Posted on 12/21/2008 11:34:05 PM PST by Red Steel
Barack Obama has said that when all is revealed, it will be clear that neither he nor his staff had any contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich that could be considered improper.
The president-elect's office says it will release on Monday the promised report giving a full accounting of those contacts, and Obama aides say the official under the most scrutiny -- Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel -- will be exonerated after weeks of innuendo that they have long said was unfair.
Journalists, readers and viewers may be busy wrapping presents, lighting their menorahs or just eating when the report is released -- while Mr. Obama is in Hawaii and out of public view.
But there will be no revelations worth burying during the holidays anyway, transition sources say.
Nobody has accused Mr. Obama or his staff of legal wrongdoing. But the transition team's sometimes awkward handling of the issue has raised anticipation of just what the report might
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The day of Mr. Blagojevich's arrest, the president-elect said he couldn't comment on the governor's alleged efforts to sell Mr. Obama's vacated Senate seat. The next day, he did comment, calling for Mr. Blagojevich's resignation and offering assurances that neither he nor his aides were involved in any deal making.
Then he promised to account for any and all contacts between his staff and the governor's, setting a release within days. Finally, he said the account was complete, but he wouldn't release it until Christmas week.
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Regardless of how clean the Obama camp is, the release of the report isn't likely to be clean.
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The coming Blagojevich release will have the same effect.
"The contacts are a potential Pandora's box," Mr. Bonjean said. "They'll take reporters in all different directions, like having dozens of little rabbits running around
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Yeah, I believe him too. /s
I suspect that the MSM media already have the bodies of their stories trumpeting 0’s integrity prewritten.
Gomer Pyle: Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Nothing like approving your own “accounting” to instill confidence. What a giant load of dung.
Independent review, then we’d be talkin’.
Sure. They'll be in Alaska trying to find out where Sarah Palin buys her underwear.
Oh right. Like I am going to believe him. The guy won’t even release his bc. How can we believe someone that straight out of the shoot started lying?
I agree, I’m tired of all the lies.
Sadly from W or Obama
0bama, Emmanuel and all his henchmen are obviously as pure as the driven snow.
In fact, I've heard lawyers say the early arrest of Blago, will probably make it impossible to get a conviction.
Again, that may have been the plan...
obama originally said it wasn’t “percieved” that he had any contacts with Blago. He’s just building on that, and the press will follow his lead. Now, his staff has done nothing wrong. He’s a liar.
obama is a Liar.
Dan Rather is gathering all the necessary paper work now.
The contacts most likely were with Blago’s chief of staff who immediately resigned after his arrest.
Believe Nixon? Never. Whatever he says MUST be a lie.
Believe Obama? Always. Whatever he says MUST be true.
See "Johnny Dean," below.
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Obama will exonerate himself.
Case closed.
Shades of the Clinton administration....
Does this refer to Obama's release or is Blago supposed to release something as well?
I'm going to be sick....
I know.
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