Obama Calls for Blagojevich to Resign

He can call for his resignation, but thats not going to shut him up, lots of people are going down when this investigation is finished.. what we have to fear is Silence and biased reporting by the Obama loving Media..Team Obama is in damage control now

what did OBAMA know and when did he know it?

It is interesting the Blagojevich wanted his wife appointed to corporate boards (to make money). Isn’t that what Michelle Obama did?

Obama is just cleaning house before he takes office. Do a search of how many parisoners from Trinity United Church of Christ have died in the past year. But he’s still no Clinton, they KNOW how to get these things DONE! Maybe THAT why she is in the cabinet, ya think!?!

There was a hurricane in Indonesia today.
Damn Obama and the biased Obama loving media!

It’s so nice to know that innocent until proven guilty has no meaning anymore. What exactly do you think Obama is guilty of? Knowing this man? Of course he knows him, he’s the governor of his state. I’m sure if the whole guilt by association thing were true, most people would be guilty of something.

He should resign or be impeached.
To be fair, the governor has not
enriched himself illegally from
this matter or any other before
it. There is no proof of that.
There is no legal case against
him. But he should be kicked out
of office without further delay.

Is anyone else beginning to think that this whole story, which really just amounts to standard business-as-usual stuff in Chicago, is all designed to keep our attention focused away from some other news story? I’m beginning to feel like we’re all looking one way when we should be looking the other way.

NOTHING LIKE TURNING YOUR BACK ON YOUR OLD BUDDIES, HUH BARAK? NOW THAT YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED; BESIDES THEIR CROOKED WAYS WERE PART OF THE REASON YOU MADE IT THIS FAR!SHAME ON YOU BARAK

Get his hairspray laden empty head OUT OF OFFICE!!! Don’t waste any more taxpayer $ by making them impeach you. Just go away. Do not let him appoint anyone and maybe unfairly jeopardise their reputation because Mr. Hairspray and his father-in-law (and a lot of other politicians in IL are crooked!

You have to get Blogojevich out of there. Otherwise you have this pitiful fool trying to be legitimate, Like Senator Larry Craig.

ScorpRedhead : The opposite is at least equally true as well. If you support Obama you’ll ignore anything that doesn’t paint him as “the one.” Obama is neck deep in corruption, and we all know it. You don’t have somebody give you a $300,000 kickback ( like Rezko gave the Obamas ) without having done something in return.

Wonder what Obama will pay the Gov to keep his mouth shut, money buys everything, $725 million for the presidency and biased media coverage with money left over.

birds of a feather flock together

Keep on keeping on Barack…keep your principals, values and honesty ahead of all the bull…. around you. Continue to work on getting America out of the mess that the other folks got us in. Call for Blago resignation, support it, and move on to putting this country in order. The republicans will try to link you, not knowing you have always played it straight and narrow….and still got you props from the politicians.

You have to get Blogojevich out of there. Otherwise you have this pitiful fool trying to be legitimate, Like Senator Larry Craig.

So, Obama haters – Sorry your “fake birth certificate” ploy didn’t bring him down, nor did anything else you tried to pin on him. Do you honestly think that if the federal government or any other federal agency had something on him, it wouldn’t be revealed? Come on now, even Bush’s crimes have been made public and he hasn’t been indicted or impeached. Certainly, being responsible for the murder of nearly 4,200 American soldiers by lying to get us into War should have gotten Bush removed from office, but it didn’t. Obama has no part in this scandal of buying his Senate seat, and for you to hope and wish he is involved won’t make it happen. But keep hoping, it’s all you got!

Resigning wold be the first step for the Governor Blagojevich to take. I don’t know what the next step should be.

Obama is a good man, Bush would never say that. Bush has told his aides to ignore subpeonas and commuted sentences for the likes of Liddy. God Bless Obama, I love that guy!

willy…ie Gov. Blagojevich doesn’t have anything to write about. You don’t have a clue. This man was treated like the virus he was. No one of “importance” would do or say anything that was damaging to him. Mayor Daley, Barack Obama or even his Lt. Gov. Quin. Anyone in Illinois especially in Cook County is too smart for that. How he got in office, his city councilman father in law, and downstate voters. Read first.

to: Jamesx
just so you know our last govenor was a REPUBLICAN and he is in jail serving 6 years. Any questions????

Ugh…what’s with these midwestern democrats?

Okay, who really knows if Obama is linked or not. Those for and against him express their opinions and nothing changes. What can we really believe right now about Barak Obama. He hasn’t produced anything yet…..good or bad, except maybe to shape the truth a bit to his own advantage….isn’t that what being a politician is about?

Good for Obama. He’s got to get as far away from this as he can. He’s got to do something about Axelrod, though. He can’t have it look like there’s someone willing to lie for him. Obama’s got to be above reproach. Since Axelrod can be linked to Blagojevich’s campaigns, a falsehood from him covered up as a “mistake” is a liability Mr. Obama cannot afford.

