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Does Obama team have something to hide in Blogojevich pay-to-play scandal?
San Diego Union-Tribune...San Francisco Chronicle ^
| December 17, 2008
| Ruben Navarrette Jr.,
Posted on 12/17/2008 10:23:02 AM PST by george76
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:23:05 AM PST
by
george76
To: george76
Do bears defecate in the woods?
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:26:56 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: george76
Man I despise this “pay-to-play” platitude. Why can’t they just call it what it is - graft?
To: george76
See: “Bear, woods; Pope, Catholic”
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:28:36 AM PST
by
TexasNative2000
(Everything Obama does is "appropriate", therefore, nothing he does is "inappropriate".)
To: Jack of all Trades
Good ol’ fashioned bribery.
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:28:53 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: george76
Whats odd to me....is that these are talks that you’d do face to face to avoid telephone wiretaps. Its almost like Blaggo knew that they were tapped and had these idiots calling him on purpose. The professionalism here....the ability to conduct stupid business without being caught....draws me to a conclusion that these people really don’t know how to conduct themselves. This is stuff I’d expect out of Little Rock or Memphis...with county or small city dimwits....not a governor of Illinois or presidential spokesmen.
The other curious thing is that Obama had “HIS” list of people that could replace him and this was strongly emphasized to Blago. These Obama guys didn’t want anyone else other than the five. It didn’t take Blago more than ten seconds to realize that this wasn’t a suggestive list....it was a demanding list.
To: Army Air Corps
Do bears defecate in the woods?NOT FAIR!!!!
(I was going to make the same point!!)
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:29:50 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: george76
0be’s getting stonewalling experience while he’s still in the on-deck circle. It’ll come in handy later.
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:30:26 AM PST
by
Paladin2
(No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
To: Jack of all Trades
You know, I have been thinking lately it is such a given in Asia and Europe, just do it and be above board. Let everyone know what a senate seat, a road project, a widget cost to have made for the American taxpayer. It would probably put too many Washington lawyers out of bidness.
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:31:06 AM PST
by
SFR
To: george76
We’re only a month away from the start of the Obinton Administration.
To: DustyMoment; Army Air Corps
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:31:46 AM PST
by
SFR
To: george76
To: george76
Would it be inappropriate for Obama or someone from his team to offer opinions as to who should replace him if there was no quid pro quo?
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:33:40 AM PST
by
murdoog
(http://babydoc3.livejournal.com)
To: george76
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:37:12 AM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(Obama: He was just a Governor who lived in my neighborhood.)
To: BP2; BonRad; LucyT; SunkenCiv; STARWISE; Grampa Dave; BIGLOOK
nothing that my office did ... was in any way inappropriate
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:37:50 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Personally, I find this a tad unseemly. The Senate seat doesn't belong to Obama, who was barely in it long enough to warm it, but to the people of Illinois.
Yeah, in theroy.
The sad fact is that the U.S. Senate has turned into
The House of Lords.
Now my memory is a little hazy, but I seem to recall our forefathers raised a little stink over things like that going on here in America. It was around 1776 iirc.
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:39:03 AM PST
by
Condor51
(The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
To: george76
“docile” press corps??? I would say “compliant” or sycophantic, myself.
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:40:45 AM PST
by
MortMan
(Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton)
To: pepsionice
Crooks (big and small) get careless when they think they are
‘THE UNTOUCHABLES’.
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posted on
12/17/2008 10:43:05 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: SFR
Things are getting so out of hand-—Maybe we need naming rights to Senate seats much like the (largely) publically financed stadia.
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posted on
12/17/2008 11:20:24 AM PST
by
rod1
To: george76
His whole life is one big hide.
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posted on
12/17/2008 12:12:59 PM PST
by
Sig Sauer P220
(The Big 3 Auto Makers - Where Attention to Kwality is Jobe Won.)
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