Presenting Himself as the Anti-Blagojevich, PEBO Repeats Call for Governor to Resign, Says More Information to Come

Concerned in OH
Bush approved Wiretapping and Torture. Obama trusted his governor to handle his Senate seat. But I guess where were you guys when Illinois Gov Ryan got 6 years. It is not an Obama problem it is an Illinois government Problem.

Concerned in OH – where was your concern when Tom DeLay was accused of ethics violations and money laundering, and then was indicted on charges of conspiring to commit campaign finance fraud and consequently resigned from Congress in disgrace, and President Bush publicly denounced and rejected DeLay — a fellow Texan. Oh wait. President Bush didn’t denounce DeLay at all. In fact…Bush Expressed a Belief in DeLay’s Innocence, Bush Said DeLay Is Not Guilty of Money Laundering,
Bush Declared DeLay Innocent, and, of all things, Bush Gave DeLay a Lift in Air Force One to Show Support. Read that again. Not only did Bush not denounce and reject the corrupt Republican leader, but DeLay was literally rewarded with a free ride aboard Air Force One — both men wantonly tainting each other aboard the presidential aircraft. Contrastingly, Obama can’t even live in the same state as Blagojevich without having to repeatedly denounce the governor’s crimes and stupidity. And even when he denounces and rejects Blagojevich, he’s still defined as tainted. Oh, and Jake, you’re a part of this smear — shame on you.

bb
So Obama is responisble for everybody and Bush is not even responsible for himself…. I guess Republicans have an inability of rational thought.

BLAGO, REZCO, AYERS, REV. WRIGHT, JESSIE JACKSON = OBAMA…..Change you can believe in…..LOL

First of all everybody in Illinois knew Blagojevich was going to be indicted and charge, we just though they would wait for Early January…..

Ah, Hope and Change…Can’t you feel it?
“I have asked my team to gather the facts of any contacts with the Governor’s staff about this vacancy so we can share them with you, and we will do that in the next few days.”
i.e.: ‘I have asked my team to get their stories straight and decide who to throw under the bus.’

MM
Set down the Kool-Aide, sit back and watch the show! I would rather take 4 more years of Bush then have to look at Obama’s duma** look saying he didn’t know about it. He is going to run this country in the ground for good. Him and all of his cronies!
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Well in just two years his buddies Nancy and Harry have already ran the economy into the ground.
Bush, however, has done a great job managing the two wars since the surge.

Too bad the press and media didn’t go after Bush/Cheney for the WMD, war, economy, mortages and credit cards like they are trying to get Obama tied to the governor when he had nothing to do with this…no proof whatsoever. They can spend time and money on Clinton/Monica but I guess when you are screwing the country like Bush/Cheney did that’s ok.

Maybe Obama should just mind his own business and let things play out. He seems awfully determined to get that man out of office though. I wonder why?

Allen Ridge
And Hawaii officals conspired to make Obama president in 1960s….. Thank God our founding Fathers wrote INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN THE CONSTITUTION otherwise nut bags like you can put anybody in jail with just accusations.
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Hey contaminated MM why doesn’t that apply to Bush……you know “lied and mislead the country in going to war with Iraq.”
When we going to see some PROOF on that?
Our liberal fascist press has done this country a great dis-service the last eight years.
Now watch them cover for Obama’s corruption………real estate corruption………

Why is Obama being so quick to rush to judgment about his associate? It took him a lot longer to throw Rev. Wright away. By the way, does it bother anyone that Rev. Wright is now back spewing his anti-American hate (which Obama never heard for 20 years)? How much was Rev. Wright paid or promised to shut up during the last months of the campaign?

MM,
“What part of F**khim (Obama). Do Republicans not understand?”
I understand it very well. Obama preferred that the Gov. to pick a certain person. The Gov. said, “what are you willing to give?”. Obama said, “Appreciation”. Hence, your quoted statement. The Gov. was pissed he did not get anything.
NO, I doubt Obama was stupid enough to participate. But, he sure as hell DID NOT come out and say anything or try to stop it.
It is like living next to a dope dealer. Even if you don’t buy dope from him or participate in his dope dealing. By KNOWING and NOT calling the cops, you are JUST AS GUILTY in my book.
I am sorry, Obama can say what he wants. You know danged well he KNEW OF this CRAP GOING ON!
Our Politicians ARE LIARS and THIEVES. It is time to let them know that this is NOT acceptable.

OBAMA IS GOING TO RUN THIS COUNTRY INTO THE GROUND YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN THE PAST 8 LONG YEARS THATS WHY YOU REPUBLICANS LOST GHIVE BUSH A BLANK CHECK CAN YOU FIND THAT MONEY NOW YOU WOULD RATHER HAVE BUSH THEN MOVE TO TEXAS WITH HIM
39 DAYS 22 HOURS 32 MINS

Will Stanton….
Very well said…I have my popcord!
LOL “Change we can believe in”

ONE MORE TIME RE YOU LOST LEAVE THIS MAN ALONE IT IS SO SICK FIRST IT WAS HIS ORIGIN OF BIRTH HE IS A BLACK MAN WHO IS NOW GOING TO BE OUR PRESIDENT WHETHER YOU LIKE OR NOT

bb:
Didn’t you hear recently Bush claiming that he campaigned for CHANGE
in 2004.
Can you mention at least one change he has made. It is totally a BIG ZERO!

ajax
That is assumption that Blag specifically ask for a proposition….. First you have to realize that I don’t think Obama cared to much about the Senate Sea, he had a Transition to run, so Blago probably to talk to someone on the transition rather directly to Blago himself…. But I guess logic goes out the window. This is not an Obama problem it is an Illinois problem. Check out our last governor and see how many years he got in prison.

i just love him soooo much
Blago didn’t like Obama becuase of the ethic reform he passed in the state legislature. Blago try to stop it has governor because it would affect him getting money from contractors…. I guess Obama pick the right state to try and change…….

