{"id":353,"date":"2008-12-13T05:30:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T05:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2008-12-13T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T05:30:44","slug":"chicago_politics_is_chicago_po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Politics Is Chicago Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an article posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/32164_Obama_Team_Circling_the_Wagons\">Little Green Footballs<\/a>&nbsp;today about the lack of a clear response from the President-elect Obama team about the selling of Obama&#8217;s Senate seat.&nbsp; This is ugly, but somewhat irrelevant.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; As long as he (or his representatives) were not engaged in bribery, I don&#8217;t see this as a problem.&nbsp; However, considering the way politics is played in Illinois, I really would not be willing to guess what actually happened.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll have to wait for the transcripts to be released, if they ever are.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; An attack now makes anyone look petty because there really is no concrete information.&nbsp; However, to paraphrase Rush Limbaugh, it does remind me of the situation in the movie <em>Casablanca<\/em> where the gendarme is &#8220;shocked&#8221; that gambling is going on at Rick&#8217;s Place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an article posted at Little Green Footballs&nbsp;today about the lack of a clear response from the President-elect Obama team about the selling of Obama&#8217;s Senate seat.&nbsp; This is ugly, but somewhat irrelevant.&nbsp; If Obama had a fairly close &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=353\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}