But why isn’t Rahm talking? Why didn’t Obama and his number one come forward sooner?
A new Rasmussen Reports survey conducted last Thursday and Friday finds that 45% of voters say it is “likely” Obama or one of his top campaign aides was involved in the unfolding Blagojevich scandal in Illinois. Twenty-three percent say it is “very likely.” –Just 11% say it is “not at all likely.” Not good numbers for an incoming chief executive.
When Obama releases his review he had better make sure that if he says there is no evidence of impropriety that no evidence surfaces at a later date. There has been speculation that there were confidential informants in Blago’s office and that the wire-tapping was present for longer than the nearly two months we already know about. — If that’s the case, it increases the likelihood that there could be more allegations involving someone close to Obama or political players from his past.
SOURCE: FOX Forum
I keep hearing from a couple of people that B. Hussein Obama hasn’t done anything wrong, well those couple must be from the other percentage of Americans that think Barack can’t do no wrong, boy do they have alot to learn! This scandal will go on for months if not years.
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(1) Attorney Fitzgerald Renews Interest in Rezko Payoff to Obama
So far the very limited amount of evidence in this case that has been released to the public indicates that Obama himself was uninvolved in the pay-for-play scheme. The FBI tapes seem to suggest that Blagovitch approached him and was quite angered by Obama’s refusal to play ball Chicago style.
Of course, that in no way clears Obama’s staff in any way. Emanuel is just the type to dirty deal Blagovitch.
The way this sounds is that there is much information that has not been released to the American people yet. We shall see for real if it goes to a grand jury.
Of course there’s a whole lot that we’re not currently privy to. It’s an active, ongoing criminal investigation.
This whole deal really reveals the true colors of Obama. He’s just words. He has no idea what transparency is, nor honesty. I really believed he was clean in this thing like most Americans until he came off as evasive. And there are so many yet to be uncovered scandals in this guy’s closet. Questions about his past cast doubt on his Constitutional eligibility and he hides his paper trail. What about his dealings with Tony Rezco and the fact that Obama’s home not only does not list Obama as owner, but is mortgaged with a Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac loan way above the government limits? And we now see how he got all his endorsements. How is it not pay to play if people who endorse you get top positions (ie: Hillary Clinton as Sec. of State and Caroline-no-experience-Kennedy gets to be New York Senator after Obama calls the NY Governor)?
I agree dsgawrsh, the way Obama and his staff are acting over this there is something else that has them worried.
dsgawrsh, good catch. Here’s more on the loan
http://www.bloggernews.net/119006
I used to live a few blocks from that address. We had six bathrooms, too, but they were in six different apartments.
What is sad is many Americans are just now seeing him like dsgawrsh said in his blog. All the previous accusations that no one believed, now seem more real. Now that we are stuck with him for the next four years. I truely feel that we are in for a bumpy ride, and said that from the begining. I told my friends who supported him that I just didn’t trust him, I wasn’t sure why then. Now I know. He can’t come clean and be straight forward about something like this? What’s he really going to do for our country?
“But why isn’t Rahm talking? Why didn’t Obama and his number one come forward sooner?”
Easy answer, but you didn’t want to post it, did you?
The answer? U.S. Attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, ASKED Obama and his people to have no comment for another week, so as to not interfere with his investigation.
And now we learn that Jesse Jackson Jr. was an FBI informant on Blagojevich for the last decade.
But none of that fits nicely with your “All Obama, Always Trashed, All the Time” credo, does it?
goodtimepolitics: Got tired of your name calling is why I didn’t allow your post, and away off subject trying to degrade President Bush!
There is alittle more to this Jesse Jackson Jr thing than you said, Jesse Jackson Jr was not a FBI informant on the Blagojevich senate seat sale. He was a informant on a deal a year or so ago! Check out your facts that you keep saying you go by only! So had nothing to do with Obama delaying giving out the list of names of his staff.
Jesse Jackson Jr. has the problem of the senate seat to worry about yet! Keep listening to the crooks in this case diogenes!
At the time I posted last evening, the report was that Jackson had been an informant for a decade. This morning, his office says it’s been two years.
You (and I) have no way of knowing WHY Fitzgerald asked Obama to stay quiet for the time being. You jumped to the incorrect conclusion that the ONLY possible reason would be if Obama were somehow implicated, and you ran with it.
And when you make the baseless claim that this incident HAS to be the biggest scandal since Clinton, you conveniently skipped right past Bushie. My comments were meant to show that Bushie’s (and, much more, Cheney’s) hands aren’t very clean, either.
And, while Clinton’s and possibly Obama’s hands may be dirty, Bushie’s and the Big Dick’s hands are dirty AND bloody. That must not mean much in your book, but it does in mine. And, quite possibly, in the minds of some of the 70 million who voted for Obama.