The Art of Distancing

A good Post article on how Obama avoided Blago at all costs. I can only think that if the "guilt by association" didn't work with Ayers and Wright - Obama's going to come through this fine. Especially since most people have been avoiding Blago like the plague for some time.

"Obama saw this coming, and he was very cautious about not having dealings with the governor for quite some time," said Abner Mikva, a former congressman and appeals court judge who was Obama's political mentor in Chicago. "The governor was perhaps the only American public officeholder who didn't speak at the convention, and that wasn't by accident. He's politically poisonous. You don't get through Chicago like Barack Obama did unless you know how to avoid people like that."