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Originally Posted by Rekna
So you think Obama is in the pocket of someone else?
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Obama owes Rev. Wright but I would not say he is in Wright's pocket. I think Obama owes Emil Jones but I would not say Obama is in Jone's pocket. That just two. Here is a quote regarding Jones and Obama:
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“You have the power to elect a US senator,” Obama told Emil Jones, Democratic leader of the Illinois state senate. Jones looked at the ambitious young man smiling before him and asked, teasingly: “Do you know anybody I could make a US senator?”
According to Jones, Obama replied: “Me.” It was his first, audacious step in a spectacular rise from the murky political backwaters of Springfield, the Illinois capital.
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The exchange also sealed an intimate personal and political relationship that is likely to attract intense scrutiny amid the furore over Obama’s links to some of Chicago’s most controversial political and religious power brokers.
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Barack Obama: toxic mentors start to corrode pristine campaign - Times Online
You can pretend Chicago politics is something it is not, but I don't. I was not in the Chicago area when Obama rose to power, but I know a bit about Chicago politics. the politics in Chicago has not changed over the years.
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So tell me if Obama has done nothing wrong then why are you trying to stain him with Blagovich's sins?
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I am not too concerned about this issue and think it will blow over fast. I am not even sure if the Il gov. committed a crime regarding the Senate seat. I just find it interesting that some say without a doubt Obama was not involved or aware and that he is cooperating, and is being transparent at a higher level than other administrations would be. I think Obama has been slow to disclose information.
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At the direction of the President-elect, a review of Transition staff contacts with Governor Blagojevich and his office has been conducted and completed and is ready for release. That review affirmed the public statements of the President-elect that he had no contact with the governor or his staff, and that the President-elect’s staff was not involved in inappropriate discussions with the governor or his staff over the selection of his successor as US Senator.
Also at the President-elect’s direction, Gregory Craig, counsel to the Transition, has kept the US Attorney’s office informed of this fact-gathering process in order to ensure our full cooperation with the investigation.
In the course of those discussions, the US Attorney’s office requested the public release of the Transition review be deferred until the week of December 22, in order not to impede their investigation of the governor. The Transition has agreed to this revised timetable for release.
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Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Obama Team's Statement on Blagojevich Contacts
What do they know today that they did not know last week? If they can go far enough to say nothing happened illegally why can't they say what they know now? I guess we will findout, perhaps on X-mas eve (slow news day with most focusing on the holiday).