Posted on 12/09/2008 2:46:29 PM PST by swordfishtrombone
An Obama aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, took back David Axelrod's remark last month that Barack Obama and Rod Blagojevich had spoken recently.
"What the president-elect said today is correct, David Axelrod misspoke," the aide said.
Obama said today the men had not spoken.
An open question: When they last spoke.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
More like a “terminological inexactitude”
No direct tie to Obama...he goes on to the white house. Republicans need to go after #5.
Not sure if it’s the cap, peacoat or the ‘stasche but Obie looks somehow... different in those shots
There’s not going to be a President-Elect press conference anytime soon. Those nasty questions from the press would not only be about his birth certificate slash dual citizenship, they will now include stuff about Blago, Rezko, Emil Jones, Jesse Jackson Jr., Jarrett and all these other losers. Forget the presidential press conferences.
ZERO constantly looked away from the camera and was stuttering and his Face looked like HELL! Also remember that ZERO HUSSEIN and Rahm Emanuel handpicked this scumbag to run for Governor! The scumbag is ZERO’S Personal choice even over Axelrod’s protest who believed the scumbag was bad news!
ZERO HUSSEIN is looking more and more like a bag of fermented Sh*t that is ready to explode! :-)
Let's see who rolls.
LOL. Good one, another one bites the bus!
Just how many corrupt Chicago pols are there, anyway? Are there any who are NOT dirty?
This is a juicy case!
November 23, 2008, his senior adviser David Axelrod appeared on Fox News Chicago and said something quite different.
While insisting that the President-elect had not expressed a favorite to replace him, and his inclination was to avoid being a “kingmaker,” Axelrod said, “I know he’s talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/12/questions-arise.html
Video at link above.
When you speak the truth you don’t have to remember what you said yesterday.
He clearly said “I KNOW” he’s spoken to the Governor..... Not I think or he may have. Misspoke BS
But there remain questions about how Blagojevich knew that Mr. Obama was not willing to give him anything in exchange for the Senate seat — with whom was Blagojevich speaking? Did that person report the governor to the authorities?
And, it should be pointed out, Mr. Obama has a relationship with Mr. Blagojevich, having not only endorsed Blagojevich in 2002 and 2006, but having served as a top adviser to the Illinois governor in his first 2002 run for the state house.
In the Democratic gubernatorial primary that year, then-state sen. Obama endorsed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris. But after Blagojevich won, Obama came around enthusiastically. At the same time, meanwhile, Axelrod had such serious concerns about whether Blagojevich was ready for governing he refused to work for his one-time client.
According to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., Mr. Obama’s incoming White House chief of staff, Emanuel, then-state senator Obama, a third Blagojevich aide, and Blagojevich’s campaign co-chair, David Wilhelm, were the top strategists of Blagojevich’s 2002 gubernatorial victory.
Emanuel told the New Yorker earlier this year that he and Obama “participated in a small group that met weekly when Rod was running for governor. We basically laid out the general election, Barack and I and these two.”
Wilhelm said that Emanuel had overstated Obama’s role. “There was an advisory council that was inclusive of Rahm and Barack but not limited to them,” Wilhelm said, and he disputed the notion that Obama was “an architect or one of the principal strategists.”
(An Obama Transition Team aide emails to note that Emanuel later changed his recollection of this story to Rich Miller’s “CAPITOL FAX,” saying, “David [Wilhelm] and I have worked together on campaigns for decades. Like always, he’s right and I’m wrong.”)
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THEY ARE ALL RUSHING TO CHANGE THEIR STORIES!!!
What does that say about them and the truth?!
He sat in the pews of Unity Church for twenty years and never heard Rev. Wright.
I think you could sit him front and center at a shuttle launch and all he would remember would be seagulls and alligators.
Office of the One Who Is Present
The internet will not be the friend to President Obiwan that it was in the campaign.
Obama can deny all he wants! Obama can call Axelrod a Liar!
But assuming that Obama did speak to the Governor, every word he spoke is on the tapes or chance maybe he was safe because of line securing procedures by the Secret Service for a President-Elect. Any comments by knowledgable Freepers here??
Obama looked very worried while giving his comments, and well Zero should! Corrupt people are reommended and sponsored only by other corrupt and decayed Sponsors/Politicians. These scumbags are NOt stupid, they require like minded understudies to accomplish their agendas:-)
“mistakes were made”
Looks like the Obama bus is about to get a third Axel...rod. Say hi to his grandmother while you’re under there, David.
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This corruption scandal is a crime spree that had to be stopped.
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