Obama Wants to Correct Blago Reporting ‘Immediately’ But Not Yet

This does not sound like news to me — more like trying to keep a story alive when its been kicked to death.

bush? a gentleman?
you need to watch david letterman top ten bush moments, and then tell us you think he is a gentleman.
there is also a little footage of bush
extending one of his fingers on his right hand for the american people to get a closer look at. so much the gentleman.

also bush the gentleman
is mr. so what now.
so what about shoes being thrown at him
so what about the war.
and therefore, so what about the lives lost in the war.
lives lost in a war, so what-that is geo. bush your gentleman

So a guy known for breaking his promises, promises that he’ll clue us all in next week on why his investigation into himself proves his innocence. Should we be holding our breath till then?

let hope he fights to the very end.
looks like he has been reaping rewards for himself a long time.
yesterday, some one said when blago is cleared obama will owe him an apology
by the same token (i know it will never come from the haters,decent folks can only hope) some people will owe obama an apology, for being so sure obama is some type of a criminal.
bitter people say bitter things about people. so sad.
i can almost understand why you who were so duped by bush, would not trust another politician. bush and co. really did do a job on us.
but just like blago
obama is innocent until proven guilty

Sunlen Miller quotes The CHANGEling:
“It is a little bit frustrating,”
Oh, mercy goodness: quick, fetch the smelling salts! and maybe a cigar.

Owe Obama an apology? I’m sorry, did I miss the place where Obama returned the $300,000 Rezko gave him towards his home purchase? Did Obama refund the taxpayers the $15,000,000 he put into Rezko’s pocket in return? Perhaps the person who should be apologizing is Obamabots like you.. who put such a corrupt and vile man into office.

Janice – Bush is no gentleman. If you are truley concerned about what is going on with the country, you might pay attention to the Bush, Cheney interviews. They admit they lied, their response has been “so what” and I’d do it again! Meanwhile 4000+ US soldiers have been killed and 100,000+ Iraq’s! But here you sit bashing the PE for resepecting what the attorny general asked him to do! PE Obama has been vetted more than any other who has run for the office! You all have looked for dirt and haven’t been able to find any,that includes your bible, Fox News, all you’ve got is “he knew that guy!” Sad for you.

howwouldiknow: ” I’m sorry, did I miss the place where Obama returned the $300,000 Rezko gave him towards his home purchase?”
This is lie. The details of the housing deal with Rezko, in which Obama bought a 15′ strip of land off him to extend his backyard, are public and (thanks to the rough primary fight) very well reported. Please cite this new information of Rezko giving him $300,000 or quit slandering both the president elect and, frankly, whatever integrity the Republican party has left.

I’m shocked at all of you! You seem to think that because Obama has HIS OWN internal investigation that there isn’t anything wrong! Of course there isn’t anything wrong because Obama isn’t going to find anything wrong, HIS OWN INTERNAL investigation will make sure of that. I just want to know why Rohm keeps emploding when asked any questions, and, where is he now? Funny he hasn’t been seen in more than a week!

Did Obama’s office have contact with Blago’s office on this issue? If he didn’t, I would wonder what kind of a leader he was.
I didn’t vote for Obama, although I hope he proves me wrong. Let this investigation finish and stop demanding answers yesterday! Obama is handling this issue the way he should be. Give him the benefit of the doubt.

robert b
bush still has not given a full accounting to how we got into this mess he has us in.
but now obama had better give a full accounting.
how about we have bush given some truth serum, and put a mike and a camera and have some questions answered from him.
and that is about the only way we will get the truth from bush. if then,

Hey Sugar,
One good turn deserves another…
If you think Letterman’s top 10 Bush moments was funny, then try going to You Tube and do a search on “Obama gaffs”. These are really hysterical!
And talk about fingers…do a search on “Obama finger” and you will see his finger moments.

“Obama bought a 15′ strip of land off him to extend his backyard”
Yeah, yeah: the “strip” was how it was put it on paper, but in fact the ENTIRE lot could be accessed ONLY from the garden gate at the Obamas’ mansion, and the Obamas’ gardener tended/tends the ENTIRE area.
But Barky’s on to bigger and better lies, and posher real estate, now. And maybe Mr. Rezko’s not so darned fond of his acquisitive little protege, these days.