He is the last angel standing, given all the scandals in Illinois politics. At last, we have found a “savior” of the world. He has absolutely nothing to do with absolutely whatever wrong, or unclean or immoral, whatsoever. He claims is a devout Chritian, with an absolute understanding of the Bible, and absolute obedience to his God. After all, it is only politics in Illinois, the most corrupt state, no big deal (?) Did he lie about his quitting smoking??

Allen Ridge—although you know this well “Kool-Aide” is a derogatory, racist inference. the Prersident-Elect has nothing to do with this scandal as is obvious in the indictment. but you’ll spin a conspiracy like last week with questions about the President-Elect’s citizenship (that suit is now in a DC recycling bin after being tossed, without hearing, out of the US Supreme Court. if living in a tolerant, pluralistic society drives your hatred why not go somewhere where like Iran where you can feel at home. roflmfao

i just love him soooo much
Our political systems runs on endorsements… Don’t confuse formalities with realities. You don’t actually think Cheney endorse McCain because he hated McCain…. (with the reputation and all).

Doesn’t make any difference what the right wing and republican say, these events pale in comparison to what took place during the Bush administration. Drum up as much as you can or can think of about Obama and it is still a drop in the bucket compared to Bush.
OBAMA 2012!

A Supporter—what would it mean if the president-elect were a muslim. who says your hateful interpretation of the bible is correct. maybe the rapture alreeady happened and you weren’t chosen. so sorry. your hatred is palpable.

I believe that BHO will be afforded the same respect that Bush has been shown for the past 8 years by the left. Which is ABSOLUTELY NONE.

everyone knows what you meant “i just love him soooo much”. why would Obama supporters go to Jonestown and kill themselves? you are just trashing the president-elect and everyone who doesn’t believe your rapture, end-times foolishness. keep the hate in your church where it belongs.

paul–Am I allowed to say “stop drinking the orange drink?” As a black comedian pointed out, “there is no Kool Aid in the ghetto. It’s too expensive.” Or is he a racist also.

I love it. All the haters are deperately trying to tie the President elect to something. Hannity is going to have a stroke tryin to hang Obama on something. Limbuger is trying his hardest to come up with something. The hate is unbelievable. Hannity and the rest wonder why the country is going down the tubes? Their part of the problem and they don’t even know it.

david Part of the problem. Please be specific. Generalizations like that cause problems too. That would make you part of the problem.

The LAST thing Obama wants is someone to actually listen to all of the wiretap telephone conversations ….
By resignation and pleas, the Governor would end the investigation and the evidence goes to lock-up.

How can Obama be the anti-Blago when he and Emanuel were the ones that got Blagojevich elected in the first place!
Lets get real. Just admit this this is a legitimate issue, it has nothing to do with Bush or any other off topic smokescreen, and that it makes sense to let Obama do what he said he was going to and give a full account of all the conversations and contacts.
If nothing else should help flush out more Illinois slime that need to be flushed out of politics for good before they get more government posts.

good times–He is only 1/2 black. And he was raised White.

To my fellow pragmatic Americans, don’t fret over these few neo-con republicans who will stop at nothing short of shouting “bloody murder” to bring down PEBO. They are a dying breed and are just as irrelevant as Palin or Bachmann – no one from the strong majority listens to the talking points they learned from Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, etc. At this point, it’s pure entertainment listening to their delusional rants, which only fires up other people who share their views.
And keep in mind that NOT all Republicans out there think the way they do (ie, “Blago lives in the same state? Call for Obama’s resignation now!!”) so don’t generalize the whole party from the minority of divisive, birth-certificate-obsessed, Bush lovin, WMD searchin, myopic tools. They are a lot of us republicans who engage in spirited debates with respect for ALL Americans and our divergent views. So far, Obama has exceeded my expectations (who would’ve thought Gates would be kept on!) and I for one think linking him to Blago is just as feeble as the ones made of him with Ayers during the election. Get over it already.

Oh please . . . you’re talking about a guy that kicked his own kin to the curb. The man will say anything that is politically necessary and that should not stop a search for the truth.

@MM,
As stated above in this article:
“Mr. Obama did not rule out that officials on his Transition Team had held discussions with the governor’s office about the matter, nor did he deny that any of them knew about the governor’s attempted deal-making, though he said he was “confident” no one on his team would have ever agreed to such a proposition.”
IF PEBO or any of his TEAM knew of this “attempted deal-making” and DID NOTHING, then they are just as guilty.
I am sorry, I got a feeling they did know.

Bella Liberty
All 50 Senate Democrats are pushing for Blago’s to Resign.

IF PEBO or any of his TEAM knew of this “attempted deal-making” and DID NOTHING, then why was he NOT APPALLED and raised total HELL and made it public before “this week” !
“I was as appalled as anyone by the revelations earlier this week,”

Obama: “Please, Please resign Blago before they find my links to you!!!!”.

Blago is innocent until proven guilty…and the Supreme Court didn’t take the Obama citizenship case either…perhaps nothing will come of this…Blago was elected by the people of Illinois…

That is a big if, and what if they did say something which is why Fitzgerald move. Speculation, Conspiracies, and Accusation is not acceptable in a court of law, that is why I am attacking all the people who say Obama is guilty by serving in the same state. I feel the people hurt most by this is the people of Illinois and Obama because he trusted him to do his job honestly. So you can go with your ifs and whine about how Obama is guilty. You’ll sound just as crazy as Blago sounds.

BT—Blago resigning doesn’t stop the FBI investigation. if he resigns it doesn’t stop anything. the Justice Department has been very careful to point out as it has on several occasions that Obama had nothing to do with this and is not a suspect. in fact, quite the opposite Blago hates Obama and his team.