People, People, do you really think
President-Elect Obama wasn’t put under
a large microscope before the big shots
would endorse him for President of the
United States of America, when he won
Iowa it was on!!!!!
People let it go. His destiny is not
in your hands, Gods’ Got it.
Enjoy your day January 20th, 2008
STL

Keep wishing and hoping…Obama uses his money wisely….did you notice the campaign he ran. Superior. Don’t have to buy anything, he simply can be Barack Hussein Obama. Mad because your guy couldn’t “my friend” his way into the White House and continue to rob America

People crying fowl about Illinois should take a long look at ALL the others that were from OTHER places – even ALASKA.

And another one under the bus?

Questions for all you Obama haters out there: If Obama was at all involved in this, why would he risk pissing off Blago any further by calling upon him to resign? If Blago has the “goods” on Obama, is more likely or less likely to sing to the Feds if Obama wants him to resign?

Obama is not friends with this guy. Everyone should be glad that Obama is not corrupt and stop trying to make it seem like he is somehow best friends with him.

Good. I’m not happy about Obama winning the election, but I certainly don’t think America needs any more scandals at this time. I highly doubt that Obama knew anything about the foul-mouthed Blago’s activities, and it would be devastating to America if he was involved with this fifth-rate criminal’s schemes.

Obama wants to look like an angel but he was involved with Illinois mess for a very long time.
Look from whom he bought his hime from the one that is in prison for not so nice things and he claims he didn’t know what else didn’t he know?

Excellent Post. You make a good point! –It never ends – friends of Obama keep leaving left and right – doesn’t the connection mean anything to anyone. Just look at their statement. Can’t effectively lead because of a trust issue DA? Don’t go out on a limb Obama.
How about really comdeming this guys act? No after all they only have tape recordings and witnesses etc. etc.
One must ask how many more winners does Obama endorse that he will drop. When is the real story going to come out about his super rise in Chi-Town where we know to get a head you must sell out.
By the way – Palin doesn’t need any money from her tax payers – she give them money back – but we don’t need anyone like that do we?
Posted by: a citizen

How is it that Obama rose out of the chicago cesspool without every getting a speck of excrement on himself.

Oh, Jo! Can’t wait to hear your evidence! Did you pass it along to Fed. attorney Fitzgerald? I’m sure he will want to know about it right away.

I can’t believe that Blagojevich thinks that he his above the law. This man should be put in jail for being stupid.

I love when the Dems talk about everything but the issue at hand (this is what I find VERY typical for them; when you ask them a question and they can not answer, instead of saying the way it is, they start talking about something else). Now they are talking about Bush’s war in Iraq (never mind that even Hilary supported it – btw, I am not saying that Bush is without sins). So, typically, they talk about everything else except this low life, stupid, moron, greedy jackass Blagojevich who can not even figure out that one does not talk like that on the phone – elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.

Kuassa: I live in Illinois. Blago has been a pariah in his own party for the last nearly four years. I voted for him once; was not fooled the second time.

Jake, I noticed last night your microphone wasn’t working on the World News Tonight. I assume you were going to announce that the Obama team has been caught contradicting itself about Obama meeting with the governor, right?
I think somebody in the control room (an Obama fan) messed with your mic.

Well, you never know. McCain’s friendship with domestic terrorist and convicted felon G. Gordon Liddy did not seem to taint him too much.

Republicans are crank-crank-cranking this for all it is worth – postulating great conspiracies and constitutional crises – even an election reversal – “Whitewater at last!” And then they accuse the President Elect of spin doctoring? Hmmm… some people really need to get off the merry-go-round: they’ve become convinced the world revolves around them!

Not every politician in Illinois is corrupt. We have many fine public servants. To suggest that all Illinois politicians are corrupt is just plain wrong. It is guilt by association.

The really sad thing is this moron Governor has given Limbaugh, Hannity and the Limbaugh Lemmings another Neo-Con conspiracy theory to drool over throughout Obama’s first term in office. It’s just another tool for them to use in their quest to make a living by dividing the country with rhetoric.

Can’t help but laugh at this point at the ignorance of the American people.
To suggest that he had no involvment, or more ludicrously, no knowledge of, this Blago ordeal is sheer ignorance.
To think, imagine, suggest that Obama is honest and not corrupt, when anyone with any common sense knows that NOONE gets to the position he is in without being engulfed in the corruption that infilitrates every aspect of politics.
I predicted that he would be the biggest diaster of a president that we ever had, and he is shooting out of the block in that direction.