Bush needs a “full accounting”??
What the NY TIMES has given it?? Certainly your gutless Pelosi and Reid didn’t even play at impeachment? Poor leftist babies?
Blame 9/11 on Bush??? – NO, it is 90% on Clinton’s plate (8 years of doing nothing vs 8 months)
And so who here wants Saddam back??
SO WHAT Saddam? will be your reply I’m sure (but that shows your sickness)

It seems to me that the only people that are concerned with the Ill. Gov. transgressions are the media. With people being laid off and trying to survive this economy really don’t care. This is news to the media and the Republican Party. My how things have switched from a year ago. I can’t wait until next month when Obama is sworn in. But I suppose this will go on and on until there is a backlash.

To howwouldiknow:
Obama may hold more press conferences than Bush, but he doesn’t give any more information than Bush has. Obama is the better speaker, so that you’re satisfied with the same unanswered questions?
Per Fitzgerald, Obama must wait till next week to give us no answers to our questions of which the media won’t ask.

If you know you are being taped, the thing to do is protect the guilty ones/yourself and frame others who you want permately removed. Since they knew FBI was listening I don’t believe what was said is the truth and was said to cover up the real eal. Why would anyone continue to implicate themselves unless they were idiots and idiots is not needed in todays state of affairs. I’m also not sure about Caroline’s seat. Why bother getting an education and workeing hard when your faced with someone whao has been handed fame and fortunate take the price. Love Caroline, but respect people who make it on their own, or I should say believe they can make it on their own. Obama supposebly made it on his own, so what’s this change all about and giving seats to those with name recognition, already lucky, or those who are crooks. honesty has got to be forefront in politics and people need to vote more and more since only a few seem to be running government. Maybe Caroline should be the example that just because you had special father doesn’t mean you are handed everything else life has to offer just by asking. She has been fortunate enought. If I was Hillary I would now say no to being Secr of state and run in 4 years. Enought already. Just when we saw hope, it’s going back to crap again.

There appears to be a “need” on the part of the media to either create political misery or to encourage lies and mislead the public.Governor Blagojevich has created a “fine mess” and redefined greed for the world. By his comments and the use of expletives regarding what he did not “get” from the Obama camp, anyone with good sense is able to assume that no money exchanged hands and that President elect Obama was clearly not involved. My statement is this, let’s focus on jobs, restoring people to their homes and reviving the country. Trying to embarrass President elect Obama is such a foolish waste of time. The urgency here is to get our country back onto it’s feet and reclaim our dignity in the eyes of the world.

“So … Axelrod (and Obama) were lying, then, about always intending to install Jarrett among the White House staff?”
Lying? How? Obama said that his team never had any inappropriate conversations with the governor, not that they didn’t have ANY.

I can only draw one conclusion from the fact that the prosecutor has asked President-Elect Obama to hold his internal report until next week; The prosecutor knows something Mr. Obama does not and wants to save him the embarrassment of submitting a report that clears his transition team when in fact they are deeply involved in the pay-to-play politics.

I will be glad when old george bush is gone, and takes bs with him.

keepthechange,
and george bush is what?
i know:
george bush is a war criminal
and should be lead out of dc in handcuffs and an unmarked pol. car

I am so sick of people bashing Obama. You can’t stand the fact that an African American man is in the White House, which by the way was built by slaves while the white man took credit. Talk about bitter sweet poetic justice. You are afraid that Obama might actually do something right and put every white man former President to shame for all the corruption they have caused in the past. Get used to it you racist people Obama is not going no where. And I can’t wait until he makes people who are bashing him, eat their words and go back and crawl under the rock they came from

Yes we can!!!! Hmm seems like the more things “change” the more they stay the same. Typical political BS…

