According to the facts it seems his chief of staff is deep up to his neck in his ties to the failed governor and had knowledge of his misdealings. Instead of notifying the public he has remained silent. I guess this is the transparency that we can count on for the Obama administration.
Republicans are criticizing President-elect Barack Obama's silence over contacts his aides may have had with disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, saying he is breaking promises to bring openness to government.
"While it is encouraging that the president-elect has stated his office will disclose contacts with the scandal-ridden governor, it remains disappointing that his actions are in response to political pressure," Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. "Mike" Duncan said.
"Americans expect the highest degree of transparency from their elected leaders, rather than promises of openness on the campaign trail," he said.
Rahm Emanuel, who has been tapped by Obama to be his White House chief of staff, had conversations beginning just before the Nov. 4 election with Blagojevich's administration about who would replace Obama in the Senate, according to a report Saturday in the Chicago Tribune.
Emanuel, a Chicago congressman who has long been close to both Blagojevich and Obama, gave Blagojevich's chief of staff a list of Democrats acceptable to Obama to fill the Senate seat, according to the Tribune report. The report did not suggest there was any dealmaking in the conversations, which were captured on court-ordered wiretaps.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081213/ap_o鈥?/a>|||all of this is extremely bad for morale.
Valerie Jarrett can hug a nut for saying that her chosen voivod is going to "rule" over anyone
Emanuel can take his kibbutz "Plan" and shove it
a great many of those "community religious leaders" are manifestations of the Whore of Babylon
a million dollars spent to suppress eligibility documentation? what a sham, what a joke.|||Bad moon rising eh!|||"The report did not suggest there was any dealmaking in the conversations." And the governor confirms on tape that Obama wasn't going to give him anything and curses him for it.
So -- what the hell are you and the other Republicoids yammering about?|||Blagojevich has a long history of corruption not just this senate seat nonsense. All his Obamabots want to say he's not involved with the senate seat nonsense (which I can probably believe that) and therefore he is not embroiled in any of this dude's corruption. That's a farce. There is pretty much no way that Obama could've sat there as Senator of Illinois and not been involved with the Governor of Illinois' dealings. I'm not even sure Obama's camp at least wasn't involved in this senate seat nonsense. He and his camp hasn't actually been cleared yet. Obama should know what his aids and advisors are doing, if he knew that these people were contracting with Blagojevich and he kept his mouth shut then he's guilty as far as I'm concerned. If he didn't know, then he'll be no kind of leader for the US if he can't even keep his aides in line.|||What i find funny is he has said that he has not discussed who should take over his seat with the Illinois Gov. That's just stupid of course you would, but does not mean that you would offer a bribe or any thing, after all it was your seat.
Once it comes out that he did talk about his seat he will just say yea I forgot about that, or say the Illinois Gov isn't the same man he once knew. This doesn't mean he did anything illegal just means he didn't want to get caught up in a mess but just another one of his political truths.
You DO NOT have to Respect the man. you DO have to Respect the office|||Do you have poor reading comprehension skills? Your post just confirmed Obama did not have anything to do with any bribes since Blago cursed Obama out for not offering anything for the Senate seat. Thanks for the points.|||What we are jammering about is that Obama said that none of his staff had contact with Blago concerning the seat! His chief of staff is on tape discussing it! That makes them both liars! They may not have made a deal but a lie is a lie and is not transparent Government! The story keeps changing from the Obama camp! stay tuned until tommorow for another version!
Proud Vet
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