What will come out of this whole Blagoevich situation?

[DavidMn]

Ok I want to have an honest open discussion here with intelligent Ledge members about this situation. I will preface my comments saying I voted for Obama, but in the past in elections I have voted for both parties and consider myself somewhat of a centrist. I am concerned that this will somehow come back to hurt our new president in some way. I mean lets look at whats been going on here.



1. Jesse Jackson JR seems to be more than a little dirty here, allegedly offering or someone connected with him offering $500,000 for the Senate seat.


2.Rahm Emanuel is known for being a hard nosed do whatever it takes to get things done type of politician. Does that make him guilty of anything? Certainly not, but he's one of those people, to me at least, that with his attitude and his proximity to this situation, well it makes me wonder a bit.

3.David Axelrod sometime back I think a couple of 3 weeks or so was quoted as saying that Obama and Blagoevich had conversations about the open senate seat. Now he's saying that didnt happen.


My hope is that the president-elect is clean here, but I am concerned that this might be the opening the Republicans have hoped for since their embarrassing defeats in '06 and '08. I think at the least, even if Mr Obama has done nothing wrong, the right wing wack jobs will dig deep to find whatever they can.