George W Bush is the
Thug, and a dumb one at that,
just ask anyone in the world and at the space station.
bush is a thug. a rich and priv. one
but a thug all the same.
and he is a war criminal
and if there were any justice in this country, and any politicians or with a
back bone
he would be getting ready to serve some time. or hoping for a pardon.
bush is the thug, and a war criminal
and a dumb one at that
ask anyone in the world

Sugar
“bush has made this country hated around the world and the butt of jokes”
I did not vote for Obama, but he did win and I really hope we will change how the world sees us, but you have to admit, he is NOT off to a good start with all the curruption connections in his own cabinet. There are too many investions going on (now Richardson too) and he has not even been innagurated yet!
My apologies for misunderstanding you post.

what667,
blago a “fall guy” you forget the feds have this guy on tape.
he will not be a fall guy,
he will just be the guilty guy.
who tried to sell the senate seat.
what are you someone in prison, right now?
or are you blago?
he may be a lot of things, but if found gulity, he will not be the “fall guy”
he was selling and dealing right and left, it is on tape.

Bush the usa
You mean he should be charged with removing a tyrant who used chemical weapons against his people(killing an estimated 700,000+ of them), who stock piled mustard gas, and who refused to give weapons inspectors a straight answer?
Remember, clinton said multiple times saddam had WMD’s and was trying to acquire more and was a danger to the USA. He was just too busy doing creative things with his cigar to do anything about it.
Or do you think Bush is a terrorist for dropping water down terrorists noses?
Should Bush have sent saddam an olive branch, or offered him a hug, would that have made you happy?
Perhaps we just should have let the liberals invite saddam to columbia college to hear “his side of the story”.

nonesense08, what you are saying is real nonesense, and I guess your name says it all. Obama says it is frustrating because the Justice Department has asked him to wait releasing his statement. I think you too should be patient till Obama releases his statement and puts you to shame.

cdd, I hope the positive words of Obama doing good do come true.
But not your own venomous negatives of racism. Whites do not now deserve your hatred, they deserve your “pitching in” to the future of America. How are you guys doing? Do I have to go thru the miserable statistics of the family situations in our inner cities and the lack of interest in educational and career advancement??
John Adams knew it was the blacks that built his residence as the Chief “temporary employee” for America and kept him from freezing to death in winter and getting malaria in summer in DC. DC became an oasis for African americans by the Civil War and to this day. But you got to get off the Democratic plantation of welfare benefits and special “urban renewal” and endless “school reform” – when does it end??

If he does not have the answers now, then I would say there is a problem. He is the boss and it does not take days to come up with answers!

Has B. Hussein Obama WAGGED his finger at the faces of the PRESS yet? “I dod not have any contact with the Illinois governor.” BELIEVE IT LIKE YOU BELIEVE CLINTON’S MONICA STATEMENT. ROFLMAO

I see some of these bloggers are still bitter that their canidate lost…..
Ca and others please don’t waste you time or energy responding to the nay sayers. According to them, Obama is guilty on every single allegation that was,is and will be brought against him.
Happy Holidays everyone.

Obama investigates himself ??? WOW, guess what the results will be??? Why should anyone believe anything this guy says. He will do anything to cover up the fact that
he and Jessie Jackson Jr. are very much a part of “pay to play” Chicago politics.

Blah, blah, blah…I’m just going to keep talking and talking and saying things which I can’t substantiate, because obviously they’re not true, but I’m a mouth-breathing, bubble-blowing malcontent, so I’m just going to keep blah, blah, blahing until Nurse Ratchett comes and gives me my sleepy time meds…blah, blah, blah…if I say it it must be true, true, true…

“Obama investigates himself ??? WOW, guess what the results will be??? Why should anyone believe anything this guy says. He will do anything to cover up the fact that
he and Jessie Jackson Jr. are very much a part of “pay to play” Chicago politics.”
The news today indicates that it was actually Jesse Jackson, Jr who is responsible for going to the feds in the first place to report him.

Are your lives really so boring that you cannot wait until the facts come out to judge what Obama/Emanual role, if any, is in this situation. IT IS ALL ON TAPE SO WE WILL ALL KNOW EXACTLY WHAT OCCURRED.
And people wonder why Independents are so frustrated. All this back and forth is not helpful. Stop speculating and wait for the facts.

