“No Comment” on Blago — for How Long?

He will continue to have no comment as long as people are naive enough to beleive that if you swim in pool of slim you can come out slim free. Anyone who beleives that Obama didnt mention to the good gov who he would like to see replace him is very naive.

rachel…I am not sure what pool of “slim” you are referring to. I do know that Obama has had very little to do with Blago for quite some time now. He was the only Democratic governor that was NOT invited to speak at the convention. He never campaigned with Obama and does not even come from the same faction of the democratic party. And if Obama’s team made a suggestion as to his successor in the senate, so what?

Never seen a “pool of slim.” Slime, yes, but not slim.

isn’t aiding and abetting a criminal a crime? so are the American people and journalists now criminals too? I can’t believe people voted for him when they saw his ‘environment’ but to let him stay in an international embarrassment. if 71% of the last 7 governors have been arrested, that’s where Obama came from, remove him

Who is “the other guy” who will raise him a millions dollars? Is that Obama?
Beyond that, I’d say that sits not really fair to start with the pictures of the blacks SUVs, suggesting that PEBHO is embattled.

Richardm, I agree with you. We should never elect anyone who comes from an “environment” where people are corrupt. In fact, since there are corrupt people in Illinois, there should be no elected officials in Illinois because, of course, everybody who runs for office in Illinois is corrupt.
Therefore, all of the politicians in Illinois should be fired and put in jail. Even the ones that are not accused of or suspected of anything. We know they’re guilty because there are guilty people in government so *everybody* in government must be guilty.
Let Bush appoint everybody in Illinois, including all of the state and federal officials.
And don’t stop there; people who come from any place where the governor or mayor is corrupt should not be allowed to run for office because, if they’re from that place, they must be corrupt, too. We don’t need proof just proximity.
Sarah Palin should be impeached. Her senator was just convicted of corruption, the congressman is under investigation and she replaced a corrupt governor so she must be corrupt–beyond Troopergate.

The tone of innuendo from “journalists” like Tapper is really uncalled for. The prosecutor, who has access to all the facts and tapes, has gone out of his way to definitively say Obama was not involved or aware in any way. That’s an unusually strong exculpatory statement from a prosecutor. So why do journalists, who don’t have access to all the info the prosecutor has, think they know more about this?

I am from IL. Believe me, Blago has been a pariah in his own party for the last 4 years. He fights with Mike Madigan, the Dem. Speaker of the House. Mayor Daley called Blago “cuckoo.” Obama denied Blago the opportunity to speak at the convention or appear at any campaign events. On Democrat Day at our state fair, Blago was snubbed–no other Dem. elected officials showed up. His approval rating in this state, even before all this news broke, was 13%. They have been talking of impeachment even before this news broke. Lisa Madigan, Atty. Genl., was openly talking of opposing Blago for the primary next time. Blago is an arrogant, narcicisst and people in Illinois are long sick of him.

With all due respect, Lanny Davis’ recommendations for Obama need to be taken with a huge grain of salt. And “Hillary Clinton campaign dead-ender” and “Fox news consultant” should be added to counter-balance his other titles.

How nice it must be to selectively forget whatever it is that bothers the minions. Barry uh can’t seem to uh rememba uh last month uh if he did or uh if he didn’t uh talk to the Gov. It also shows us that uh the fools who voted for “change” uhhhh got short “changed” with uhhhhh….all the re uh nigging that has been done in the uh last month. But like good uh little uh zombies…..uhhhhh….circle the wagons and C.Y.A uhhhh ya’ll. I thought the Igloo coolers were put away till the next election but I see they are being brought back out and the cups are back on the table. UHHHH….next!!

Our “transparent” prez elect is taking any questions about Blago off his change.gov page — you know, the one where he touts transparency. He’s asking for questions from people, but is scrubbing any that relate to our beloved governor-salesman. (I’m from Illinois.)

Didn’t ABC have a large part in Obama’s win? Amazing how the liberal media jumped on his bandwagon and now tries to distance themselves from him.
Rush is right.

Beth, I say let Pat Quinn become Gov. and appoint someone. Pat is a straight-shooter and, seemingly, honest. I too am from IL and do not want to spend millions on a special election. We need two senators, now.

