The Winkest Link

OK, you all know who Rod Blagojevich is, I won’t bore you with that, let’s just cut straight to the opinion stuff.

First of all, Blagojevich grossly overstepped his power as a politician. The standard joke here is that that’s just typical Illinois politics. Go ahead and use that one, I already have several times today. If you have spent the last day in a ditch (no offense to you who are stuck in an overturned car and are trapped as of right now), Blagojevich is the Illinois governor who tried to sell President-Elect Barack Obama’s senate seat. If you want to read about that itself, Google it, I’m not wasting time with a link. Blagojevich is the fourth of the last eight governors of Illinois to be arrested for corruption. I knew Chicago was not yet above corruption, but I figured the entire state of Illinois was better than that by now. Apparently not, my mistake. Oh well, let’s try him and charge him to the full extent of the law…

But wait, did you see how his corruption was uncovered? Drum roll please: illegal wire tapping! I’m no law expert (yet), but it seems to me that even Barry Zuckerkorn could get this case dismissed in a heartbeat. I am by no means condoning the actions of Blagojevich, but I do believe in the correct application of the law. It leaves a funny taste in my mouth to say this, but a conviction of Rod Blagojevich would be a disappointment to the American justice system.

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