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1. #576844
   On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

   The accounts support your statement on December 11, 2008 that you “have never spoken to the
   Governor on this subject [or] about these issues,” and that you “had no contact with the
   Governor’s office.” In addition, the accounts contain no indication of inappropriate discussions
   with the Governor or anyone from his office about a “deal” or a quid pro quo arrangement in
   which he would receive a personal benefit in return for any specific appointment to fill the
   vacancy.

   Well, there you have it in black and white! The ‘investigation’ concludes that The One spoke the truth! There’s nothing to see here… move along.

2. #576847
   On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm, huhwhat said:

   Hmm, so this is change we can believe in. We never, er uh umm, we know nothing.

3. #576848
   On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:08 pm, hatfield said:

   snort, snicker.

4. #576851
   On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:10 pm, Netfest said:

   Anyone seen that “investigative media”?
   Anyone…?
   Bueller..?

5. #576854
   On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

   Well that settles that I am sure. If you can’t trust a Clintonite who can you trust?

6. #576858
   On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:15 pm, faraway said:

   On Thursday, December 18, 2008 (the President-Elect) was interviewed by Federal officials.

   Isn’t this breaking news?

7. #576859
   On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:17 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

   Nothing that Obama’s best friend can’t fix…

   Media the Lapdog: Blagojevich Hits The Fan

8. #576861
   On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:20 pm, Cicero said:

   What we have here is a classic “modified, limited hang-out.”

9. #576864
   On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

   On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:15 pm, faraway said:
   On Thursday, December 18, 2008 (the President-Elect) was interviewed by Federal officials.

   Isn’t this breaking news?

   Read that section again…

   These accounts were communicated to the Office of the United States Attorney in interviews that were conducted last week.

   The Feds didn’t interview him, the ‘internal investigators’ did the interviews and gave the accounts to the Feds.

10. #576865
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:27 pm, TXGator said:

    The Obama camp releases the findings of it’s internal investigation:
    Fortunately, we’ve found nothing wrong with anything we’ve every done. After looking at our hearts, we’ve confirmed we have always had the best intentions and are loyal to a fault to the American people.
    Anyone who says otherwise is racist, homophobic, misogynistic, Islamaphobic, works for Faux News, or is generally an awful human being.

11. #576866
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm, JD in D.C. said:

    I didn’t see anything about the F*#%-ing Cubs tickets anywhere.

12. #576867
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:31 pm, vickisoup said:

    “1 or 2 calls”. Well…which was it??
    Argh.
    

13. #576868
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:31 pm, purplepeep said:

    Ya just gotta believe Nixon is weeping in his grave today for not insisting his own investigation of himself was the final word re:the Watergate “distraction”.

14. #576869
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm, faraway said:

    Dexter, the internal report was complete on Dec 15th before the interviews were held.

15. #576870
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm, purplepeep said:

    vickisoup said:
    “1 or 2 calls”. Well…which was it??

    Simple, Vicki, it means “a couple”, “a few”, “some”. Clear as Mississippi mud.

16. #576874
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm, faraway said:
    Dexter, the internal report was complete on Dec 15th before the interviews were held.

    Perhaps I misread.

17. #576875
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm, TXGator said:

    Please stop questioning the ONE, you closed-minded bigots!

18. #576877
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm, faraway said:

    a transition official disclosed that Obama and two of his top aides, Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett, have been interviewed in connection with the federal investigation

19. #576878
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm, frontierguy said:

    Is this going to work for BHO forever? I mean, is he going to claim that he had no idea what Ahmanutjob, Chavez and Putin are doing, or did? If he has no clue what the people closest to him are doing, how can anyone trust him to keep the country safe? Even in some criminal cases enough circumstantial evidence will support a finding of guilty. BHO is going to be in the same category as the teflon don.

20. #576879
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:42 pm, jbh45 said:

    So BO’s team investigated itself and found no wrong doing. What a surprise!

21. #576882
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm, imjustsaying said:

    Jeez, talk about derangement syndrome! Michelle does a great job of vetting information, has she (or anyone here) come up with ANY evidence that the Obama team did something wrong here?

22. #576886
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm, faraway said:

    Drudge is finally catching on that Obama was interviewed by Fitz last week.

23. #576887
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm, faraway said:

    Exit question: Was it under oath?