I live in Illinois. Here the Dem. party is divided into two camps: Rich Daley-Bill Daley-Mike Madigan camp, and the Blago-Emil Jones camp. They have no love for each other. Obama has ALWAYS been allied with the Daley camp. He and Blago have NEVER been allies.

So Mildred, are you actually PRAYING for something bad to happen to Obama? How wonderful.

I agree with the basic Chicagoan philosophy, that there is nothing wrong with “a little influence peddling, rewarding of political friends and co-opting of political foes”, that’s politics and practiced universally.
>>> Tell the kids at Childrens Memorial hospital that. Or the Mental health locaitons whose funds where being held back. How about altering the news by telling Sam Zell (tribune owner) you need that Wrigely deal. Do you think this is unusual in Chicago?
This is the norm and thats why Blago doesnt understand what he did was wrong. You dont get Daleys Campaign chest cause you are nice guy. NOPE.

Paul Wall, realistically a candidate who runs without any opposition, is not fully democratically elected by their constituents. Obama had all his opponents removed from the ballot, including the incumbent senator, for his state senate run. When he ran again, he lost the next time.

I beg of the Press and the federal government to PLEASE come here to Chicago and clean up this pay to play.
Isnt there a Woodward or Bernstien writter?

JB
The differnce is he did it LEGALLY. Legal politics can still be good politics… Blago is doing illegal politics specifically looking for a bribe. Obama use legal channels to politically strong arm which is what politics should be about… Of course is a hint of give and take on a small political scale but all it takes is one bad egg to throw a wrench in the system.

Don’t be surprised if it was Obama’s people that reported this scheme to the Senate leaders or the Justice Department. Give it time and see where it all leads. Obama’s people obviously would not make any deals (the transcripts prove that). So, if they knew of the sale then they knew their candidate didn’t stand a chance. So, their recourse would have been to notify the proper authorities, thus giving their person a shot at the seat.

JB—the President-Elect was elected to be President of the United States by the citizens of this nation on November 4, 2008. he was elected in an open and fair election. his opponent was Senator John McCain. he was also elected to the United States Senate in an open and fair, democratic election. don’t say Obama wasn’t running against anyone. Senator McCain is someone.

MM
You are correct. That is a BIG “IF”.
Maybe I am crazy, hell who knows.
I am sick and tired of Politicians that lie, cheat, steal, AND those that don’t, turn a BLIND EYE to those that do.
You can call me what you want. “IF” that “IF” turns out to be true. WHAT THEN? We let it Ride?? We just say; ‘politics as usual’ and go on with life? Where does it stop? Who will be the one that stops it? The one that KNOWS but DOES NOTHING ABOUT IT??

When the corrupt lead the ignorant, you get PEBO.

ajax
Get involved, the only reason Illinois government is as corrupt as it is, is because the people has accepted it almost as a fact, but we are starting to get tired of it and with people like Fitzgerald Illinois may be a cleaner city in the future.
More likely to be put in jail for being governor of Illinois then get caught for murder. — Jon Stewart, the Daily Show

Mesquito
Rahm knows he is missing a finger, and he knew it when he lost it.

Wouldn’t it be funny if the Governor is innocent and getting set up by Republicans or even the Clintons to get Obama to take a leap of fate and “dive in too preemptively”?
There might be simply the corruption of others and digital artistry afoot.
Obama should never convict and demand a resignation without due process. It makes him look like he has three fingers pointing at himself to point a finger at all.
It is a tasteless class act for a leader of the free World to say anything at all about it yet.
Innocent until proven guilty is not a thing of the past, is it?
Obama should not pick up a torch and pitchfork along with the Press, he should practice some restraint and call for order and due process.
This guy has his finger near the button folk…so watching his responses is our job as “the people”
Where is the calm cool collected unshakeable Obama?
Why is he so jumpy?

“I had a friend that I latter found out had a cocaine addiction. That doesn’t mean I use cocaine also…. ”
No, it does not mean you use Cocaine also. It means you should be doing EVERYTHING you can to help your friend with his addiction. Even if, it means you have to report him to the authorities.
If you do nothing, you are just as responsible if he hurts himself or someone else.

lori-No where in this article is Bush mentioned. Have the liberal talking points become that stale?

Oh,no! Maybe Obama is or isn’t involved. But the fact is that Obama KNOWS these people and has done government business with them. There’s NO denying this. You have the Governor, Obama, Rezco, Wright, Pglegar all in the indictment. It looks bad! I can’t help but remember to see Bill Clinton shake his finger and make a huge *** of himself on national t.v. It’s not what you know in Chicago politics, it’s WHO you know. Lastly, ABC News, OBAMA IS NOT PRESIDENT-ELECT NOR HAS HE BEEN ELECTED YET. Please stop calling him that and do yourself a favor and read the Constitution.

justrighttoo
Techincally Obama is not elected until the college votes but he is president-elect. I don’t think 40 days will matter much.

Barack’s cronnies had plenty of time to present their data of contact with this crook. The delay is intended to cover their butts.
Here comes the change we’ve dreamed of alright.
Attorney General needs to investigate the method of impeaching a president-elect.
Hello….Gov. Palin, can you please free your schedule, circa January 2009?

lydia–So are saying that what ACORN tried to do was OK? What would the point of registering 50 times be if not to try and defraud the process?

i just love him soooo much
It is only fraud if those people show to vote. ACORN is required by LAW to report all registrations even if they are flagged. The first ones were reported by ACORN themselves. But Republicans miss the BY LAW part and only focus on Mickey Mouse becuase they are too simple minded to know what obligation means. If they had not turn in the registration they would be accused of voter suppression an actual crime…

barakjones–Those are not even his words. He just reads them off a teleprompter. Away from that, he is a “put your foot in your mouth” kinda guy. Just like Biden. The only time Democrats tell the truth is when they are off script. Otherwise, it is spin, PC, or an exageration.

i just love him soooo much
And republicans aren’t scripted… So by your definition Bush is an idiot who believes fish and human beings can coexist peacefully.

wow, people on here will say or do anything to hate on Obama sometimes. Not a single law enforcement person, news organization, or credible source has linked Obama to this guy, in any way shape or form. But people on here are already predicting his downfall. Yes, well, people Albert Einstein and Hitler were from the same place, but I don’t think those two could be considered exactly the same either. Get a grip, and put the blame on the dirty person.

