The truly scary thing about this is that Zero has been caught lying for no real reason. So what if he met with Blago? For Heaven’s sake, there is Blago on tape p.o’d at Obama because he WOULDN’T make a deal. Does anyone reaslly think Obama was planning to say nothing about who would succeed him in the U.S Senate, and prefer to read about it via a WaPo News Alert on his BlackBerry? Obama could have said, based on the material already released in the wiretaps, “ Yes, I met with Governor Blagojevich shortly after my election. Not only did we discuss the terrible economic climate his state and many other states are facing as a direct result of George Bush’s policies, we also discussed potential successors to the Senate seat I will be resigning in order to assume the Presidency. The Governor made some suggestions which I found to be not in the best interests of the people of Illinois and we left it at that.”
To answer your question about why would he lie, he is lying because he broke the law when not reporting an extortion attempt(and anyone who thinks Blago hasn't broken a law just because no one accepted yet is fooling themselves), he committed a felony by not reporting it, so he has plenty of reason to lie, he knows that if he admits to talking to Blago he had to know Blago was trying to sell the seat.
Scooter Libby went to jail for less. If there were justice, I mean.