Just five weeks ago, in a fit of anti-Bush anger and liberal self-flagellation, 53 percent of the electorate voted to send an unknown, untested and inexperienced Chicago pol to the White House.
Who was Barack Obama? What sort of pol? Nobody knew or, apparently, cared.
All that his voters knew was that he was a Democrat, but little else. In fact, what they thought they knew was ... wrong.
Now America is learning to pronounce “Blagojevich” and discovering what The New York Times [NYT] calls “the murky and insular world of Illinois politics.” It’s a realm of open corruption, boundless greed and contempt for the law. And it’s the lifelong political home of President-elect Obama.Who is this Big "O" that's going to make "Hope" and "Change" (whatever you want that to mean) his platform?
Surprise!
...the media “have been clinging to the ridiculous notion that Chicago is Camelot for months now. It must help them see Obama as some pristine creature, perhaps a gentle fawn of a magic forest, unstained by our grubby politics.”
Why yes, gentle fawns thrive and grow in the interstices of the political machine dominated by Richard Daley. They remain uncorrupted by associating with "Tony" - convicted felon - Rezko. They learn to love their fellow man by attending the sermons of race baiter Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright.
And it would make them faint dead away to find that they Senate seat they just vacated was being auctioned off to the highest bidder.
More Graham:
I am saying that the Blago scandal is the opening of a door into the actual career of Obama rather than the media-made hagiography that’s been passed off as journalism for the past year.
My prediction: Blagojevich is Barack Obama’s Whitewater. Before Bill Clinton became president, the Whitewater story had begun leaking into the media, but nobody paid attention. To most Americans in 1992, the names Webb Hubbell, Susan McDougal and Jim Guy Tucker sounded like the cast of a Branson, Mo., musical act. They meant nothing when Clinton was elected, but all three were in jail - and on the front page - before he left office.
Anybody want to bet that a similar cast of the corrupt and conniving is now sitting in Chicago central casting?
It isn't that the MSM didn't know that they did not examine this man adequately. It's that they didn't care; as long as it was a Democrat it was good. And if it was a Black Democrat it was heaven. It showed that they were good people; it showed that they cared ... and despite the fact that pink slips were being handed out they still had clout.
Just before the election, Tom Brokaw and Charlie Rose had a fascinating on-air conversation conceding how little they knew about Obama, his policies and politics. “We really don’t know him,” Brokaw confessed.
I was one of the viewers throwing stuff at my TV and shouting, “Then why don’t you ask him, Tom?” Well, it’s too late now.
Six weeks after the election, we’re finally meeting Barack Obama, Chicago-style.
Bambi was their candidate. Now he's our "President Elect" ... See? He has a sign to prove it.
UPDATE:
Jonah Goldberg stole some of Graham and my imagery and adds some of his own with A Little Blago for Everyone :
There’s the enormous I-should-have-had-a-V8! moment as the mainstream press collectively thwacks itself in the forehead, realizing it blew it again. The New York Times — which, according to Wall Street analysts, is weeks from holding editorial-board meetings in a refrigerator box — created the journalistic equivalent of CSI-Wasilla to study every follicle and fiber in Sarah Palin’s background, all the while treating Obama’s Chicago like one of those fairy-tale lands depicted in posters that adorn little girls’ bedroom walls. See there, Suzie? That’s a Pegasus. That’s a pink unicorn. And that’s a beautiful sunflower giving birth to a fully grown Barack Obama, the greatest president ever and the only man in history to be able to pick up manure from the clean end.
The home of the president-elect
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