I don’t know anything about this governor, I could care less whether he’s guilty or innocent and quite frankly, don’t care what happens to him since I don’t live in Illinois. But what does it say about our new President to be, when he’s already calling for the governor’s head without allowing the judicial system to take it’s course? If the gov’s ability to fairly appoint the new senator is compromised because of these charges, can’t the courts appoint the lt. governor to make that decision? I understand that Obama has a lot of influence, but he shouldn’t change the Illinois constitution because of this. There is a system in place, a judicial system, let it play out. How can the next President Elect not practice, “innocent until proven guilty”? Obama should not jump to any conclusions. He isn’t (or shouldn’t) be affected by this and he needs to stay out of it.

Here2stay—- Here! Here!– had the Feds waited to spring the trap, the future presidency would have been at stake!

The bumper stickers saying
“Don’t Blame Me I Voted For McCain”
are already being made as we speak.
Bwhahahahaha…

Al: I DO live in Illinois where Blago’s approval rating, even before all this broke, was at 12%. He is a pariah in his own party. Completely ineffective, even before his arrest. People here have had enough. We want him out. He cannot effectively govern.

Here2stay— yes, the Feds jumped in too soon. But, what does that tell you Something there to hide!!!

Boston is at least as corrupt as Chicago, so does that make Romney a crook. He had to work with the machine to get things done. Same everywhere.

If Blagojevich resigns, then some one must become governor, probably the lt governor. If that person is not fit to fill Obama’s seat, then it stands to reason that there should be a special election to fill the governor office as well as the Senate seat. If Blagojevich does not resign, then the legislature has to impeach him.

Concerned about the facts : Why do we think Obama is corrupt? Here’s an example for you..
Obama helped direct $15,000,000 of taxpayer money into a project run by Tony Rezko. Rezko then makes a deal with a real estate agency to lower the price on Obama’s home purchase by $300,000. 1 + 1 = ????

Jo – Don’t forget to link Sarah Palin and Ted Stevens while you’re at it

Jo,
the only thing that would have been humiliating would be if that cynical, old, nasty, lieing, filthy campaigner, cronie of crooks McCain had been elected, along with his brainless running mate. Thank God for that!

Dan,
Nice try. Palin BROUGHT DOWN people in Alaska, even in her own party.
Obama has never done anything of the sort.
Why? Because they’re all corrupt together.
Thanks for bringing that up it helped me make my point.
:)

howwouldiknow: “Why was Blago so sure Obama would go for this?”
Well, first of all, what evidence do you have that Blago was “sure” about anything. We seem to have more evidence that he was stupid than anything else.
Secondly, the Governor was obviously WRONG, because Obama did not “go for it.”
Therefore, you conclude that Obama must be corrupt. Because……well, you really hate him and want to find something, anything, to pin on him. Good logic!

Jo,
meet you back here after Jan. 21. See what you have to say then.

Jo, I guess Blago had also had his palm greased by the Tribune, the Cubs, the Children’s Hospital, too since he tried to shake them down, too. That’s why he tried because he assumed they’d play ball, right?
We all know that an extortionist never approaches a new victim. They only keep going back to the same old marks. But. .. how do new extornists get their start if that’s the case?

Goddard, I have no doubt Obama will be sworn in.
But I also have no doubt that for 4 years he’ll get his name dragged through the mud, and eventually people will see him for what he is. Corrupt.
Whoooo hoooo!
The Messiah’s name is ruined.

Jo
I’m glad that the potential misfortune of others puts you “in the Christmas spirit,” but I think you may be a little premature with your reverie.
You still have to somehow get from “no evidence” to “evidence.”

Sara Palin abused her power cmon you know she did,Sara Palin charged the People of Alaska their Tax dollars for her Husband and Kids, Sara Palin stenches so much of Corruption Its not Funny!

Even more effective…Senator Reid is saying that the Senate will reject anyone appointed by Blago. The guy’s options are shutting down one by one. Hope Blago ends up in the ninth circle of hell.

This scum should not even be allowed in the office of the governor! He does not deserve to have access to any official place because of what he is, what he had done, and what further damage he can and will create. What kind of country are we that we would allow this? He should be put on “paid leave” and not allow access until the case is cleared, with with imprisonment or allowed to go free. His bank accounts should be kept under proper surveillance and he should also be monitored. We cannot and should allow him to leave a trail of damage and destruction in his wake. Do something now, all you people of power in IL.

I’m so proud of our President-Elect for staying out of this swath of manuer. The guy is a hero.

Two weeks ago Axelrod said Obama had met with the governor and they were going over names for the senate seat.
Yesterday Obama said he had not met with him
Yesterday Obama’s team said Axelrod “misspoke”
Now on his schedule book it said “Meet with the governor Nov 11″
You seeing the picture?
Cover up. Cover up. Lies. Lies.
LOL.

JO
Your not getting it the Media and pretty much Majority of the People did not want the old confused senile man who has no clue about the Economy,and Possibility of ending up with the Airheaded Brainless lying animal killer fraud Sara Palin as Potus!NO MORE REPUBLICANS GET JO GOOD!

