelled, but it goes better this way with Oblahblah&#8217;s nickname), we at RS began the discussions of the need for a Special Election, the chorus of which began to resonate across the country (even in IL) soon there-after. Frankly, IMHO, WE AT RS should take the credit for that.  Deserving or not - what the heck! I also started a plea to any/all Republicans listening (er, reading) to attempt to recruit Mike Ditka (Chicago Tribune: 2004: Ditka punts on Senate run) again. Amidst the countless blogs on this topic, I contended Ditka (had he run) may have SAVED US THE AGONY OF OBAMBAM! Perhaps that notion will help to convince... [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] We&#8217;ll get to WHO SHOULD BE APPOINTED to the seat IMMEDIATELY, but next let&#8217;s look at the continued news/potential. Immediately after the news broke over BlahGo (yes, that is not how the beginning of his name is spelled, but it goes better this way with Oblahblah&#8217;s nickname), we at RS began the discussions of the need for a Special Election, the chorus of which began to resonate across the country (even in IL) soon there-after. Frankly, IMHO, WE AT RS should take the credit for that.  Deserving or not &#8211; what the heck! I also started a plea to any/all Republicans listening (er, reading) to attempt to recruit Mike Ditka (Chicago Tribune: 2004: Ditka punts on Senate run) again. Amidst the countless blogs on this topic, I contended Ditka (had he run) may have SAVED US THE AGONY OF OBAMBAM! Perhaps that notion will help to convince&#8230; [...]</p>
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		<title>By: redneck_hippie</title>
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		<dc:creator>redneck_hippie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>doubt whatsoever, that the big fish is Mayor Daley. The investigation into BigLieOvich is the forerunner to what would be a main event. If Daley could be brought down, it would be/Have been Fitzgerald&#039;s crowning glory. 

There already have been four IL governors (I believe) convicted. So, yes, it is all about Daley.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>doubt whatsoever, that the big fish is Mayor Daley. The investigation into BigLieOvich is the forerunner to what would be a main event. If Daley could be brought down, it would be/Have been Fitzgerald&#8217;s crowning glory. </p>
<p>There already have been four IL governors (I believe) convicted. So, yes, it is all about Daley.</p>
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		<title>By: ChooseTheHero.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Who BlahGo (IL-Gov) should appoint to US Senate NOW, and why they should accept? Plus, Special Election, Mike Ditka, Special Prosecutor, and more…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] be hearing from Oblahblah that BlahGo is just another &#8216;guy in the neighborhood&#8217; and how there are not enough Buses in IL for all the people Obambam will now have to throw under them. Like he had to do with Wright, Ayers, Rezco, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] be hearing from Oblahblah that BlahGo is just another &#8216;guy in the neighborhood&#8217; and how there are not enough Buses in IL for all the people Obambam will now have to throw under them. Like he had to do with Wright, Ayers, Rezco, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Tags &#187; Who BlahGo (IL-Gov) should appoint to US Senate NOW, and why they should accept? Plus, Special Election, Mike Ditka, Special Prosecutor, and more&#8230; ::</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] and beyond all these immediate/current concerns, will everyone learn the Lesson!?!? ALL States should amend Laws/Constitutions to REQUIRE a Special Election in these cases to avoid any potential for corruption. There is an alternative, and the one that I [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] and beyond all these immediate/current concerns, will everyone learn the Lesson!?!? ALL States should amend Laws/Constitutions to REQUIRE a Special Election in these cases to avoid any potential for corruption. There is an alternative, and the one that I [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Reede_Chesterton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Reede_Chesterton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From MMN to FR to RS... and whatever stuff in-between those that I forget... it&#039;s been a long ride... who&#039;da thunk all this stuff gone over the damn.

Merry Christmas to you and yours... I hope you are well my friend.

