Originally posted by centurion1211
reply to post by Yoda411

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Ego. Same reason this Blago character is in the fix he's in. Same with all the politicians in high office. At a certain level, the power washes over them and they start to believe they are invincible.

Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
However, it is possible that it was connected to the smears about Palin.

Sure it's possible. But that's not what you said. You said, "the smear campaign waged against her, has resulted in some nut trying to burn down her church..."

That's nothing more than gossip. You have NO indication or evidence of that.

I would hope you would have agreed that personal smears don't help the political dialog, do they?

I totally agree. This thread is a personal smear (more gossip and rumors) and that's why I am speaking against it. I would think you'd agree with me on that.

Obama has his report compiled and ready to release but (as I suspected and mentioned elsewhere) the prosecutor has asked that he not release the information for a week because it may hamper progress in the case against Blagojevich. But his staff was found to have no inappropriate contact with Blagojevich.

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team said a review of staff contacts with embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his aides turned up no evidence of “inappropriate discussions” about the appointment of Obama’s successor in the U.S. Senate.

The full results of the review won’t be released until next week at the request of federal prosecutors, Dan Pfeiffer, communications director for the transition, said in a statement.

Originally posted by Alxandro

Geez, when will it ever stop?

Why are some people so easily drawn to shady characters?

I remember the good old days when Presidents were involved in scadals.
Now we have a President Elect involved in a whopper, so I guess in some ironic way we are already seeing change.

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Regarding Obama's association with Blagojevich, his judgment of character is once again in question.

He said himself back in 2002 that his "main focus is to elect Rod Blagojevich as Governor."

Then the SHTF:

David Axelrod: "I know he has talked to the Governor"

Obama: "Uhh, I had no contact with the Governor or, uhh, or his office. Ahh, and so we were not ah-ah, I was not aware uhh-of uhh, what was happping."

Obama: "I think it would be inappropriate for me to, you know, remark on the situation beyond the facts that I know"

Even the MSM, including MSNBC, are beginning to question the actions, er non-actions, of Obama regarding this scandal as to why he chooses to remain quiet.

Reporter:"...there were indeed conversations between Barack Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel and the Governor himself about candidates who might be filling the seat vacated by Barack Obama, and the conversations may have been taped"

Richard Wolfe on MSNBC: "You cannot sit out a story this big about your own Senate seat in your own State, and worse than that the comments today were so vague and general that you could easily misread them as not being credible when he said he wasn't aware of what was going on."

Lynn Sweet on MSNBC: "If there were conversations at all with anyone, I think this is what it means to be transparent."

If even folks on MSNBC already have questions, you can almost bet it will soon get interesting.


We have been led to believe his will be a "Transparent Government/Presidency", but maybe we "misunderestimated" him.

Not only is he Superman, but maybe he is the Invisible Man too ? ? ?

Even though they often occupied the same political space -- two young lawyers in Chicago, two power brokers in Springfield, two ambitious men who coveted the presidency -- Obama and Blagojevich never warmed to each other, Illinois politicians said. They sometimes used each other to propel their own careers but privately acted like rivals. Blagojevich considered Obama naive and pretentious and dismissed his success as "good luck." Obama disparaged Blagojevich for what he viewed as his combativeness, his disorganization and his habit of arriving at official events half an hour late.

I would think you'd agree with me on that.