The very second (can you say "very second"?) blog post I ever wrote was called " What if it happened like this, #1."

I thought it would be a good format for showing hypocrisy, taking a story that people are blissfully unconcerned about and reimagining it in terms in which the villagers would get their torches out.

I never did write another one. Until Tony Rezko was convicted, while party insiders coronated his pal, Barack Obama.

Can you just imagine if he were a Clinton buddy, and their demonic Hillbilly Machine had made HRC the nominee?

Servers would be burnin' across the internets, wouldn't they? And every fainting couch in the Beltway would be at beyond capacity. Read more…

Bostonboomer has an interesting article about Obama the community organizer over at riverdaughter's place, The Confluence.

I just want to highlight one portion, (quoting Ryan Lizza): Read more…

There is always something about Chicago that is, well, shall we say, a little gangster. There is strong arming, back biting, gun play, bribery and the classic double cross. Never has this been more evident than in the city’s efforts to deal with the plight of its urban poor and public housing. Chicago is arguably one of the most notorious havens for slum lords – one of which was Obama’s associate Tony Rezko. For now we’ll leave out George Soros, Austan Goolsbee, and Brzezinski. The neo-liberal capitalist have come to gentrify America .

City officials have the gall to claim that the Plan for Transformation will help public housing residents--by relocating them into mixed-income and racially diverse neighborhoods. But the evidence so far suggests that most families end up in other segregated and poor neighborhoods--only further away from the central city property that developers have their eyes on. Read more…