President-elect Obama News Conference--Live Thread

12/11/08

[TornadoAlley3]

Fox news, other news channel, presser coming up.

[TornadoAlley3]

per Fox, to begin in about 12 minutes

[maineman]

I just ate lunch...I’ll get sick. No, really..I’ll get sick.

[disraeligears]

Where can we find a live link? (no lancelot jokes please ;)

[ßuddaßudd]

umm ,, umm ,,, ummm ,,, ummm ,,

[Nashvegas]

Anyone care to guess how many umms and errs will be used?

[screaminsunshine]

WHAT! Did Obama know? And WHEN! Did he know it?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Should be short. Blago under the bus.....

Thank you...

[rineaux]

“I never had sex with that man, Roy Blagojevich”. I did tell him who to give my seat to, but NO sex.

[VanDeKoik]

I do hope there are questions about if they finally choose a dog for the kids.

I wonder if Michelle has picked out a dress for all of the balls they will attend?

Come on, press! Get to the bottom of it!

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/live.html?chanId=5&openAIR=true

[Obadiah]

Will he have a silver braclet around his wrists?

[weegee]

From the Office Of The President Elect.

What’s his pay grade right now? How can he answer any questions if he has no salary?

[RetiredArmy]

“I never had sex with that governor of Illinois, what’s his name. Sorry, I cannot pronounce it. We did not have sex or anything. We did not even snort a line of coke together.”

[svcw]

Well, it is at least before Rush's show. Can not wait for the comments and analysis.

[Bon mots]

Report: Michelle Obama Is "Specifically Named Individual" on Page 64 of Blago Indictment

It is very likely that Michelle Obama is the "Specifically Named Individual" on page 64 of the Criminal Complaint against Governor Rod Blagojevich.

From the indictment:
ROD BLAGOJEVICH said that the consultants (Advisor B and another consultant are believed to be on the call at that time) are telling him that he has to “suck it up” for two years a More..nd do nothing and give this “motherf***er [the President-elect] his senator. F**k him. For nothing? F**k him.” ROD BLAGOJEVICH states that he will put “[Senate Candidate 4]” in the Senate “before I just give f**king [Senate Candidate 1] a f**king Senate seat and I don’t get anything.” (Senate Candidate 4 is a Deputy Governor of the State of Illinois).

>ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated that he needs to find a way to take the “financial stress” off of his family and that his wife is as qualified or more qualified than another specifically named individual to sit on corporate boards.

>>The “specifically named individual” is Michelle Obama, who was appointed to the Board of TreeHouse Foods, a WAL-MART vendor, on June 25, 2005, even though she did not have experience in the private sector previous to the appointment. Here are the benefits the Obama family received as a result of Michelle Obama’s stint with the WAL-MART vendor:

According to the couple’s tax returns, Mrs Obama earned $51,200 (£25,700) for her work as a non-executive director on Treehouse’s board last year, on top of the $271,618 salary she was paid as a vice-president of the University of Chicago Hospitals.

She also received 7,500 Treehouse stock options, worth a further $72,375, as she did the previous year, when she banked a $45,000 salary from the company. Less..

[Holicheese]

Whats the Over/Under that not one person in the MSM asks him about Blago?

[Dustbunny]

Oh wow, I can’t wait. I just know he’ll say something profound. /sarc

[jer33 3]

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