How come nobody uses the word bribe anymore?

Vashta.Nerada on July 8, 2009 at 12:02 PM

“Patronage” is the new “Corruption“!!

He is a Chicago Democrat with no exerience and has lied so many times already that his public statements are now meaningless.

Oh goody, the vacuum cleaner salesman are in charge.

fogw on July 8, 2009 at 12:06 PM

Channeling former HA troll: No you’re wrong, he wasn’t a vacuum cleaner salesman he’s was the CEO of a large manufacturing company with many responsibilities that helped hone his executive and leadership abilities in order to bring about the GLORIOUS HOPE AND CHANGE WE NEED!

THE ADULTS ARE IN CHARGE NOW FOGW SO LEAVE HIM AND MY SAVIOR OBAMA ALONE!

Ok, now I need some migraine medicine and a shower, channeling idiocy makes my head hurt and makes me feel dirty!

Parking Meters

Knucklehead on July 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM

Too bad that is just a local story. The nation should also get to enjoy the hilarity of that screw up.

WashJeff on July 8, 2009 at 12:21 PM

Don’t speak so soon WashJeff.

If Cap-and-Tax passes, you can replace ‘Parking Meters’ with ‘Electric Meters’, ‘Gas Meters’, ‘Water Meters’, ‘Food Prices’, et al.

Obama patronage worse than thought

Fixed

Ambassadors do very little

so who cares if the guy who was Obama’s favorite professor or a guy who raised a couple of mil is made an ambassador

karasoth on July 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM

It matters, because Obama made such a freaking show in the campaign about how U.S. foreign policy was going to be different and better if he was elected. There were going to be all these wonderful career diplomats running the embassies, not the President’s pals and moneymen.

The ghost of Al Capone haunts the White House.

Steve Z on July 8, 2009 at 1:02 PM

Didn’t CNN have a video of that a few days ago?

so who cares if the guy who was Obama’s favorite professor or a guy who raised a couple of mil is made an ambassador

This thread is just begging for a good Mark Twain quote.

hillbillyjim on July 8, 2009 at 12:44 PM

Maybe this will tide you over:

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what’s going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?
Will Rogers

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.
Will Rogers

Nothing you can’t spell will ever work.
Will Rogers

stimulas

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers

Now here is a zinger, from the 1920′s

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
Will Rogers

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers

And for the one you requested: (notice the date)

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

“Obama patronage worse than thought”.

Not possible!

“On a more serious front, I sincerely hope that when the president goes in for his annual check-up, the doctors at Bethesda will do a brain scan. Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran .”

My gut is telling me that voters in Chicago are going to change that real soon. I see crash and burn Daley’s future.

Knucklehead on July 8, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Really? That would be worthy of an epic Chaucer-esque poem.

myrenovations on July 8, 2009 at 12:13 PM

Those who vote against Daley will be mysteriously found at the bottom of Lake Michigan, identifiable by heavy chains around their necks. They will then vote Democrat in the next election.