Obama Tries to Move Beyond Blagojevich; Promises More Details Soon

He’ll release his self-investigation Christmas Eve. Late. What is “inappropriate,” anyway.

I guess it sounds sort of reasonable although its awfully curious that it is being held until he is safely on a private beach in Hawaii and cant take any questions.
I hope this isnt an auger for the whole Clinton III administration where they announce everything is fine but no one gets to see anything.
And I think there is still a question if Obama was being cagey about this reference to his “transition staff”.

The roll out went well enough. Obama handled the few Blago questions well, although the press gave him a major break by not pressing the issue further. Mainly, did Obama and his team delay after being approached by Fitzgerald, or was it vice versa?

I’m sorry but where did you get the idea that Obama dodged the questions? I saw the full press conference. He announced his team, and took questions.
A dodge would have been “I’m not going to comment on it” or “it would be inappropriate for me to comment.” Instead, he actually answered the question, reiterated that he had no involvement, and that his staff had no inappropriate involvement and said that the only reason that they couldn’t release the report is b/c the US Attorney’s Office requested that they don’t until the 22nd of Dec.
Your characterization is inaccurate at best, and a flat-out-lie at worst.

He’s already involved in a scandal and he hasn’t even been sworn in yet.

Of course, Obama will dodge uncomfortable questions. If he is as smart as everyone says he is, he should know what is going on in the old neighborhood. When Blago faces 20 years, I have a feeling he will squeal like a pig.

I was counting on change. Hope President Obama doesn’t let us down.

Don’t you know that it takes time to get the stories straight? After all, they DID approach Rod first. Good going, Jake. Maybe next week SNL will do a skit on Rahm’s colorful language.

The media definitely looking for something negative here.

Obama is not responsible for the mistakes of this Blago guy. When there is an ongoing investigation, there is only so much information you can release to the public. Obama is not stupid. Call him a “dodger” if you want to; he’s not going to make any dumb mistakes; he is too smart for that. There are people that want to see Obama fall; not going to happen!! Get over it!!

I do not think Obama had any personally contact other than probably mentioned some names he would like to fill his Senate seat. There’s nothing wrong with that and no story except Obama is not saying that but dodging the question. Just answer truthfully and no problem. On other hand it’s great that these far left wing nuts (just replacing the far right wing that they use) are having a problem with the media. I never heard any complaints when the media was going after Bush.Grow up and get use to it you will have four years of it.

WOW!! Such nitpicking. Blago got himself in big trouble and somehow Obama is blamed for it! Go figure!

Sounds like you have a difficult time sleeping at night.

Payback. We’ve listened to 8 years of trumped-up crap regarding Bush. Virtually everything negative was blamed on Bush. Ask Dan Rather. The shoe (not either of the ones thrown at Bush) is on the other foot. Stop crying about it and get used to it. Everything is about to be The Prophet’s fault.

Palin/Shoe ’08 !!!!

Well, let’s see…
Obama went from “we” to “I” and “no contact” to “no inappropriate contact.”
What else will surprise?

Obama’s typical pattern; 1st deny, then distance, then condemn, then under the bus they go….

It was a good point!
AND valid.

Obama lies, the country dies

OBAMA IS AN EXPERT AT DODGING QUESTIONS..

I don’t beieve anyone really wants to see Obama fall, not if they are human, BUT if Obama is involved than he should step down and give McCain the presidency. I hope not and would not believe all that was said on wire since they knew they were being taped and could have said things to look innocent.The biggest loser here so far is Jackson Jr., (will not get seat)and unless he talks everyone will be just fine. He won’t talk because he would incriminate himself if indeed he was buying seat. Obama actually wins again because conversation proved he wasn’t interested and would only show appreciation. Question is, was that a way to protect Obama since they knew conversation was recorded. Too messy and unfortunatly Fitzgerald dropped the ball too early. Why was he so anxious is also odd. Anyway, we need to move on and if there’s evidence Obama was in it he will have a miserable 4 years and better to hand over presidency to McCain as Biden would also be questionable.

Oh so it is not dodge now as the headli8ne was earlier.
Gee Jake we want to know did you mean dodge, or Obama promises, Are your words carefully chosen, what did you know, and when did you know it?

Obama, as with Clinton, is both brilliant and stupid. Media’s orchestration of the Obama line that
Start with an articulate, educated man, take away all honor and accountability and you have today’s prototypical American politician.
Anyone so insane to believe the tripe that Obama represents anything other than Clinton’s third corruption filled term is unfit to vote; but 63,000,000 suckers will re-elect this puppet for a forth term of the fraud machine come 2012.
With “leaders” like Obama, Frank and Dodd, America’s glide path to destruction is assured.

