Blagojevich = Shut Up Juice For Anti Obama Wingnuts

I can't wait for this Rod Blagojevich thing to come out in the wash, I really can't.

For months, I have had to sit around and watch as anti-Obama wingnuts created a cloud of nonsense with such fervor that it actually took solid form on our political landscape. They troll internet message boards, chanting names like Rezko, Auchi, and Rumpelstiltskin.

Despite their attacks on every minute aspect of Obama's life, and the lives of anyone he ever made brief eye contact with, the whole thing has amounted to nothing.

Yet, still, I keep reading stories with lines like, "Obama is not accused of any wrongdoing..." I read the first of these in February, when the Rezko story broke, and I can read it today in stories about Rod Blagojevich. It has a disclamatory sound to it, like, "Even though we're pretty sure this guy is dirty, he's not accused of any wrongdoing." Hey, what if that's because he's not doing any wrongdoing?

This narrative that Obama is "from the Chicago political machine" (in much the same way that Satan was from the Heaven political machine) is supposed to be fact-proof. You say it to imply that no matter what things appear to be on the surface, there are backroom shenanigans that we can never know about, and so must perpetually assume Obama is Al Capone.

What's great, though, is that the Blagojevich scandal threatens to scuttle this wingnut refuge.

Here's a guy with a deep root system in the Chicago scene, on whom the feds have extensive wiretap evidence. The guy has already called Obama a motherf***er for not playing ball, and once all of that evidence is in, it may be very difficult to make that backroom corruption argument again.

An even rosier prospect has Obama's staff not only engaging in no wrongdoing, but caught in the act of rightdoing. As Caleb reported, the feds have leaked information that Rahm Emanuel is on those wiretaps. This presents a unique opportunity to see how Rahm, and Obama, act when they think nobody's watching.

But even if Rahm is on tape offering Blagojevich $300k and a rhodium Harmony ring for that Senate seat, there remains the (heavily rumored) possibility that Emanuel talked the talk so that he could later drop a dime on Blago.

Or it could turn out the other way, but available facts heavily support Obama's blamelessness, and point to a team that did everything right.

Until all the facts are in, the more the right brays about Obama and Chicago politics, the more deafening their silence will be when Obama is proved to be innocent in all of this.