Questions Arise About the Obama/Blagojevich Relationship

[shiznit770]

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(Critisizm of dear leader will not be tolerated.)

I might perhaps have phrased it slightly differently as in
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Criticism or implied criticism of dear leader will not be tolerated.


It would greatly surprise me if Obama were not aware of the accused Governor's shortcomings.
At some point before the Democratic Convention took place Governor Blagojevich was due to give a speech at this conclave.
Mr. Obama (due on December 15th 2008 to be declared President Elect) decided that Governor Blagojevich should not be permitted to deliver that speech.
I daresay more than one person will at some point ask a simple question.

WHY?

Its obvious, Blagojevich has a terrible reputation. You should be more suspicious of the fact that he was considered to speak at all. Outside of Illinois he's seen as the crooked head of Illinois politics which is exactly why he was not allowed to speak at a National party convention.

 

[danarhea]

Damn, I thought we would never see anything more crooked than the Bush administration. I was wrong. :mrgreen:

 

[American]

Here is what I find hilarious about this:

1) Patrick Fitzgerald is the prosecutor on this.

2) The same people who are trying to find links to Obama that don't exist are the same people who accused Fitzgerald of conducting a political witch hunt against the Bush administration, after he indicted and successfully convicted Scooter Libby.

The irony here is so thick you can cut it with a knife. LOL.

Look at your post above. Try being consistent.

 

[Rick]

Just think if this happened only with a republican, say McCain, in obama's position. The See BS news would come on, and Katie Couric, in dramatic tones, would say "The question now is what did McCain know, and when did he know it."

 

[danarhea]

Look at your post above. Try being consistent.

Actually, I am QUITE consistent. While I condemn the Illinois governor, I see absolutely no connection to Obama. Neither did the prosecutor.

 

[jujuman13]

quote from Danahea
(Actually, I am QUITE consistent. While I condemn the Illinois governor, I see absolutely no connection to Obama. Neither did the prosecutor.)

Actually, the prosecutor has not as yet indicated either way with regards to an Obama connection.
If you will insist on putting words or indicating that a person has or has not spoken those words, please be so kind as to wait until he does.
Should he subsequently state that he is not aware of any connection, well guess you take my point.
This case has a long long way to run, many speeches as to who was or was not implicated.

 

[aps]

Damn, I thought we would never see anything more crooked than the Bush administration. I was wrong. :mrgreen:

Hmmmmm. I consider taking us into a war based on false intelligence and the death of thousands of our troops and the wounding of thousands more to be a teeny tiny bit more crooked than Blagojevich's behavior. Just a teeny weeny tiny bit more. *sarcasm*

Come on, danarhea.

 

[aps]

quote from Danahea
(Actually, I am QUITE consistent. While I condemn the Illinois governor, I see absolutely no connection to Obama. Neither did the prosecutor.)

Actually, the prosecutor has not as yet indicated either way with regards to an Obama connection.
If you will insist on putting words or indicating that a person has or has not spoken those words, please be so kind as to wait until he does.
Should he subsequently state that he is not aware of any connection, well guess you take my point.
This case has a long long way to run, many speeches as to who was or was not implicated.

So this isn't indicating whether he thinks there's an Obama connection?

Q Would you please address one thing? And that is, when Blagojevich walks out of here today, unless I'm mistaken about the constitution of Illinois, he will still be governor. He will still have the power to make the appointment to the Senate seat. He will still have the power whether or not he's going to sign the bill that you are concerned about.

Also would you address the fact -- and I know you've referred to this -- would you just address whether or not President-elect Obama was aware that any of these things were taking place?

MR. FITZGERALD: Okay. I'm not going to speak for what the president-elect was aware of. We make no allegations that he's aware of anything, and that's as simply as I can put it.

Fitzgerald press conference on Blagojevich. Transcript. - Lynn Sweet

It is clear to me you WANT there to be a connection.

By the way, I don't think a blog is supposed to be used in a Breaking News post.

2. Independent commentary and OpEd pieces are not allowed in *BN*.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/breaking-news/19542-please-read-breaking-news-rules-guidelines.html

 

[ReverendHellh0und]

Hmmmmm. I consider taking us into a war based on false intelligence and the death of thousands of our troops and the wounding of thousands more to be a teeny tiny bit more crooked than Blagojevich's behavior. Just a teeny weeny tiny bit more. *sarcasm*

Come on, danarhea.

oh with the liberal talking points... :roll:

 

[Cold Highway]

Didn't Obama and emmanuel have something to do with his campaign once?

According to the article him and Emmanuel were aids to him at one time.

 

[winston53660]

According to the article him and Emmanuel were aids to him at one time.

Can anybody come up with any connection to the bribery scandal that would would hold in a court of law?

In the mean time I will support our President Elect. TYVMIA

 

[JMak]

Can anybody come up with any connection to the bribery scandal that would would hold in a court of law?

In the mean time I will support our President Elect. TYVMIA

Did you require the same burden of evidence before agreeing or disagreeing with Bush critics?

Just wondering.

 

[K-1]

Actually, I am QUITE consistent. While I condemn the Illinois governor, I see absolutely no connection to Obama. Neither did the prosecutor.

I find it funny how David Axelrod was taped saying that he is sure that Obama had contact with Blagojevich, but as soon as it becomes politically inconvenient, he retracts his statement—sounds fishy to me. Barack also said he NO CONTACT with Blagojevich, but there are pictures with Barack Obama shaking his hand on December 2—which obviously means he was lying…

Anyway, I find it laughable how Liberals fail to see how this case has anything to do with Obama, when month after month, we hear more about his radical associations with criminals, terrorists, and an anti-American preachers one of whom just happened to be his pastor for 20 YEARS. Why does Barack have all these radical associations? But a better question is, why does the mass media ALWAYS give him a pass on everything, and want to completely exonerate him of any wrongdoing, before investigations are completed—based on a flimsy comment from a prosecutor early on in an investigation, which never means anything?

Barack is innocent as it stands, but it is preposterous that the Liberal media wants to put a shield around Obama forgetting that the Chicago scene of corruption and the home of a domestic terrorist is where Barack’s career spawned.

Seeing no connection between Obama and Blagojevich, shows one is either suffering from political blindness or just cursed with a lamentable inability to connect strands of information together logically and analytically.

 

[rhinefire]

ObamA is innocent just like O.J.

 

[MC.no.spin]

If this story had been about Governor Sarah Palin and an open Senate seat (which almost happened) we'd never hear the end of it from the liberals.

It's truly a shocking story that hopefully will put just that much more spotlight on corrupt politics occurring in our government. I hope the FBI pulls no punches in exposing whoever was involved.

 

[jujuman13]

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(In the mean time I will support our President Elect.)

Legally speaking, at this time and date the USA does NOT have a President elect.
The Electoral College decides who is to become the President Elect on December 15th 2008.
What we have prior to that date is a person who won the popular vote.

At some time in the future, I suppose Americans might take the trouble to learn their own constitution.

 

[lawshume]

Obama will not be removed by this or there will be massive
riots as there would have been if they had rigged the vote
machines for McCain. This is just talk radio filler material.