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Obama had to answer investigators' questions (First President-Elect to be investigated)
The AP ^ | 12-23-08 | NEDRA PICKLER

Posted on 12/23/2008 5:28:01 PM PST by jrooney

In the midst of two wars and an intensifying economic meltdown, Barack Obama had to take time off last week to answer questions from federal prosecutors investigating charges that the governor of Illinois had put the president-elect's former Senate seat up for sale. With his own lawyer by his side, Obama sat down Thursday with U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's staff to tell what, if anything, he knew about Gov. Rod Blagojevich's efforts to cash in on appointing Obama's Senate successor

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: abovehispaygrade; africa; blagogate; bleepgate; chicagocorruption; chicagoway; commielawyer; corruption; creepy; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; fidelsbuttboy; gregcraig; hawaii; investigated; lyingliar; obama; obamalegacy; obamascandals; obamasenateseat; obamatransitionfile; payforplay; rahmemanuel; senateseat
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Chicago corruption change you can believe in.
1 posted on 12/23/2008 5:28:01 PM PST by jrooney
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More to come....


2 posted on 12/23/2008 5:29:19 PM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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That’s Corruption I Can Believe In.Of course all the media keeps on saying is that “Obama has been cleared” with a huge smile on their face


3 posted on 12/23/2008 5:30:23 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: jrooney

this fad of parenthesizing headlines is a bit confusing — I’m pretty sure AP would never put something like that in their headline.


4 posted on 12/23/2008 5:30:45 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (appeasement is collaboration.)
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To: Dallas59

obama tried to bribe the governor. That should be the story, not the governor trying to sell the senate seat


5 posted on 12/23/2008 5:31:00 PM PST by 4rcane
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The office of the president elect is forever tainted. LOL

Zero can’t even keep a made up office clean.


6 posted on 12/23/2008 5:32:14 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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how long before he’s toast and Hillary’s only three heartbeats away?


7 posted on 12/23/2008 5:32:53 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (appeasement is collaboration.)
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To: cripplecreek

Well, that is what happens when one wallows in the pig slop of Chicago Dem Machine politics. This is also what he gets for tossing under the bus some the people who got him where he is.


8 posted on 12/23/2008 5:34:51 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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9 posted on 12/23/2008 5:35:34 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist -)
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The nerve of that investigator! Doesn’t he know that The One already investigated Himself, and declared Himself innocent?


10 posted on 12/23/2008 5:35:44 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: jrooney
In the midst of two wars and an intensifying economic meltdown, Barack Obama had to take time off last week to answer questions from federal prosecutors investigating charges that the governor of Illinois had put the president-elect's former Senate seat up for sale.

It's gotten worse. In the midst of two wars that he denounced and promised to end as soon as he was able, and an economic meltdown that he was bribed not to reign in, he's had to take time off to vacation in Hawaii! Poor guy!

I wonder if he'll make a solemn announcement that his grandmother in Hawaii just died. Again.

11 posted on 12/23/2008 5:36:12 PM PST by TonyStark
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In the midst of two wars and an intensifying economic meltdown, Barack Obama had to take time off last week to answer questions from federal prosecutors...

Note to the AP: Barack Hussein Obama is in the middle of nothing but planning his transition. He has no responsibility for dealing with the two major fronts of the war on terror, nor the economy. He is a private citizen.

Can anyone imagine the AP writing a sympathetic intro like that for President Bush whenever he has faced questioning by investigators? I don't think so.

12 posted on 12/23/2008 5:37:02 PM PST by kristinn
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The poor dear.

At the risk of pointing out the obvious: 0bama has exactly no legal responsibilities at this juncture.


13 posted on 12/23/2008 5:37:08 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Women were treated like livestock by Mohammad, so Allah must want women treated like cows forever.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
this fad of parenthesizing headlines is a bit confusing

I actually made a thread complaining about this. Why can't FReepers just post the title and leave it at that?

14 posted on 12/23/2008 5:38:29 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: jrooney
In the midst of two wars and an intensifying economic meltdown, Barack Obama had to take time off last week to answer questions from federal prosecutors investigating charges that the governor of Illinois had put the president-elect's former Senate seat up for sale.
Gee, I wonder if AP put it this way in their story about Obama taking time off this week to go to Hawaii on vacation?
15 posted on 12/23/2008 5:39:45 PM PST by Krankor (Vitajex, what ya doin' to me)
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Vely Intelesting. . .
As with Scooter Libby, Obama should realize being innocent of the original charge is no guarantee of anything.
I think this is a Wonderful “Beginning” for a Politician from Chicago assuming an elected office . A little Heart to Heart talk with the Authorities.


16 posted on 12/23/2008 5:41:19 PM PST by 4Speed
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Change my ....

Obama is just another DemocRAT politician. Same old, same old.

17 posted on 12/23/2008 5:43:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (For more information on America's "new direction" read The Road to Serfdom. by Friedrich A. Hayek.)
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18 posted on 12/23/2008 5:44:03 PM PST by Krankor (Vitajex, what ya doin' to me)
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To: TonyStark

Given all of his father’s marriages, how many grandmothers does he have?


19 posted on 12/23/2008 5:48:15 PM PST by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Bingo. Also, this is just the beginning. He has spent years with these scumbags and wheeled and dealed with them from his earliest days in politics. He is as dirty as a pig in mud.


20 posted on 12/23/2008 5:53:40 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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