Posted on 07/11/2010 8:42:36 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Axelrod denies hiding Jarrett Senate talks
White House senior adviser David Axelrod is denying that aides to Barack Obama tried to cover up a conversation Obama reportedly had with a top union official about the possibility that then- Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) might name Obama friend Valerie Jarrett to fill the senate seat Obama was vacating,
Axelrod said Sunday that the contact between Obama and Service Employees International Union official Tom Balanoff was encompassed in a report that Obama legal counsel Greg Craig issued in 2008, even though the conversation was not specifically described there.
"If you go back and look at the report that Greg Craig put out in December of 2008 for the administration or the soon-to-be administration, he acknowledged that the president spoke to people within his staff and to people outside," Axelrod said on ABC's "This Week."
"But it doesn't say that he spoke to somebody about how Valerie Jarrett met the qualifications and would be interested in being a senator?...It was incomplete, at the very least," ABC's Jake Tapper countered.
"What nobody seems to disagree on is that the president wanted to bring Valerie Jarrett here to the White House...and that no offers were made in order to promote her candidacy...Those are the essential facts I think people want to know and need to know," Axelrod replied.
Balanoff's account came from testimony at Blagojevich's ongoing trial in Chicago on corruption charges. Jarrett, who is now a senior White House official, and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel could be called as defense witnesses in the coming weeks.
You bet.....like Jack Squat idiotPOTUS, if his lips are moving, period, he is lying.....
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Filthy Lying Communist,I will never forgive those who voted this Plague upon us.
Flip it 180 degrees, and that's what's REALLY going on.
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Speaking of Jarrett, (OT) Charlie Gasparino recounted a conversation he had with Robert Rubin. Rubin noticed that Obama had little understanding of economics and suggested he talk to more people in the business community. Obama told Rubin, “That’s what I have Jarrett for.”
If I hear that nazi look alike say one more time “we took over during the worst economy since the Great Depression... yada yada...” I will scream louder at my TV.
Why does no one ask “Why did you choose to make it worse?”
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