"The hen house is secure. Go back to sleep!"
Posted on 12/21/2008 8:51:38 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama absolves Emanuel in gov. scandal By: Mike Allen December 21, 2008 11:43 AM EST
President-elect Barack Obama’s aides plan to release a report this week absolving incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel of any impropriety in his contacts with the disgraced Illinois governor’s office, Democratic sources tell Politico.
The report is expected Monday or Tuesday. Obama said last week that he was delaying it until this week at the request of federal prosecutors.
The complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose conversations had been secretly taped by federal investigators, tested the smoothly running Obama transition, with some Democrats fretting that the case presents a distraction that could last into the new administration.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, host of “This Week,” said during the roundtable on his program Sunday that the Obama legal team's review of contacts with Blagojevich found that Emanuel had only one phone conversation with the governor, and it was a “pro forma” conversation.
“I have been briefed on the review that Obama has done,” Stephanopoulos said. “The sources I talked to say that what it will show is there were actually far less contacts than we had heard – that Rahm Emanuel only had one phone call with Governor Blagojevich. It wasn’t even really about the Senate seat.”
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Actually this could be Nobama’s undoing.
If the facts in the taped conversations differ with what Nobama says he shows he can’t be trusted.
This report is not his ‘opinion’ but a result of a Nobama investigation and can thus be thought of as trying to stave off further outside investigations, hampering a pursuit of the truth.
Response: The use of the term "absolve" is quite appropriate. I hear "The Divine One" was floating about three feet off of the surface of the earth when he granted the absolution.
“How stupid does Obama think American’s are?”
After this election? I would venture to say moronic.
One way to ground The One is to let him make all of these proclamations of innocence and then have to explain why Rahm when to prison. That would be a blow to his and the MSM credibility that would not be easy to recover from.
The only thing that would be better is a clear recording of Obama himself negotiating his seat for cash and calling everyone involved by name. That’s way too much to ask for but this is Christmas time.
He has performed an absolution and told him to go and sin no more.
"The hen house is secure. Go back to sleep!"
Emperor Announces: Chief of Staff Sees My Clothes
Of course he does. What a frigging joke these people are.
God Bless Our Country.
It is unless you're 50% white, 44% Arab, 6% black and you need to pander to the PC masses and actual black voters.
I think that's pretty obvious. Guess who got elected to be President?
Now you know what CHANGE stands for.
Oops.
LOL, how true....I think truth to be told, he’s but an empty individual with the Chicago political machine and perhaps of tad of Soros pulling the strings, JMO of course.
And that changes the status quo, how?
This report is not his ‘opinion’ but a result of a Nobama investigation and can thus be thought of as trying to stave off further outside investigations, hampering a pursuit of the truth.
He'll still be President, and Commander in Chief.
Having written that last sentence, you'll need to excuse me now while I go barf up my breakfast.
BO is a pathological liar. He will do or say anything to achieve his *goals*.
“Obama absolves Emanuel in gov. scandal”
Well, I feel better now. I guess I can go on living again now that Obama’s settled the matter.
Phew.
JB
Hey when they can Ice Vince Foster and other folks this issue is chump change.
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