Obama Camp Will Reveal Contacts Between His Staff and Blago Regarding the Senate Seat
The New York Times reports:
President-elect Barack Obama pledged Thursday to disclose any interaction between his transition team and the office of besieged Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, while declaring again that he and his staff had no involvement in deal-making over an appointment to his vacated Senate seat.
We also learn that the Obama camp is denying speculation that Obama’s favored candidate Valerie Jarrett withdrew her name because the Obama camp had learned that Blago wanted something in return for picking her:
David Axelrod, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama, said Thursday evening that Ms. Jarrett’s decision to remove her name had nothing to do with her knowing about Mr. Blagojevich’s alleged scheme.
And until Axelrod later tells us that he “misspoke,” that’s the way things stand. But more details should emerge over coming days. We’ll have to see if they make sense when they do.
Out On A Limb Prediction – They will not be the staff members or contacts that Baracky knew about.
daleyrocks (5d22c0) — 12/11/2008 @ 9:45 pmGet ready for the Mother of all Frog Marches.
Perfect Sense (9d1b08) — 12/11/2008 @ 10:50 pmLynn Sweet reports it even more definitively:
Axelrod said–counter to Blagojevich–Obama never wanted Valerie Jarrett in the Senate
MayBee (4a9480) — 12/11/2008 @ 11:23 pmBy
Lynn Sweet
on December 11, 2008 6:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
My formatting is terrible in the comment above, but I’m going to ask you all to do a little brain exercise and figure it out yourselves.
MayBee (4a9480) — 12/11/2008 @ 11:38 pmMayBee – Now they are getting their talking points coordinated. One of them is sure to claim they misspoke on the wiretapped conference call once the parties involved are identified.
daleyrocks (5d22c0) — 12/11/2008 @ 11:44 pmHuh.
Obama already lied about this.
Why should we believe him now?
Evil Pundit (843b74) — 12/12/2008 @ 12:34 amOdd – Obama is not promising the most ethical administration in history!
Perfect Sense (9d1b08) — 12/12/2008 @ 2:03 amJumping to conclusions as usual? What else should any one expect?
love2008 (1b037c) — 12/12/2008 @ 2:43 amCan we believe anything Axelrod says now that he has recanted the ‘i know Obama talked to” hot Rod statement?
eaglewingz08 (080c62) — 12/12/2008 @ 4:11 am[…] via Patterico, we read that The New York Times reports that our incoming president is taking my advice: […]
Common Sense Political Thought » Blog Archive » Is the climate of corruption in Illinois really this bad? (73d96f) — 12/12/2008 @ 4:37 amI think that there’s something more important in the New York Times article our esteemed host linked:
In other words, everybody knew about this anyway, yet nobody did anything about it. Diogenes would flee the whole state.
The amazed Dana (3e4784) — 12/12/2008 @ 7:58 amOh well……another Democratic administration, another Special Prosecutor.
Actual (70f2ce) — 12/12/2008 @ 8:03 amWhan is Obamassiah going to say these aren’t the aides and supporters I knew?
PCD (7fe637) — 12/12/2008 @ 8:04 amLook at this bullsh!t spin coming from the WaPo:
Obama Worked to Distance Self From Blagojevich Early On
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103936.html?xid=rss-page
Is this how you “distance yourself”:
Obama and Blago’s Connections:
From the WSJ:
This does not look like “distancing yourself”to me.
We have Obama stating:
LOOKS LIKE CONTACT TO ME:
Obama: Do Not Believe Your Lying Eyes
http://minx.cc/?post=279535
We have Axlerod stating that Obama has had contact with Blago concerning the Senate seat(then conveniently saying “I mis-spoke.Damn,I bet Libby wishes that he could have convinced liberals and the MSM by so easily saying “oops,I mis-spoke!”) :
A definitive “I know” has now conveniently turned into
“I mis-spoke”.
yea,anything you say master Obama.Whatever you want me to say master Obama.We must protect the lightworker master Obama.
We have at least 3 independent news articles that state Obama has had contact with Blago concerning the Senate seat:
Surprise! Stories Noting Obama-Blagojevich Meetings Disappear Down Memory Hole
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/12/surprise-stories-noting-obama.html
From KHQA(who have conveniently followed in Axlerods footsteps without explaining how they got the story wrong not once but twice or have printed a retraction.Reminds me of the WaPo denying that Raines was part of Obama circle even though they printed it more than once and never retracted the story).
(Tribune)
We have Obama stating that he nor his staff has had contact with Blago concerning the Senate seat:
Obama Is ‘Appalled,’ Insists He Had No Contact With Blagojevich Over Senate Seat
President-elect Barack Obama says neither he nor his aides had any contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich regarding his open Senate seat.
FOXNews.com
Thursday, December 11, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2008/12/11/obama-says-contact-blagojevich-senate-seat/
And now it appears that Emanuel had contact with Blago.
Liberals have set the bar incredibly low and are exhibiting
a double standard in moral outrage and need for getting to the truth concerning their Messiah Obama that would make Putin blush.
Starts his campaign fund raising and serves on a board dishing out tens of millions of dollars with a marxist domestic terrorist.
Nothing to do with me,just a guy in the neighborhood.
Supports,writes a book,and there are hundreds of articles showing him hugging and smiling and talking about how much of a big influence Wright/Trinity have had on him.
Nope,I had no idea Wright was a bigoted propagandist and the church taught a racist separatist theology that called for the genocide of the white race if they didn’t conform.
Does a land deal with one of the most corrupt Chicago political movers in Rezko that has connections all over the place with Obama,Daly,Blago and the rest of this Motley Crue.
Nope,I had no idea that there was anything amiss with getting this land so cheap and Tony always seemed like such a standout guy.
Sure is a lot to dismiss from the Haliburton,Bush lied,Bush outed Plame,No blood for oil crowd.
Baxter Greene (8035ae) — 12/12/2008 @ 8:15 amBaracky is holding off on full disclosure as they are trying to figure out who exactly Fitzgerald has on tape. Hard to pick out the right lie, given the circumstances.
JD (6a82b7) — 12/12/2008 @ 8:34 amIt took the clintons (small “c”, small people) six months to get caught in a scandal. Snobama (keep the change, you’ll need it) did it before being sworn in – now that’s change we can believe in. Have you noticed that many of the left wing radical moonbat articles never mention the word “DEMOCRAT” when referring to the pond scum of Chicago?
lOVEJOY508 (05ca44) — 12/12/2008 @ 11:12 amObama also has to wait until the SEIU guys get deposed. Until that testimony gets leaked Obama can’t be sure he’s including enough to satisfy the demands of the known facts, and he clearly doesn’t want to add new or more facts to Fitz’s investigation.
MTF (8254eb) — 12/12/2008 @ 12:48 pm