- If the latest farcical revelations from the Rod Blagojevich trial tell us anything, it's that the people of Illinois -- that would be us -- twice elected a narcissistic goof of a governor who was all show and no substance.
- The man was an empty suit, albeit a $5,000 custom-made Oxxford empty suit.
- Blagojevich and his wife blew $400,000 on clothes alone in the six years he was governor, while he disparaged and largely ignored the actual business of governing.
- It is a lesson we hope to remember (OK, yeah, we endorsed Gov. Rod twice) as we size up the current race for governor between incumbent Pat Quinn and state Sen. Bill Brady:
- Character counts before all else. Real accomplishments count.
- And all else, if there is anything else, comes third.
And now we have elected the Most Brilliant President Ever! Here Noemie Emerie nails that canard to the wall. Addressing the veritable downpour of theories from tearful, formerly-tingling-leg pundits hypothesizing why He seems unable to overcome the obviously surmountable problems the nation now faces, she writes
- No one advances the more likely conclusion: That Obama seems so much like their idea of brilliance that they assume it of him without too much evidence; or that their perception of brilliance -- often no more than a verbal facility -- isn't much use in the world.
On the other hand, if you think turning the economy's steering wheel hard left will make it go straight, you'll end up in the ditch. In that case, no matter how nicely framed your excuses -- oh, sorry, explanations -- it should be clear that your understanding of economic principles is deeply flawed.
We can only hope that's becoming clear to left-leaning Indie voters, who now seem inclined to take the left's car keys away in November.