Great observation, kat.

The Obamaphobes and the Obamaphiles are both acting ridiculous. There isn’t enough evidence on either side of this issue to find any sort of verdict. For the good of the country, please stop bickering and pretending that you know whether Obama is guilty or innocent.
I know I am asking too much–the people I am speaking to are the same people who picket clinics and march in parades. Passion is a great thing until it overrides common sense and civility.

“”Great observation, kat.” Sure is…if you like observations that are based on opinions and not FACTS.”
What on earth are you talking about? Her post references numerous facts, and has little to no opinion. You could use a brush up on reading comprehension if you can’t see that.

“Great observation, kat.” Sure is…if you like observations that are based on opinions and not FACTS.

” It stated he privately urged the Blagojevich administration to appoint Valerie Jarrett and that he wanted it at a certain deadline and that a list of names was submitted. Sounds like routine procedure was hyped somewhat by the Tribune then ran with by this report”
Nice try. If Emanuel had 21 conversations with Blagojevich about this and he talks to the O multiple
times a day, then wouldnt any of this have come up? Of course it would.
Not really a problem… except that PEBHO has told everyone that he had no idea what was going on. How is he going to back down on that one?

“Nice try. If Emanuel had 21 conversations with Blagojevich about this and he talks to the O multiple
times a day, then wouldnt any of this have come up? Of course it would.”
All the right wing has is conjecture based on tainted evidence.
What else is new.

Blago’s own words (caught on tape) exonerate all of Obama’s team. Remember what he said? “they’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation. Bleep them.”

kat, your last post has nothing to do with Obama. Did you get your blogs mixed up?

Wow imagine a Republican saying “I really want to tell you but I can’t” the MSM would have a heart attack and speculation would then be truth and the nastiness meter would be off the chain..
go sit down little media :patting heads: I will tell you what I want when I want….so shut up!

“All the right wing has is conjecture based on tainted evidence. ”
Ouch- you are down to arguing the evidence was illegally obtained now? All your defenses are being stripped away.
What dont you bring up some more off topic Bush stuff quick before the cocoon unravels completely. Oh and accuse people of lying, thats a strong argument too.

So here is the problem. On December 9th the Ossiah said:
“I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening”
If he had ever in that 35 days asked Rahm for a status report he would know what was happening.
So on December 9th he uhhhhhhh ‘misspoke’.

“So here is the problem. On December 9th the Ossiah said:
“I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening”
If he had ever in that 35 days asked Rahm for a status report he would know what was happening.
So on December 9th he uhhhhhhh ‘misspoke’.”
Not necessarily true. Some Chief of Staffs known what to keep their principals hands off of. Ultimately, who cares? Covering your *** is not against the law unless you’re actually…breaking the law. Either way, this is a waste of bandwidth.

What Did Obama Know & When did he know it??????
What Did Obama Know & When did he know it??????
Looking past “Blago” … and now Richardson is starting to wade in those muddy scandal waters too.
The only CHANGE in Washington is going to be the names of those in the scandals….nothing else!

For those of you right winged nut jobs who would like to make something out of nothing I say get a life. Preferably in some other country which would welcome your radical rants and raves. It’s pretty obvious that there are no ties between Blago and Obama and when Fitzgerald is done investigating the truth will come out and all you right winged nut jobs can crawl back into your holes and wait for another opportunity to make something out of nothing.

con me not : If you were capable of thinking for yourself, you’d see there certainly are tries between the two. Perhaps not on the current scandal, but as corrupt as both Obama and Blago are.. it’s unlikely all of their dealings were legit. They’ve worked on each others election campaigns and they share a friend and fundraiser named Rezko…

“Perhaps not on the current scandal, but as corrupt as both Obama and Blago are…”
Please cite your sources for exactly how Obama is “corrupt”, and then forward them to the US Attorney’s office.

