Reply #35: he was railroaded [View All]

[TheUnspeakable]

No matter what you think of the guy, he WAS railroaded. For years, I've been trying to figure out why the press has treated him so badly-while at the same time, everything I heard that he was doing were things I agreed with and totally supported.(health care, senior transportation, etc.) Yet, if EVERYONE hated him so much, he must be bad. And believe me, here in IL, everyone hates him. it's been puzzling. Saturday, I listened to our local progressive station and the host (Dick Kay-extremely respected local political reporter for 38 years.) He had a 14 page talking points memo from June 2008 from long time (decades) Speaker of the House in Il., Mike Madigan. The gist of it was we must impeach him. (for trivialities really) This memo went out to all Democrats running for the house in the upcoming election. He told them if they were asked , "Did Mike madigan have anything to do with this?" they were instructed to say " No, I just think the Gov. has to be impeached for the good of Il" and if they were asked "Does this have anything to do with Lisa Madigan (Mike's daughter) running for Gov, they were to say "Oh no, it's for the good of Il."
OK, so we have an all powerful Dem. speaker of the house who controls all the Ill. Dems and he wants his daughter to be Gov. At the same time never forget that our entire justice system has been totally corrupted to slant against Dems and our corrupt Mayor Daley (all powerful-when we have Mayoral elections no one hardly tries to run against him-I can't even recall when the last one was.)
Daley hates him too. Lastly, don't forget the taint this puts on our new President Obama. Something's not right. One more thing-who can really be happy with their Gov in any state when the Fed government has been starving the states for 8 years and 47 out of 50 states are bankrupt?