Shocked and Saddened

Oh so very shocked and so deeply deeply saddened. Barack Obama was clearly not on his A game. But can you blame him? After spending what must have felt like an eternity with the interminable Global Warming windbag drone, Al Gore, being hounded by the jackal media over "Governor Blagojevich" might have felt a welcomed relief. But he forgot his "No soap radio " punchline as he and David Axelrod failed to coordinate answers beforehand. He blew his first shot at denial.

Stupidly, Obama let himself be first out of the box with a mumble stumble "shocked and saddened" response YouTube - Obama Responds To Blagojevich Arrest. Too many "ahs" and "ah I, we, ah" for my taste. But he was probably running through in his mind all the times he had conversations with this dip of a Governor and was trying to figure out how he could get screwed. Even if he is innocent. But in politics, who is truly "innocent?" You know with absolute certainty a politician is lying when they tell you how "saddened" they are when one of their moron colleagues gets caught and threatens the good deal they all have. Immensely angry, very on guard, perhaps even fearful, but saddened? If Blagojevitch were a "captain" in the mob he would have been sleeping with the fishes by now. How much bigger of a jackass can you be than to offer the Obama Senate seat directly in exchange for cash in a bag?

Even though the Senate seat is of course for sale. What the hell in politics is not for sale? When the media and the politicians start with this shocked and saddened high dungeon crap, you know we are in DEFCON1 cover up mode. But this scandal has spectacular potential. The prosecutor Fitzgerald is the guy who decided he was going to get Cheney's chief of staff and did. This is considerably bigger than that. Its not that he was selling the damn seat that is the scandal, its the stupidity with which he was doing it and the gigantic Pandora's Box it can open. The Illinois Dems are truly wondering how they put themselves in the situation of potentially being taken down by this guy. This is as bad as Sammy "The Bull" Gravano getting "turned".

You know this one is going to be good because it has secret codes. I was listening to my car radio earlier and heard some guy say how "shocked and saddened" he was. It wasn't Obama's voice so I instantly knew whoever it was had just been implicated in the "Blagojevitch" case. Boy, am I clever. It turns out it was secret code "Senator #5", Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Apparently, as the press puts it, his "emissaries" offered $1 million for the seat. Jackson strongly and assertively said something like "I never authorized" something or other. Politicians really must hate Bill Clinton for giving their secret "pol-speak decoder" away as he described the complex etymology of the word "is". When I read Jackson Jr's almost comprehensible statement, I envisioned silver tongued Illuminati constructing infinite meaning word loops perfect for all occasions. "Oh, children of the night, what sweet music they make!"

So much shock and so much sadness and yet so little time to express it. But I too am shocked and saddened. I am shocked and saddened that Caroline Kennedy can make a call and try to worm her way into the Hillary Clinton Senate seat. I am sure she is far better trained in the rules of "this thing of ours" than that blithering idiot "Blago", but do you really think there is no "trading going on"? I am also truly shocked and saddened that the insufferable Bloomberg can decide, Putin style, he is going to be mayor for a third term, even though there are term limits. I am beyond shock and sadness that political apparatchiks like Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines can get 5 year $100 million rides at Fannie Mae. I feel truly saddened and shocked when I recall that the roommate of Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank, got caught running a "bisexual sex ring" out of their apartment. When I think of the recent 3 Governors of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey all getting blown out of office for one thing or another, I am very much shocked and very much saddened.

Shock and sadness does not begin to describe my feelings when William J Clinton had to give up his Middle East Dharma Bum money raising operation in exchange for Hillary's Secretary of State seat. He has raised $500 million for his "Library" and another $100 million in speaking fees in the last 10 years, much from the Middle East. But if it is so above board, why can't he do it anymore with Hillary as Secretary of State? This shocks and saddens me for both of them. When I contemplate Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich in exchange for $1 million, it also shocks and saddens me.

Many things shock and sadden me. Like the $4 trillion dollars we collectively give to this group of freakish incompetent hyenas in the form of taxes. Does it really shock you that occasionally one of them slips up and lets the cat out of the bag? These are the people who will be dolling out the American people's money to "shovel ready" projects, "green technologies", a hodge podge of unions, and most importantly to themselves in the form of ludicrously high pensions, lifetime health care, lifetime speaking gigs, every conceivable back door deal, and all that jazz.

Shocked and saddened doesn't begin to describe my feelings. How about you?