Obama Discussed Senate Vacancy With Indicted Gov

Judicial Watch Blog ^ | 12/10/08

[Sammy67]

Barack Obama denies having contact with the indicted Illinois governor who tried to sell his old Senate seat yet the president elect’s top advisor revealed last month that the men, longtime political pals, had in fact spoken about a replacement.

When a massive federal indictment charging Rod Blagojevich with multiple corruption counts was made public yesterday, Camp Obama suddenly diagnosed the second-term Democrat governor with political plague. The nation’s soon-to-be commander-in-chief claimed to barely know his close political ally.

After all, who wants to be connected to a notoriously crooked politician who just got arrested and charged with selling the influence of his office, lucrative state jobs and contracts to the highest bidders? Prosecutors say Blagojevich also tried getting a cabinet-level position in Obama’s new administration in exchange for appointing a union-preferred candidate to replace him in the Senate.

Blagojevich and Obama go back years and Obama, not only endorsed both of Blagojevich’s gubernatorial campaigns, he served as a top advisor in the first one in 2002. A couple of years

[maggief]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2146114/posts

Who will fill Obama’s senate seat? (So Obama says never met with Blagojevich)
Connect Tri States ^ | November 05, 2008 | Carol Sowers

Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:30:39 AM by BulletBobCo

CHICAGO, ILL. — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

That’s one of Obama’s first priorities today.

He’s meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it.

(snip)

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2146114/posts?page=148#148

REPORT #2, same source!!!

http://www.connecttristates.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=219212

Duckworth comments on consideration for Senate
By Alexis Hunt
Director of Illinois Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs visits Quincy

Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 9:48 p.m.

QUINCY, IL — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it. ...

[End Times Sentinel]

Look, I have a bad feeling that I'm going to get tagged as an Obama apologist around here, and I'm clearly not.

On that note, I'm not sure I see what's wrong with him meeting with Blago to discuss this. Apparently there's something I'm missing because his first reaction to this situation was to lie about meeting with Blago. I chalked that up to a near pathological impulse to lie about anything.

Is there some statute or angle I'm missing here? If I was in his position, I know I'd try to have input on my successor.

Owl_Eagle

“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden

[uncbob]

On that note, I'm not sure I see what's wrong with him meeting with Blago to discuss this. Apparently there's something I'm missing because his first reaction to this situation was to lie about meeting with Blago. I chalked that up to a near pathological impulse to lie about anything.

Supposedly Blag wanted FAVORS(BRIBES ) in return for allowing Obama to name his replacement

Already were are hearing the Clinton type spin about MISSPOKE

Next it will be MISTAKES WERE MADE

[dirtboy]

On that note, I'm not sure I see what's wrong with him meeting with Blago to discuss this.

The point is, Obama has denied that he has discussed the Senate seat issue with Blag-o.

[nbhunt]

this is just as plain as the nose on your face. Remember this? YOU ARE JUDGED BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP. And the O has not been keeping very good company..Rev Wright, Ayers,now Bobby Boy just to name a few. There are countless others. When you lay with dogs, you get flees. And the O is infested.

[End Times Sentinel]

No, I definitely see the points you gents bring up - the lying and that Blago was selling the seat to the highest bidder.
It's why Obama would lie (again, I think he's pathological). I haven't heard that The One was offering favors to get his candidate that seat (and c’mon, he's not that stupid).
So why not just come out and say “Youbetcha I did. I won that spot, I'll be working with the Senator who replaces with me, I've worked with Blago in the past, and if I can give input, gosh-darn-it I will” (God, it'd be great of The One talked like that).
I'm sticking to pathological liar until I see something else.

[Yaelle]

Gary Hart cheated on his wife.
Nixon covered up Watergate.
Teddy Kennedy drowned Mary Jo.
Bill Clinton "had sexual relations with that woman."
Bears go potty in the woods.
And Barack Obama discussed his Senate seat replacement with Gov. Blago.

[weegee]

Is there any type of log of visitors?

[End Times Sentinel]

YOU ARE JUDGED BY THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

Of course you are. Everyone knows (well, certainly not everyone, but those plugged in enough to know about this caper) about Wright, Ayers, Pfleger, et al.

But why not just say "Of course I talked with him. He obviously didn't ask me for a bribe, I had no idea that was going on. He wouldn't ask me he knows I'm on the straight and narrow, everybody knows that!"

That would have been SO much better than "I didn't meet with him... oh, that's a mistake... really? Okay I did... I just um... forgot." That's not believable to anyone but the most dead-end of the Obama-bots.

The more I think about this, the significance is yet another piece of evidence that he's a pathologic.

Owl_Eagle

“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden

[Lancey Howard]

Wait-a-minute-wait-a-minute-wait-a-minute....
Is somebody trying to imply that Zero is a brazen liar?

Say it ain’t so, Zero!

[dirtboy]

I'm sticking to pathological liar until I see something else.

Exactly, he's getting rather Clintoneque in that regard - he's lying when the truth would do just fine in this case.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!

[ruthles]

zero, i love it! that will be my name for “that one.”

[ruthles]

liar and sociopath.

[Responsibility2nd]

Now on the web site:

KHQA TV wishes to offer clarification regarding a story that appeared last month on our website ConnectTristates.com. The story, which discussed the appointment of a replacement for President Elect Obama’in the U.S. Senate, became the subject of much discussion on talk radio and on blog sites Wednesday.

The story housed in our website archive was on the morning of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place. Governor Blagojevich did appear at a news conference in Chicago on that date.

http://www.connecttristates.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=233822

[maggief]

Does the web site wish to clarify report #2.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2146114/posts

Who will fill Obama’s senate seat? (So Obama says never met with Blagojevich)
Connect Tri States ^ | November 05, 2008 | Carol Sowers

Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:30:39 AM by BulletBobCo

CHICAGO, ILL. — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

That’s one of Obama’s first priorities today.

He’s meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it.

(snip)

..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2146114/posts?page=148#148

REPORT #2, same source!!!

http://www.connecttristates.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=219212

Duckworth comments on consideration for Senate
By Alexis Hunt
Director of Illinois Dept. of Veterans’ Affairs visits Quincy

Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 9:48 p.m.

QUINCY, IL — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it. ...

[Responsibility2nd]

I’m sure the goobers at the TV station will say nothing unless Obammie authorizes them to do so.

It’s like Nazi Germany all over again.

[RightWhale]

One would assume that the post holder would discuss his replacement with the one who has the power to appoint the replacement. In Alaska there is now a special election to fill a vacated Senate post.