Wednesday, December 10, 2008

'A cancer on the presidency' -- Obama presidency already endangered by U.S. Senate seat scandal

The words above that White House attorney John Dean told President Nixon more than three decades during the Watergate scandal now ring hauntingly familiar in the wake of charges brought against Illinois' governor for alleging trying to sale the seat of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.

Obama aide David Axelrod said on television two weeks ago that Obama spoke with the governor about the appointment. Now President-elect Obama says he never spoke to the governor. Axelrod now says he misspoke.

Obama's new chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, a power in Chicago politics and a U.S. representative, is implicated in conversations about the seat. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., has supposedly been named one of the five people cited for the seat. He denied any wrongdoing today but would not answer questions due to attorney advice.

It is all so sad. I wish it were not so. Yes, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. But the truth must come out, no matter who it endangers.

That is the kind of change needed first in American politics.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Give me a break Tim. Unless Obama said it himself, then it is just a matter of him having a bad spokesman. Nice try.

Signed; D of H&I