Posted on 12/09/2008 10:01:22 AM PST by OL Hickory
Fitzgerald said "there is no allegation in the complaint that the President-elect was aware of it and that is all I can say." His comment did not close the door on the possibility that Obama or someone on his staff may have known of some aspect of the Govenror's demands.
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Note that Fitzgerald didn't say Obama wasn't aware of it; just that it wasn't mentioned in the indictment.
Merry Fitzmas obama
I believe that the timing of this arrest was accelerated by Fitz because he had reason to believe that Zero was indeed about to put together a nice little offer to Blago for “naming rights” to his old Senate seat.
I think the voice is the governor’s staff saying his wife would get appointments to boards by the president. Wonder what the source of that comment is. Hard to believe Obama didn’t reach out to the gov on the senate seat. I would have, without the bribe of course. : )
“Note that Fitzgerald didn’t say Obama wasn’t aware of it; just that it wasn’t mentioned in the indictment.”
I was intrigued by how closely Fitz parsed his reply to that question. Be still my heart...
Those of us with half a brain, trust Fitzy as much as we trust the Zer0!
Something tells me that we are only at the very beginning of a huge trial.
If we had a couple dozen more guys like him constantly watching over our politicians, we wouldn't have the vile government we do today.
Something tells me this will all go way in January or February.
Thanfully, I feel safe knowing Scooter was taken down./ sarc
We’ll be able to see how far this reaches, maybe, by how many people start to jump ship from their “appointments” which have not passed the Senate yet.
In my view, it’s going to be really really interesting to see who starts to distance themselves from the p-e, maybe even giving back some of those cabinet appointments in favor of spending “more time with their families”
just a loose thought running around inside my head
Hilarious, the guy isnt even in the WH and now the media have got their hands on an enormous story that is going to bog down Obama for years.
I’m wetting myself laughing. Could be the shortest Presidency ever if the media finally decides to get a pound of flesh.
This is pure speculation:
Fitzgerald doesn't need to name him in the indictment at this point, and if he's investigating Obama, he doesn't want to tip his hand now. Now that he's given proper coverage to all of Blago's counterparties, they're going to come crawling out of the woodwork with shakedown stories. I'd say the chances are pretty good that Obama and his campaign are going to turn up in this mess. Hard to imagine Obama, Daley, and Blagojevich living within 5 miles of each other and they're respective entourages weren't in regular communication.
Of course the Obama organization was involved. All these insiders are from the same neighborhood.
I think it's unfortunate that they didn't let this thing go for a while...There is always the possibility they didn't want the dots connected directly to Obama.
The dude’s got sand in his eyes...
Obama just wasn’t willing to pay enough for the seat to go to the person of his choice.
I don't buy that. If something was ABOUT to happen with Zero, he would have waited and reeled him in, too. What this situation does, is give Fitz the ability to investigate Obama through the witnesses and counterparties who are going to come forward with Blago stories, and perhaps lead to Obama. Fitz doesn't have the political cover to go directly at Obama, but indirectly, this Blago arrest could turn out to be a goldmine.
You think? I just did a quick survey of Fox, MSNBC and CNN. Fox is on it. MSNBC has a live press conference on Jay Leno's new contract, CNN is talking about who's going to 'benefit' from Obama's 'infrastructure build-out'. We'll have to see what little dribbles into the ABCNBCCBS evening news.
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