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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
And we’re supposed to have confidence in this? (MORE: 21 CALLS BETWEEN EMANUEL AND BLAGO?)
The LA Times reports this morning that Team Obama is asserting that the “internal review” they did on themselves regarding the Blago scandal proves that they did nothing wrong:
Reporting from Washington and Chicago — Barack Obama said Monday that an internal investigation had found his staff had no inappropriate conversations with Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich over who would succeed the president-elect in the Senate.
But Obama said the review of his staff’s contacts would not be made public until next week at the request of federal prosecutors, who are investigating whether Blagojevich put Obama’s Senate seat up for sale.
“I had no contact with the governor’s office, and I had no contact with anybody in the governor’s office,” Obama said at a news conference called to introduce his energy and environment team. He said the review showed the Blagojevich scandal “had nothing to do with my office.”
Whew! I feel so much better now. As good as the left would feel after an “internal review” done by the Bush administration – on the Bush administration.
Dan Riehl notes the media’s typical lack of skepticism when it comes to questioning The One:
I’m not saying I actually think Obama did do anything wrong. But time was when the media prided itself on its skeptcism regarding performances like the one Obama is putting on.
It really must suck to be in the middle of a transition while at the same time having to answer for the fact that your COS was in contact multiple times with the high powered politico who was trying to sell PEBO’s Senate seat. Even if in the end it is definitively proven that the O-man’s admin did nothing legally wrong, just the taint of having your name associated with a scandal is all it takes to create that seed of doubt in the minds of the American people (just ask Bush/Cheney).
With poll numbers like these which suggest nearly half the American people believe the Obama admin was involved in some way with this scandal, as I’ve said before it does indeed appear as if the “shiny” has worn off the false squeaky clean image Barack Obama projected for the last two years.
Maybe this scandal has forced a few who were in 7th heaven over the election of Barack Obama to fall back down to earth and realize that there is only one God, and it most certainly isn’t the man who in a few weeks will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States?
Related: ST reader ChicagoJohn has read the FBI’s complaint against Blago and has questions for the mainstream mediots:
This is from the criminal complaint.
Its right after the part of the complaint where Blago says “f’ em” about the Obama camp, if they don’t want to deal. That note is note 104.
This is note 105, right after that:
Later on November 11, 2008, ROD BLAGOJEVICH talked with Advisor A.
Advisor A indicated that he will stay “on top” of getting the Senate Candidate 5 information leaked to the particular Sun Times columnist. ROD BLAGOJEVICH again raised the idea of the 501(c)(4) organization and asked whether “they” (believed be the President-elect and his associates) can get Warren Buffett and others to put $10, $12, or $15 million into the organization. Advisor A responded that “they” should be able to find a way to fund the organization.I won’t quote the whole thing. But go read it.
Now further down, note 107, on page 68:
On November 12, 2008, ROD BLAGOJEVICH talked with Advisor B. ROD
BLAGOJEVICH discussed with Advisor B his idea for a 501(c)(4) organization. Advisor B stated that he likes the idea, but liked the Change to Win option better because, according to Advisor B, from the President-elect’s perspective, there would be fewer “fingerprints” on the President-elect’s involvement with Change to Win because Change to Win already has an existing stream of revenue and, therefore, “you won’t have stories in four years that they bought you off.” ROD BLAGOJEVICH said that he likes the 501(c)(4) idea because he knows it will be there in two years when he is no longer Governor, whereas Change to Win might not be.Now you tell me:
How the heck is it that this hasn’t made the papers yet? What’d I miss?
Indeed. The mainstream media zeroed in quickly on who Senate candidate #5 was, but are they pursuing with equal fervor the identies of Obama advisors A and B? I’m not holding my breath.
PM Update – 12:57 PM: Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Steed is hearing “rumbles” that the feds have Obama’s COS Rahm Emanuel on tape talking to Blago 21 different times. Hmmm …
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When I first read what you have to say, I get excited that maybe the media, and the American people who voted for “the One”, will wake up and admit they really screwed up in not vetting Obama. But then I realize that it doesn’t look that way. I’m tired of the pundants saying Obama probably didn’t do anything illegal with regard to Gov. Blago and the Chicago scandal. The “Chicago Machine” IS the real story here and is how Obama got to where he is today. I believe he is a crook and eventually the truth will come out. But at what cost?
I can use this…
Hey, if it’s good enough for The One it should be good enough for the IRS.
I think one of the great scandals this election has revealed is the extent to which the media has abandoned any pretense of integrity (except to fool themselves?) and returned to a 19th century standard of partisan journalism.
As a related example, I’ve been wondering* for days now why no one in the MSM has been digging into who from the Obama side proposed to Blagojevich that he wait for two years before getting anything in return for the Senate seat. It’s right there in the transcripts of the November 10th conference call, but it’s only been mentioned on blogs. (Mine, for example, and AJ Strata’s.)
*(No, actually, I really haven’t.
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Advisors A & B are the very reason Fitzpatrick ended this investigation early. He knows who they are, and he knows just how close Barack was to this situation. He is alot closer to it than we know. – Lorica
Watching Obama do an internal review and claim innocence, then watching the media fall all over themselves to say O had nothing to do with it, even after what we witnessed the entire election cycle, is just too much.
Of course O isn’t going to bribe Blag for a seat he just LEFT, but so what? It is obvious that they would know that Blag was trying to sell it and they did nothing. This is supposed to be the highest office in the land that enforces the law. I repeat, just like joe biden, THEY DID NOTHING! hang them!
You can see the Obama can do nothing wrong mindset where I work, with two liberal twits who were all over Bush, he lied, he lied he lied, even with no proof or serious question. When I mentioned that, you know, if Obama didn’t have anything to hide, why did he not come out and say yeah, of course, my team had some contact with Blago about this, you think I wouldn’t have an interest in who replaces me, but we weren’t involved in the pay for play. Instead, the fact he wasn’t honest at the very least gives the impression he’s up to something and wasn’t a smart move. NO!!! NO NO NO!!! How can you say that?!?! He did everything just right, why should he answer questions from people like you evil Republithugs who only only want to tear him down!!!
It’s gonna be a long frakking 4 years.
Amen Sev!!! A very long frakkin’ 4 years. God Help Us if he gets 8. – Lorica
The people who voted for BO don’t care about integrity. They are waiting for a check. When the $$$ doesn’t arrive they’ll throw his ass out . He forgot to tell them that the country is basically bankrupt. They only heard spread the wealth. You don’t want to mess with this crowd.
No contact…21 times…it’s such a fine line…
ST,
Its been interesting to see the members of the left (-And the media. Same difference.) respond to this developing scandal.
At first, they seemed to think it odd that Axelrod and Obama had differing views on whether or not they had spoken to Blago.
Then the media wondered out loud why the Obama camp was taking so long to address the issue.
But then O spoke, and they stopped asking questions.
Obama then says that he will do an internal review and release the info in a couple of days.
But then the Obama camp remains mum, and the media wonders out loud again.
I presume that this cycle will continue for the next four years.
-John