The scandal swirling around Barack Obama's homestate governor is hardly music to his ears says Alexandra Starr...

CHICAGO, Dec. 10 -- In the wake of the most brazen Illinois corruption case in years, President-elect Barack Obama and the entire Senate Democratic caucus called on Gov. Rod Blagojevich to resign Wednesday, while Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. said he did nothing wrong in seeking a Senate appointment......

The arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on bribery charges relating to the appointment of a senator to replace Barack Obama turns what was already a difficult situation into one fraught with political peril....

President-elect Barack Obama announced yesterday that he will resign his Senate seat effective Sunday, leaving Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) to choose from among a host of willing successors for the final two years of the Democrat's term....

by chris robling Last Sunday I appeared on Bruce Dumont's "Beyond the Beltway."    Regarding Barack, I referred to a pattern of state senate votes of which I had become aware, in which without making any ethics disclosures, Barack voted for measures helpful to the business intere...

Rich writes, There are only so many messages a candidate can use at once, but tying Obama to his “political godfather,� who is pushing another legislative pay raise yet regularly borrows money interest free from his campaign fund, and to a horrifically unpopular and scandal-plagued governor who ...

Is Barack Obama little more than a self-serving, angry wench, just like Hillary Clinton? A reporter who covered Obama for a small Chicago paper during his state senate career writes in a new feature for the Houston Press that “vanilla” Obama’s ambition during those days may have le...