b, 21can we please get a SoulStrut consensus on this?
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b, 21Did Obama and Axelrod "lie" about meeting with the governer?
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font class="post"1b, 21b, 21It's being reported that Emmanuel did meet with him and it's possibly on tape.b, 21b, 21The fact that Barack said no one on his staff met with him is probably a mispeak at best and a lie at worst.b, 21b, 21The Strut is apparently taking the 5th on this one.
everyone knew blago was poison. dems avoided him and largely hated him. rezko case had just ended, and the governor was pretty much implicated already. everyone had to know he was probably being investigated. on the tapes, blago implied that obama's team wasnt interested in giving him anything for his pick for the senate. b, 21b, 21maybe they bungled dealing with it in the media, but no way would obama have been so stupid as to actually try to offer blagojevich shit in return for their pick for senate. i cant imagine that in any universe he would be that dumb. even were it not obvious blago was under investigation, that seems highly out of character
b, 21everyone knew blago was poison. dems avoided him and largely hated him. rezko case had just ended, and the governor was pretty much implicated already. everyone had to know he was probably being investigated. on the tapes, blago implied that obama's team wasnt interested in giving him anything for his pick for the senate.
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b, 21maybe they bungled dealing with it in the media, but no way would obama have been so stupid as to actually try to offer blagojevich shit in return for their pick for senate. i cant imagine that in any universe he would be that dumb. even were it not obvious blago was under investigation, that seems highly out of character
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font class="post"1b, 21b, 21That's not what's being suggested. I think the greater question is: did anyone on Obama's team know Blago was trying to shake down fools and if so, did they report that to the authorities? b, 21b, 21The thing is - as many have noted - there are plenty of highly LEGAL ways to exchange favors in American politics. Blago was just truly stupid in being so brazen about it but it could be that no one on Obama's team took Blago's intimations to be anything more than "politics as usual" and may have chosen to ignore them (or, as some rumors suggest, Rohm dropped a dime). b, 21b, 21But this idea that there was NO contact b/t Obama's staff and Blagojevich's? You don't have to be a wingnut to find that rather implausible.
b, 21everyone knew blago was poison. dems avoided him and largely hated him. rezko case had just ended, and the governor was pretty much implicated already. everyone had to know he was probably being investigated. on the tapes, blago implied that obama's team wasnt interested in giving him anything for his pick for the senate.
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b, 21maybe they bungled dealing with it in the media, but no way would obama have been so stupid as to actually try to offer blagojevich shit in return for their pick for senate. i cant imagine that in any universe he would be that dumb. even were it not obvious blago was under investigation, that seems highly out of character
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font class="post"1b, 21b, 21I haven't heard anyone here or in the media suggest that Obama offered anything for the seat.b, 21b, 21What we're hearing is that Obama said no one in his office had met with Blago about the selection when in fact they had (why wouldn't they have?) and that Obama's office may have known Blago was trying to sell the seat.
A lot has happened since this thread left off. Today they are speculating that Blagojevich's senate appointee Roland Burris is likely to be seated after all
Blagojevichieli -- nice. It would be cool if Blago had a really nice boat in Lake Michigan. Maybe if actually got some of the money he was hoping for. As it stands, his house is rather ugly, IMO. Lady MacBeth could not have been happy with that.
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Today they are speculating that Blagojevich's senate appointee Roland Burris is likely to be seated after all
Burris... sheeeiiittt.
What a crazy world we live in.