WILLIAM PETTIONE
Amen to that! Obama is not stupid he knows Gov was corrupt, great question why in the hell would he Jeporodize His Presidency for some pay to play games?Hes too smart for that!

William J. LePetomane–All BHO knows is Chicago politics. Which would mean that he doesn’t know any better.

I’m disappointed in our leaders. Iran- Contra, Whitewater, Keating Five, WMD, Bailouts, Blago, Watergate, pork spending the list goes on. It has nothing to do with political parties. These fiascos are the result of human nature greed, ego,etc…

President Bush should resign for Lies,Torture,Murder,Katrina,Illegal war,selling America out! WORST PRESIDENT SHAME SHAME An embaressement to this country and the people!

It is only fraud if those people show to vote. ACORN is required by LAW to report all registrations even if they are flagged. The first ones were reported by ACORN themselves. But Republicans miss the BY LAW part and only focus on Mickey Mouse becuase they are too simple minded to know what obligation means. If they had not turn in the registration they would be accused of voter suppression an actual crime…
Posted by: MM
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MM, You failed to mention the times when ACORN registered the same person more than once. In some cases as many as 70 times. I don’t see ACORN reporting THESE registrants…and, by the way, registering really DOES lead to voting. This means that we have one person, 70 votes for Obama. The LAW says one person, ONE vote.

M. Richards
According to Bill Oral is not sex…. still LMAO. but Bill scandals were most campaign finance. Obama problem seem to be his career began in Chicago.

Mildred
God doesn’t answer prayers of mal intent.
Posted by: MM | Dec 11, 2008 2:49:33 PM
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God knows what he has done.
You are missing my point..I only want
him vetted, and this has not been done.
The American people deserve this.

Hey Republicans the current Lame duck President of yours has commited crime after crime War crimes,spying, shredding the Constitution Etc,And you have the nerve to sit on your Computers and call Barack Obama Corrupt! when there is no proof or evidence that he is you people are Laughable just Laughable shaking my head!

I liked Obama’s point that it isn’t just the sensationist scandals that are the problem, its the the subtle contamination of government by the influence of lobbyists. Obama is the smartest, deepest President we have had in my lifetime. More important to me than the Blogo scandal, which the political reporters are obviously delighted with, is what Obama is going to do about fixing our health care system. Too bad Jake Tapper doesn’t understand the changes to our health care system Daschel is talking about. It’s coming folks.

ILOVE HIM SOOO MUCH
Too bad half the country didnt feel that way even took Mccains red states!hahahahahahahahahahahahah

ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. WAIT TILL ALL THE FACTS COME OUT.
–GOD BLESS EVERYONE

peaceluvnhappiness (1:43:19)
Thank-you. If Obama has committed any wrongdoings here, surely the FBI would be able to find that out. So just Chill.

Paul Wall, don’t say Obama wasn’t running against anyone… just google it – when Obama ran for State Senate, he had all his opponents removed from the ballot and won by default. Sen. Alice Palmer, who was the incumbent, and two other candidates were removed per Obama’s challenges.

Mildred: “If he is guilty of all the things that we have heard and are hearing, it is time for him to be vetted. Now is the time.”
Your key words here are “HEARD & HEARING”. Most of the things you are hearing are voices you should ignore. They aren’t based on any sort of fact, they are based on conjecture, rumors, gossip and hatred. Now is the time for you to move on, let go of the hate and get over the fact the your guy lost. The American people have spoken, it is time for change!! I don’t know anyone in their right mind that would’ve wanted another 4 years of Bush politics. –other than you of course!

The tapes make it clear that Obama’s lying. Go to jail, Mr. Obama.

MM-What do I need to do to show my devotion for the office of the President? I wish no ill-will, or harm to anyone, I just don’t put faith into lawyers and politicians. Let alone a lawyer-slash-politician.
I could get on these boards and defend a politician, but I chose to live with a healthy skepticism. Afterall, if we all stood by and let our politicians do as they please, wouldn’t we be Cuba?

OBAMA LIED,
Why has Obama not been arrested yet then? why you lemming because he has done no wrong jeez some people are clueless!

AmericanHeretic,
I bet you would change your tune if someone knocked on your door and cuffed you up for nothing tonight. When Press blows the story into a huge bubble, with you in the middle AmericanHeretic, you would want people with doubt and calmer viewpoints seeing you as innocent until evidence is presented against you.
All persons in this case say they never heard such talk from the Governor….are you saying they are liars and Obama and his staff are liars too?
What if everyone is telling the truth and the Gov. is innocent?
AmericanHeretic…..
You would not want me to pick up the torch and pitchfork and chase you about in the madding crowd speaking of revelations about you.
Obama could have releations about anyone at any time, and throw Momma from the train, and the press from the plane, if he is not called on such behavior.
The man is innocent, regardless of your own egoed postion as judge and jury, until the due process is over in this Country.
We are not in Kenya or Indonesia, after all.
Politicians get set up, and set people up all the time in corrupt places don’t they?

LOVE HIM SO MUCH
It took more for 2 years to melt down the Economy, are you forgetting the Republicans held power for 6 years with their Deregulating Idealogy garbage but the funny thing is your President Bush who is Republican blew spending through the roof as well as brought socialisim and facisim!To our country and borrowed and spent us nearly into Bankrupt!

