Posted on 12/11/2008 12:23:42 PM PST by IbJensen
A former Republican presidential candidate says the political corruption scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich could result in top advisors to Barack Obama being called to testify before a grand jury very early in his administration.
President-elect Obama has called on Governor Rod Blagojevich to resign for allegedly trying to trade favors for Obama's vacant Illinois senate seat. Although Obama says he had no contact with the governor or his office on the matter, in an interview last month on Fox News Chicago, top Obama advisor David Axelrod said otherwise.
"I know he [Obama] has talked to the governor -- and there are a whole range of names, many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them," said Axelrod.
Yesterday, Axelrod issued a retraction, saying "I was mistaken....They did not then or at any time discuss the subject."
If Barack Obama is linked to the Blagojevich scandal,
how will the mainstream media handle it?
Gary Bauer 1Gary Bauer, president of American Values, says as more details of the Blagojevich case unfold, Obama could be facing a public-relations nightmare because of his strong connection to Democratic Party politics in Chicago.
"Certainly this is an astonishing indictment," Bauer offers. "On its face it shows a tremendous degree of illegality and of corruption. We just have to wait and see whether that corruption extended or in any way touched the incoming president."
According to Bauer, "it requires the willing suspension of disbelief to suggest that Mr. Obama, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Governor Blagojevich have not talked since the election."
Obomba is our presidente!
Why do these irrelevant items keep surfacing?
Time for el revolucion!
Thanks, Obomba voters for delivering this nation into the jaws of the 'beast.1
well when you lay down with dogs you should expect to get fleas (and in this case a few blood sucking ticks)
Regardless of what evidence is produced or not produced, there will be those that believe there is a connection, and those that do not believe there is a connection.
Does an ursine deficate in an arbor grove?
The MSM will keep on covering for Zero no matter what. Of course he is in it up to his eyeballs with the Chicago corruption. He ran 2 of Blogo’s campaigns! Blogo and Rezko schemed to get campaign cash to Zero illegally. Please, they are all dirty. Zero owes his current standing to these Chicago thugs, and he is a Chicago thug too, just like Bubba said he was. For once I agree with Bubba.
Is the Pope Catholic?
I was just listening to Rachel Maddow. She is upset that we are linking the pres-elect to the IL gov. She states that there is no proof that Obama ever spoke with the Gov.
Her Proof that they never spoke was the fact that Obama voted Yes on some ethics reform.
Funny the Gov of NY was a strict anti-Vice lawyer. It doesn’t mean much.
I am heartened. I thought Obama’s downspiral to oblivion would at least wait until inauguration day, but it is clear that the Blogo scandal will just be a warmup to the main event.
Look for suicides in the future.
As some FReeper said on another thread this morning, are we to believe that Obama's the only virgin in the whorehouse?
"Take my wife.. please!" Henny Youngman
"Like most people in Illinois I was appalled." Barack Obama
BOTH Rahm and Obama were “Senior Advisors” on Blago’s 2002 campaign...
Patty blago, Governor Blutarsky’s wife was a LONG-TIME Rezko partner, and was likely the Rezko agent for the Rezko-Obama house deal, that was financed through Mharajan’s Bank of Harvey...
LOTS of Obama Blago links...
Look for suicides in the future.
Blogo’s barber should be the first to go, if only for that horrible haircut
If we're stuck, constitutionally, with his imbecilic running mate , then so be it.
He will be either impeachable, or removable by a riotous group calling itself "The New Potomac Tea Party!".
Our nation is in dire straits. It will take bold revolutionary spirit to regain it!
Siamese twins by different fathers.
We've struggled through Johnson, Carter, Clinton, but we needn't suffer through this un-American Kenyan!
Rahmmie the Commie will be the sacrificial lamb. Watch.
He’ll confess that he talked to Blagojevich but rejected the idea of doing a quid-pro-quo for their Senate wish. Obama will issue another “saddened” statement.
“How can there NOT be an Obama-Blago connection?”
Didn’t you know??
They are all just people from the same hood!
Why, thier kids go to the same schools, and sometimes they pass in the street.
Nothing to see here, MOVEON...
Ahhh, Presidential Corruption. Funny how it NEVER seems to MEAN anything when we’re speaking of a Democrat. But, let me be the first, in the spirit of Watergate, to ask, What did the President elect know, and when did he know it?
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