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Originally Posted by Riot
Yes, it was Obama's senate seat. Anything else?
"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.
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The article also says...
"A source with the Obama camp strongly denied Emanuel spoke with the governor directly about the seat, saying Emanuel only spoke with Blagojevich once recently to say he was taking the chief of staff post.
But sources with knowledge of the investigation said Blagojevich told his aides about the calls with Emanuel and sometimes gave them directions afterward. Sources said that early on, Emanuel pushed for the appointment of Jarrett to the governor and his staff and asked that it be done by a certain date.
At least some of the conversations between Emanuel and Blagojevich were likely caught on tape, sources said."
Bury your head in the sand on this but this IS a story because Obama IS the President and he IS connected with this entire mess. Not to mention his people DID lie initially about their involvment and when the president elects staff lies about something it makes me wonder why exactly they did so. Perhaps they were just covering their tracks and figured deny, deny, deny, until they were told that they had tapes with their guys where then Obama made the call to correct the "mistake". Like I said before imagine the reaction from the media if the Republicans were the crooked party.