What Is Obama Hiding About His Contacts With Blagojevich?
by Matt Margolis on December 11th, 2008 at 10:04pm
Now, Rod Blagojevich has been under a dark ethical cloud for a long time now. He was corrupt enough that Mark and I gave him a dishonorable mention in our book, but that didn’t stop Barrack Obama from associating with him for the past few years.
But, now that Blagojevich is on the verge of going down, Obama is trying to claim he had “no contact” with the disgraced governor — who would choose his successor in the Senate.
Of course since his claim, various sources have revealed the opposite. David Axelrod had said last month that they had in fact met and discussed who would replace him — only to claim this week he “misspoke.” Then woe found that it was reported the day after the election that Obama and Blagojevich had a meeting.
To be honest, I did not originally think Obama had any knowledge or involvement in the auctioning off of his Senate seat to the highest bidder. But, there is no point pretending that he never had any contact with him about who would replace him.
So why not be honest about the contact they did have, if the corrupt dealings weren’t a part of their conversations, Obama has nothing to hide.
Well, apparently the reason why Obama is lying about having no contact with Blagojevich is that he may have had knowledge of Blagojevich’s pay to play scheme:
Barack Obama insists that he and his staff were not involved in the alleged schemes Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich cooked up to sell off the president-elect’s vacant Senate seat.
But the timeline of activity outlined in the FBI’s 76-page complaint against Blagojevich suggests Obama’s team was aware that his home-state governor was playing political hardball in the weeks before his arrest.
That’s because shortly after Blagojevich allegedly told his advisers, in an expletive-laced conference call, that he would not appoint Obama’s pick to the Senate absent huge favors in return, Obama’s apparent pick promptly dropped out of the running for the Senate and joined the new White House staff.
“Reading between the lines … clearly somebody from (Obama’s) operation did have a conversation with Blagojevich,” Democratic strategist Bob Beckel told FOX News. He added that Obama’s representative evidently wasn’t trying to cut a deal since Blagojevich indicated he was “getting nothing out of the Obama people.”
FOX News has confirmed that Valerie Jarrett, a senior Obama adviser, is the individual identified in the Blagojevich affidavit as Senate Candidate 1.
The affidavit states that Senate Candidate 1 was likely to be supported by Obama for the seat, and that the Illinois governor was mulling a variety of ways to capitalize on such an appointment. Blagojevich allegedly wanted a corporate board appointment for his wife or millions in donations to a non-profit organization for his benefit, or even an appointment as secretary of health and human services, in exchange for appointing Senate Candidate 1. (Obama nominated former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle for the Cabinet post Blagojevich wanted on Thursday.)
But in the series of wiretapped conversations detailed in the complaint, Blagojevich and his advisers made clear that Obama was not willing to trade anything for the appointment of Senate Candidate 1.
Corrupt to the core. If Obama was in the dark about Blagojevich’s scheme, he wouldn’t have lied about the contact he did have with Blagojevich that was so quickly determined to be lies.
So, Obama, what are you hiding?
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December 12th, 2008 at 1:48 am
We know Earbama had no association with Blags, because he said so, and he’s the messiah.
So what if O’Reilly has video of Earbama endorsing Blags. This means nothing. However, if Abramhoff is in a room where Bush is, they’re drinking buddies, right?
December 12th, 2008 at 2:54 am
You must be exhausted from trying so hard to tie this to Obama.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:22 am
You do realize that the whole Bush/Abramoff thing almost immediately blew over, don’t you?
December 12th, 2008 at 3:25 am
Sergei,
How familiar are you with Chicago politics? I’ve got a bit of an inherited piece of this, as my mother was born and raised in Chicago. The city has been hopelessly corrupt for a century now, if not longer. There are no honest politicians who come out of the Chicago machine…now, perhaps Obama will prove to be the first honest Chicago politician, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Orlando,
Exhausted? Hardly - the connections are so close and so varied that the thing is to pick and choose the best of them to highlight.
December 12th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Well, according to Rod Blagojevich, he is.
