Many are talking about this case "falling down the memory hole". I guess what folks don't realize is that this case has been ignored for several years now, so the "memory hole" has been home for news on Don Siegelman. Until now.

Not one single national media outlet was interested in the misdeeds of Siegelman - real or imagined - in all the years he was under scrutiny for financial misdeeds and corruption. Not one single national Democratic Party leader spoke up for Siegelman in all that time.

But all of a sudden this is some sort of conspiracy?



I am a proud and politically active liberal born and raised in Alabama, and yet I find myself in the minority here on this issue. I'm surprised that I might actually be in the minority here among Alabama DU'ers, given the facts of the case, but I can live with that and I trust my long-time Alabama DU friends can, too. We can agree to disagree.

Don Seigelman is a crook. He was not good for Alabama. To be fair, neither were any of the governors - Democrat OR Republican - who served before him for decades prior. We have a long and embarrassing history of cronyism in this state that transcends party lines. I challenge any Alabama DUer to present evidence to the contrary.

It just seems obvious to me. A Bush Administration judge enters a case at the 11th hour and makes the same ruling any other judge should have made given the evidence and the long history here, and all of a sudden this is a travesty and an injustice?

It's bait. That's what it is. And far too many people are falling for it. They've picked a Democratic public official who was going down on his own, publicized their involvement in the final nail in his coffin and are sitting back and savoring our knee-jerk outrage.

You think I'm wrong? Do some research. Siegelman made very derogatory comments about women in office when he ran against Lucy Baxley last time around - don't you guys here in Alabama remember that? Doesn't anyone remember when he was convicted - CONVICTED - of rigging public bids on medicaid contracts in 2004? Where was the outrage then?



Please research this case in depth before you pass judgement. I think that defending Siegelman is EXACTLY what the powers that be WANT us to do.

I'm not falling for it.