Then what the heck is this?
Posted on 12/11/2008 9:01:42 AM PST by BGHater
President-elect Obama said he has not spoken with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) about filling his former Senate seat.
Obama, at a Thursday news conference in Chicago, pledged to research who on his staff had been in communication with the governor's office and promised to report back.
"I was as appalled and disappointed as anybody by the revelations earlier this week," Obama said of Blagojevich's arrest on federal corruption charges, including a charge the governor allegedly tried to profit from filling Obama's seat. "I'm confident that no representative of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat. I think the materials released by the U.S. attorney reflect that fact.
"I've asked my team to gather the facts of any contacts with the governor's office about this vacancy so that we can share them with you over the next few days," Obama said.
Obama repeated his call on Blagojevich to resign, saying the governor cannot effectively serve. "I want to make sure that the next senator from Illinois ... is not tainted by what has taken place so far," Obama said.
A public servant who came of age in the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago politics, Obama said Blagojevich's actions were on the "far end" of "a culture that thinks of politics as a means of self-aggrandizement."
"There are times when people are not thinking about what's best for the public good," Obama said. "This Senate seat does not belong to any politician to trade. It belongs to the people of Illinois, and they deserve the best possible representation."
The president-elect said neither he nor his transition team have been contacted by federal officials seeking interviews in the matter, and pointed out that the affidavit filed on Tuesday makes it clear Obama's team was hesitant to make any deals.
The president-elect also made light of Blagojevich's frequent profanity-laced tirades, in which he used various vulgarities to refer to the president-elect. "I'm not going to repeat back some of the things said about me," Obama joked. "This is a family program, I know."
“I’m confident that no representative of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat.
wink..wink..nod..nod
Yeah. Blago had better hire a couple of expert food tasters.
ROFLMAO. MY BS meter just pegged!!
Both Axlerod and the local news media reported that there was a meeting. Someone is lying.
He's going down in flames before he even got off the ground.
of course you haven’t mr. president elect
Wow, not even elected and he’s already using the Sergeant Schultz defense.
Obama has a very bad memory lapse. He is conveniently forgetting the meeting he had with the crooked governor on November 5th, which was reported and now has been removed from both the Channel 7 website and the Obama website. Stupid people think they can just make history go away?
Does he have ANY contact with ANY of his friends and associates?
Sorry that should be “not even in office”
Then what the heck is this?
I sense an opportunity to codify the rules for the new Obama-Drinking-Game to be played on every college campus. Everytime the Annointed One utters either of those words, we need to knock back a shot.
Isn’t it funny how he just “doesn’t know about” and “has no memory of” any of these people, connections, dealings, meetings, gatherings from the last 25 years of his life. If this is true, perhaps he has some type of medical issue that should be checked out (sarc).
“I’m confident that. . .” Empty suit, empty statement.
Not to worry. Patti is fixing him a lunch with eye of newt and toe of frog.
Notice the careful phraising: I have not spoken with him THEN about THAT etc etc
After reading the 76 page complaint, it’s clear that nothing gets built in Illinois without a significant contribution from the contractors being made to the politicians. Looks like somebody has timed Illinois by the 57 states in the Union and made some calculations for the future
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