I m very sure , that Obama is totally innocent of everything. He never did anything wrong. He is pure as the whitest snow.He is not a part of all this Chicago corroption. He is very honest and very inteligent and very smart, and i just dont know why anyone would be suspicious of any wrong doing by Obama and Michelle. And if i was living in Chicago, I would be moving to Arizona for sure.

what666, if you are upset now you will be really upset when Bill Richardson faces the same type of accusations involving pay for play politics.

I’m shocked that the drive-by media has the gall to ask the Messiah any question at all! The nerve of the press! I don’t trust Obama, his Agenda nor his speech as he constantly say’s “ahh”!

So what would the right wingers say if Obama released his audit before the proseutor wants him to? I know, “He is obstructing justice!” So by cooperating with the investigation the kooky right wingers now claim “He’s hiding something.” LOL
Obama has been accused of NOTHING my bitter Republican friends.

The headline about dodging is misleading, to say the least. Obama is categorically not dodging questions, but complying with the request of Fitzgerald’s criminal investigation. Where’s the respect for the rule of law?

ok..folks..I think that Blago was upset because after he help him ( Obama ) all he gets is gratitude. Question: What did Blago do for Obama ? It will interesting to know…..

This will continue to be a political mess and time consuming distraction until such time that the public is privy to A)Obama’s version of the story and B)The Feds version of the story!—– No, wait—- that’s when it will really get going, because undoubtedly, the two won’t match!
Just like Hot Rod’s lawyer, Genson, warned today, “If I’m trying the case, it’s going to be a fight.”
“Impeachment and criminal proceedings?” asked a reporter.
“Impeachment and criminal proceedings,” Genson replied

Susan,
Where do you get your facts? Rezko did not “hand Obama a 500,000 dollar real estate gift.” Obama bought a house from a couple unrelated to Rezko for MARKET value. They were the highest bidders. They then bought a small portion of the ajoining lot from Rezko’s wife for 104,000 dollars. Which was about 50 grand ABOVE market value.
This deal has been looked at by Republican, Annenberg FACT CHECK, and Rezko prosecutors. There was NOTHING ILLEGAL.
I know you hate Obama, but that does not mean you are right in advancing out and out lies.

Daniel T. —the piece your missing is the fact that Rezcko’s wife HAD to buy that lot at that time— or it was a dealbreaker for Obama’s purchase of the home—- the home and the adjoining lot was a package deal and Obama couldn’t swallow the whole thing!

Chicago Bob,
So Obama is guilty of a crime for supporting Blago, the then Democratic nominee for Governor of his state?
You all seem to feel Obama should be prosecuted over who he knows. You do know that your boy Bush knew Kenny Boy Lay, of Enron? You do know that your guy McCain was friendly with a retired mafia Don? Also Chales Keating, one of the biggest white collar crooks in the history of this country? Gordon Liddy, a hard core criminal?
In this country we do not prosecute people based on who they know.
You do know that Obama distanced himself from Blago two years ago? Blago was the only Democratic governor NOT asked to speak at the Democratic National Convention.

Susan,
Kudos for common sense. No one including Rush much less the ABC frauds figured out the deeding of the small patch of land from Rezko to Obama essentially gave Obama a $500,000 to $800,000 lot. Rezko’s now undersized lot is un-buildable. Obama now holds the deed to the Rezko lot: anyone wanting to build on that lot must buy back the sliver transfered to Obama. Rezko’s lot is worthless without it. A perfectly legal but perfectly fraudulent conveyance of $800,000 from Rezko to Obama. Every person in America with a brain should be asking how the media has been turned over to brain dead drones like Trapper that don’t dare reveal blatant frauds like Obama for fear of stopping the advance of a bigger more corrupt government-media complex.

You do know that Obama distanced himself from Blago two years ago? Blago was the only Democratic governor NOT asked to speak at the Democratic National Convention.
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So Obama the reformer did not endorse Blago in IL when he ran? Wait he campaigned for Blago. Did Obama say anything critical when Blago ran? HMMM nope.
Do I think you can convict Obama? nope.
Do I think Obama is guilty of knowing this was all going on but not reporting it? YEP! but to prove any of this in IL would be a magic trick that I would pay money to see.
He will be the President, warts and all. Is he the man he campaigned and told people he was? Nope, you were one of Barum’s favorites.
What do I want? The Rose colored glasses off! No more lemmings following the pied piper over the cliff. What this man says in front of the camera is not who he really is. Remember what Blago said when the camera was NOT rolling. Look at Obama and think Blago.