24. #576888
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 6:02 pm, southsideironworks said:

    Team Obama, upon completion of their internal investigation, state that no wrongdoing occurred when speaking with Team Blago.

    MSM applauds Team Obamas openness and transparency and declares Obie innocent of any impropriety.

25. #576900
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 pm, purplepeep said:

    imjustsaying said:
    Michelle does a great job of vetting information, has she (or anyone here) come up with ANY evidence that the Obama team did something wrong here?

    Yeah, kid, you tell ‘em! I’m still steamed that Nixon was framed!!

26. #576901
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 6:27 pm, DaveCal said:

    So why is Jarrett discussing the senate seat with the guy from the SEIU?

    Is this SEIU guy tied into the conversations on the wiretaps where they discuss the 501c4 issue?

    Why is there nothing stated at all about possible deals for positions for Blago’s wife? Oversight? Conveniently left out?

    And more than anything I LOVE the self serving statements throughout. Why does the author go out of his way to explain Axelrod’s “mis-statement” that O spoke with Blago? Why does he go out of his way to explain all the names that O thought were qualified and acceptable? And why does he go out of his way to say that O didn’t want to show any preference for one over another?

    Did he list JJJr (and others) to save political face, so it looks like O would be ok with any of them (especially JJJr)? I bet the tapes show a different view about JJJr. Why else would Blago “threaten” to put “Candidate No. 5″ in the seat as punishment for O’s unwillingness to play ball?

27. #576904
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm, Bill Grant said:

    Blagojevich has just done an investigation on himself to determine if there was any impropriety on his behalf and the verdict was: F-ing innocent!

28. #576915
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 6:53 pm, graysonret said:

    So they did an internal investigation and decided that they didn’t do anything wrong. Uh, uh. How nice. “Hello, IRS? I did an internal audit on myself and I don’t owe any taxes for 2008.” Well, if they can do it, why can’t I?

29. #576916
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm, KCK said:

    Pardon me, Mr. president-elect, what’s that yick sticking to your shoes?”

    “Oh, that’s a pile of Blagovich that I stepped in…”

30. #576925
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 7:14 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    “Mr. Emanuel had one or two telephone calls with Governor Blagojevich…”

    “…each lasting over 6 hours and discussing items like the sale of Senator Obama’s senate seat, the removal of editors from the Tribune, and how Obama is directly linked to this entire f’ing mess. Other than that, there wasn’t much said.”

    Would someone please tell me how any of this is different from Chicago politics for the last 150 years?

31. #576938
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 pm, mojack420 said:

    all I have to say about this is Bull$&^#.
    maybe the Pebo-bites will swallow this steaming load of monkey $&^#, But i won’t.

32. #576939
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 7:57 pm, almeehan said:

    And the idiots who voted for him will be entirely satisfied with this tripe! We’re doomed.

33. #576940
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 8:06 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    Mr. Emanuel had one or two telephone calls with Governor Blagojevich…

    OK, so how many email exchanges, text messages, instant messages and face to face meetings did he have?

34. #576941
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 8:07 pm, cristomer said:

    So, Obama “forgot” about this meeting with Blago:

    http://www.rense.com/general84/fcts.htm

35. #576944
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 8:14 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    I hope the fumigators they needed after the Clinton Administration were kept on retainer.

36. #576961
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 9:22 pm, rightisright said:

    Did anyone really expect anything that could be negative or condemning to the ‘O’ to show up…gads I’m sick of these crooked politicians. He has to be the most arrogant of them all, including Bubba.
    Think hard just how many decent presidents have we had in the last 100 years, not good mind you, just decent?

37. #576967
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm, Socky said:

    The morally and financially bankrupt New York Times rejects a rebuttal to Bill Ayers’s self-serving editorial.

38. #576968
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 9:52 pm, LC said:

    Why is the MSM reporting that Obama’s lawyer’s internal “investigation” has cleared the incoming administration of all wrongdoing? Since when does the party being investigated also do the investigating? Have I wandered into bizzaro world?

39. #576973
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    no LC you have wandered into the world of leftist libratards who’ll run your life for the next 4 years or so…and don’t you dare question the one or you’ll be in a re-education camp writing on a chalk board or listening to his “just words” “just speeches” speech 24×7….

