appears to be a bogus quote; Pictures & quote on other websites for over a month & no one can source the quote to date.
The photos are authentic because the first three shown at #63 have been setting in my computer since before the election, and I recall seeing the tragic photo last year, too. I can’t verify the quote.
You are correct - it has to be bogus. No way would that one have gotten by me if he had said it at the time. See my post above, right below yours.
Others say that Mr. Obama and Mr. Blagojevich were always quite different in personality and style and never seemed very fond of each other.
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— Huffington Post —
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/11/obama-and-blagojevichs-di_n_150451.html
And, only ABC’s World News questioned the details about the Illinois Governor’s relationship with President-elect Barack Obama, while NBC and CBS brushed over the President-elect’s connections with Blagojevich and seemed content to end their investigation of this relationship by reporting on Obama’s statement that he was not aware of what was going on.
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—Newsbusters—
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lyndsi-thomas/2008/12/10/only-abcs-world-news-questions-obamas-relationship-blago
Obama was asked: “Were you aware at all about what was happening with your Senate seat?” He responded: “I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening.”
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—Slate—
http://www.slate.com/id/2206428/?from=rss
Asked what contact he’d had with the governor’s office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today said “I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening.”
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—ABC News—
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/12/questions-arise.html