HK</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From MMN to FR to RS&#8230; and whatever stuff in-between those that I forget&#8230; it&#8217;s been a long ride&#8230; who&#8217;da thunk all this stuff gone over the damn.</p>
<p>Merry Christmas to you and yours&#8230; I hope you are well my friend.</p>
<p>HK</p>
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		<title>By: dld1717</title>
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		<dc:creator>dld1717</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All these Democrat Illinois politicians and Illinois voters expressing disgust over this guy need to ask themselves why did they even vote to re-elect them?

Topinka was not best candidate but she was better then him and yet they still rejected her.

As for Ill GOP the party has no statewide candidates but Fmr Gov Thompson would be an excellent candidate although he is up there in age is still a very popular Republican.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All these Democrat Illinois politicians and Illinois voters expressing disgust over this guy need to ask themselves why did they even vote to re-elect them?</p>
<p>Topinka was not best candidate but she was better then him and yet they still rejected her.</p>
<p>As for Ill GOP the party has no statewide candidates but Fmr Gov Thompson would be an excellent candidate although he is up there in age is still a very popular Republican.</p>
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		<title>By: JLenardDetroit</title>
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		<dc:creator>JLenardDetroit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>let it haggle out in the State&#039;s House or Senate with NO SAY by the State Governor... let an Elected BODY of folks make the pick.... if they want to avoid the CO$T$....

Every State should be looking to CHANGE THEIR LAWS/CONSTITITUTION (if needed) to never again have this as even a potential issue!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>let it haggle out in the State&#8217;s House or Senate with NO SAY by the State Governor&#8230; let an Elected BODY of folks make the pick&#8230;. if they want to avoid the CO$T$&#8230;.</p>
<p>Every State should be looking to CHANGE THEIR LAWS/CONSTITITUTION (if needed) to never again have this as even a potential issue!</p>
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		<title>By: JLenardDetroit</title>
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		<dc:creator>JLenardDetroit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>... he&#039;ll be looking to folks to take the fall and run interference for all his past connections that are inconvenient now (as we saw all election with Wright, Ayers, Rezco, and on and on)....

Associations MATTER.... to bad peeps didn&#039;t get that ahead of time!!!!

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/28/open-thread-obama-video/#c69392&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;You have to know where you&#039;ve been, if you want to know where you&#039;re going.&quot; Barack Obama&lt;/a&gt; nice how he admits/tells us his past associations matter. Hear Obama himself say it at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/28/open-thread-obama-video/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Caleb (absentee) Diary - Obama Video]&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/28/pick-up-the-phone-and-call-the-la-times/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&gt;Erick Erickson&#039;s - LA Times withholding Obama with Rashid Khalidi, PLO, video&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; he&#8217;ll be looking to folks to take the fall and run interference for all his past connections that are inconvenient now (as we saw all election with Wright, Ayers, Rezco, and on and on)&#8230;.</p>
<p>Associations MATTER&#8230;. to bad peeps didn&#8217;t get that ahead of time!!!!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/28/open-thread-obama-video/#c69392" rel="nofollow">&#8220;You have to know where you&#8217;ve been, if you want to know where you&#8217;re going.&#8221; Barack Obama</a> nice how he admits/tells us his past associations matter. Hear Obama himself say it at: <a href="http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/28/open-thread-obama-video/" rel="nofollow">Caleb (absentee) Diary &#8211; Obama Video]</a> and <a href="http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/oct/28/pick-up-the-phone-and-call-the-la-times/" rel="nofollow">&gt;Erick Erickson&#8217;s &#8211; LA Times withholding Obama with Rashid Khalidi, PLO, video</a></p>
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		<title>By: Kenny Solomon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kenny Solomon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not one single iota of what&#039;s alleged to have gone on surprises me........ and that fact alone surprises me....... that I&#039;m not shocked at all.

This is most undoubtedly just scratching the surface.  Wait a few weeks and watch the feathers a-flyin&#039;.

.....and it goes without needing to write this (but I will anyway), that whether he had any involvement at all or not, the media is going to protect &quot;The Messiah&quot; at all costs, including destroying their own brethren for even hinting or suggesting the possibility.

