Chicago Politics Is Chicago Politics

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There is an article posted at Little Green Footballs today about the lack of a clear response from the President-elect Obama team about the selling of Obama's Senate seat.  This is ugly, but somewhat irrelevant.  If Obama had a fairly close relationship with the Governor of Illinois (which as a Senator of the same party from the state would have been very natural), it would be expected that there would have been some conversation about his open Senate seat.  As long as he (or his representatives) were not engaged in bribery, I don't see this as a problem.  However, considering the way politics is played in Illinois, I really would not be willing to guess what actually happened.  We'll have to wait for the transcripts to be released, if they ever are.  To be making a big deal of this at this point may be a strategic mistake on the part of any politician trying to gain from the situation.  An attack now makes anyone look petty because there really is no concrete information.  However, to paraphrase Rush Limbaugh, it does remind me of the situation in the movie Casablanca where the gendarme is "shocked" that gambling is going on at Rick's Place!

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