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Posted on 12/10/2008 6:25:41 AM PST by cycle of discernment
(someone is not telling the truth)
Who will fill Obama's senate seat?
Ill. governor meeting with Obama today
By Carol Sowers Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 10:39 a.m.
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.
Illinois law states that the governor chooses that replacement.
There's already been speculation about his selection...from Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Chicago's south side who co-chaired Obama's presidential campaign, to recently-retired state senate president Emil Jones, to the governor himself.
It's likely the governor will make his decision quickly so the new senator will get some seniority before newly-elected senators take office in January.
Part of the timing depends on when Obama officially vacates his senate seat.
KHQA's Alexis Hunt is speaking with Illinois Senator John Sullivan today about his thoughts on that replacement process, his time working with Obama in the state senate, and if there's a chance Sullivan might play a role in the Obama administration. Watch KHQA News at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. tonight to hear what he has to say.
Excellent find.
/obvious sarc
Obambi: “Damn, that Internet-thingy remembers EVERYTHING”!
Obama is untouchable. Obama’s cult following will not be swayed.
Obama could eat babies on tv and the MSM would report that Obama is on a high protien diet.
Are we in an alternate universe here? Surely this piece was written before yesterday—or maybe the meeting will be held in jail? Blago hasn’t been released has he?
BTTT, and keep bumping!
This will all be ignored the obama worshiping media will never speak bad of the anoited
“Obama could eat babies on tv and the MSM would report that Obama is on a high protien diet.”
Obama could fall out of a boat and the MSM would say he walks on water.
GOOD work!!!!
(This needs to be shared with talk radio and other media.)
By Carol Sowers Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 10:39 a.m.
Let’s see if the FBI questions Obama about this meeting. If he denies it happened, he will be charged for lying to a federal agent, just like Libby and Martha Stewart. /sarcasm
SOMEBODY GET A SCREEN SHOT BEFORE IT DISAPPEARS.
Which is precisely why the politicians want it CONTROLLED!!
Between THAT and the expected resurrection of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, we’ve got some big threats to the First Amendment on the horizon.
He's out on bail.
BUMP
Guardian’s Blosasky;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/dec/10/barackobama-blago-damage
You’ve probably heard or read by now that while Obama said yesterday that he’d not spoken to Blago about the senate appointment, David Axelrod did say on TV in November that they’d spoken about it. Today’s WaPo:
By all accounts, Obama and Blagojevich are not close, though then-Sen. Obama endorsed his fellow Democrat’s reelection bid in 2006.
“I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening,” Obama told reporters as he emerged from a meeting with former vice president Al Gore yesterday. “It is a sad day for Illinois. Beyond that, I don’t think it’s appropriate to comment.”
In a television interview last month, David Axelrod, a longtime Chicago political consultant who served as Obama’s campaign strategist and will accompany him to the White House, said Obama had spoken to the governor about the Senate vacancy. But yesterday Axelrod issued a statement saying he had been “mistaken.”
“They did not then or at any time discuss the subject,” he said.
That’s a little opaque for my taste. Let’s just hope and assume for now that Obama was being truthful and Axelrod was wrong.
I didn’t think Obama quite (warning, American sports metaphor ahead!) swung and missed with his statement yesterday, but he did foul it off. A president-elect needs to be careful about making comments that might prejudice a trial, but even within those confines he really should express a little more outrage. This feels a little like the Jeremiah Wright Act II business during the campaign, after Wright’s crazy National Press Club appearance, when it took Obama a day longer than it should have to denounce Wright.
The problem is we’re dealing with an obvious sociopath here. Obama and Blagojevich might have had a completely innocent contact — say Blago called him on election night to say congratulations, which would be natural, and in the course of the chat Blago said something weird. Blago could now turn around and tell prosecutors anything, make up any lie, to save his own ass. And this Harris fellow, the also indicted chief of staff, is probably singing like Pavarotti, and who knows what he’s saying.
I don’t know anything about Harris, but Blago is clearly unstable. It would be good for everyone, starting with the people of Illinois, if he’d just resign. The complaint said he hated being “stuck” being governor. Well, he has the power to do something about that, as the Chi Trib suggests today.
What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive...
“Oh, I misspoke”.
Sent it to Drudge
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