“The tapes make it clear that Obama’s lying. Go to jail, Mr. Obama.”
Go to jail? For what? Was he under oath? Can you prove he’s committed a crime?

angie–I was pointing to barb that just because 9/11 happend while Bush was in office, it doesn’t mean that roots of it cannot be traced back to Clinton.
Thank you for proving that disasters don’t happen overnight, they take years to build up. So going by this logic, Clinton was responsible for 9/11.

You know I read so many comments from people who obviously voted on a Republican ticket, it still astounds me to see how pathetic and ignorant the comments are who talk against obama, especially trying name him responsible for the Governors actions, but yet they get upset becasue they feel the Republicans have been branded the bad guys due tot he actions of Bush. Hmm this was one of my arguements with the Republicans to begin with, they seems to twist and change the story to benefit them, so all you republicans out there, if the Republican Party should not be guilty based on Bush’s performance, then how the hell can you blame Obama for the actions of the Ill Governor, wake up, and get a clue please

Cupids revenge
Agreed Billons of dollars wasted in an Illegal war meanwhile people were drowning and homeless with Katrina Bridges falling apart and all Bush and the Republicans cared about was big oil and Iraq PATHETIC ARENT THEY!

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
I find it utterly astonishing, to see how devoted and empassioned that Obama-devotees are, to absolutely refuse to believe that their precious Obama can be capable of the slightest wrong, that he is so utterly pure in soul and intent, that a light comes shining from him everywhere he walks.
Are you at all living in reality? Do you know what “fanatical” means?
Obama and Blago had the EXACT same associates: Rezko, Levine, Ata, Daley, Jones. All of these are known corrupt politicians, and some of them have been charged for it. And you think that Obama, who has worked with them, somehow manages to be completely and utterly pure, angelic, so God-like…i am just taken aback by how completely in denial you all are.
You are correct: Obama has not been charged….YET. Fitz is a hero: you know he has only revealed a few minutes of 300 hours of recording? And you also know well by now that Rezko, Blago, and Harris are all vindictive rich guys, who will do ANYTHING to stay out of jail. Obama has already thrown them all under the bus. Do you really think they will protect Obama?
Secrets. Somewhere, somehow,….all secrets will come out at some time.
What will you do, when your messiah is revealed to be a corrupt piece of trash? That you have invested so much of your passion in? Will your world come crashing down?
the perfect day: Obama, Axelrod, and Michelle, being led away in handcuffs, heads down, as America turns their backs on them.
It will come, sooner than you think.

WHY WOULD OBAMA RISK HIS PRESIDENCY BY TRYING TO NEGOTIATE A QUID PRO QUO FOR HIS SENATE SEAT??????…exactly, since the electoral college is soon, many are wondering the same thing, because it doesn’t add up…specifically how did Michelle’s former boss, Valerie Jarrett get her name on the short list for Obama’s seat over JesseJacksonJR, when Jarrett had less experience. Why would CNN report Jarrett was the leading candidate preferred by Obama, and the CNN report was posted on her wiki site until recently. Why would Axelrod, who is in the inner Obama circle, make a media statement that Obama was in touch with Blago about the vacated position and possible candidates, which he now retracts. There will probably be an investigation which will resolve all the questions. Until then, we should presume Blago, Obama and his team are innocent.

Silky picture this: Grand jurys, special prosecuters, resignations, oh my . . . .

So, let’s see what PEBO did not know. He did not know that Rev. Wright was spewing anti-American hatred from the pulpit; he did not know that Ayers was a terrorist; he did not know that Blago was trying to sell the senate seat; he did not know of Rezko’s sleazy deals. These are all people close to Obama. If he was so unaware taht did not know what they were doing, his head must be on a different planet. How can he run the country if he is that unaware of what is going on around him?
Or, is he simply a compulsive liar?

BertieW,
The complaint has gone from accusations to revelations to a witch burned at the stake in a New York minute hasn’t it?
Obama’s response is just not a healthy one for any accused witch in the East is it?
Get out your posey and form a ring around the healthy ones, didn’t work back in the day either. When the plague struck at your door, you were just doomed.
Poor poor us, we had W with bad intel about WMD, and now we have Obama loosing a huge and massive preemptive strike on a guy, who just might be innocent.
This one is showing off his extreme wisdom before he gets power, so be fore warned.
No one is making Obama look bad on this….he is making himself look bad by not citing that law and due process must prevail.
Why do you think Obsma has marked “rush” on the forehead of the accused?

from Smoking gun, taken from FBI affadavit, of conference call b/t Blago, his advisor’s, and Obama’s unnamed advisors. Advisor A is Emmanuel? Awfully silent these days.
Also, see the WSJ today about a 2 hour call that took place on Nov 10th b/t Blago’s and Obama’s campaign.
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“Later on November 10, 2008, Rod Blagojevich and Advisor A discussed the open Senate seat. Among other things, Rod Blagojevich raised the issue of whether the President-Elect could help get Rod Blagojevich’s wife on “paid corporate boards right now.” Advisor A responded that he “think(s) they could” and that a “President-Elect…can do almost anything he sets his mind to do.”

IT WOULD BE NICE IF OBAMA COULD JUST GIVE ONE HONEST ANSWER! I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING “I DUNNO”
JUST LIKE REV WRIGHT WHO IS BACK IN THE PICTURE SPEWING HIS RACISIM AND HATERED.
WHEN WILL AYRES COME BACK IN.
THIS IS “CHANGE WE CAN BELIVE IN”

women citizen, you are confusing what is ideal with what is required under the law. Of course, if I am arrested for a crime, I would want to be considered innocent. But, the law only requires that I be presumed innocent before the court. Did the 88 Duke professors or the NAACP or the NYT consider the three Duke Lacrosse students innocent when they were accused of rape by a vile lying hooker? Was it required under the law? Of course, a person may be held liable in civil court for slander or libel. Thus, in the aftermath, Duke University, was forced to settle with the three students. The cause of action, however, had nothing to do with the presumption of innocence.
In answer to your other question about the pitchfork, only a moron would bring a farm implement to a gunfight.