But are any of them relevant? Feel free to spread all the gossip and innuendo you want, feel free to concoct elaborate, evidence-free conspiracy theories, but your not going to be able to tie Obama to any wrongdoing. Proof of his innocence is right there in the transcripts.
And before you say, “Yeah, but that doesn’t mean Obama didn’t know! Maybe Blago approached him, and he turned him down!” consider that a) Obama would have nothing to lose, and indeed quite a lot to gain by turning Blago in, and b) everybody already knew that the Big B was under investigation, so it would be almost certain that it would come out anyway.
Also, consider that, while he has said that he’s saddened by this, he hasn’t said he was surprised. He most certainly was aware that the governor was corrupt; he just didn’t know the details.
December 12th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Mark
Sergei,
How familiar are you with Chicago politics? I’ve got a bit of an inherited piece of this, as my mother was born and raised in Chicago.
segway is a 22 freeking year old KID, attending barfkley of all commie places.
He has NO knowledge other than what his CAIR handlers feed him, the same with asswipemule.
I just love it when snot nose - KIDS just out of puberty attending marxist re-education camps troll here and espouse their worldly knowledge of, business, unions, war , finance, sex, religion, etc and they have only been able to drink beer for ONE year.
BWWWWWAAAA HA HA HA !!!!!
WTF way way to funny!!!
December 12th, 2008 at 11:14 am
segway
If I could I would tear that f’n black islamic flag you have crossed with Old Glory on your blog, P!$$ on it, burn it , and shove it up your muslem A$$ so far you would taste it.
December 12th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
See, if you actually believed comment #4, then you’d dismiss Palin and Jindal. But you don’t. You embrace them. Because you’re a hypocrite. Or, if we were yougive you the benefit of the doubt (something you haven’t earned), then we could just say that you don’t actually believe comment #4.
Of course, as noted, none of this ties to Obama. But you’ll continue to say that it does. Doesn’t your god have rules against lying, Mark?
December 12th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
First of all, I’m not a Muslim, I’m a Bahá’í. Secondly, the original design for the logo I had in mind would have made it much clearer that the two flags are supposed to be in opposition to each other, but at the time I did not have the technical skills for that. When I migrate my blog to WordPress (which I’ll be doing soon), I’m going to redesign it.
Regarding the defacing of al-Qaeda’s flag, I personally would use some sort of light explosive, but I suppose that’s a matter of personal taste.
December 12th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
segway
I apologize to you>/B> for my #8 rant.
I misunderstood your blog/flag intent, and your religious affiliation.
as to your age,
dont be pretentious to (older) adults.
Many of us have been union members, business owners, employers, church members, politically active people etc before you were a twinkle in your daddy’s eyes.
First of all, I’m not a Muslim, I’m a Bahá’í. Secondly, the original design for the logo I had in mind would have made it much clearer that the two flags are supposed to be in opposition to each other, but at the time I did not have the technical skills for that. When I migrate my blog to WordPress (which I’ll be doing soon), I’m going to redesign it.
December 12th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
segwaydropout
here fixed (I hope)
I apologize to you> for my #8 rant.
I misunderstood your blog/flag intent, and your religious affiliation.
as to your age,
dont be pretentious to (older) adults.
Many of us have been union members, business owners, employers, church members, politically active people etc before you were a twinkle in your daddy’s eyes.
First of all, I’m not a Muslim, I’m a Bahá’í. Secondly, the original design for the logo I had in mind would have made it much clearer that the two flags are supposed to be in opposition to each other, but at the time I did not have the technical skills for that. When I migrate my blog to WordPress (which I’ll be doing soon), I’m going to redesign it.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Fmr, you a bigot who is not capable of tolerating other religions. The vast majority of Muslims don’t like the radical terrorists.
Don’t be a hater.
December 13th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
assheadmule
Fmr, you a bigot who is not capable of tolerating other religions. The vast majority of Muslims don’t like the radical terrorists.
UH HUH!
I do HATE my ENEMIES,
marxism
communism
abortion
athiesm
radical homo agenda
islam
and you because you represent all the above and more.
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/
http://ballyblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/terrorists-are-muslims-list-of-islamic-terrorist-attacks/