Sarah Palin=Governor, Ted Stevens=Convicted Felon/Former Senator. Both are from Alaska and both are Republican. This means Sarah Palin is a convicted felon. Or at least tainted.

JJ,
That “theory” would work had Sarah Palin NOT taken down people in her own party in Alaska. WHICH SHE DID.
So try something else.
LOL.

jock59801 : Once again simple logic eludes you. You don’t get as upset as Blago did when you cold call somebody and they refuse a business proposition. In fact, you don’t even try something that big unless you’ve got some history with them. You do get pissed like that when somebody owes you and they blow you off.
We know Obama has a history of corrupt dealings, and we know those dealings involve Chicago politics. It’s unlikely he managed that without a good deal of interaction with Blagojevich.
I realize that you think Obama is the messiah and can do no wrong, but that clearly isn’t the case.

Jo,
have you read the entire 75 page criminal complaint? I have.

goddard,
You’ve only read the criminal charges they threw together quickly to get him UNABLE to name the senate seat.
They have stuff going WAY BACK.
Again, you’re weak.

“Your Messiah is getting his name ruined and he hasn’t even been sworn in.”
His name ruined?
With who?
Right wingers?
ROFLMAO

Jo, have you read the entire 75 page criminal complaint? I have.

Susan-1 : I’ve known some shady people in my life too. But you know what? I never had one of them put $300,000 into a home purchase for me.. but Obama did. Why would somebody do that?

One term Obama.
Love it.

Anyone who lives in Illinois (I do) knows that Obama and Blago hate each other. Obama and his colleagues still in the Illinois legislature got the ethics reform bill passed over Blago’s veto! They have never been allies!

Blago claimed he had demanded the Tribune fire editorial writers in exchange for supporting state funding for the sale of Wrigley Field. Blago says that Tribune was agreeable.
Funny thing. No one at the Tribune ever talked to Blago, no one on the editorial page was asked to change their writing and although the Trib laid of writers, not a single editorial writer got the axe.
What does this mean? Blago = Walter Mitty. He’s delusional and making up stuff to brag about. Prosecutors taped him for two months and they don’t have a single conversation of him actually extorting anybody–just talking about extorting them.

Goddard,
If Blago hates Obama and Obama hates him, WHY would Blago ASSUME Obama would do this favor for him?
Because he knows Obama has done stuff like this before.
You people are hilarious with all your spin. Obama’s name will be ruined by this time all this is over.
At the very least he won’t be able to push his liberal agenda.
Whooo hooo.

howwouldiknow, Rezco never put $300K into a home for Obama. The price of Obama’s home was reduced by $300K after sitting on the market for 6+ months. Rezco bought the land next door at full price. Try to keep up, OK.

Jo, LOL. You faulty logic is hilarious! You just made my point for me. If Blago hates Obama why would he assume Obama would do him a favor? EXACTLY! Glad to see you finally got it.

Carolina, guess you haven’t read Drudge. Looks like the Tribune did some dirty work for him.
AGain, you guys crack me up with your spin.
Too bad it won’t work on the average person.
Obama is now tainted. Get use to it.

I think it is pretty clear that the Obama team knew of this crap going on. Maybe not Obama, but someone on his team DEFINATELY told the Gov. they would not PAY for a Senate seat.
So, if they are so ETHICAL, why didn’t they have a News Conference to raise hell about this BEFORE the indictment came down???
Hell, the News People knew before the indictment came down.. YOU KNOW THAT OBAMA’s people or EVEN Obama KNEW!
Our Politicians are Thieving Sacks of CRAP! Period! Both sides of the aisle!

“Carolina, guess you haven’t read Drudge.”
ROFLMAO
The same drudge who yesterday linked to subpoenas being issued on Rezko with blaring headlines and a flashing red siren…..when that happened two years ago.

Looks like all the right wingers are trying to ruin our country by sliming Obama. Heads up people…our country is headed toward the gutter unless we all come together. Stop hating your country and let’s pull out of this together. Until there is more evidence stop with the guilt by association. Obama is our next President and if he succeeds we all succeed.

It’s fun watching the media talk about this 24/7 when they (up till now) had been trying to make Obama another Lincoln.
The media must be miserable. : )
Love it.

Jo, what evidence do you have about a meeting? Put up or shut up.

Iraq Vet: There is no need to slime Obama. He will do it for himself in time. Just Like O.J. Simpson. LOL

Jo – Palen threw people under the bus when she thought she could get a political boost out of it. She and Stevens were on the same team of supporting big oils need to exploit the Alaskan wilderness for profit therefore she was fully behind Stevens until he was convicted.

Innocent until proven guilty people. Lets not forget the foundation of our democracy, no matter how painful. We lose that and we have nothing.

JO
When you state the Media must be miserable does that include Fox News?

