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Wednesday December 10, 2008 · 7:03 AM PST

2008/12/10 · 07:03

From www.politico.com

In scandal, risks for Obama

By BEN SMITH & JONATHAN MARTIN |
12/10/08 7:50 AM EST

At first blush, Barack Obama comes out of the Rod Blagojevich scandal smelling like a rose. The prosecutor at a news conference seemed to give the president-elect a seal of approval, and the Illinois governor himself was caught on tape complaining that Obama was not interested in crooked schemes.

But make no mistake: The Blagojevich scandal is nothing but a stink bomb tossed at close range for Obama and his team.

Legal bills, off-message headlines, and a sustained attempt by Republicans to show that Obama is more a product of Illinois’s malfeasance-prone political culture than he is letting on—all are likely if the Blagojevich case goes to trial or becomes an extended affair.

Ben and Jon are going at it hot and heavy here. They are working themselves up into a real lather over the possibility that maybe, perhaps, could be, you never know, stuff happens, odds are, that the Blagojevich debacle will redound upon the head of our new President-elect. This is what is known in the pundit world as make-work.

Casually dismissing both U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's emphatic statement as to the total non-involvement of Obama in the affair and Blagojevich's own bitter words over getting nothing more than gratitude from Obama over whom he appoints to fill Obama's seat, the boys in the band soar to new heights of ecstatic speculation in hopes of being guaranteed continued employment.

Keep up the good work, boys.

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