Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Democrat voters re-elect Democrat politician

Ho-hum, you say. But this example of Democrat democracy is unusually corrupt.

Dem voters in Illinois's 2nd Congressional district (Obama 90% last Tuesday), which includes the southeast areas of Chicago, re-elected Jesse Jackson Jr.

Jackson, is the son of shake-down artist and race-baiting con man Jesse 'never ran nothin' but his mouth' Jackson Sr.

Jackson Jr. didn't even have to campaign to win his seat in the US Congress from this gaggle of Democrat voters. He has been under federal investigation for corruption (:0), and is negotiating for a plea deal that reportedly will include prison time. This is, however, no hinderance to winning a landslide in a deep blue Democrat district. Jackson spent much of the past few months in the Mayo Clinic with a diagnosis of "bipolar disorder", likely meaning that he had difficulty deciding whether to take the bribes in checks or money orders. Quandaries can be emotionally exhausting...

Jackson replaced Dem Congressmen Mel Reynolds. Reynolds' bio:

In August 1994, Reynolds was indicted for sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse for engaging in a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer that began during the 1992 campaign.[1] Despite the charges, he continued his campaign and was re-elected that November; he had no opposition.[1] Reynolds initially denied the charges, which he claimed were racially motivated. On August 22, 1995, he was convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography. He resigned his seat on October 1 of that year.[2]
Reynolds was sentenced to five years in prison, thus he expected to be released in 1998. However, in April 1997 he was convicted on 15 unrelated counts of bank fraud and lying toSEC investigators. These charges resulted in an additional sentence of 78 months in federal prison. Reynolds served all of his first sentence, and served 42 months in prison for the later charges. At that point, President Bill Clinton commuted the sentence for bank fraud. However, Reynolds had never applied for presidential clemency, which is the first step to be considered for a presidential pardon. As a result, Reynolds was released from prison and served the remaining time in a halfway house.[3][4]

Jackson and Reynolds follow the tradition of Illinois Democrats from the Chicago political machine. As several wags have noted, if you have been elected governor of deep blue Illinois you a greater chance of going to prison than if you commit murder in Illinois.

On a unrelated story, a Democrat pol who thrived in the same Illinois Democrat political machine for the past two decades was just re-elected President.

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    1. Challenge:

      Find me all the references you can to Obama criticizing the culture of corruption in the Chicago Democrat Mob when he was a cog in that mob.

      Let's see if his membership in the Chicago Dem machine was correlation or mere association. If it was mere association, he would have criticized the corruption in which he swam.

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    2. Find me all the references you can to Egnor criticizing the culture of child rape in the Catholic Church Mob when he was a cog in that mob.

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    3. Interesting that you can't find any reference to Obama criticizing the sea of corruption in Chicago.

      Correlation, not association.

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    4. 20 years in the Chicago Dem corruption machine, and that's the best Obama did?

      Pretty funny.

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    5. Prediction fulfilled.

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    6. "Find me all the references..."

      You found me one, marginal.

      That's all ya got?

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    7. Remember your logic?

      "Let's see if his membership in the Chicago Dem machine was correlation or mere association. If it was mere association, he would have criticized the corruption in which he swam."

      I found you one instance in which Obama did criticize corruption in Chicago. I can find you more, but one instance is enough to invalidate your point.

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    8. What for? You suggested that Obama, being part of the corrupt Chicago machine, would not criticize the corruption. He did. I don't need to show that he did it many times. One counter example invalidates your argument.

      Do you understand basic logic, doc?

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    9. my basic logic is that Mregnor asked for a reference when Obama was in Chicago and not when he was in Washington. A reference when Obama was not the powerful president but a member of the Democrats among many.
      As President or candidate President Mr Obama has distanced himself even from very close family friends.

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    10. That would be much harder to find for the simple reason that Obama did not receive much press coverage prior to becoming a presidential candidate.

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    11. If he had spoken out against the corruption of the machine in Chicago, there would have been a lot of press coverage.

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    12. Hard does not mean impossible. In 2007 Obama gave a speech Taking our government back. An excerpt:

      "When I arrived in Springfield a decade ago as a state Senator, people said it was too hard to take on the issue of money in politics. Illinois actually had a law that allowed politicians to pocket the money in their campaign accounts for personal use; that allowed any lobbyist or special interest to shower lawmakers with unlimited gifts.

      "It was obvious that as long as this went on, the people's business would never come first. I knew it was going to be tough, and that I wasn't going to make myself the most popular guy in town -- or even in my own party.

      "But we had the people of Illinois on our side, and that there were folks on both sides of the aisle who were willing to listen, and so we were finally able to pass the first major ethics reform in twenty-five years."

      What will Egnor's next excuse be? I'm guessing a conspiracy theory.

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    13. A campaign speech in 2007. You've got to be kidding. Tony Rezko probably wrote the speech for him.

      I'm talking about real speech and action on his part sometime during the decades when he was a real cog in that machine, not just when he was running for president.

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    14. Obama mentioned specific actions in that speech. As an Illinois senator, he pushed through an ethics reform. Click on that link and read a testimony of his senate colleague, who happens to be a Republican.

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  2. I'd say it's shocking that a medical professional would make fun of mental illness, but my opinion of you can't really sink any lower anyway.

    Boo

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    1. I mock gangster politicians who hide behind medical diagnoses to evade prosecution.

      I also mock liberals who are stupid enough to actually believe them, or who pretend to believe them.

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    2. Ah, so you belong to the Bill Frist school of diagnosis. Well, actually that's unfair. He at least had a tv. You have... osmosis? I guess? Apparently you also like to mock the Mayo Clinic as being unable to tell if someone is faking it.

      Do you have any redeeming features at all?

      Boo

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    3. I have a bullshit detector. That counts for something.

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    4. Remember your election predictions? They were pure, unadulterated crap. What happened to your detector, genius?

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    5. Amazingly, you were 100% wrong. How do you manage to be so consistent? LOL

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    6. The only flaw in my bullshit detector is I occasionally underestimate folly and depravity.

      In this case, it was the folly and depravity of the American electorate. I should have listened more to you liberal commentors-- you are shining examples of f & d, and it seems that more of you voted than I figured would.

      Not a mistake I'll make again.

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    7. There was no need to listen to liberal commentators. It was enough to look at the polls. Better yet, their aggregates. 538 did a marvelous job calling all of the battleground states correctly. If you don't like Nate Silver then there was RealClearPolitics. Different political slant, same story.

      Instead, you listened to the conservative echo chamber that was predicting Romney's landslide. Some of them confessed that they had been lying. You were just duped. By your own side. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

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    8. Maybe it was be easier for Egnor to make a list of the people he does like. It would certainly be shorter.

      Boo

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