Poor Barack. In the past week he has been visited by 3 ghosts from his past.
First, America-hating Reverend Wright re-surfaced as a guest preacher at his old church. It was on December 7th, and he claimed it was the anniversary of our country "murdering" tens of thousands at Hiroshima in 1941. Hummm....the Reverend must be getting a bit confused about who attacked who on December 7th, 1941. Plus, using the atomic bombs saved hundreds of thousands of American lives by ending the war without invading the Japanese homeland.
Then, America-hating Bill Ayers shows up all over the media including an op-ed in the NYT's and an interview on MSNBC making the case that he was really never a terrorist. The Weather Underground bombings were just "symbolic acts" against icons of imperialist empire. Good grief. He said that his goal was simply to trigger a communist movement led by the Marxist-Leninist party. He seems to have forgotten that the bomb that accidentally went off in the Weather Underground Greenwich safe house, killing a number of people, was packed with nails for maximum human damage and was meant for a noncommissioned officers' dance at Fort Dix in New Jersey. There were lots of other bombs and other deaths as well.
Third, sociopath and self-loathing Blagojevich delivers the coup de' gras! One of the oddities about Barack Obama is a complete lack of affect. He is always the "cool cat" that never gets emotional. Well he should be emotional, angry even, about the Blagojevich affair. This is not some tangential ethical issue. It is colleague that he has strongly supported over the years trying to sell his former senate seat. But he just stands there and calmly says it is "unfortunate".
Now it is being reported that if Blagojevich does not resign or is not quickly impeached that the Illinois Attorney General is going to go to the state supreme court and have him declared "unfit" to serve in the office of the governor. Is this actually in the Illinois constitution? Is this like when Captain Kirk is possessed by an evil alien and Mr. Spock threatens to have "Bones" relieve him of command for acting irrationally? Perhaps Blogajevich is channeling “The Caine Mutiny”. I can almost see Blagojevich rolling the ball bearings around in his hand now!
Oh, and as an aside, guess who the real estate agent for the shady Rezko/Obama real estate deal where Obama bought his Hyde Park house at a below market rate? Yep, Patricia Blagojevich.