The man is being made the scapegoat for everything imagineable. Get a grip. Even though he is the President Elect, does not mean that he had secret tapes, CIA wiretapping, surveillance tapes and covert meetings in the United States. You give him way too much credit. Some of these comments smell like a bad movie plot.

“Change is something you can beleive in.”

“i just love him soooo much
I have not read any evidence that suggest you are trying to make the presidency work… Their aren’t many Hawaiians living in the White House or on the Dollar Bill. There are good people in Chicago Politics alot of people fail to realize this. Just because the system is bad doesn’t mean their aren’t people in the system trying to fix it….”
Posted by: MM
It does make you wonder why Obama is so set on hanging out the Governor too quickly.
If a Tricky Dickey game is afoot, I have to agree that Nixon would have sought to move quickly on any Governor’s seat that had some sort of goods on him.
It might also be that Kenyan birth certificate thing, or the AKA left blank on B.O.’s Illinois bar application, but there might be much more.
The Country was pounding at the gate on Obama about his MIA birth certificate, and he may hope to divert the eye of the beholders with this accusation turned revelation
….maybe it will lead to nothing more than incrimination by Obama for rushing to get a judgement.
Everyone, even Oprah is hoofing it out of the place, along with hoards of others suddenly abandoning poor Chicago like the place with a plague.
If Vegas had numbers on the lack of US Obama natural born birth Certificate, they must be running numbers on “the hair do Governor of Illinois” Obama connection.

Jake- has any reporter asked to speak with Valerie Jarrett about it? Has Obama offered to make Jarrett available to the press?

afbrat59,
The office of the President is where the buck stops.
“W did it” just doesn’t have a catchy ring any more.
W setting up the Illinois Gov. to open an investigation into Obama sounds too good to be true.
It would stand to reason Obama would hang out a digital artist rendering tape or two to divert attention from his Kenyan birth story, so he can secure the position.
Hey everything in history is going to be Obama’s fault now.
“B. O. did it” just smells right. We all wanted a change….remember?

It’s very disconcerting, although understandable, that so many of the people in Obama’s administration have come up through the corrupt Chicago political machine. Does that mean they are corrupt? not necessarily but it does give one pause. Yahoo just posted the most politically corrupt state in the Union – South Dakota – the home state of the new Secretary of Health and Human Welfare, Tom Daschle – how ironic.

Can you not see this is a manufactured scandal? or are you too blinded by what you would rather see?”
Sorry BrainChild, but I don’t think you have a valid opinion.
Tell us 5 facts you know about this scandal.
It appears to me that the Obama defenders havent even read the complaint and are just parroting talking points that have no validity.

The question that springs to mind when i read some of these blogs is thus: Are these people real human beings?
Bernard

afbrat59,
I defer any direct comment you bring towards me regarding the numerous cases filed with the Supreme Court from December 8 2008, that will usher the Obama document question to public viewing by those sworn to uphold the US Constitution.
No valid legal venue has revued the evidence both pro or con,to my knowledge.
The cases being brought to demand to see it were in part being rendered through findings from some high level forensic investigators.
The Obama birth certificate and birth place is a growing snowball.
Where did you decide that it is over?
I thought the process was simply grinding forward, and still pending.
In this Country, I don’t think we ever say NEVER, do we?

more power scottie, we’re being sucked in . . . .

Some of you people that blog are really silly. And the ones of you who say you are democrats then bash President-Elect Obama, you are an outright li-ar. As democrats, we stand with, for, and behind our new President 100%.

All persons who care about this country, whether they supported Barack Obama for president or not (and I did not), should realize that the only “hope” of success for the treacherous trek out of the current morass—including two wars, security concerns, a financial crises, an auto industry crisis, a domestic, consumer driven recession, and a global slow-down—is for the entire country, including the president-elect, the congress, the press, and the voters, to focus exclusively on developing the required bi-partisan policy solutions.
The last thing this country needs right now is another “Whitewater” style investigation of our new president as a result of the situation in Chicago, distracting the attention of the congress and the president. The issues and problems we have right now do not allow for any such partisan foolishness.
Whatever minor bit role any future West Wing inhabitants may have had in this sordid affair, it is all a side show.
It is the last thing in the world right now that the country needs to be focusing on. We literally cannot afford another 3 to 4 years of “what did President Obama know and when did he know it.”
Any Americans (including members of congress) who truly care about this country and its citizens, of voting age or not, will eschew the Blagojevich debacle as a means of gaining GOP political power at the expense of the president-elect, and patriotically aid the president-elect and the incoming congress in fashioning solutions to the desperate economic and international crisis in which we find ourselves in.
Any Americans who are members of the 4th Estate should likewise balance the need to find solutions against the temptation to sell news.
Our circumstances as Americans outweigh partisan politics at this point, and any of our elected representatives who nevertheless chose to put party and self-interest over country need to be turned out at the earliest opportunity to do so.

AmericanHeretic,
Never ever apply for a job requiring certain information if you are unwilling to have it seen.
The job requires the dude planning to uphold the US Constitution be of the caliber to do the deed.
If he is not a “natural Born” citizen as the job requires , he cannot keep it.
Sooner or later Corporate always finds out you lied on the application, and deletes you in that function.
Many times they sue or prosecute for your having lied, speaking to moral turpitude, and seek large compensation or jail time.
In the event the job applicant for the office to uphold the Constitution is really not qualified, what is that considered?
An Act of treason (and do we still put them before a firing squad)?
If he is not even a naturalized citizen, as many coffee drinkers seem to believe in Hawaii. What then?
This whole era will be remembered as Historic.
This is a matter where the race card cannot get you hired.
Many contend that they want the documentation out as any citizen would want to do, and should be proud and happy to do in his historic shoes.
If he is a sham, everyone I know would be proud we rooted him out and got a real deal in the door.
So many wished Rice would have run. She has no secrets in a Valley Isle, and fulfills the gender gap.

