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]

bmark

[appeal2]

I’m sure his first words were that’s not the Blag I knew.”

[SoConPubbie]

Not really interested in what Captain Zero has to say.

[sarasota]

Did he “misspeak”, “not recall”, “forget” about his meetings/phone conversations, etc. Or did his minions forget to tell him??

[tumblindice]

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

This might be the first ball where ankle monitoring bracelets are fashion accessories.

[reagan_fanatic]

Will Helen Thomas be there, and will she toss her hotel key at Obama?

[kellynla]

Still waiting to hear where that “Office of President Elect” with what looks to be some kind of government seal came from...
Please correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t recall there EVER being such an “office” and/or “seal” before. LOL

And for the record, Hussein is not and will not be the “president elect” until the electoral college votes.

[TomGuy]

http://www.blinkotv.com

Select the FoxNews channel

[appeal2]

I’m sure his first words were that’s not the Blag I knew.”

[weegee]

Um, look, this is an ongoing investigation and uh um I don’t want my own administration to distract from this investigation. I am deeply saddened at reports that Jesse Jackson Junior would offer money for my Senate seat...

[SoConPubbie]

Oh, I just love that picture!

[DouglasKC]

If this were a Republican the press would be rabid right now. They couldn’t wait for this to start. They’d be jumping out of their chairs to ask about connections to Blago...what did he know...when did he know it...has he hired an attorney...will he resign...etc. etc.

[maine-iac7]

bump

for later.

My eyes/psyche cannot take watching Zero. I'll check back here to get the gist...

besides, ‘got a storm barreling down - gotta go get my snow tire on NOW

[NeoCaveman]

that’s not the Blago I knew....

[weegee]

Still waiting to hear where that “Office of President Elect” with what looks to be some kind of government seal came from... Please correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t recall there EVER being such an “office” and/or “seal” before. LOL

He made it up.

Welcome to America 2.0 our Constitution is just a piece of paper written by dead white males who never considered the issue of economic justice.

[OSHA]

Bookmark

[Sacajaweau]

Reporting his sadness on Illinois takedown...and

"I did not talk with that man".

[steveo]

[weegee]

I think we need to get someone with press credentials to ask “Will you resign” at every press conference. Just to balance Helen Thomas.

[Oratam]

“I will resign the office of President-Elect effective noon tomorrow.”

[weegee]

Now you did it. I don’t think we will ever be able to post Lancelot Link photos for the next 4 years.

[weegee]

LOL

[penelopesire]

Thanks for starting the thread TA!

PING TO ZERO’S PRESSER! Starting in a few minutes.

[MrB]

Wasn’t Lancelot Link a chimpanzee?

Are you being racist?

/oversensitive perpetually offended libspeak

[cvq3842]

I think, frankly, that Obama may be creating a problem when thre could possibly not be one. At this point, I am perfectly willing to believe that neither Obama nor his team offered money for their pick to get the Senate seat. But I do NOT believe that the Obama team did not communicate any preference to Blago, especially given the fact that the Senate is teetering on the brink of a filibuster-proof majority.

I also don’t believe Axelrod misspoke, or that the local news outlet was making up stories out of whole cloth, when they said there was a meeting or other communication between Obama and Blago on this issue.

Obama’s denial of having any communications on this issue strains credulity and raises many more questions than it answers. If he did have discussions and input, but but no money was ever offered, why not just say that? Or maybe Blago raised the issue of money - however indirectly or obliquely - and Obam though it was easier merely deny any contact than to open the door to further questions about the nature of any discusions.

Anyway, it appears that we may be back to the Clinton years of parsing words.

[advertising guy]

he will be as vague as possible......lawyers are watchin from both sides.....this speech will have 20 pounds of....ahh’s and mmmmmm’s and soooooooooooooooooo’s.

[the invisib1e hand]

just for the record, presidents-elect don't usually hold press conferences and have Saturday radio addresses, do they? I just don't rememeber. I know they don't have official seals and such.

Obama's like a kid dressing up as his father. The first crisis will find him either sucking his thumb in the fetal position underneath his desk, or declaring martial law.

[NoGrayZone]

Could someone please type in what barry states. I’m at work and cant listen (but I can sneak onto FR).

Thank you!!!

[TornadoAlley3]

I would faint dead if he said that:)

[cvq3842]

LOL! I remember that show!

You do realize, of course, that ANY reference to primates when discussing Obama will be seen as racism - especuially by the lefties who called Bush a “chimp” for the last eight years.

Must be fun to be a liberal - no logic required!

[weegee]

“Let me get back to working for the American people, investigations into bribes for political office never fed a starving child.” < /fake but accurate >