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Doughty, I gotta tell ya, had I been on that jury, I woulds hung it higher than a crack-snortin' President from Kenya.

That Blago may or may not be one guilty SOB has nothing to do with it. He was denied the opportunity to call U-No-Hoo as a witness, not to mention that tutu-wearin' anus-probe Rahm Emmanuel who was U-No-Hoo's chief henchman, along with Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, et al ... all from the Mombasa MF's Chicago posse.

14 years? Talk about "Under the Bus!" What about Holder, the other Affirmative Action Anus, and the "Fast and Furious" murders? What's he get, a medal? No matter what Blago did, and I am sure it was plenty. The DOJ massacred him.

I don't think there's any doubt that you have touched on some important issues here. I don't disagree with your take on them, as far as that goes. None the less the following information makes it clear that the prosecution team, the judge, Blagojevich himself, and his defense attornies all agreed that he had committed serious crimes.

These admissions come close to a decade later, after Blagojevich and his wife and others he had conned, stated publicly that he had done nothing wrong. And they did this despite Blogo on tape soliciting payment in no uncertain terms.

You probably read this, but others may not have, and I think it's reasoned to touch on this form the article I linked.

Blagojevich's 18 convictions included allegations of trying to leverage his power to appoint someone to President Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat to raise campaign cash or land a high-paying job... ...Blagojevich had told the judge that he made "terrible mistakes" and acknowledged that he broke the law when he tried to sell an appointment to the Senate seat.

Blagojevich's attorneys admitted for the first time Tuesday that he is guilty of corruption and accepts the verdicts against him, but said the sentence of 15 to 20 years prosecutors wanted was too harsh. The defence also presented heartfelt appeals from Blagojevich's family, including letters from his wife Patti and one of his two daughters that pleaded for mercy.

Eighteen felony convictions: The jury bought off on them, and it seems nobody was saying they did a bad job. To the contrary, they were eating the humble pie Blago should have been eating for the last nearly ten years.

Should Obama and company have been drawn into this? I believe so. Is it unfair to take down Blago for what he was trying to do? I don't think so, and when a jury buys into what the prosecutors is saying these days, it's a fairly reasoned thing to think there was good reason. Look at the cases these days that wind up exhonerating the guilty, because the jury acts in an almost unbelievable manner.