Think about this logically. At what point was Blago in a position to name a Senator? After Nov. 4 when Obama was elected. The Feds have been recording Blago since October. They bugged his house, his office, and tapped his phone. So since before Blago even had an opportunity to name a Senator, they have been recording him. Yet Pat Fitzgerald says there is NOTHING connecting Obama to this. Couple this with the fact that Blago and Obama despise each other. They are allied with different factions of the Dem party in Illinois. Blago had no role at the convention. He was snubbed at Dem. Day at the State Fair when no other Dems. showed up for him. Blago has been under suspicion for years. His approval rating has been 13% even before all this came out. They have openly talked of impeachment, even before all this. Lisa Madigan, Atty. Genl., openly talked of opposing Blago in the next primary, even before all this. So, WHY, WHY, WHY IN THE HELL WOULD OBAMA BE DUMB ENOUGH TO RISK HIS PRESIDENCY BY TRYING TO NEGOTIATE A QUID PRO QUO FOR HIS SENATE SEAT??????
Posted by: William J. LePetomane | Dec 11, 2008 2:51:07 PM
Read article below and weap. BO is apprarently dumb enough (to use your words) to associate himself to Blago.

Stephen:
“The last thing this country needs right now is another “Whitewater” style investigation of our new president as a result of the situation in Chicago, distracting the attention of the congress and the president.”
Why would Obama begin an administration by Bullying a guy out of office before the ink is even dry on any charges?
That “revelation” is the act that is bringing attention to B.O.’s lack of decorum regarding the right to a trial and innocence.
Why is the upcomiong President of the free world wanting to discredit this Governnor and Bully him into resignation? It is absolutely none of his business. The Gov of Illinois is not part of his administration.
It is the business of the people in the State of Illinois.
Don’t you smell dictatorship and culpability on B.O.?

Why is what Blagojevich did any worse than Obama giving taxpayers money to Michelle’s employer–then the hospital returns the favor by giving her a huge raise?
Obama always has gotten his dumb cronies to do his dirty work–while he hides and covers his own butt.
I pray someone has the guts to sing and expose Obama for the creep he really is.
One day his luck will run out.

All:
Anybody who ever thought BHO had any integrity is out of ther mind. Wright, Ayers, Rezko, Anneberg Foundation, college records, citizenship/birth certificate…

In the Summer of 2006, then-U.S. Sen. Obama backed Blagojevich even though there were serious questions at the time about Blago’s hiring practices.
At the time, numerous state agencies had had records subpoenaed, with U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald telling authorities he was looking into “very serious allegations of endemic hiring fraud” with a “number of credible witnesses.”
In an interview with the Chicago Daily Herald in July 2006, then-Sen. Obama said, “I have not followed closely enough what’s been taking place in these investigations to comment on them. Obviously I’m concerned about reports that hiring practices at the state weren’t, at times, following appropriate procedures. How high up that went, the degree at which the governor was involved, is not something I’m going to speculate on.
“If I received information that made me believe that any Democrat had not been acting in the public interest, I’d be concerned,” Obama said.
That said, Mr. Obama said, “If the governor asks me to work on his behalf, I’ll be happy to do it.”
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 of the people of Illinois,” Obama told the crowd.
In January 2007, Blagojevich’s office reserved the Old State Capitol for Mr. Obama’s presidential announcement at Obama’s request.

Who knew? Obama knew!!!! Turk182

Tony Rezko
Jeremiah Wright
Rashid Khalidi
ACORN
Rod Blagojevich
etc, etc, etc ……

So what President-Elect Obama is trying to persuade us of is that people like Valerie Jarrett are involved in politics for purely altruistic motives and never, never for the “what’s in it for me” motive. If so, then I would think she should turn down any political appointment, but I don’t think that will happen. Can he be serious? Are the American people so gullible? Perhaps.

What’s wrong with socialism?

When is ABC going to start giving the story without giving the Democrats a huge break. Every time a Republican does something wrong ABC is sure to say Republican Senator is arrested for making an illegal turn. But when the Governor of IL gets arrested they never once say he is a Democrat. How one sided can the networks be? I thought they were supposed to report the news fairly and without bias. It will be interesting to see if they ever report without bias on PEBO…ever.

Republicans need to change into a more liberal agenda. Wake up. That is the new trend.

So the Governor has obviously been allegedly very naughty so Obama and many others feel he should resign. Wait and see if that compares to the mountain of investigations that may transpire into the Bush
>> Nice try at smoke for Obama.
Tell that to Childrens Memorial who Blago was holding back checks to.
How about the mental health facilities he holding back as well. Ya gotta give me some kick back to get the money you are owed by the state.
This corruption has been going on for decades. So for Obama to say, “DUH never knew”, makes him either
1) A straight up liar.
2) A climber who didnt care about the law just so long as he could get higher up.
3) An ediot who just like Sargent Schultz from Hogans Heros knows Nothing.
Pick one. None are flatering.
Rahm just might be next in silver cuffs.

Come one BRACK! Why so careful in chosing your words? Afraid of naking your crokk friend mad? Afraid of him spilling the beans over Rezko? Senategate? and many other closeted skeletons?
Don’t ya worry. I betcha Fitzgerald will make your friend sing like a canary. After all, doesn’t your CROKKED FRIEND like to talk?