Okay sue me I said slim instead of slime. The point is Obama said he had no discussions with the Gov. about who should replace him. That’s probably not true and Obama supporters can beleive that if they want to. Nothing is wrong with making suggestions about who he wanted to replace him, but then why lie about it? Obama supporters have decided that they don’t care if he lied about making suggestions to the Gov. for his replacements. Just like back in the 90′s i decided I didn’t care if Bill C. lied about having sex with that woman, but I knew it was lie just the same. People know Obama is lying about not knowing anything. I am not necessarily saying he offered up anything to get his appointment but he knew what was going on.

Rachel, Obama said HE did not have a conversation with Blago. This does not mean that one of his team did not have a conversation with Blago or his COS Harris.

Well, Beth if you want a say in who replaces a sitting senator mid-term, perhaps you should change your constitution since the IL constitution says the governor has the sole authority to appoint a replacement.
Get that? You don’t have a voice in a replacement; you’ve never had a voice in a replacement.

Jake,
Couldn’t you come up with a little better source than Lanny Davis? Even amongst us Dem’s, he is a caricature of an “inside” democratic source.

Ken,
Google “Obama and Blagojevich at the National Governors Association”
There is a picture of the two of them shaking hands in front of cameras. On December 2nd.
The news story about it says “Blagojevich says he wants to use the meeting with Obama to discuss how the federal government can help address state budget shortfalls. ”
On November 5th the Governors office press release said”
“Governor Blagojevich Congratulates President-elect Obama and Discusses U.S. Senate Seat
To fill President-Elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat, Governor will use deliberate process to select suitable replacement
CHICAGO – After congratulating President-Elect Barack Obama on his decisive victory, Governor Rod R. Blagojevich announced today that he will take his time and use a diverse senior staff made up of key members of his administration who will assist him in selecting a suitable replacement for Obama.”
Its kind of clear that Obama at least ‘misspoke’.

Bertie: Oh My God! You mean Obama shook hands with the Gov. of his own state? Impeach him now! Before he even gets innaugurated. Get real.

Belle: go ahead and get started on your strike. We’ll all be right behind you. LOL

William,
Do you concede the difference between ‘no contact” and shaking hands?
And when did I say that he should be impeached? Can we at least ask questions about his obvious inconsistency?

There he goes again: Barky claiming he “ran” for the Illinois state senate. Obama didn’t RUN, he ran off all the other candidates, Chicago style. Then Axelrod ran off Obama’s US Senate opponent with a timely sex scandal.
Then the “Obama” machine bought the Democratic nomination, which thanks to Obama lookalike George Bush, carried the White House with it, this year.

Ok even if you bite that Obama had no discussions with the Gov about any appointments his transition team probably did. So you mean his transistion team mentioned nothing to him about any discussions they may have had with the gov? Obama not only said he had no discussions with the gov but that he didnt know anything like this was going on. I choose to beleive that Obama is not that naive about his city’s politics.

Tapper gets action! Calls for Obama to talk and he does.
Obama is shocked, shocked to find out this sort of thing was going on. Never mind that it is par for the course.
The good part is “He said he had asked his staff to gather the facts of any contacts with the governor’s office about the vacancy.”
I am going to assume that those facts will show up “t word” on the web as they are known rather than having someone sanitized them.

When has Obama ever been transparent?
The fawning MSM has never required him to be.
When will accountability begin?

So Obama shook hands with 41 governors. Big deal.

Lanny Davis is one stupid dude. I mean for real.

Bertie you are making a mountain out of a mole hill. Blago is a crook to be sure, but that does not make the entire state of Illinois’ population a crook. It has been made considerably clear that Obama has had very little to do with Blago for some time. This country has much bigger things to worry about than who shook who’s hand.

Mildred, you made that exact post almost an hour ago. What is wrong?

Mildred: If your talking about Obama you are so right. He stutters too much. Its only when he practiced a speech for a few hours that he doesn’t stutter. Obama is no saint know the crooks he knew earlier. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers, Father P and Rezko whom he turned his back on after Rezko paid for l/2 of his home. That’s the way Obama is. If his pals are in trouble, he runs. I believe he did talk to the Gov. and so did Emanuel exactly five or six times. And Obama didn’t use his brains when he picked Jarrett, Richardson and Emanuel for his administration. Obama chose people from Clinton’s administration because he knew he needed their help to run this country. He certainly don’t qualify.