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Obama confident staff clear in Ill. gov scandal
Yahoo News ^ | 12/11/08 | By PHILIP ELLIOTT

Posted on 12/11/2008 8:42:07 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway

CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday that he's confident no member of his staff was involved in discussing deals for his Senate seat with disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Obama also said once again that he had no discussions about the seat he is vacating with the Democratic governor, who was arrested by federal agents this week in connection with an alleged corruption scheme. "I was as appalled and disappointed as anyone," Obama said at a news conference called to announce a series of new appointments to the administration he is setting up. "I have never spoken to the governor on this subject," he said. "I am confident that no representative of mine" would have taken part in any such discussions, he added. He said "I think the public trust has been violated" and said he did not think that the governor "at this point can effectively serve Illinois.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blagojevich; bleepgate; chicago; criminals; democrats; gangsters; liars; mediaspin; obama; obamabots; obamalies; obamasays; obamatransitionfile; rezko
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Clear? WHy? Because Hussein says so?


21 posted on 12/11/2008 9:06:55 AM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Next: “That man was never a member of my staff. He was an overeager volunteer who was just trying to help out, and we never heard of him.”


22 posted on 12/11/2008 9:07:23 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: tumblindice

No more space under the bus.......


23 posted on 12/11/2008 9:11:17 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday that he's confident no member of his staff was involved in discussing deals for his Senate seat with disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

It all depends on what the definition of discussing deals is, CLINTONIAN speak part two.

24 posted on 12/11/2008 9:14:44 AM PST by cpdiii (roughneck, oilfield trash and proud of it, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, iconoclast.)
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To: Cicero

It is obvious that Gov Blog said he talked to an Obama man about the deal and called Obama a FXXx name because Obama wouldn’t give him anything but appreciation for appointing Obama’s choice. Well some are saying that shows Obama was not willing to offer a bribe - but the question is - why didn’t Obama report this attempted effort to get money out of him to the FBI? That is why he has to insist none of his people talked to Blog - so Blog is just making it up when he talks this way?? I think you are right it will come out that one of Obama’s people did talk to Blog and then when he ‘learns of it’ he will say that person was not authorized - denying knowledge of it all - so the only way to pin this slippery eel down is to get the person who did talk to Blog to squeal - watch for that person to disappear.


25 posted on 12/11/2008 9:16:16 AM PST by knightforhire (Gov Blog thought he talked to an Obama man?)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

“You’re either on the bus or off the bus.” Ken Kesey, “The Electric Acid Kool-aid Test”

“Or under the bus.”
Barry Barack (Hussein) “I Caught a Flying Squirrel and Let It Go” Soweto Obama I


26 posted on 12/11/2008 9:20:46 AM PST by tumblindice (What did the pres-elect know, and when did he know it?)
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To: knightforhire

“it will come out that one of Obama’s people did talk to Blog”....

And guess where that individual will end up?....you got it!...under the bus!


27 posted on 12/11/2008 9:21:53 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

BArry says, “Hey hurry up and order another bus, it’s all full under this one.”


28 posted on 12/11/2008 9:24:55 AM PST by Doctor Raoul (It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
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To: tumblindice

oops, Electric Koolaid test: Tom Wolf
(flying squirrel reference, Norton)


29 posted on 12/11/2008 9:26:08 AM PST by tumblindice (What did the pres-elect know, and when did he know it?)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I suspect that Obama is gonna be really testy for his cigarettes in the coming weeks/months/years.

Smoke up, Obama.

Your criminal and communist buddies are about to ensure your time in office is nothing short of a nightmare due to your extremely corrupt history with them.


30 posted on 12/11/2008 9:28:01 AM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: tumblindice

Norton=Frank Norris
*$#!#*!


31 posted on 12/11/2008 9:29:06 AM PST by tumblindice (What did the pres-elect know, and when did he know it?)
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To: paulycy
Do you think BO might have actually set Blago up 'cause the price was too high?

No. He set him up because he knows obama's transgressions (where the bodies are buried, so to speak).

32 posted on 12/11/2008 9:31:50 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: Da Coyote
Oh, forgot, dhimmicrat leakers are never convicted, repub leakers are sentenced.

There are fewer Dhimmicrat leakers because the consequences are much more severe. Repub leakers get an orange jumpsuit; Dhimmicrat leakers receive a lead sandwich in Ft. Marcy Park.

33 posted on 12/11/2008 9:32:48 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck)
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To: subterfuge

“He set him up because he knows obama’s transgressions (where the bodies are buried, so to speak).”.....

I’m having Clinton flashbacks!....


34 posted on 12/11/2008 9:33:09 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

He ducked the question about whether his staff members had discussed the seat with Blago (answered that no one on his staff made any kind of deal) and he also ducked the question about how Blago would have gotten the impression that Obama wasn’t going to make a deal (answered that he couldn’t begin to get into Blago’s mind and understand what he was thinking).


35 posted on 12/11/2008 9:45:10 AM PST by randita
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To: knightforhire

Obama said today that neither he nor anyone on his staff had been contacted by investigators. Then that means that neither Obama nor his staff reported the attempted deal making of Blago.

This signals to me that the Obama team did NOT know the phone calls were being recorded and thought they could just let the conversation slide and not say anything.

Whoever was designated to talk to Blago about this better get a lawyer pronto, because he/she is about to become the fall guy. Obama will say that he was never advised about the deal conversation. He’ll insulate himself and some lowly staffer will take the fall. How many Clintonites fell on their swords to protect Clinton? It will be the same with Obama.


36 posted on 12/11/2008 9:52:58 AM PST by randita
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To: COBOL2Java

When does the FOO (Friends of Obama) list begin? I still review the FOB body count from time to time.


37 posted on 12/11/2008 10:20:07 AM PST by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98...Ain't no Newbie!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
"I was as appalled and disappointed as anyone," Obama said at a news conference.


38 posted on 12/11/2008 10:50:07 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not foriegn or domestic terrorists or criminals?)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
If this had been a republican.....

If this had been a Republican, Arlen Specter would be calling for Senate hearings.

39 posted on 12/11/2008 2:07:00 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. -C.S. Lewis)
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