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What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Posted: December 9th, 2008, 3:44 pm
by southpaw

Re: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Posted: December 9th, 2008, 5:45 pm
by southpaw
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch ... arise.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... =worldwide

??? He didn't know??? Ya right. Another Bill Clinton playing semantic games with the English language.

Re: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Posted: December 9th, 2008, 5:55 pm
by southpaw
Connect the dots. Obama, Rhambo, and Axelrod all very big supporters and long time friends of Blagojevich. All served on his campaigns and were very close colleagues. So much for cleaning up the corruption in DC. All Obama has proved is that he will bring a tainted integrity record to the WH along with all the despicable Chicago political tactics that he and his two main advisers have used their whole political careers.

Re: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Posted: December 10th, 2008, 7:08 am
by RidgeDad
This one is about to get interesting........

But I'm certain of one thing. The MSM will build a bubble around Obama, and this thing will pass as quietly as it possibly can. Conservative talk radio will keep it alive, up until Obama is able to push through the "Fairness Doctrine" so that he can control that media as well.

Re: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Posted: December 10th, 2008, 8:55 am
by Lemmy
Have either of you half wits read the transcripts of the complaint and the wiretaps of what the governor called the president elect and his staff for not playing his game. Can't type those words on this board because of the little kiddies. Something Opedial related. You both claim to have gone to college so you know what that means.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... 1rod1.html

During a wiretapped November 10 call, a frustrated and financially strapped Blagojevich referred to Obama as a "************" and said that he would not appoint an ally of the President-elect to the Senate vacancy if "I don't get anything."

In a November 11 conversation, Blagojevich remarked that he knew Obama wanted Valerie Jarrett, a longtime confidante, to succeed him, "but they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. **** them."

Take a break from the man-on-man love you two are experiencing and read a little.

Re: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Posted: December 10th, 2008, 9:27 am
by RidgeDad
Lemmy wrote:Have either of you half wits read the transcripts of the complaint and the wiretaps of what the governor called the president elect and his staff for not playing his game. Can't type those words on this board because of the little kiddies. Something Opedial related. You both claim to have gone to college so you know what that means.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... 1rod1.html

During a wiretapped November 10 call, a frustrated and financially strapped Blagojevich referred to Obama as a "************" and said that he would not appoint an ally of the President-elect to the Senate vacancy if "I don't get anything."

In a November 11 conversation, Blagojevich remarked that he knew Obama wanted Valerie Jarrett, a longtime confidante, to succeed him, "but they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. **** them."

Take a break from the man-on-man love you two are experiencing and read a little.
A little touchy (and defensive) there are we? Obama's first scandal, and you're already coming off your rocker.

So I wonder, when Jarrett withdrew her name - did she withdraw because Blagojevich asked for something in return and she wanted no part in that? If so, being a close adviser to Obama, one would assume that she would've informed the President-elect of the shenanigans going on in their home state. You know, since she is a described as a "close political adviser".

And if that's the case, one would think (and hope - and maybe throw in some change), that the President-elect would have turned this guy in. Maybe he did, and maybe that's why Blago ended up being arrested.

All we're saying at this point is that this one could get real sticky for the Chosen One. And only the first layer of the onion has been peeled back. And I doubt many more layers will be - unlike the case if this would have been a Republican.

Man on man love? Come on Lemmy, you can do better than that. Besides, from your side, there isn't supposed to be anything wrong with that.

Re: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Posted: December 10th, 2008, 10:01 am
by RidgeDad
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/electio ... spotlight/

"But there are clearly some uncomfortable questions for Obama. Asked Tuesday in Chicago whether he had been in contact with Blagojevich about the job, Obama said, "I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening."

But Axelrod said on Chicago television Nov. 23 that the two had spoken. Asked if Obama had expressed a preference, Axelrod said he had not, but also said: "I know he's talked to the governor. And...there are a whole range of names, many of which have surfaced, and he's, I think he has a fondness for a lot of them."

On Tuesday, Axelrod said: "I was mistaken when I told an interviewer last month that the president-elect has spoken directly to Gov. Blagojevich about the Senate vacancy. They did not then or at any time discuss the subject." "

Re: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Posted: December 10th, 2008, 10:12 am
by southpaw
Lemmy stooping to name calling. Typical liberal tactic to demean people.

Re: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Posted: December 10th, 2008, 10:25 am
by vman
WOW, it looks like the Obama Pardon List is starting early. The office of the president-select can already start putting names on that pardon list. I'm sure that Rod Blagojevich is somebody that Obama barely knew or he probably never knew this Rod Blagojevich. So here we have Blagojevich, we have Rezko, we have Obama. This is quite a triangle here & It's gonna take a while to figure all of this out! Rezko and Blago and Obama go back together for a long, long time and now they're back together again. We got subpoenas; we got dot-connecting; we got land deals; we got cronies; we have corruption.... It's no wonder that Obama bought off Hillary with this Secretary of State appointment. I now understand why he's putting all these Clinton people in his administration. It was a brilliant move. There is speculation Obama knew all about this corruption investigation going down, not that he was tainted by it himself. The MSM is making it clear, in fact, without even knowing anything, that Obama had no knowledge of this! Ben Smith at The Politico says that the transition team -- that's Obama team -- was aware of this investigation. They were taping Blagojevich as recently as last Friday then they hand down their arrest and indictment..... They wanted to make their move before Obama's Senate seat could be sold and Blagojevich was trying to get a cushy union job out of this once he left the governorship. It's clear that he was trying to score big time by selling the seat. Quote from FBI spokesman Ross Rice, "The complaint alleges three separate and distinct areas of corruption that the two were allegedly involved in. One was the selling of President-Elect Obama's Senate seat. The second was financial dealings involving the Chicago Tribune. They were gonna to try and get assistance to them from the state for the sale of Wrigley Field in exchange for a purge of their editorial board. A third was the solicitation of campaign funds from people that wanted to do business with the state of Illinois." WON'T YOU PLEASE COME TO CHICAGO....but no one is going to know anything...RIGHT.... And, There's a subpoena out on the land deal records between Obama and Tony Rezko and Rezko's wife, and the only paper that had that story prior to the election was the Washington Times???

Re: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Posted: December 10th, 2008, 1:03 pm
by deliverance
He knew it all. Impeach him. :roll: