The Obama staff undoubtedly leaked the call to the New York Times hoping that they would build a positive story around it. The surprise in the story is that it does not fail to recount Obama's cynicism and cozying up to the Chicago machine.
The Obama staff undoubtedly leaked the call to the New York Times hoping that they would build a positive story around it. The surprise in the story is that it does not fail to recount Obama's cynicism and cozying up to the Chicago machine.
Obama supposedly pushed for a law that passed. The governor then set out to break this law, which led to wiretaps, which caught him on an entirely unrelated crime.
A stretch to be sure. I could see some blogger pushing this craptastic line of reasoning? The NY Times? My how the mighty have fallen.
See #27. This reform bill, and O's "support" of it, are now being offered as proof that Obama is above this sort of thing, ergo his campaign couldn't possibly have been involved with Blago's scheme.