Obama is doing the right thing…and law abiding citizen that he is, the US Attorney’s office is something he and all of us need to obey!!!
This is too big to even think that the truth will not come out… get a clue all you skeptics!!! PAHLEEEZE, it is all on tape afterall!!

“Fitzgerald said there was no one under investigation but Blago. He also asked Obama and his team not to comment until the investigation was done. What part of NO don’t you people understand???”
Well the part where everything you said is wrong.
John Harris is part of the current charge so you are already. A JJJr seems to think that he needs a defense lawyer. And the prosecutor can bring changes against anyone else he finds while pulling on this string.
He didnt “asked Obama and his team not to comment until the investigation was done”. Its the week of the 22nd, not he end of the investigation.
And he didnt say not to comment. He said hold off releasing your detailed report. Those are two totally different things.

“a slumlord who is on his way to prison. he helped the obamas secure their million dollar mansion and was also barry’s biggest fundraiser-rezko.”
Rezko is a scumbag.
But he did not help the Obama buy their home nor was his Obama’s biggest fundraiser.
“an unrepentent terrorist. he helped launch barry’s political career, while simultaneously posing for magazines standing on the American flag.”
Ayers did not launch Obama’s career, Alice Palmer had more to do with it than he did. And the American flag photo shoot happened in 2001.
“a corrupt gov. Barry was very instrumental in getting blago elected, and vice versa.”
Obama was an informal advisor and was not even that large a part of Blago’s 1st campaign. Obama did not work at all on Blago’s 2nd campaign.
Blago endorsed someone else in the 2004 Democratic primary.
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

“And he didnt say not to comment. He said hold off releasing your detailed report. Those are two totally different things.”
Prosecutor asked Obama to hold off on releasing report but feels fine with Obama discussing said report.
Right wing logic at its finest.

LET’S SEE, NOW …..IF YOU WERE’NT VERY SURE OF THE ‘TERRITORY’ WOULD YOU GO ASK SOMEBODY A QUESTION LIKE BLAGO TOOK TO OBAMA???????????????
OF COURSE NOT……HE OBVIOUSLY HAD BEEN THIS ROUTE BEFORE ON OTHER ‘PEOPLE’ AND ‘THINGS, WITH OBAMA AND HAD NO REASON TO THINK HE WOULD BE TURNED DOWN THIS TIME….

“It was $300K below the asking price but it was the highest offer the house had received. ”
Got it. So all the real Estate prices were down in the neighborhood.
Except that Rezko paid the full asking price for his piece of property and never tried to negotiate the price. Wont last long as a property developer like that.
And Obama brought Rezko in on this deal in the first place Why on earth would you seek out someone who is known (google it- he was) as a corrupt developer to go in on a land deal with you?
And the two pieces of property closed on the same day. That makes it look like the two transactions are tied together somehow. Even if the seller was leaving town, the other property was undeveloped and so it could easily so sold remotely without having to worry about upkeep.

BERTIEW FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!

Hey, haven’t you Republicans heard? Your boy Newt is trying to call off the dogs. He’s afraid that if Americans think that Republicans just fabricate criticism that it will backfire. Polls already show that only something like 1 in 4 Americans trust the Republicans right now so keep up the attacks. Maybe you can make it 1 in 5!

obama seems to be shaking in his boot… NOT!
but i encourage the repubs to continue their attacks, just more egg on their face, and more backfiring of negativity towards them once the truth comes out

For all of you mother hens out there
protecting the fledgeling Obama, it’s
gonna be a looooooong haul….and at the
end of his term even YOU may be coddling
a new liberal egg.

AG Lisa Madigan filing was a legal embarrassment and she should be happy that it got dismissed without comment.
But I dont really see a problem with Fitz’s position. It would have been nice to wait until money changed hands but the Tribune blew that for him when they ran their December 5th story and he had to move.