Let’s see, what else can the right-wingers blame Obama for? I know! How about this: he was the second gunman at the grassy knoll at the Kennedy assassination! Oh, that’s right. He would have been an infant. How about Hurricane Katrina? Where was he when THAT went down, huh???????

Carolinagirl : Right. I mean it’s obviously just a coincidence that Obama got a huge discount on property, at the peak of the housing boom. on the same day that Rezko just happened to purchase something from the same seller. Just like it was a coincidence that a few months later Obama just happened to push 15 million into a project run by Rezko.

According to the Gov. Obama clearly told him that all he would get from Obama would be “appreciation,” not anything else. Obama is in the clear, especially since he immediately reported the shameful abuse of power and corruption by a fellow Democrat to the FBI. Oh wait a minute…he didn’t report it! He protected that scumbag! Great judgement Obama!

Did anyone notice Fitzgerald said Obama is not part of this “complaint”. I did not hear him say he was not part of the investigatation. More “complaints” will be comming. We will have to see if they include Obama or members of his inner circle. We do know this about Fitzgerald, even when he knew who leaked Plame to the press, he still went after Libby for a process crime. Will that happen to Axelrod or Emanuel?

I can tell one thing: Bush is and was not my favorite person and president but he had only a miniscule fraction of the scandals and America-hating relationships what Obama had so far. To me, the man’s past is potentially the gauge of his performance in the future. I see dark clouds.

CONCERNED IN OHIO
Why should Obama Resign, and Bush not Obama has done nothing wrong as far as an embaressment Bush has been that the Last 8 years im sure we can Survive obama just Knowing the Govenor Obama has done nothing wrong!

ANGIE – Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of staff, likely at the direction of Obama made the report.

CONCERNED IN OHIO
Why would Obama be Arrested what has he done Illegal what is he guilty of other then living in Chicago and Knowing the Chicago politicans and the Govenor nothing Illegal about that

CONCERNED IN OHIO
WHY DO YOU FEEL OBAMA SHOULD BE ARRESTED BECAUSE HE LIVES IN IL AND KNOWS THE GOV HARDLIY ANYTHING TO BE ARRESTED FOR!!

JJ said: ‘Rahm Emmanuel tipped off the FBI. Once agaiin Obama shows he a hero.’
Links/proof please? Otherwise it is just BS.

CONCERNED IN OHIO
Why would Obama be bribing the Gov?

dan: people who generalize usually get into trouble. IMHO

Concerned in OH: “Easy. While PEBHO and Blago were haggling back and forth on the price for his seat, Blago wouldn’t accept PEBHO’s bribe.”
Yes, that could be true. Or it could not be true. You don’t know any more than I do. We are both assuming based on our perceptions of the person. Except I have the advantage of that little “innocent until proven guilty” thing.

As of this morning, IL Sen. President Jones and the minority leader have met and decided to call a special session of the Illinois legislature to set up an alternate method of choosing a new Senator, and to strip the powers of appointment from the governor…and everyone of note has called on Blago to resign.
He wasn’t and is not a part of the Machine. If he were, he would have known who to select, and he would have already known what, if any, consideration he would receive. The Machine is very well-oiled and very disciplined…Blago is not even at the party, much less invited to dance!

This is looking better for Hillary every second. 4 years in the national spot light as Sec. of State, with an out going single termer in 12.

When any republican was arrested or under investigation, the leftwingers for 8 years would try to connect it all to Bush.
Now a guy in Obama’s own backyard is in trouble and everyone is saying Obama has NO DIRT on his hands.
haha. Nice spin.

So why did Fritgerald say Yesterday Obama had nothing to do with this if he has a tape CONCERNED IN OHIO why did he not speak Yesterday about it?

ajax said: ‘Why didn’t Obama Denounce this when this happened is what I want to KNOW? He did not have to wait until the indictment to make it public!’
ajax, EXCELLENT point. He would have taken the high road without the second guessing of a great percentage of the electorate.

Ajax
Maybe Obama didnt want to be a Rat or Maybe that wasnt enough evidence to go to the Feds with

“ajax said: ‘Why didn’t Obama Denounce this when this happened is what I want to KNOW? He did not have to wait until the indictment to make it public!’”
Pffftt…are you joking? It would have been a torpedo in he side of his campaign. Do you think he’s an idiot? No, he’s brilliant. And he handled it accordingly…let the investigation run it’s course. It wasn’t his investigation, anyway.

Ajax and Jo: WGN Radio news here in Chicago is reporting that Rahm Emmanuel, at the behest of Obama, has been working with the FBI all along on this. So NOW what do you say???????

dan said: ‘kuassa – maybe you’re right, I shouldn’t generalize however my description fits most people that I personally know that are Limbaugh followers. They rarely have their own opinion most of their arguments is simply ditto-speak that they heard the day before on the radio so I have found my description to be true simply by conversational experience.’
dan, thanks for the answer. I agree with you a great deal. However, the same descriptions could be used for people on the left. Many do not know the details and the agendas and they are making decisions based on emotions. So, to be fair, I would say both sides have their thinkers but most on both side are following blindly and emotionally.

