Illinois--Land o' slinkin'
No wonder the McCain campaign, in its final death throes, tried to slime Obama as "a Chicago politician" when all else failed to stick.
The term is a venerated one in American politics, but Blagojevich (we've all had to take lessons in Serbo-Croatian pronunciation over the last forty-eight hours--you should have heard my Cuban-born editor butcher it yesterday) does elevate corruption to a new, brazen level.
Imagine treating a U.S. Senate seat as a commodity. I suppose if you grew up within sight and smell of the Chicago stockyards, it's possible to view just about everything in this world as a commodity.
CHAN LOWE has been the Sun Sentinel’s first and only editorial cartoonist for the past twenty-six years. Before that, he worked as cartoonist and writer for the Oklahoma City Times and the Shawnee (OK) News-Star.
Comments
What a great read. Good companion to your biting and witty insightful drawings.
Posted by: barbara dix | December 11, 2008 9:47 AM