SAME-O, SAME-O-BAMA?

This is obviously change. When was the last time you saw a youthful soon-to-be Prez bare chested on the beach? If you think back, when was the last time we had a president we could stomach seeing bare chested on the beach?

Oh, but the more things change, the more we can't shake the past. Is this a barometer of what the next four years are going to look like? Constant allegations of past wrong doings, persistent digging into his former relationships with Chicago cronies, and the eventual denials on the part of the Obama administration, which may, or not be believed. Obviously, the honeymoon is over, as the American public begin to see what was once a refreshing breathe of change on the American political landscape as just another political machine full of skeletons. The following CNN polling results indicate just that, at least for half of the country.

Forty-eight percent of voters believe that aides to President-elect Barack Obama acted illegally or unethically in communications with embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, according to a poll released yesterday.
Despite Obama's repeated assurances that his staff "had nothing to do" with Blagojevich, who is under investigation for attempting to sell Obama's Senate seat, only 43 percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research poll said they believed in the transition staff's total innocence. The poll found that 12 percent believed that Obama's aides have done something illegal and another 36 percent said they believed aides did something unethical, even if they didn't break the law.
An internal investigation detailing the staff's communications with the governor's office, slated for release today, is expected to back up Obama's claims that aides' limited conversations with Blagojevich and his staff were appropriate.