The brother knew since November, and did not report it! As an African American facing the opportunity of a lifetime for my generation, I am worried! I agree that BO is clean, but stop protecting these fools just because they are Dems! BO guilty, but only of being loyal to the DEMS! Drop the Dems and doing it on your owen BO!

JO?

“Why didn’t Obama Denounce this when this happened is what I want to KNOW? He did not have to wait until the indictment to make it public!”
Because it is an ongoing investigation?
I guess a denouncement within 24 hours of the indictment being announced is horrible.
Here’s Bush on the middle of Ted Stevens corruption trial this summer
“The United States military has had no better supporter and stronger friend than Senator Ted Stevens,” Bush said. “Thank you for coming, Senator.”
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino called Stevens’ participation in the president’s appearance “absolutely appropriate.”
The lesson for the day? Right wingers are hypocrites.

Anyone else think that Obama and his team have handled the scandal incredibly poorly? They’ve been a step behind the case at every turn. Is that because they know more than letting on and actually had a hand in turning Blago in? Or have they simply lost their campaign smarts?

Jo:
What does Obama has to do with the governor’s bad decisions?
WHAT!!!????
Where is the connection, Sean Hannity and others? Where is the connection?
Obama is free and clear!!!!
How does anyone expect a US senator to have no contact with the governor of that same state? NONSENSICAL desparate folks wanting to see the downfall of Obama……You folks are so sad…..

Guess Jo decided she has no arrows left in her quiver. LOL

Maybe Obama didn’t want to be a rat? Does he have the option? He does not! A person of character would have reported it immediately because honesty is his responsibility, not his option!

So now Michelle is crooked! LOL. Right-wingers grasping at straws.

“”Rahm Emmanuel, at the behest of Obama, has been working with the FBI all along on this.”
Only after they couldn’t come to terms on the appropriate bribe.”
There’s treatment for this kind of incontinence, y’know.

I wonder how barry feels about having to stand up in corruption since he has been relying on it for 20 years to propel him to where he is.

LoL to the Dems frantically trying to spin and change the subject.
Its Day 2– way too early to say if Obama is not criminally involved. At the very least is the question of 2 week of tapes that we know nothing about.

Concerned in OH:
Who cares who you call on to resign?
Just be sure you do your job well.
Obama will do his exceptional well….as your and my president….

BO IS A FRAUD
Ibelive Bush is a Socialist with his Bailouts and Palin was Alaskin Anti-America!

Concedrned in Ohio: Now you get to feel like many of us have felt for the last eight years.

This morning on GMA, I watched a discussion between Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos about the comments made by David Axelrod and Mr. Obama in regards to conversations with Gov. Blagojevich concerning the vacant senate seat. Obama claims he had no contact with the govenor or his office and that (we / I) was not aware of what was happening. Axelrod said he knew a conversation took place between Blagojevich and Obama and that names had been discussed to fill the position. Stephanopoulos then reports that Axelrod put out a statement that he “misspoke” about the conversation between the Illinois politicians. Had that been Carl Rove who misspoke about an issue that contradicted G.W. Bush, George S. would have dissected that statement like a high school biology project. Instead, George S. glossed over the comment with banter about Mr. Obama’s stammering over the use of a couple of pronouns. This is a blatant example of media bias to prop up their liberal agenda. The apostle George ignores the lies and coverups to protect his messiah. Mr. Axelrod “misspoke” about something he said he knew? Sounds like a lie to me.

Concerned in OH:
Obama is your president-elect whether you voted for him or not.
I did not vote for George W. Bush, but he is my president. When I served in the military under Reagan and George HW Bush, I did not vote for either one of them….But they both were my Commander-In-Chief……and my president.
So here’s the verdict:
President-elect Obama will serve all the people of the United States of America as the president of ALL regardless of who ALL voted for…..
Got it now!!!??? I sure hope you do..

I Guess Concerned in OH Is happy with A sinking Economy,Bailouts,torture,Illegal Wars, spying on Americans,Big oil I guess its true Some like the same and Fear change!

“LoL to the Dems frantically trying to spin and change the subject.
Its Day 2– way too early to say if Obama is not criminally involved. At the very least is the question of 2 week of tapes that we know nothing about.”
Really…did you actually laugh out loud? No, you didn’t. But anyway, “it’s way too early to say Obama is not criminally involved?” Usually people are afforded the benefit of the doubt on the “criminal” thing until they’re…y’know…actually accused of something. The only way his name is attached to this was Fitz saying he is in no way implicated and that Blago is on a wire saying the Obama wouldn’t play ball. Next.

