[A.Hun]

I’ll see if I can help find the exact quote, but that he initially denied contact with Blago is verified.

I wouldn’t doubt that Obama’s team has scrubbed that particular quote from existence though.

[TigersEye]

I wish you luck in finding it. Three hours of fishing around through videos and articles (mostly dupes of the same things) of 0bambi is about all I could take. The quote sounds very familiar to me. My intent was to find it, save it and prove it.

[leilani]

(I found this thread looking to see where Pragmacratican got banned because I had responded to him/her on the other thread about Blago & Obama.)

Honestly, if Obama had made such a ridiculous - and instantly refutable - claim, I think I would have remembered it because I was obsessed with cataloguing Obama's bloopers & lies until they eventually just got too numerous.

EVERYBODY knew Blago & Obama had a longstanding relationship in IL. It defies belief that he would have tried to claim he didn't know him where there are a million pictures of them together in IL on file across the internet. Even he wouldn't have been so brazen to try to pull that one off.

Though that quote seems to be all over the internet on blogs, I don't think it's legitimate - I think it's probably an email urban legend or something. Pragmacratican (sp?) was correct in being suspicious of its veracity, IMO.