Ask yourself, "Is this out of character for the people involved?" and the answer will most assuredly be a resounding 'yes.' Barak Obama has never used any opportunity for his own personal wealth. He went from President of the Harvard Law Review into being a ? Community Organizer ?. Come on, already, if he wanted to be wealthy becoming a Community Organizer was not the way to go.
These maneuvers are unscrupulous because the Republicans are desperate.
Enough already.
There is nothing 'going on' that anyone needs to care about and I remind whom is still in the White House pulling strings in every way possible. The Bush/Cheney Administration attempts to demoralize this nation all the time, there is nothing surprising about this or any other high jinks until January 20th.
22 months ago: BERKELEY, CA - FEBRUARY 01: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (L) and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger shake hands during a press conference at UC Berkeley February 1, 2007 in Berkeley, California. BP announced that it has selected UC Berkeley along with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to be part of a $500 million research program exploring how bioscience can be used to increase energy production while reducing the impact of energy consumption. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Rod Blagojevich;Arnold Schwarzenegger
RNC Goes on the Offense re: Blagojevich and Obama. McCain Comes to the Defense (click here)
December 15th, 2008 By: Michael Merritt Tags:
The Republican National Committee yesterday released an ad titled “Questions Remain.” It posed that Question everyone’s been asking regarding the scandal surrounding Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich: What did Obama know and when did he know it? Obama, for his part, says that he knew nothing, and reversed what his former chief strategist David Axelrod said last month about being in contact with the Governor regarding his preferences for the seat.
Meanwhile, it transpires that even if Obama himself didn’t have contact with Blagojevich, his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel may have. Of course, there’s nothing yet to suggest anything sinister between Emanuel and Blagojevich, but I think it shows that this first real test of an administration not even in power yet is not going well. The inability to handle possible scandal well is definitely one of Obama’s weaknesses that, while he’s improved upon during the campaign, still is not that well oiled of a machine.
Obama can count on some bi-partisan help though, namely from his former rival John McCain.
Via Politico, McCain blasted the RNC ad today:...
Emanuel "Dispatched" To Discuss Senate Seat (click here)
With unanswered questions fueling speculation about the extent of President-elect Obama's transition team's contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich regarding his vacant Senate seat, new details emerged about the controversy. The Wall Street Journal reports that Obama "had begun thinking about his Senate successor even before the presidential election, and dispatched Rahm Emanuel days after the vote to contact" Bagojevich aides "to begin talking up Mr. Obama's preferred candidates, associates of Mr. Emanuel said this weekend." Emanuel "didn't talk to Mr. Blagojevich directly about the matter, by phone or in person, according to people familiar with the matter. He spoke by phone with aides to the governor, those people say."...
