This stuff is really starting to anger me.
We have President-Elect Obama's assurances that he has not had any conversations with Gov. Blogojevich concerning his replacement to the Senate.
That very statement... well.... how do I put this? How about "strains credulity?"
The very idea that the President-Elect would NOT let the Governor know his thoughts on this issue is simply incomprehensible.
Would you? Would I?
Yet that's what the President-Elect would have us believe.
Exclusive of a picture taken of the President-Elect and the Governor together on December 2, which pretty much puts the lie to Mr. Obama's assertion, made on December 9, that he "...had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening."
Now we come to find out that pit yorkie and replacement for Governor Blagojevich's congressional seat, one Rahm Emanuel, had done the very thing that Mr. Obama denies... had direct contact with the Governor.
Little Green Footballs is reporting The Chicago Tribune's own story that "Rahm Emanuel talked with governor's office about who should fill Obama's Senate seat... Chief of staff for Obama had list of names."
"List of names?" Really? Where do you suppose that list came from?
Folks, there's only so many reasons why this crew would lie about all of this.
So much for "Change." So much for Mr. Obama's much vaunted and greatly hyped "transparency."
His fumbling, bumbling and mishandling of this sorry but all-to-typical-for-democrats situation has a Keystone Cops element to it that sickens me.
I repeat: Mr. Obama's administration will not survive his indictment. You heard it here first.
Rahm Emanuel talked with governor's office about who should fill Obama's Senate seat
Chief of staff for Obama had list of names
By Bob Secter
December 13, 2008
Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to be White House chief of staff, had conversations with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration about who would replace Obama in the U.S. Senate, the Tribune has learned.
The revelation does not suggest Obama's new gatekeeper was involved in any talk of dealmaking involving the seat. But it does help fill in the gaps surrounding a question that Obama was unable or unwilling to answer this week: Did anyone on his staff have contact with Blagojevich about his choice for the Senate seat?
Blagojevich and John Harris, his former chief of staff, face federal charges in an alleged shakedown involving the vacant Senate seat, which Illinois law grants the governor sole authority to fill.
Obama said Thursday he had never spoken to Blagojevich about the Senate vacancy and was "confident that no representatives" of his had engaged in any dealmaking over the seat with the governor or his team. He also pledged Thursday that in the "next few days" he would explain what contacts his staff may have had with the governor's office about the Senate vacancy.
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