A conservative pundit is convinced U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald delayed his prosecution of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich until December to protect Barack Obama’s White House bid.  

Would Barack Obama be the president-elect if the Blagojevich arrest took place prior to the November election? That’s the question attorney and conservative commentator Debbie Schlussel is now asking.
 
Schlussel says federal sources with ties to Chicago tell her U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald had enough evidence to prosecute Blagojevich in June, but decided to wait until after the election to charge him so as not to hurt Barack Obama’s White House chances. Schlussel contends Fitzgerald’s alleged decision to postpone the arrest of Blagojevich was inappropriate.
 
The U.S. attorney, she says, has a “very interesting” record.
 
“[W]e all know that he went after Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, even though Libby was not the source of the leak for Valerie Plame — and yet he didn’t after the source of the leak, Richard Armitage,” she points out. “Here [with the Blagojevich scandal] we have a different case of his selective justice, where he waited.”
 
And that, says the columnist, should be a “very serious concern to everybody” because Fitzgerald is a U.S. attorney. “And I think this is indicative of the way he conducts justice everywhere,” she adds.
 
Schlussel believes Obama’s campaign staff and likely Obama himself had contact with Governor Blagojevich regarding the vacant Senate seat. However, she predicts the president-elect will emerge from the scandal unharmed because the liberal media are “soft on him.”

Lee ADDS: This Fitzgerald is about a Republican as Harry Reid! His actions are deplorable!