Apple, do try to post more than these guerilla postings.

Anyway, the Illinois and Richardson situations are just clusterfucks that strip a peg or two from the President-Elect, regardless if he was directly or indirectly involved with those crimes. Remember that term "Guilt by Association" during the campaign? Here you go.

And yet, the American people still like Obama or at least is willing to give him wiggle room that he's a bystander of all this.

I'm strangely reminded of Ronald Reagan, who had some illegal-sounding mishaps under his administration from Iran-Contra and so on, but still was pretty popular during his Presidency for the most part.

So remember folks, a good smile goes a long way.