Posted on 12/27/2008 4:45:54 AM PST by IbJensen
Every president for more than three decades has had to talk with federal prosecutors at one time or another. President-elect Barack Obama may have set a land speed record by giving his first interview to investigators even before taking the oath of office.
Mr. Obama sat down last week with four investigators looking into the alleged attempt to sell his former Senate seat. As a witness, rather than a target, Mr. Obama seems to have had an easier time with the experience than some of his predecessors. But it is certainly not the way he wanted to begin his presidency.
“Here the guy hasn’t even gotten his tuxedo for the ball yet and already there’s a prosecutor who wants to talk him,” said Robert S. Bennett, one of Washington’s most prominent lawyers who has represented members of Congress, cabinet secretaries and even President Bill Clinton in all manner of politically charged cases. “It’s the era that we live in.”
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Wishful thinking on Obomba and his handlers' part. This mess won't go away and to compare this with Clinton's piccadillos is not the same. After all, Clinton's foibles were just about sex and the meaning of the word 'is'.
A pathetic attempt to normalize corruption. The NYT has a image-massaging to do already.
Now THAT is how a democrat “hits the ground running.”
There’s one US Attorney I bet Obama is not eager to talk to, the Northern District of California US Attorney would likely want to know, did family friend Bernadine Dohrn brag about offing the pigs in San Francisco?
The problem with the talk is: "Money" was discussed in exchange for"....
Leave out the money and/or reward and there is no case. It IS just talk and politics as usual.
LOL, yeah all President-elects have closes ties to felons, terrorists, communists, black supremists......
“This mess won’t go away...”
Come Jan. 20, be ASSURED that this mess WILL go away. I have a feeling Fitzgerald will be in retirement if 0 has anything to say—and he will.
There’s no new news here, he’s just another elected common crook.
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