This is the problem with democrats, worse yet, liberal democrats. They promise to take more of our $$$ and spread it around to help people. They tell everyone how to live, while they live like royalty.
They always use the we are the “messiahs of the poor” approach, which allows them to make gov’t bigger and more powerful. When in fact, giving the gov’t more $$$ just means making the window bigger for corruption to take place within it.
Of course there is corruption on the side of republicans (just look at the Alaskan senator). However, the conservative platform- smaller gov’t, smaller taxes FOR EVERYONE, more citizen self-reliance- simply allows for more “policing of the gov’t” and not the other way around.

I think barry will clean up washington like he cleaned up chicago…
We should have went with a real reformer-Palin 2012!

Your paranoia about the evil librul media or the whole city of Chicago means nothing. Obama’s approval numbers are in the mid-70s.
Posted by: Elrod | Dec 12, 2008 1:47:26 AM
Don’t be an imbecile. Obama’s approval numbers means nothing as he is not President yet. Obama is going to be a big fat failure just like the liberal elite New York Times which is going bankrupt.

I did not vote for Obama but I do not hate him like the left hate Bush. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this issue (that he did not know about any deals being made on the IL US Senate seat). Having said that, Obama supporters (and the press) have to really ask themselves that for all this man’s supposed gifted talents (smart, honest, decisive, etc) that the press love to laud he really has no ability to judge the character of those he is closest with. How do you explain his 20+ year association with Rev Wright despite his racist and hateful remarks (but he claims he never heard them and was surprised. How do you explain his association with Ayers a former doemstic terrorist now the toast of the press? How do you explain his association with Gov Blago (a man whose campaign Obama advised in 2002 and who he endorsed again in 06). And his association with Rezko? If you think I am making a big deal of it, ask yourself, how many friends or associates do you know who bombed the US Capitol or are sitting in jail or are indicted by the feds? Not many I would assume. Again, I wish Obama success, but even the most ardent supporter has to wonder, “Where is this man’s judgement?”

Obama is not the man I knew.

“obama is disappointing more and more.”
You ain’t seen nothing yet: his vile appointment of Daschle has crashed the stock market. (It ain’t the boo-boo on the bailout, perhaps: one way or another, they’ll GET their money, everybody knows THAT … )
If anybody should resign, it’s Obama/Axelrod.

“You ain’t seen nothing yet: his vile appointment of Daschle has crashed the stock market.”
Right, because the stock market has been so stable lately and the Secretary of Health and Human Services plays such a large role in financial matters.

“Dems
You could have a video tape of every sunday I have ever sat in in my LIFE, and not once would you hear ANY of the vile, racist, anti-American, anti-Semetic things coming out of my pastors’ mouths.
Sorry to disappoint you.
And if they ever did say that crap, myself and my children would never have gont to another sermon there again!”
So what? Are you suggesting Obama’s a racist? That he’s anti-American? Anti-Semetic? Don’t be ridiculous. You all need to get over the Wright stuff. It’s irrelevant. There are very important things in front of us. That is not one of them.

“the stock market has been so stable lately and the Secretary of Health and Human Services plays such a large role in financial matters.”
The Daschles never stray far from financial matters. When Obama announced he INTENDED to appoint Daschle, the stock market crashed. Now that he’s actually DONE it, it’s crashed again.
When golden boy appointed the insider Geithner, and the stock market went UP, the news jumped on it as a causation. When everything ELSE Obama does has the opposite effect, it’s not “news”.
We need a revolution, apparently, in order to get National Health for the displaced citizenry at large, while the preening Obamas make common cause with every tired hack in D.C.
The times they ARE a-changin’. You wait and see. It’s gonna look like Greece here any day.

“After voting for Obama I felt relief and now I don’t feel that way anymore . He seems to be just another politician.”
Just another mob-friendly Chicago politician, who bought his present position for $750 million bucks. All that’s different about Obama is the neo-con script and the stutter.
Blagojevich’s a piker by comparison, but his departure may decrease the former “Democrats”‘ power even more, giving Barky more excuses for doing nothing but blather about what’s “appropriate” and not …
Having seen Obama’s vote for the bailout, his flight from the Senate, his bait-and-switch appointments and backtracking, many who DID vote for him — not only after his wholly-baloney primmary performances, but in the General Election, now wouldn’t.
With any luck, the Chicago business will unravel just in time to prevent his taking office. Re-running the 2008 election, with PAPER ballots and equal air time, might be an idea whose time has come: we’ve just come through 8 years of a president who came to power through misrepresentation and deep pockets, and it didn’t work out well.
Aside from the birthday suit factor, Obama’s shaping up quite Bush-like.

PEBO’s gotta chill. The
governor’s harmless antics
are just that.
If Illinois is a well-run
state, there is no need for
Blago to resign.
His imitation of a
crime-syndicate boss on the
tapes is pretty good.
H
was pretty good.

just in: Rahm’s on the tapes multiple times. And he is a cabinet member. this is on fox chicago and confirmed by abc.

Most gave Bush the benefit of the doubt, and he burned us. Big time. THEY FREAKING LIED TO OUR FACES ABOUT IRAQ. Period. End of story.
“just in: Rahm’s on the tapes multiple times. And he is a cabinet member. this is on fox chicago and confirmed by abc.”
Rahm is not a cabinet member and the word is that he’s on tape giving Blago “a list of acceptable candidates.” There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, in fact, that’s what they SHOULD be doing.

“Change you can believe in” is just a slogan … like “Better living through chemistry,” “When you care enough to send the very best” or “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.”

“Our whole campaign was about changing that view of politics,” Mr. Obama said.
that is straight from obama’s mouth and i am holding him to that.if he keeps rahm as chief of staff ,i guess all he said during election is nothing but words to get elected!he is no different with the others in capitol.a liar, corrupt and no good politician!