[Fox News] Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. vehemently denied claims that either he or a surrogate offered to raise money for busted former Gov. Rod Y'gotta pay to play! Blagojevich Who was tried and eventually convicted on federal corruption charges that he tried to sell or trade Obama's old U.S. Senate seat. in exchange for a Senate appointment, after the House Ethics Committee ...think of a nudibranch pretending to be a vertebrate... extended its preliminary probe into the matter.
The ethics committee shed new light on the three-year-old Blagojevich case Friday when it released for the first time a massive report from late 2009 on Jackson's involvement. That report, from the Office of Congressional Ethics, determined there was "probable cause" to believe the Illinois Democratic congressman "directed a third party" to raise money for the then-Illinois governor in exchange for a Senate appointment, or knew his surrogate "would likely make such an offer."
The report also said "there is substantial reason to believe" the congressman violated federal law by improperly using his staff to campaign for the Senate seat once held by President B.O.. Jackson never got the appointment.
But Jackson, in a written statement, said the report and the next phase of the investigation will allow him to tell his side of the story.
"At the end of the process I still believe I will be vindicated," he said. "I did nothing illegal, unethical or inappropriate in that pursuit and I believe that is what the ethics committee will conclude at the end of this process. "
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Herman Cain ...the personable but seemingly horny former Godfather's Pizza CEO who coulda been a contenda... , the turban populist whose candidacy has been ensnared by allegations of sexual impropriety, said Saturday that he is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination, saying that the allegations have cast a "cloud of doubt over me and this campaign."
"As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign," he said at an event in Atlanta. "I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distraction, the continued hurt . . . on me, on my family, not because we are not fighters, not because I am not a fighter."
Cain's campaign had sent mixed signals as to his future since Ginger White, an Atlanta woman who claims to have had an affair with Cain for more than a decade, went public with her story earlier this week. While Cain has said he has been "reassessing" his candidacy, he also, at times, has been fiercely defiant, suggesting that unnamed enemies have been trying to do him in and vowing to press forward.
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#1
God riddance.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
12/04/2011 0:21 Comments ||
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A man's got to make a choice between his sex drive and a career in politics. On it's own, my first WestPac was worth any seat in the state legislature.
I wonder if historians will note the decline of America started when we eliminated horndogs from seeking public office.
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A man's got to make a choice between his sex drive and a career in politics.
Only if he doesn't has a -D after his name. If he has the holy -D he gets a free pass. (Edwards, Clinton, and who know how many others...)
Odd how the Media knew Edwards was boinking someone on the side while his wife was 'battling cancer'.... but didn't mention a thing - not a single fuc*ing word.
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The key is that the Dems want to continue the myth that the Republicans are racists. With Cain as the face of the Republican party, it threatened that little plantation the Dems formed with the cooperation of the NAACP, SNCC, and Core. Of course the propaganda of the left that the Republicans are a lily white party would be hard to support with Cain in the fray...
The Dems were out to get him, they got him, most of the dirt, will, in the long run be proven to be false but the damage is done. Once you've been accused, no matter how many times it is proven false, the press will always slip it in there somewhere to keep the controvery alive.
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The Dems were out to get him, they got him, most of the dirt, will, in the long run be proven to be false but the damage is done.
It should read:
The Dems helped by (the vile scum of the inhuman gutter-press)* were out to get him ...
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Cain lost me on the foreign policy front. I think the sexual harassment claims were most likely a trick to knock him out of the race. In effect he did us all a favor by taking that bullet before the tactic or a variant of it was used on someone else.
I don't think Cain expected to get as far as he did in the race. I hope he sold a lot of books in the process.
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I would have gone all in for Cain. He was never my candidate, but he was always good enough, and his campaign would have had some interesting implications for the black vote.
I'm hesitant on Gingrich. I like him better than Romney and Obama (two guys who use many of the same advisors), but he has his own issues. Now that he's the front runner, everyone is going to be digging into his record, and not all of it is good. We'll see.
Romney is a dead end. He might be better than Obama, but that's not a realistic choice. McCain would have been better than Obama too, but neither of them can motivate enough Republican voters to go to the polls.
If Perry gets a second look, I think he'll run away with the whole thing. Romney *still* worries more about Perry than any of the others. Let's hope this fickle season settles down and the best man wins, because Perry is the best man running. He's not perfect, but by far the best of the bunch.
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Joe, I don't think that's the real problem with Cain.
IMO the real problem is that he didn't appear to take the race / office seriously enough to be prepared on key strategic, military and diplomatic questions.
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