Cheers !</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not one single iota of what&#8217;s alleged to have gone on surprises me&#8230;&#8230;.. and that fact alone surprises me&#8230;&#8230;. that I&#8217;m not shocked at all.</p>
<p>This is most undoubtedly just scratching the surface.  Wait a few weeks and watch the feathers a-flyin&#8217;.</p>
<p>&#8230;..and it goes without needing to write this (but I will anyway), that whether he had any involvement at all or not, the media is going to protect &#8220;The Messiah&#8221; at all costs, including destroying their own brethren for even hinting or suggesting the possibility.</p>
<p>Cheers !</p>
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		<title>By: JLenardDetroit</title>
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		<dc:creator>JLenardDetroit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can&#039;t be said enough... and when will we get someone on FOX to finally ASK THE F***** (to us BlahGo&#039;s fave word) QUESTION!?!?!

They are busy being &quot;cautious&quot; not to raise any Oblahblah inference... SO FAR!!! We must keep the phrase alive and on all the MSM about &quot;What did Obama KNOW about THESE CROOKS and when did he know it?!?!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can&#8217;t be said enough&#8230; and when will we get someone on FOX to finally ASK THE F***** (to us BlahGo&#8217;s fave word) QUESTION!?!?!</p>
<p>They are busy being &#8220;cautious&#8221; not to raise any Oblahblah inference&#8230; SO FAR!!! We must keep the phrase alive and on all the MSM about &#8220;What did Obama KNOW about THESE CROOKS and when did he know it?!?!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: mbecker908</title>
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		<dc:creator>mbecker908</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alan Keyes?</description>
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		<title>By: cookcountyconservative</title>
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		<dc:creator>cookcountyconservative</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>His relation with Blago was “distant”.

His connection to Blago is Rezko!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>His relation with Blago was “distant”.</p>
<p>His connection to Blago is Rezko!</p>
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		<title>By: Kowalski</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kowalski</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a wee lad, when I lived in New Jersey I had insider access to the ** original ** recordings of the Jerky Boys.  Occasionally over the years since I left, I&#039;ve tried to tell a lot of people that Illinois politics sounds just like the early Jerky Boys tapes over the telephone.  

They&#039;re not better people, they&#039;re just more powerful.  In many, many ways they&#039;re much worse and more bloody-minded than the people they &quot;serve.&quot;  The reason Chicago is such a &quot;heavy&quot; place when you&#039;ve been there long enough to understand it is that you know that the very highest levels of government are run like something from Lord of the Flies crossed with the Jerky Boys.  It&#039;s terrible to have to live underneath the thumb of people who are essentially profane in their minds and in their spirit, but that&#039;s Chicago for the most part, and Rod Blagojevich has just demonstrated how he&#039;s run the Governorship the same way.  

None of them are worth the offices they hold.  They&#039;re not worth the people who voted for them.  In one important sense in Illinois, the Anarchists are correct:  their elected leaders are even more disgusting than they are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a wee lad, when I lived in New Jersey I had insider access to the ** original ** recordings of the Jerky Boys.  Occasionally over the years since I left, I&#8217;ve tried to tell a lot of people that Illinois politics sounds just like the early Jerky Boys tapes over the telephone.  </p>
<p>They&#8217;re not better people, they&#8217;re just more powerful.  In many, many ways they&#8217;re much worse and more bloody-minded than the people they &#8220;serve.&#8221;  The reason Chicago is such a &#8220;heavy&#8221; place when you&#8217;ve been there long enough to understand it is that you know that the very highest levels of government are run like something from Lord of the Flies crossed with the Jerky Boys.  It&#8217;s terrible to have to live underneath the thumb of people who are essentially profane in their minds and in their spirit, but that&#8217;s Chicago for the most part, and Rod Blagojevich has just demonstrated how he&#8217;s run the Governorship the same way.  </p>
<p>None of them are worth the offices they hold.  They&#8217;re not worth the people who voted for them.  In one important sense in Illinois, the Anarchists are correct:  their elected leaders are even more disgusting than they are.</p>
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		<title>By: Kowalski</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kowalski</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m just really happy about the language that high-ranking government officials in Illinois use all the time when they talk about things they want to happen.  There&#039;s not as much overt racist talk as their used to be, but there are an awful lot of references to fornication and who should fornicated on, in, against, or with.  Most of high-level Illinois politics is this way.