“…Obama met with Blago back in November.”
No, it was Emmanuel, working with the FBI at the behest of PEBO.

ednesday, December 10, 2008
Oh, So Obama Didn’t Discuss His Senate Seat With Blagojevich?
Do you swear to lie, obfuscate and talk
out of both sides of your mouth?
Barack Obama was quick to deny ever meeting with Rod Blagojevich to discuss his vacated Senate seat, yesterday, even quickly tossing David Axelrod under the bus.
Well, what do you know, thanks to a sharp-eyed commenter, we have this curious item dated November 8. In some circles, this is known as evidence.
QUINCY, IL — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.
Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it. Illinois law states that the governor chooses that replacement. There’s already been speculation about his selection…from Congressman Jesse Jackson, Junior to Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth.
Hmmm.
So it appears Obama is lying. Does anyone in the media care to question him about this?
Uhhh, I doubt it.
Meanwhile, Obama has called on his good friend to resign. Way to get out ahead of the pack, Barry.
President-elect Barack Obama is calling for the Illinois governor to resign.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs says the president-elect agrees with other prominent politicians in Illinois and elsewhere that “under the current circumstances, it is difficult for the governor to effectively do his job and serve the people of Illinois.”
He then signaled a series of hand gestures experts translated as “shut the hell up, whatever you do, and I’ll pardon you on my way out.”
In other developments, it’s reported Jesse Jackson Jr. was the one allegedly offering Blagojevich a bribe. Shocking, isn’t it?

Concerned in OH:
Eight years, huh? Yeah, eight years of Obama now….
So, get use to it……and join with your new president in bringing jobs to Ohio and stop complaining so much…..

Americans need to know one thing about Chicago:
You don’t get the nomination as a democrat for ANYTHING in Chicago, unless you’ve proven you’re willing to play the game, so to speak. That includes Obama.
Keep that in mind.

Chicago My Kind of Town:
Obama is your president-elect too….
What game did he play, bud?
I understand he organized from the grass roots and became president….
What kinda of game is that to you?

After Gov. Ryan and his corruption, there was a great deal of enthusiasm and hope for Blagojevich when he was first elected. This soon soured. By year three of his first term, he was at odds with his own party, including the Speaker of the IL House, Obama, Mayor Daley. He only got re-elected because of widespread dissatisfaction with the IL Republicans. Before the end of his first year of the second term, he alienated almost everyone. He has been a pariah and an outcast. Ineffective. Incompetent. Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn tried to get a recall bill passed to remove him. It has been widely known that the Feds were scrutinizing Blago closely. He has been ostracized. No Democrat with half a brain has gone anywhere near him, including Obama. Blago’s approval rating, even before his arrest, was lower than Bush’s. 12%.

roidog: you totally misunderstood. This scandal belongs to ONE democrat–Rod Blagojevich! Just like the previous scandal belonged to one Republican–George Ryan. And where did I say that Republicans elected Blago????
He got re-elected because A) he posed himself as this great populist with the iinterests of the citizenry at heart and 2) because the Republicans ran a real whack-job, Judy Barr Topinka. My point is that Republicans AND Democrats alike in Illinois hate this guy!

“The only way his name is attached to this was Fitz saying he is in no way implicated and that Blago is on a wire saying the Obama wouldn’t play ball. Next.”
Yeah, I smirked out loud- because of stuff like this. Transparently trying to change the subject.
I am not saying Obama is guilty- but I am saying it smells and it is way too early to be concluding that PEBO is off scott free.
Fitzgerald didnt say that Obama is “in no way implicated”. Get it straight. He was careful to say that Obama is not named in the complaint. Which is true- its not the same to say that he might not be involved or be part of some future incitement. The only thing we do know if that is Obama and his staff is not being accused in *this* complaint.
Here is what Fitz really said:
“MR. FITZGERALD: Okay. I’m not going to speak for what the president-elect was aware of. We make no allegations that he’s aware of anything, and that’s as simply as I can put it.”
and later
“MR. FITZGERALD: Okay. I’m not going to go down anything that’s not in the complaint.
And what I simply said before is, I’m not going to — I have enough trouble speaking for myself. I’m not going to try and speak in the voice of a president or a president-elect.
So I simply pointed out that if you look at the complaint, there’s no allegation that the president-elect — there’s no reference in the complaint to any conversations involving the president-elect or indicating that the president-elect was aware of it. And that’s all I can say.”

Here is what Fitz really said:
“”MR. FITZGERALD: Okay. I’m not going to speak for what the president-elect was aware of. We make no allegations that he’s aware of anything, and that’s as simply as I can put it.”
and later
“MR. FITZGERALD: Okay. I’m not going to go down anything that’s not in the complaint.”
Right. He’d be a lunatic to go anywhere near Obama outside of the very defined scope of this complaint. I figured that was a given that that is what I was talking about. I’m not aware of any other complaints. Although, it sounds like one might be coming from the nominee behind door #5.
All signs point to Obama being clean on this. Which will be pretty impressive if you think about it.

kuassa – I’ll agree

What boards does Mrs. Obama serve on? NONE!!!!!!!!!

