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.
I don't see a real trace of it either. It's a good lib trap to avoid, one that lets them take the attention off the contact O and Blago had.
Thank you both...