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...problem with trying to taint Obama with the label of "Chicago politics" is that most Americans no longer make the association with corruption. "We're not looked at the same way we might have been years ago," says Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman and chair of the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "We're not Al Capone's city. We're not the stockyards of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle." These days Chicago is known for blending working-class kitsch - Da Bears and the Cubbies - with cosmopolitan shopping and restaurants on Michigan Avenue...
...have followed that logic. While Democrats would have loved to have sent Young and Stevens packing, Alaska is a deeply red state, and Obamamania never penetrated. Certainly Alaskans deserve legislators who match their values and allegiances - but they also deserve politicians who can serve them free of the taint of corruption...
Three-term Florida Congressman Tom Feeney has not been criminally charged in the Washington corruption scheme that sent super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to federal prison. But the taint of the Republican's 2003 golf trip to Scotland on Abramoff's dime is derailing his re-election campaign...
Such polar-opposite viewpoints about the country's prospects have been typical for Russia ever since its economy began to rebound - along with oil prices - after the currency crisis of 1998. While some have viewed Russia as a fabulous investment opportunity, many have been put off by the taint of corruption and political risk. To assuage such fears, then President Vladimir Putin sat down with about 30 CEOs of Western companies on the fringes of a World Economic Forum meeting in St. Petersburg in June 2007 and gave a concise rationale for why they shouldn't worry. The Kremlin...
...Pakistan, including a "democracy dividend" of $1 billion, over the next four years to help the civilian government with education reform, health care and infrastructure. It's a welcome move, but opening up the U.S. market to Pakistani products such as textiles would provide a longer-term - and taint-free - solution. The chorus among businessmen and analysts across the country is "trade, not aid." The U.S. presence in Pakistan, particularly in the FATA, is viewed with suspicion. American Predator drone attacks on apparent al-Qaeda targets have claimed scores of civilian lives, and the Pakistani military presence in the FATA...