Literary scholars and people who are used to parsing the language of esteemed public servants like Rod Blagojevich are going to spend a long time thinking about the kinds of words their elected officials use when they really talk about each other, and discuss the deals they want to see happen.

It&#039;s all so very low, so very brutal, so very Hobbesian.

&lt;blockquote&gt;“You know I sat down talked [to Cellini] a long time ago I said if you can convince those guys [Rezko and Kelly] to let us stay in place. . . We got a great machinery and if there’s an accommodation you know we’ll certainly try to accommodate but if they just wanna stick things in you know I’m gonna leave that’s no way to do that.”

...

Later in the May 12, 2004 recorded call, Cellini asked Levine “did he tell you,
too, that the big guy said Rosenberg means nothing to him.” Levine testified that he understood Cellini to be stating that Cellini had been told by Rezko that ROD BLAGOJEVICH (the “big guy”) was aware of the extortion...

...

ROD BLAGOJEVICH told Individual A that, “I could have made a larger announcement but wanted to see how they perform by the end of the year. If they don’t perform, ***k ‘em.”

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ROD BLAGOJEVICH states: “Yeah,  now be real careful there. I mean, the FBI went to see [Lobbyist 2]. You understand?”

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Lobbyist 1 suggested that it is better for ROD BLAGOJEVICH to make the call
personally “from a pressure point of view.” ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated that he would call Contributor 1 and indicate that ROD BLAGOJEVICH wanted to do an event (fundraiser) downstate “so we can get together and start picking some dates to do a bill signing.” Lobbyist 1 assured ROD BLAGOJEVICH that Contributor 1 would be good for the donation because Lobbyist 1 “got in his face.”

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During the call, ROD BLAGOJEVICH’s wife can be heard in the
background telling ROD BLAGOJEVICH to tell Deputy Governor A “to hold up that ******g Cubs shit. . . **c* them.”

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“Look, we’ve got decisions to make now. . . moving this stuff forward (believed to be a reference to the IFA helping with the Cubs sale) . . . someone’s gotta go to [Tribune Owner], we want to see him 45 . . it’s a political *****n’ operation in there.”

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ROD BLAGOJEVICH said Tribune Owner should be told “maybe we can’t do this now. Fire those ******s.”

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ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated that “our recommendation is fire all
those *******g people, get ‘em the **c* out of there and get us some editorial support.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;

There are so very many more, and these are from the **early** parts of the indictment text.  What&#039;s astonishing is really how brutal -- even bestial -- the politics in Illinois under Rod Blagojevich has become.  And this was the cradle from which Barack Obama emerged to be the President-Elect of the United States.

