Rod Blagojevich vs. Harry Reid

Does everyone deserve their day in court here in America in 2009 or should we now just conclude a person is guilty of a crime and must step down from his position based on an aggressive prosecutor press conference?  The prosecutor supposedly has taped conversations indicating the governor wanted to sell the Obama Senate seat; does that mean he must be found guilty of felony offenses without the benfit of a trial? 

I think everyone deserves their day in court and have been saying so since this Governor story broke (another Chicago Politician.... actually nothing here unusual I don't think except the seat in question is being vacated by the President-elect).

However, once they make you a part of the daily news cycle it is hard to ever get a fair trial, but the question here is, what exactly is the crime?  He had not even appointed a Senator when this became national news much less accepted a bribe for an appointment.

So, they will have to prove he was truly trying to sell the seat for personal gain above the norm political horse trading in these cases.  Maybe he was.  But politicians are always angling for a better political position somewhere and often show favoritism to those who contributed to their campaigns or did some other favor for them.

If he is guilty of a serious crime then a jury needs to say so.  Until this happens the man is still legally the governor and in a contest between him and Reid I will be rooting for Blago every time because Reid has repeatedly demonstrated he is all about partisan politics and could care less about the law.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30118

J. Cogburn

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MESSAGE TO EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS:

When counting the electoral votes, either Congress finds by 1/8/09 that Obama, not being an Article II “natural born citizen”, fails to qualify as President whereupon Biden becomes the full fledged President under 3 USC 19 (free to pick his own VP such as Hillary) or thereafter defers to the Supreme Court to enjoin Obama’s inauguration with Biden becoming only Acting President under the 20th Amendment until a new President is duly determined.

The preferable choice, at least for the Democrats, should seem obvious.