Why doesn’t our country learn? This post was forwarded to me by my mentor and friend, Mr. Chuck Spinney. Chuck demonstrated untouchable moral courage while posted in the Pentagon’s Fighter Weapons shop. He continually reminded the establishment of the death ride it was taking on the tail of high tech weapons programs. As long as our nation continues to vote for resumes without regard to character, and endorse our new values system of “things, money and time” then we will continue on a demise similar to the Roman empire of the 4th century, except at a faster pace.
Again, I pray that our new President Barak Obama will be more honest with the American people.
Two cheers for Rod Blagoevich
By Frank Rich
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Rod Blagojevich is the perfect holiday treat for a country fighting off depression. He gift-wraps the ugliness of corruption in the mirthful garb of farce. From a safe distance outside Illinois, it’s hard not to laugh at the “culture of Chicago,” where even the president-elect’s Senate seat is just another commodity to be bought and sold.
But the entertainment is escapist only up to a point. What went down in the Land of Lincoln is just the reductio ad absurdum of an American era where both entitlement and corruption have been the calling cards of power. Blagojevich’s alleged crimes pale next to the larger scandals of Washington and Wall Street. Yet those who promoted and condoned the twin national catastrophes of reckless war in Iraq and reckless gambling in our markets have largely escaped the accountability that now seems to await the Chicago punk nabbed by the U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
Don Vandergriff 