It doesn&#039;t come as a surprise to me that the elected officials in Illinois are this vulgar; I know that very well.  It&#039;s good that the rest of the country is learning where their new President comes from.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m just really happy about the language that high-ranking government officials in Illinois use all the time when they talk about things they want to happen.  There&#8217;s not as much overt racist talk as their used to be, but there are an awful lot of references to fornication and who should fornicated on, in, against, or with.  Most of high-level Illinois politics is this way.</p>
<p>Literary scholars and people who are used to parsing the language of esteemed public servants like Rod Blagojevich are going to spend a long time thinking about the kinds of words their elected officials use when they really talk about each other, and discuss the deals they want to see happen.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all so very low, so very brutal, so very Hobbesian.</p>
<blockquote><p>“You know I sat down talked [to Cellini] a long time ago I said if you can convince those guys [Rezko and Kelly] to let us stay in place. . . We got a great machinery and if there’s an accommodation you know we’ll certainly try to accommodate but if they just wanna stick things in you know I’m gonna leave that’s no way to do that.”</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Later in the May 12, 2004 recorded call, Cellini asked Levine “did he tell you,<br />
too, that the big guy said Rosenberg means nothing to him.” Levine testified that he understood Cellini to be stating that Cellini had been told by Rezko that ROD BLAGOJEVICH (the “big guy”) was aware of the extortion&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>ROD BLAGOJEVICH told Individual A that, “I could have made a larger announcement but wanted to see how they perform by the end of the year. If they don’t perform, ***k ‘em.”</p>
<p>&#8212;-</p>
<p>ROD BLAGOJEVICH states: “Yeah,  now be real careful there. I mean, the FBI went to see [Lobbyist 2]. You understand?”</p>
<p>&#8212;-</p>
<p>Lobbyist 1 suggested that it is better for ROD BLAGOJEVICH to make the call<br />
personally “from a pressure point of view.” ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated that he would call Contributor 1 and indicate that ROD BLAGOJEVICH wanted to do an event (fundraiser) downstate “so we can get together and start picking some dates to do a bill signing.” Lobbyist 1 assured ROD BLAGOJEVICH that Contributor 1 would be good for the donation because Lobbyist 1 “got in his face.”</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>During the call, ROD BLAGOJEVICH’s wife can be heard in the<br />
background telling ROD BLAGOJEVICH to tell Deputy Governor A “to hold up that ******g Cubs shit. . . **c* them.”</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>“Look, we’ve got decisions to make now. . . moving this stuff forward (believed to be a reference to the IFA helping with the Cubs sale) . . . someone’s gotta go to [Tribune Owner], we want to see him 45 . . it’s a political *****n’ operation in there.”</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>ROD BLAGOJEVICH said Tribune Owner should be told “maybe we can’t do this now. Fire those ******s.”</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated that “our recommendation is fire all<br />
those *******g people, get ‘em the **c* out of there and get us some editorial support.”</p></blockquote>
<p>There are so very many more, and these are from the **early** parts of the indictment text.  What&#8217;s astonishing is really how brutal &#8212; even bestial &#8212; the politics in Illinois under Rod Blagojevich has become.  And this was the cradle from which Barack Obama emerged to be the President-Elect of the United States.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise to me that the elected officials in Illinois are this vulgar; I know that very well.  It&#8217;s good that the rest of the country is learning where their new President comes from.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Kilmer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark Kilmer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>that seat from the Blagman?  Like you&#039;ve said, Moe, the commercials write themselves.  The insinuations will be even more powerful than the ads, spoken or unspoken.

This almost has to go to a special election; Obama&#039;s mentor Emil Jones &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1319419,CST-NWS-jones08.article&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;who is going to start a motion&lt;/a&gt; in the Illinois State senate to that effect.

Who&#039;ve we got for that seat?  This is one we have to win.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>that seat from the Blagman?  Like you&#8217;ve said, Moe, the commercials write themselves.  The insinuations will be even more powerful than the ads, spoken or unspoken.</p>
<p>This almost has to go to a special election; Obama&#8217;s mentor Emil Jones <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1319419,CST-NWS-jones08.article" rel="nofollow">who is going to start a motion</a> in the Illinois State senate to that effect.</p>
<p>Who&#8217;ve we got for that seat?  This is one we have to win.</p>
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		<title>By: DavidS1787</title>
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		<dc:creator>DavidS1787</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>an unkown Republican with no known ties......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>an unkown Republican with no known ties&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: JLenardDetroit</title>
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		<dc:creator>JLenardDetroit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>right!?!?

In Chicago, it is all connected by only 1 or 2 degrees of separation. One crook, always knows another crook, linked to the first crook mentioned. Link Rezco, ACORN, whatever, and the connections will eventually surface. Hopefully this is just the tip of the iceberg and all the associations and shady-activities get cross-linked/referenced!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>right!?!?</p>
<p>In Chicago, it is all connected by only 1 or 2 degrees of separation. One crook, always knows another crook, linked to the first crook mentioned. Link Rezco, ACORN, whatever, and the connections will eventually surface. Hopefully this is just the tip of the iceberg and all the associations and shady-activities get cross-linked/referenced!</p>
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