It is most important now, that we all just move beyond this Blago thing, as Obama is not part of any of this, he is innocent.

from ANNENBERG FACT CHECK.
“As for that claim about Rezko helping Obama buy his house, well, we’ve dealt with that one before. The gist of the story: In 2005, Barack and Michelle Obama found a house that they wanted to purchase. The property had been divided into two parcels, one containing a house and the other undeveloped land. The owner had listed the properties separately. After considerable haggling, the seller accepted the Obamas’ third bid of $1.65 million for the parcel containing the house. Tony Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining lot for $625,000.
When the Obamas wanted to increase the size of their yard, they approached the Rezkos about purchasing a strip of the adjacent parcel. Obama told the Sun-Times that a 10-foot strip of the 60-foot lot appraised for $40,000. The Obamas nevertheless paid Rita $104,500 (or 1/6 of the total purchase price of her lot) for the strip. In 2007, Rita sold the remaining lot for $575,000 (or roughly a $54,500 profit on the overall property).
McCain’s ad, however, is worded in a way that could leave a false impression. It says Rezko “helped him buy his million-dollar mansion” by “purchasing part of the property he couldn’t afford.” That’s true, but only because the seller wanted to sell the two parcels as a unit and the Obamas couldn’t afford both. Rezko did not make a gift of any property to the Obamas. Furthermore, the fact that his wife sold her lot for more than she paid for it contradicts any suggestion that the Rezkos overpaid for their part of the deal as a way of getting the seller to lower the price to the Obamas for their part.”
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Poor right wingers. They can’t be right every often when augthey get all of their information from DRUGGIE Limbaugh!!

Roscoe,
It was NOT illegal. Should we arrest him for it?
The Bush family has engaged in deals like this for years. Ever look into how Bush got his share of the Texas Rangers baseball team?

Wishful thinking? >>
Daniel T.
I wish Obama was who he said he was. Sad but he played the part rock star and told everyone he was everything.
His true identity is still masked by the Presses love struck image of him.
How will he govern is yet to be seen. He is very inexperienced. He was shown the ropes in a pay to play state. Where you use the government against the people to beat extort money from them.
I wish things were different but they are not.
I hope the Feds descend like locus on IL to clean the clock of the Chicago IL/Cook County machine.
Corrupt judges lawyers congress etc.
I hope we pass laws forbidding lawyers from running for office.
That would help.

I think the impeachment trial should prove to be interesting news. I wonder if they will start to use the title Democratic Governor Rod Blago or will they stay with the non party titling because he is a Democrat? Bias is everywhere

I wonder how many throw away cell phones Blago has bought so he can make calls and deals so he wont talk during a trial.
That will be worth far more than the 500K.

The wingnuts just want to believe.
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The wingnuts are just being realists.
If you hang out with drug dealers you probably know what they do. You also know its against the law. Now if you were a reformer you would call the cops. If you were a career climber you would use his contacts to move up.
Or if you liked the life style you got a job being a drug dealer.
I figure Obama the non reformer just used the connects and moved up. Great character eh?

Hey Daniel T. and other Obama kool-aid drinkers: the lot remains unbuildable as is. Obama bought the key to a $600,000 lot for $104,500. Rezko’s wife’s (big stinky hint OKADs) sale of an unbuildable lot for $675,000 simply adds another layer for punch drunk drones to perpetrate. Fraudulent conveyance is a crime everywhere except Obama’s Chicago where it passes for initiation to the club.
Utterly mind melting when OKADs pretend Obama cut ties to Blago. Yeah, the Obama/Emmanuel power mobsters had no contact regarding Obama’s senate seat with the gov. they got elected. It’s not the crime it’s the cover up and ABC’s obfuscation to explain away the connection of a thousand dots is breath-taking.

