Posted on 12/15/2008 5:16:20 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
"I was appalled and disappointed by what we heard in those transcripts," Barack Obama said Thursday about the documented misconduct of the governor of Illinois. That’s right. He was appalled. And it only took him 48 hours to realize it.
If the U.S. attorney is to be believed, we had Rod Blagojevich talking about auctioning off Obama’s old Senate seat. We had him trying to extort a newspaper. We had him trying to parlay a tollway project into a $500,000 contribution from a highway contractor. We even had him trying to shake down a children’s hospital.
The reaction from fellow Illinois Democrats was swift and severe. Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn demanded that the governor step aside. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin urged the legislature to call a special election to fill the Senate seat. Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan proposed to ask the Supreme Court to disqualify the governor from carrying out his duties.
But Obama had a "My Pet Goat" moment, freezing up in the face of the shock. "I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to comment on the issue at this time," he said. "It’s a sad day for Illinois." You’d have thought the Bears had failed to make the playoffs.
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“my pet goat”....wadda ya mean.... missed that story...
President Bush, 9/11, reading a book to a group of children in a classroom, the look on his face when told about the second tower being hit.
Bush....9/11...book he was reading to the kiddies when the towers were hit....
This? In the Minnesota RED STAR?
They have to take a swipe at Palin when she's not even tangentially related to the story. They also have to get in a gratuitous prop for the resident of the Office of the President Elect (pbuh?).
“This? In the Minnesota RED STAR?”
Imagine my surprise...
I just HAD to post this......
No comment? Is he the LAST person in Chicago to know the Governor is an idiot and a crook? He must be the only person in Chicago more stupid than Blago.
Looks like it could be a long four years for Bambi
Hope so.....
“my pet goat”.... this is like “jumping the shark”
...and Barry wants us all to think that he's the only prostitute in the brothel who is a virgin.
On page 64 of Fitz' complaint, it is broadly hinted that Blago wanted his wife to get the same kind of deal Michelle-Omarosa got as Barry came through the ranks. Michelle-Omarosa got a board position with a Walmart supplier, plus started at the University of Chicago Hospital in the $100k range, blossoming to $370k as more grants were pumped their way from Illinois coffers.
Blago is STILL holding out for the best deal - he ain't going anywhere until he does. Look for more folks going under the bus.
LOL!
Hope the bus leaves some treadmarks on Blago....
......prefer skid marks....
I think the skidsmarks are in Rahm's tutu right now...
I suspect Blago knows how Michelle got her $300,000/yr community outreach hospital job.
Sure he does. And his wife knows as much if not more. She was practically Rezko’s business partner....
Have you read “The Twelve Ways of Fritzmas” yet?
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