We've been discussing over the past week, the appointment of Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate by Gov. Blago. Friday, it was revealed that Senator Harry Reid had his nose all up in Illinois Politics, deeming 3 Black possible candidates - Danny Davis, Emil Jones and Jesse Jackson, Jr. - 'Unelectable'....

Uh huh. How it gets more interesting by the minute. According to the Chicago Sun-Times: Reid pressured Blagojevich not to appoint Jackson Jr. to Obama’s U.S. Senate seatJanuary 2, 2009 BY NATASHA KORECKI, CHRIS FUSCO AND LYNN SWEET Days before Gov. Blagojevich was charged with trying to sell Presi...

Marin Luther King must be rolling in his grave. The ghost of the man who was wiretapped, infiltrated and hounded by Robert Kennedy's Justice Department, has to be irked that the first born son of his favorite disciple has been a rat for the past ten years. It turns out that Jesse Jackson, Jr. was mo...

I was listening to Hardball today, and I saw the guy from BET (I would get into it how I can't see Ron Daniels, Ron Walter, Charles Ogletree, Bev Smith, etc. as political commentators, yet get someone from BET.....but I disgress.) said that Jesse Jr. took a wrong turn with the Press Conference, and ...

by Dan Proft Is there nothing sadder than the loss of innocence? Some of us lose it upon learning there is no Santa Claus.  For others it accompanies the death of a close friend or forlorn love. For 43-year-old Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., aka "Senate Candidate 5", loss of innocenc...

ROD BLAGOJEVICH might've gotten something "tangible" from associates of Jesse Jackson, Jr! The scandal is in its baroque period now, with the fun transcripts picked through, leaving only complicated questions of political propriety. According to the Chicago Tribune , one of the apparently thousands ...

Like every other politician in Illinois, Gov. Rod Blagojevich waited for Barack Obama's call this summer. He told colleagues that he expected a speaking role at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, a nice bit of payback for being the first governor to endorse the senator from Illinois in his......

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

What did he know? And when did he know it? I notice a lot of the original and die-hard Obama supporters (not ones who've since jumped on the bandwagon) have been silent regarding Illinois Governor Blagojavich's 'Seat for Sale' scheme, now referred to as 'Pay-to-Play.' How is it that a Senator (now P...

I received a nice request asking that I comment on the arrest of Rod Blagojevich , and the auctioning of Senate seats in Illinois. Since it does not take much prodding to get me to shoot off my mouth---happy to oblige. The one indisputable feature of this whole mess, is when anyone votes for a guy w...