Michael Barone

Blagojevich and Chicago Politics Hurt Obama

December 15, 2008 RSS Feed Print

By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

Here is my Creators Syndicate column for this week. It's on the Rod Blagojevich scandal. And here is quite a good piece by Dan Rostenkowski in defense of Chicago politics.

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Rod Blagojevich,
Barack Obama,
politics,
Chicago

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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