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Obama: Review shows no inappropriate contact
Las Vegas Sun ^ | December 15, 2008

Posted on 12/15/2008 5:27:25 PM PST by Shermy

President-elect Barack Obama said Monday a review by his own lawyer shows he had no direct contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about the appointment of a Senate replacement, and transition aides "did nothing inappropriate."

Obama said he is prepared to make the review public, but decided to hold off because prosecutors asked for a delay and "I don't want to interfere with an ongoing investigation."

Controversy has swirled around the president-elect and his incoming White House chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, following Blagojevich's arrest last week on charges he schemed to trade Obama's Senate seat for personal gain.

Obama, fielding questions at a news conference, sidestepped when asked whether Emanuel had spoken with aides to the governor.

Emanuel was one of several aides who watched the news conference from the wings.

The president-elect pledged the results of the investigation by his incoming White House counsel, Gregory Craig, would be released "in due course."

He said the probe was complete and thorough, but did not say which of his aides Craig interviewed, whether any of them was under oath at the time, or any other details.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2believenixon; 4gullibleonly; arrogance; bho2008; blagojevich; denial; gregcraig; hubris; il2008; nixon; nixonsays; nowatergaterole; rahm
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To: ProfoundBabe

Has there ever been a person under suspicion,

and said to the media “my lawyer says I’m innocent”?


41 posted on 12/15/2008 6:29:14 PM PST by Shermy ("The whole world has financed the United States, ...they have a reciprocal debt with the planet.")
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To: Shermy

Meanwhile, Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s chief adviser, has not been seen in public since last Wednesday.


42 posted on 12/15/2008 6:31:29 PM PST by randita
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To: Shermy
Barack Obama said Monday a review by his own lawyer shows he had no direct contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about the appointment of a Senate replacement

He needs his lawyer to tell him this?

I'm going to call my lawyer and ask him to check if I took a dump yesterday morning. His review will show the facts.

43 posted on 12/15/2008 6:31:54 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: Shermy

I don’t think OJ actually said it, but I’m sure he was thinking it. ;-)


44 posted on 12/15/2008 6:35:22 PM PST by ProfoundBabe (RightyPics.com)
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To: Shermy
His * own lawyer * was with all these people all the time and witnessed every conversation and came to this conclusion.

Whatever.

45 posted on 12/15/2008 6:35:28 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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To: Phoenix11

Maybe they refrained from sex?


46 posted on 12/15/2008 6:36:34 PM PST by Quickgun
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To: OCC

Oh my gosh, you’re right!


47 posted on 12/15/2008 6:37:15 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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To: tbpiper

THAT made me want to hurl


48 posted on 12/15/2008 6:39:03 PM PST by Quickgun
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To: Shermy
By the way, does “no direct conduct” preclude Obama whispering in Rahm’s ear while Rahm phoned Blago?

Right. What is so important about "direct" contact? A middle man in the negotiations makes it all OK?

"Hey, Rahm, tell Blago we'll give him a half-million for our guy?"

"Hey, Barky, Blago wants a mill."

"Hey, Rahm, tell him we appreciate all he has done, but he can go muck himself."

"Hey, Barky, Blago says how about 3/4 mill, and you can go muck yourself, too?"

"Hey, Rahm, hang up on that SOB. There. Good thing I didn't have any direct contact with Blago, eh? Wink, wink. And you, Mr. Lawyer, write this down. Barky had no direct contact with Blago!"

49 posted on 12/15/2008 6:39:05 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: randita
has not been seen in public since last Wednesday

I think he's still hiding out at his kid's school. It's safer there than being with Barky.

50 posted on 12/15/2008 6:42:23 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: Shermy

I call BS! He won’t admit to ANYTHING. He is bulletproof. Or at least he thinks so.


51 posted on 12/15/2008 6:45:25 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: Shermy

We had 8 years of the Clintons running the White House like a criminal enterprise. Then we had 8 years of George W. Bush. Some good decisions, some bad ones, but he acted as a president and cared about the country and the role of the president in our political life. He didn’t grab at young girls or use his position to get sexual satisfaction or economic favors, and he never will.

We have now gone from the Clintons, two of the most messed up humans we could have known, to the Obamas, who are worse.

They are trailer trash on steroids.


52 posted on 12/15/2008 6:48:29 PM PST by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: originalbuckeye

“He won’t admit to ANYTHING.”

Yes, but he can’t shut up. the lawyer comment only makes him look guilty.


53 posted on 12/15/2008 6:49:19 PM PST by Shermy ("The whole world has financed the United States, ...they have a reciprocal debt with the planet.")
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To: Shermy

I am so relieved. Don’t you all feel better now that the fox has told us the hen house is safe?


54 posted on 12/15/2008 6:50:56 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: Shermy

Good enough for the obamedia, it didn’t go all the way to the top like Bush. It stopped at his Chief of Staff.

Pray for W, America and Our Troopt


55 posted on 12/15/2008 6:56:12 PM PST by bray (All thats left of my 401K is a little Change and no Hope.)
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To: Bahbah
From one dysfunctional Dem President to a completely dysfunctional Dem president. He IS Clinton on steroids. His earliest influences were Communist. From his Mother to his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. Oh, and one more thing, the references to Davis being a Communist and a pedophile have been scrubbed from Wikipedia. Anything inconvenient to the 0bamunist is banished to limbo. Michelle better watch her step.
56 posted on 12/15/2008 6:57:17 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: bray

I will pray from here on out. We, the caring, are on our own. We must keep supporting our troops. They are the only thing standing between us and anarchy.


57 posted on 12/15/2008 6:58:26 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: bray

PS-Just because the 0bamunist determined it didn’t go all the way to the top (to the 0bamunist, himself) that doesn’t make it true.


58 posted on 12/15/2008 6:59:23 PM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: originalbuckeye

That one had the obamedia nervous. Almost too hard to cover up.

Pray for W, America and Our Troops


59 posted on 12/15/2008 7:04:48 PM PST by bray (All thats left of my 401K is a little Change and no Hope.)
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To: Shermy

Since they know all of this stuff is on tape, I wonder if they’d say there were “no inappropriate discussions” if they knew that there were, knowing it’d blow up in their faces.

I think that most of the comments I’ve read in here about this are correct, and I’m now doubting this is going to go anywhere. If there was any wrongdoing, I think it’s been sufficiently covered up, and they know it.


60 posted on 12/15/2008 7:21:41 PM PST by heysean
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