# Barack Obama And The "Blagogate" Scandal **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906 "2022-02-04T16:30:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/41 "2022-02-05T17:40:38Z")
Pretty sure M. **-Lux** is French. I’ve never had _creme fraiche_ in France, so I’m not prepared to state that it’s _NOT_ that color. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/42 "2022-02-05T20:16:50Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I agree. This should be investigated. What was the quid pro quo here? The whole commutation of Blago’s sentence smelled fishy from the outset. I’m half tempted to think the “thought” process here was, “I’ll prove how corrupt the Democrats are by pardoning the Democratic politician that fellow Democrats charged, convicted and sentenced for corruption!” Probably with a “Tee-hee!” at the end. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/43 "2022-02-05T20:50:07Z")
Wasn’t Blagojevic on one of Trump’s dumb fucking TV shows? That would have probably been enough. (Combined with Trump admiring Blago’s corrupt ways.) ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/44 "2022-02-05T21:41:25Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Wasn’t Blagojevic on one of Trump’s dumb fucking TV shows? Yeppers. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/45 "2022-02-05T21:42:18Z")
> [@CHealy7](#): > > he would have resigned in disgrace, ending his presidency before it began? President Obama never got impeached, MAGAtrash. Not even close. Sucks for you, huh? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/46 "2022-02-05T21:44:06Z")
Eh, expect any Democratic president to be impeached anytime the Repubs hold a majority in the House from here on out. Probably several times. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/47 "2022-02-05T21:50:33Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Wasn’t Blagojevic on one of Trump’s dumb fucking TV shows? His wife was also all over Fox News repeatedly drawing parallels between his conviction and the Mueller investigation. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/48 "2022-02-05T21:50:40Z")
What should they be doing? Working for the betterment of the American people? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/49 "2022-02-05T22:08:02Z")
Please, tone that down the sarcasm, I just snorted crème fraîche all over my keyboard! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/50 "2022-02-05T23:08:00Z")
Hmm… looking at our OP’s history it looks like in 3 out of 5 threads of some sort of similar bent, he fails to ever come back. And on the matter of the subplot, we know for those who got all huffy with the whole bullshit about Obama’s suit, that the _suit’s_ colorway was not what was really upsetting them… ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/51 "2022-02-05T23:17:33Z")
Why are y’all harassing CHealy7? Don’t you realize that poster has resigned from this thread in disgrace? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/52 "2022-02-05T23:36:14Z")
Clever👍 ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/53 "2022-02-06T00:10:08Z")
Can I be the only person stunned by how bad CHealy7’s threads are? Given the given the enormity of this scandelous posting why hasn’t CHealy7 resigned from the board in disgrace? ETA: Damn beat by Monty. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/54 "2022-02-06T00:12:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Why are y’all harassing CHealy7? Don’t you realize that poster has resigned from this thread in disgrace? They has, it seems. The thread, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/55 "2022-02-06T00:13:00Z")
Blagogate can be anagramed to goat bagel, which makes more sense than the OP. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/56 "2022-02-06T00:30:50Z")
When you misbehave at the troll farm, they make you troll the lesser byways of the internet. **CHealy7** must have slept with the commissar’s wife. And daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/57 "2022-02-06T01:32:39Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Hmm… looking at our OP’s history it looks like in 3 out of 5 threads of some sort of similar bent, he fails to ever come back. How about, next time OP starts a similarly stupid thread, we all try being _nice_ to him? Just for the grins. See if he comes back then. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/58 "2022-02-06T03:11:41Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > When you misbehave at the troll farm, they make you troll the lesser byways of the internet. > > **CHealy7** must have slept with the commissar’s wife. And daughter. I’m sure both ladies found the experience quite restful. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/59 "2022-02-06T03:19:53Z")
Rumor has it that they were every bit as dry as [Ben Shapiro’s wife](https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1292927011724304384) when the boots were playing knockety knock. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/60 "2022-02-09T07:45:51Z")
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