If Obama has the courage to cleanse his staff and expel Rahm Emanuel it would demonstrate good governance. If however, he white washes the situation and continues on Chicago Style, then we are in for trouble. After Jan 20, Obama will be in charge of the FBI and can have the matter set aside.

cannot be as long and expensive as bush’
if it is we will not need to worry, it will be the end of this country.
bush has just about done that.
in eight years,
there is a god
bush does not get another term

obama is already learning to be a good spin doctor. he is not being forthcoming. emanuel had no business talking to blago about candidates acceptable to obama for the senate seat. indirectly obama was trying to influence the senate with his preferred list of candidates. the question is, what did obama know and when did he know it? so far, obama is slipping into the quicksand of half-truths, spin doctoring, coverup. obama is proving to be more of the same. there is no change, there is no–yes, we can. it is now: yes, i can because i won. obama isn’t even sworn in and the stench of corruption is beginning to swirl about him. stay tuned to obama’s change!

Daniel T : Where do YOU get your facts?
Obama bought his house for hundreds of thousands of dollars under market value, and he bought on the EXACT SAME day that Rezko bought a lot from the EXACT SAME person.
The land the Obama’s later bought from the Rezko’s was another sweetheart deal for the Obamas, even Obama says so. It made Obama’s property worth a lot more, and made the Rezko lot virtually impossible to develop.
The lot that Rezko bought wasn’t sold on the open market, it was “sold” to another one of Rezkos business ventures.
Then a couple months later Obama helped put $15,000,000 into a project headed by Rezko..
Sorry, there’s clearly something shady going on there. If you were capable of thinking for yourself you’d be able to see it.

“If Obama has the courage to cleanse his staff and expel Rahm Emanuel it would demonstrate good governance.”
No freaking way. Rahm Emmanuel is an enormous asset. He’s not going anywhere. And why would he even think about dumping him? He’s not even accused of anything by anybody with two brain cells to scrape together.

SCANDAL= OBAMA. even if he is not guilty we are going to listening to this for 2 years.

Sunlen Miller writes:
“Obama said that the review done by his Transition Team backed up his statement … ”
Astonishing!

Pat H. -”the verdict is not even in as to whether Obama is a US CITIZEN. IS HE ELIGIBLE TO BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT?????????”
Sorry Mrs. H the verdict is in on his citizenship, the supreme court acknowlegde that he is a citizen so can you please move on to something better. Also please read the US Constitution, it will let you know how citizenship is considered. Thanks

“Can anyone imagine the media handling of this ridiculous situation if this were a republican prez-elect, gov, chief of staff ect??? The media would be shouting it from the rooftops.”
It’s almost incomprehensible. And it’s not as if these “post-partisan” mobster-celebrities are actually DEMOCRATs, except for having hijacked the party.
You gotta wonder whether the “change” voters had in mind was the FURTHER elevation of John Kerry, most responsible for elevating Obama’s empty birthday suit from the corrupt Chicago machine to the, God forbid, White House …

This is really my last post,if everyone that posted comments believeing that Obama will not have spoken to the Governer is of course not from Chicago or the area of Chicago.Right after President-elect Obama won there has been talks about his seat. It has always been known that the Governer and Obama both will have a say so in the who will take Obama seat, which is not uncommon. But what Obama was saying is that in the talks with the governer there was not anything that was inappropriately said between the two. Also Obama can have anyone he wants to talk to the Governer wheather it is Rahm Emmanuel or Hillary Clinton. The important thing here is that this is our President and we need to stand behind him the same way we stood behind President Bush war,his helplessness of Hurricane Katrina rescue,this failing economy and many more.With that being said I believe that we should be able to stand tall behind our President-elect,until farther evidence comes out that proves me wrong or you right.

Obama only answers questions he told someone to ask. Why doesn’t somebody ask him who the doctor is that delivered him? Get real facts, not anything the MSM spews out these days.

Question is why does the media feel the need to keep asking these questions of Obama and his staff,when the prosecutors offices has stated that they have requested he and his staff not comment until some time next week.
This certainly demonstrates that the media has mioptic vision and must be totally deaf. Obama’s comment should be asked and answered, period.
You GOPers wanting to compare this to Bush and his regime, need only go back on a myriad of issues where they refused to comment because of an ongoing case. All Obama is doing is delaying a bit at Fitzgerald’s request.
Bunch of you need to get a life.

Shar-Who are the Doctor’s that delivered you?

I am not a crook I didn’t anything wrong and we, ah.. er.. I didn’t do anything that you know about. signed BO

“If you think the birth certificate issue has been resolved, then can you tell us all what the doctor’s name is who delivered Obama and at which hospital this event occurred? If you think it doesn’t matter, think again.”
The FEC considers the birth certificate requirement satisfied. It’s done. The asylums are the only placing it’s still being discussed.