Oh gee, why can’t Obama be more transparent and open, as promised, answer these Blago questions ? Is his teleprompter broken ? And why doesn’t the media/ABC, and I use the term very loosely interview Obama and ask him the questions that they pose to the public ? Something more to hide ? No citizenship lawsuit questions or interviews, now no questions about Blago or interviews by the media..Where is that over the hill reporter or should I call him narrator, Chuckles Gibson ? Michelle better watch her step or he will disassociate himself from her…He does that so well, and then claims convenient memory loss or has no knowledge of anything. Doesn’t sound like experience to me. Sorry, I forgot, he is busy getting the White House Mafia lined up. So in light of all the fun that ABC is having by keeping everyone in an uproar… I wrote a little Christmas tune for you to sing to the tune of Silver Bells:
City Sidewalks, Busy Sidewalks
Dressed in Mafia style
In the air there’s a feeling of Bailout
Rezco laughing, Bloggers gassing
Meeting more obstacles
And on every street corner you’ll hear
YES WE CAN…YES WE CAN…
Spread the wealth in MY city
You Ding a lings – See my Bling
Soon it will be PAY UP day.
Strings of Lawsuits
From some old coots
Makes me see lots of red
As the SCOTUS rush
Home with their payoffs
Feel the bills crunch
Can’t afford Lunch
This is Barry’s big scheme
But above all the hunger you’ll hear
YES WE CAN… YES WE CAN…
Spread the wealth in MY city
You ding a lings – see my bling
Soon it will be PAY UP day.
Have a very Merry and transparent Christmas

New Marist poll in Time says that 83% of the country believes that Obama is handling the transition well or better than expected.
Those identifying themselves as Repbulicans are now down to 34% and 69% of them believe that the party needs to move further to the right.
Even Newt Gingrich is smart enough to put these two items together and conclude that conspiracy theories and lunatic fringe attacks are not going to help the party.

The Zogby poll? You have got to be kidding. The poll that caused Zogby so much embarassment that he said he’d never do another one like it? The poll that asked questions like “did you know that Obama started his political career in the home of a domestic terrorist?”
Thanks for alerting the rest of us as to the source of your “facts.”

Oh come on Bertie, haven’t you ever watched Jay Leno do ‘Jaywalking’? Half the people in this country can’t find Iraq on a map. I bet half the people who claim to be Republicans don’t know that Abraham Lincoln was in their party. I’m just happy that enough Americans were smart enough not to fall for the Republican baloney again.

BertieW – Palin did a lot more advertizing that her daughter was pregnant and going to marry her boyfriend than her opponents. She paraded her family around at every event. There was nothing wrong with that because she was proud of all her kids and husband. But it is stupid to say the Obama supports were somehow responsible for people know she was pregnant is pretty silly. Then you compare that to the “57 states” comment that Obama said one time in front of a few reporters. However, Palin brought up “the terrorists” a lot in her campaigning against Obama, but it was more about them being buddies than the detail that when Obama had early kick-off meetings in several people’s homes, one of them was in the home of “the terrorists”.

But on Wednesday, Zogby told me he was on a book tour* when the contract was reached and when the survey was conducted, and wouldn’t have approved the poll in the form it took, or a press release posted on his firm’s Web site. “This was not Zogby International’s finest hour,” he said. “Something, somehow, fell through the cracks.” He said he would review the incident with his staff on Friday to determine what went wrong.

You cant get around the fact that Zogby said: “We stand by the results our survey work on behalf of John Ziegler, as we stand by all of our work.”
The fact that there was a lot of Obamacrat whining after the fact just means that Zogby doesn’t feel that the small profit in private polling is worth the annoyance. And revenue from future Democrat polling.

Then you’ll have no trouble demonstrating that.
Lets take the no brainer question of who controls congress. Wilson Research redid the inditing Zobgy poll with Republicans and Independents.
Should be an easy non-partisan question. All you had to do was pay attention at some point in the last two years.
“Before this past election, which political party controlled both houses of Congress?”
Democrat: GOP 45% to 38%
Strong Demo: GOP 48% to 37%
Republican: Dems 64% to 26%
Strong Rep: Dems 66% to 24%
Thats about a 30% point gap in basic knowledge in the Obama voters. And these are the people picking the leader.
You could go check the cross tabs for yourself, but of course you wont.