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Re: Blago Spoils the Obama Honeymoon

By on 12.30.08 @ 10:19PM

Doug, that was basically my point two weeks ago in describing Blagojevich as "Obama's Bert Lance." That whiff of old Chicago politics, tainting Obama's too-perfect image, pushing a wedge between Obama and his natural base, the elite media -- it very much recalls how the Lance scandal brought an early end to Jimmy Carter's honeymoon.

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Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.

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