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President-elect Obama News Conference--Live Thread
12/11/08

Posted on 12/11/2008 7:48:04 AM PST by TornadoAlley3

Fox news, other news channel, presser coming up.


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To: RatsDawg

“Haha, someone should make a spoof of ironically enough Chicago, and base it on the whole BlagObama circus.”

LOL. That is a brilliant idea! Only will Obama be Roxie or Billy Flynn the flim-flam con artist lawyer?

I think Blago should be Velma.;)


241 posted on 12/11/2008 8:48:32 AM PST by 444Flyer (Sir, may I see your ID (birth certificate) please.)
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To: cajungirl; retrokitten

Here is one quote that TA just found:

“If, in fact, the various allegations end up proving to be true, this is ... the far end of the spectrum of that business mentality of politics. But there are more subtle examples of it that are within the lines of legality that still don’t fulfill the reality of service,” he said, citing lobbyists’ “disproportionate” power in Washington.”

He is hedging his bets so that if the truth comes out, he can claim that he was on the legal side of ‘politics as usual’

The man is corrupt and so are the people surrounding him.


242 posted on 12/11/2008 8:50:03 AM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire
He is hedging his bets so that if the truth comes out, he can claim that he was on the legal side of ‘politics as usual’

That is exactly what he's doing. He out-slicks Bubba.

243 posted on 12/11/2008 8:52:15 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
I have family members who voted for him but I can see nothing to be gained from making an issue of it even though I despise their actions.

Give them a lump of coal for Christmas. Or if you are feeling generous, an orange. Tell them that is how things were in the days of FDR and Americans were grateful.

244 posted on 12/11/2008 8:53:21 AM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: ladyvet
Wise of you! I just spent a half an hour of my life listening to a blabbering fool. DO OVER! I want that time back!

I have a time machine:

Post from January 19th, 2013: "I just spent four years of my life listening to a blabbering fool. DO OVER! I want that time back!"

245 posted on 12/11/2008 8:55:09 AM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: Syncro; All

OK, here’s where it happened - right in the first week after the election. CNN’s article (below) reports that “over the weekend” (which would have been weekend of Nov. 8) CNN (and also a Chicago TV station) had been informed by “Democratic sources” that Valerie Jarrett was Obama’s “choice” to fill “his” US Senate seat. Then by Mon. Nov. 10 an unnamed “senior advisor” to Obama is saying she’s headed for the WH.

Now why that flip-flop after they’d been putting the word out that Obama wanted Jarrett to fill “his” Senate seat??

Maybe, just maybe, the initial contacts were made and Blago made it clear it would be a bidding process?

I’m not with the folks who assume that Obama is implicated in what Blago was doing — I do find it plausible that Obama’s team refused to get into the bidding war, as is indicated in the wiretap transcripts. [of course that could have been just for show, if Obama’s team had been tipped off about the wiretaps]

But the FACTs as related by CNN are that first CNN was tipped off that Valerie Jarrett was Obama’s pick, and then a couple of days later CNN was told that VJ would be gonig to the White House staff instead.


November 10, 2008
Sources: Jarrett headed to White House, not Senate
Posted: 07:56 PM ET

From CNN Political Director Sam Feist
Valerie Jarrett is one of Barack Obama’s closest advisers.

(CNN) — Two Democratic sources close to President-elect Barack Obama tell CNN that top adviser Valerie Jarrett will not be appointed to replace him in the U.S. Senate.

“While he (Obama) thinks she would be a good senator, he wants her in the White House,” one top Obama advisor told CNN Monday.

Over the weekend, Democratic sources had told CNN as well as Chicago television station WLS-TV that Jarrett was Obama’s choice to fill his Senate seat.

Jarrett, a Chicago attorney and one of Obama’s closest advisers, is a leader of the president-elect’s transition team.

Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff, praised her as a “valuable ally.”

“People should know that Valerie Jarrett is — and people do know — she is a very dear friend of the president-elect and a valuable ally of his, not only prior to running for president, in his Senate life, and just personally for Michelle and Barack,” Emanuel said on ABC’s This Week.

Several other Illinois Democrats have expressed interest in the seat, including Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich will make the final decision on Obama’s successor.

Filed under: Barack Obama • Valerie Jarrett


246 posted on 12/11/2008 8:55:36 AM PST by Enchante (Was Jesse Jackson, Sr. the bagman for "Senate Candidate #5" -- JJJr.??????)
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To: jersey117

CNN and the other media whores prepared the ground last night for this comment by talking endlessly yesterday about the stuff in the wiretaps that ‘could’ be considered legal and just the ‘way politics are done’.

Pathetic!


247 posted on 12/11/2008 8:55:57 AM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: ßuddaßudd
umm ,, umm ,,, ummm ,,, ummm ,,,

To bad it's so early otherwise I would do the drinking game. :>)

248 posted on 12/11/2008 9:00:43 AM PST by beltfed308 (Heller: The defining moment of our Republic)
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To: retrokitten
Now Obama is saying some of the things in the indictment were in the bounds of legality!!

Ah, so he is going to use the Al Gore Defense - "no controlling legal authority".

I see where this is heading...

249 posted on 12/11/2008 9:00:49 AM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: weegee; atlbelle44; abb
Surely the media will comment on this as they did Talon News. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talon_News

Don't complain. Be the media.

Wikipedia allows ANYONE to begin/edit an article.

Get off the sidelines in the New Media, coach.

250 posted on 12/11/2008 9:02:34 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Lurking in Kansas

I’ve been saying for weeks, at some point BHO is going to have a Jack Nicholson moment (A Few Good Men) and he’s going to blurt out “You can’t handle the truth!”


251 posted on 12/11/2008 9:02:53 AM PST by Free America52 (I just want it to be the way it always has been.)
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To: Lurking in Kansas

The press is so excited! That poor child’s body in Florida has been found and now they can get Obama and his thugs off the news today.

It will be wall to wall coverage for the rest of the day by all 3 cable outlets. Mark my words.


252 posted on 12/11/2008 9:02:57 AM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: weegee

PRAVDA = TRUTH!


253 posted on 12/11/2008 9:03:29 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Canedawg
I first found that pic on a caption this thread. And now it is on Obama's own website!

And I used that caption then too. I think we are going to be seeing that combination a LOT in the next 4 years.

Also this will come in handy:


254 posted on 12/11/2008 9:04:25 AM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: penelopesire
We need a ‘Freeper court-reporter’ for these threads!!

Peach used to be awesome at that.
255 posted on 12/11/2008 9:04:45 AM PST by mysterio
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To: TornadoAlley3
He said he was “confident” his team had none, and asked for an internal report he said he would make public.

Along with his birth certificate, his medical records, and John Kerry's military record.

256 posted on 12/11/2008 9:06:00 AM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: weegee

bttt


257 posted on 12/11/2008 9:06:19 AM PST by timestax ( CNNLIES)
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To: penelopesire; jersey117
talking endlessly yesterday about the stuff in the wiretaps that ‘could’ be considered legal and just the ‘way politics are done’.

To be fair, so did Mark Levin...and I don't think he's in the tank for zero.

258 posted on 12/11/2008 9:06:25 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: mysterio

That’s right! Where is Peach?


259 posted on 12/11/2008 9:07:10 AM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: tumblindice
“in the bounds of legality”

If he really said that, then his attorneys are now working his prompter.

260 posted on 12/11/2008 9:09:14 AM PST by Yaelle
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