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snowbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:28 PM
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Not insinuating.. just wondering.. How bad did Rev. Jackson want his son to have the senate seat?
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I mean... ... could it even be possible that he would intervene without his son's knowledge?



It's not even remotely a possibility..

.....right?
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mucifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:29 PM
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1. Bad enough to insult Obama in the fox news studio with a live mic on.
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:31 PM
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2. that's interesting. And they seem to butt heads a lot
ugghh.. let's hope he didn't ruin his son's career.
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mucifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:32 PM
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4. Jesse Jr. had to renounce his father's comments. It' was pretty ugly.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:31 PM
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3. Jr wanted the seat too bad. He didn't hide that at all after Obama won
Hopefully he didn't go too far by sending someone to offer money.
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:33 PM
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5. Nothing to indicate that he did, it was all Blago's hearsay
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snowbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:34 PM
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6. No. No... that's not what I was asking..
I mean...

Would it even be possible that Reverend Jackson, Sr. could have tried to finagle something without his son's knowledge?
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Bjorn Against Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:36 PM
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7. Let's not go there without evidence, there is no evidence of any role by his father.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:39 PM
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9. Reverend Jackson is "old school pol"... We're pretty close in age, and
if he wanted this for his son, well, who knows. In all fairness to the Rev. this is the way things were done back in the day when he and MLK had to fight and scrape for anything they wanted/needed. If he did no doubt there will be hell to pay from his son, but the Rev. is a pretty smart guy and had to know what a sleaze Blag is. I doubt he'd get involved with this guy.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:42 PM
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12. Anything is possible......
But again, what Gov. Blago said that someone said to him that was told to us by someone else doesn't really lend for us to be obliged at speculating as to what some 3rd party might have or might not have discussed with Blago.

So although it may sound like something that Fizgerald might want to ponder and look into.....I don't think that it is our job to speculate our way to the bottom of this....as it won't most likely work, and it might instead wreck lives further then they need to be wrecked. Since the media is doing such a fantastick job on their own, I say, let them figure it out.

You know what I mean? :(
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:38 PM
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8. "Hopefully he didn't go too far by sending someone to offer money." Fact:
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:41 PM
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10. Maybe this is the cutting off of the balls that he mentioned.
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redstate_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:41 PM
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11. You know what's more probable?
Blagojevich lying. Yeah, I know, it seems really far fetched, but believe me, he has a history of doing things like that.
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snowbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:43 PM
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13. You're probably right...
And his wife even... ... sounds like she's as much of a nutcase as Blago is!
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-10-08 07:56 PM
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14. That's what I've been wondering. Whether Sr. is the so-called emissary. nt
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:25 AM
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15. Factoid: they were both at the Election Night speech, but nowhere near each other
this is per an interview I saw with JJJ. Kind of curious, huh, given the history of the night.

I don't think things have been so cozy between father and son since he called bad on his dad for wanting to cut off Obama's balls.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:31 AM
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16. details of the investigation will tell us. -- but think 6 -- or less --
degrees of separation.
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-11-08 01:43 AM
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17. Almost as bad as Bloomberg and Teddy wants Caroline Kennedy to snag the Senate Seat for NY State.
Edited on Thu Dec-11-08 01:43 AM by ShortnFiery
Both these Senate Appointments - STINK of nepotism and cronyism. :puke:
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