Everyone knows by now about Governor Blagojevich's adventures in Chicago-style politics. It's laughable. Like dumb and dumber try to play the graft game. Self-delusion to the extreme. It's got me thinking though of what separates someone like Governor Blagojevich from:
- Typical back-scratching politics (e.g. Murtha)?
- less subtle "networking" where people do favors and advance friends on the belief that they're collecting a war chest of "chips" they can cash in later?
- A CEO empire building by pushing M&A deals he/she knows are not in the best interest of their company?
- Any typical business school student?
All seem ruled by self-serving expediency where ends justify means. The difference is probably two fold:
- Blagojevich's willingness to grossly cross the line of what is actually illegal (as opposed to questionably moral)
- Blagojevich's ineptness
I suspect there will be many who fundamentally don't understand why what Blagojevich did was a big deal (illegal, sure, but probably not
that bad!).
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