Goddard W. Bolt
My last bit seems to have been cut off:
Anyway,am I right or did ABC lie to me? Maybe Obama just mis-spoke.

“Apparently the governor did. At the Illinois State Fair in August 2006, Obama spoke on Blagojevich’s behalf.
“We’ve got a governor in Rod Blagojevich who has delivered consistently on behalf”
Not that it matters…AT ALL…but this was in 2006. Is he accused of any wrong-doing in 2006? That endorsement business is just how it’s done. Anybody would do the same thing. Elections are partisan. Get used to it.

“Right. He’d be a lunatic to go anywhere near Obama outside of the very defined scope of this complaint. I figured that was a given that that is what I was talking about. I’m not aware of any other complaints.”
I dont know why he’d be a ‘lunatic’. This is what he has that is a baked case right now. This is what is actionable at this time. Candidates 1-6 may also have complaints against them in the future, although since they arent as high profile as Blago the government may used seal inditements.
We really dont know what else there is. This complaint is based on wiretaps from November 3-13. Then there is a gap until December 4th. We really dont know what is in that 3 week gap but it may form the basis for other prosecutions.
“All signs” do not point to Obama being clean. Lying about talking to people and everyone suddenly ‘misspeaking’ is not a sign that you are clean. Maybe he is guilty. Maybe is involved and nothing can be proven. Maybe he never counteroffered Blago and is innocent. Too early to know.
BTW- Michelle is on the board of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and she was on Board of TreeHouse Foods, a Walmart supplier, making $50/yr until Obama started making political hay attacking them.

Wishful thinking Bertie. (lol) Don’t worry. You’ll get another chance in FOUR years. Maybe the Republicans will wake up and realize INDEPENDENTS can’t be motivated by “Rove” politics. It’s passe………

What next from the Republicans and ABC? It took them a year to tell us we’re in a recession. BUT, let somebody say something dirty and attach Obama to it, then it deserves repeated blogs and news coverage. Right-wing news is so boring.

I am tired of Obama’s answer to everything beign I had no idea what was happening. Either he is way tooo clueless to be president(we had one of those presidents already) or he looks the other way when these things are going on or he participates by proxy.

hey Dems, get in the game here, if it has anything to do with Illinois in general then Obama was privy to it and he is to blame………. unless of course it was something good then he obviously had nothing to do with it.
Is there any point in trying to hold a sensible discussion with these people?

If Obama was not involved then what was he talking about last Sunday when Brokaw asked how he felt about Caroline Kennedy as Senator from NY? He responded that he respected Kennedy hugely, but that he wasn’t getting involved in NY politics because he had enough problems with politics in Illinois. Could the problems be that the bidding war with the governor was getting out of hand?
Of course he would need to have a conversation about the governor… at least to tell him when he is resigning. And there is interest in your old seat. Apparently Emanuel was also having conversations with the Gov about filling *his* House (the 5th Congressional District) seat. Blago wanted help in raising $10M to $15M for some PAC and according to the complaint
“when he asks me for the fifth CD thing I want it to be in his head.””

BO,
Your call for his resignation is yet another brave display of courage you have shown in the face of corruption.
If any of these obamabots posting here can show BO speaking out against corruption before he has been boxed into a corner, I will fall out of my chair.
On the other hand, I can list numerous people BO has been more than happy to call his buddies when he was transitioning from community agitator to prez-elect.
The man is a liar.

I am sure randy Rod isn’t quaking in his bvd’s over Mr. Obama’s request.
Resigning might be the right thing to do. It certainly would be a smart move, but clearly anyone who carries on ‘business’ when he is well aware that his phone is probably being tapped is either 1) stupid or 2) arrogant or 3) stupid and arrogant.

Blago soliciting bribes from
whom? What they have on tape
are his conversations with his
advisors.
No individual or organization
has brought solicitation of
bribery charges against him.
We do not see any names from
whom he solicited bribes in
all the articles and stories
that have appeared in the
media.
He does not appear to be any
wealthier now than he was
before he became governor.
He has known for quite a while
that the FBI is secretly taping
his conversations.
Other than his vulgar talk
and mafia don braggadocio,
there does not appear to be
a legal case against him.

RL in Illinois
Governors office has been bug since early November.

Obama is a TOTAL fraud & disaster waiting to happen. It’s my hope that he’ll be exposed for the lying criminal sack that he is before he’s inaugurated in January. Keeping fingers crossed.

You open up a box of Democrat chocolates
and you don’t know what you’ll get….
Forrest Gump