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Obama IS tied to Blago regardless of whether he did anything right or wrong.
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Yes, it was Obama's senate seat. Anything else?
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Why it is that every negative story about Democrats and the people questioning them supposedly is created by RNC and conservative talk show hosts?
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I'm not talking about every negative story, I'm talking about this one. Look at what the RNC did here:
The afternoon of Fitzgeralds' announcement, right after Fitzgerald said Obama wasn't under scrutiny, right after he cautioned the press about "not casting aspersions", and he quoted Blago absolving Obama of playing the payoff game - the RNC put out a ridiculous internet ad implying Obama committed illegal activity.
That's the ad that even had GOP members calling out the RNC and demanding the ad be taken down immediately.
And there certainly were some conservative (and non-conservative) talk show hosts that picked up that RNC football and kept running with it (Hannity, O'Reilly)
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In my view the rush to defend Obama without the whole story being told is worse than questioning possible connections.
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It's not rushing to defend someone by pointing out he prosecutor didn't find him doing anything wrong, and that even the accused said Obama didn't play the illegal activity game
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And the semantics of what person on his staff actually spoke to Blago is a technical way to wiggle out of the statement that he had no contact with Blago. If Rahm had contact then Obama had contact.
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Obama said he had no contact with Blago. True. Obama never said his staff had no contact - Axelrod said that, and right after he said that (wrong), Obama came out and said that wasn't true.
And again, Obama earlier this week wanted to release all the conversations his office has had with Blago's office, and the prosecutor asked him not to.
That article says:
"There was no indication from sources that Emanuel brokered a deal, however."
"Emanuel, who has refused to comment on the issue, is not accused of wrongdoing."
"In portions of conversations released in a criminal complaint against Blagojevich, he can be heard complaining that Obama wouldn't give anything in return for a Jarrett appointment."
As I said, if something changes regarding Obama's involvement, wake me up.