Neither O.J. getting off his murder case nor Sen. Larry Craighead avoiding prosecution and Senate censure compares to the wonders the new attorney for Illinois Gov. Blagojevich did for entertainer R. Kelly.
Despite video showing the entertainer apparently with underage females, the entertainer beat a 25-page indictment. And now the same attorney has been hired to keep Gov. B out of jail despite damning federal transcripts of him apparently selling the Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama.
The big worry in the Obama camp is that Gov. B's fantastic atorney will help him turn state's evidence for federal prosecutors to nab further big fish, including some principals on the Obama side. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., and new Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are two the most cited fish.
While Obama himself is apparently not involved in the case, he is tarnnished by a Chicago and Illinois politics he came from -- that among many things -- helped get JFK elected president under highly questionable circumstances in 1960. Richard Nixon was urged by associates to challenge the alleged wrongdoing, but he declined, saying he did not want to drag the nation through it.
Stay tuned. Chicago and Illinois remain a political soap opera. And if R. Kelly could avoid jail time, Gov. B may do a lot of singing about Obama aides to do the same.
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