40. #576975
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 pm, Flyoverman said:

    The difference between Obama and Clinton, is Clinton knows how to get away with a lie.

    Obama has led a pampered PROTECTED public life. I am not sure he is up to being able to do the things he needs to do to slither out of this situation, if in fact he and his staff did something wrong, which I think is likely.

41. #576976
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 10:39 pm, Branden-in-escalon said:

    What?!?!? You dare to question the great and powerful OZ? We should, of course, accept this at face value, right? (…and pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain).

42. #576987
    On December 23rd, 2008 at 11:59 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    The difference between Obama and Clinton, is Clinton knows how to get away with a lie.

    He’s learned sign language?

43. #577002
    On December 24th, 2008 at 1:26 am, npphotog said:

    zzzzz

44. #577003
    On December 24th, 2008 at 1:26 am, CW4_KGP said:

    On December 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm, frontierguy said:
    Is this going to work for BHO forever? I mean, is he going to claim that he had no idea what Ahmanutjob, Chavez and Putin are doing, or did? If he has no clue what the people closest to him are doing, how can anyone trust him to keep the country safe? Even in some criminal cases enough circumstantial evidence will support a finding of guilty. BHO is going to be in the same category as the teflon don.

    The answer is obvious:”This is not the (insert name of most recent character failure exhibit or leader here) that I knew.

    Its like a poster I saw with BHO’s picture waving his hand in a dismissing motion. The poster was in the style of a motivationsal poster. The caption was “IMPROVISATION When making stuff up before large crowds always remember that half of them will believe whatever you say and the other half can be dismissed quickly with the ancient mystical hand wave of the Nao-Lin ninja“

45. #577007
    On December 24th, 2008 at 2:28 am, ajmontana said:

    All five little pages of it.

    Well, that’s 4 1/2 more pages than Odopeys thin resume for President.
    But he’s present.

46. #577042
    On December 24th, 2008 at 7:03 am, FamilyMan said:

    Take it easy folks. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John have already vetted the Messiah.

47. #577076
    On December 24th, 2008 at 8:32 am, cabrerski said:

    Facts:
    1. Politicians lie.
    2. Politicians lie about lying.
    3. Politicians use subordinates and lawyers to distance themselves from the lie (internal investigations).
    4. The media is selective about finding the facts (due to laziness, agenda, or being trivialized by earlier stands/writings).
    5. The rest of the MSM does not want to embarrass their counterparts, so they do not pursue.
    5. Ignore it long enough, it becomes a non-issue (except Lewinski and a few others).

    Conclusion:
    I thought that Watergate proved that the media considered the coverup to be worse than the original crime/issue. As a journalist, the scent of a coverup should fire up the blood and start the investigation.
    It may be that Obama (not Emanuel) is relatively innocent, so why the spinning?

48. #577110
    On December 24th, 2008 at 9:35 am, Boomer said:

    There is nothing like the fox guarding the hen house. A five page report that allegedly claims the anointed one and his lackeys are innocent of any inappropriate behavior. They couldn’t produce a phone log to confirm it was 1 or 2 phone calls, great investigative method there. I sure hope they keep better records of their White House correspondence (as dictated by law) after 20 Jan 09, not that anyone in the MSM will be filing FOIA requests to find out what shenanigans Clinton Administration Act III will be up to this time.

    ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!

49. #577140
    On December 24th, 2008 at 10:31 am, BrianNY said:

    Example of Craig’s investigative prowess: “Mr. Emanuel had one or two telephone calls with Governor Blagojevich.”

    Isn’t Craig one of those 1998 pant-loads who told us, for six long months, that Clinton “never had sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky?”

    Why should I believe him this time?

    Also, I invite all liberals at this site to review Mr. Craig’s academic resume (a rich, liberal daddy who ran Stanford University…entry into Philips Exeter Academy…Harvard…Cambridge University…Yale Law School…etc.)

    Can we expect the same caterwauls of “rich, priviledged, legacy-driven, riding on daddy’s academic coattails, pampered white guy” that you reserved for GW?

50. #577149
    On December 24th, 2008 at 10:43 am, BrianNY said:

    More from Greg Craig’s professional resume:

    1. In 1981, he represented John Hinckley, Jr., who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan.

    2. Craig represented Senator Ted Kennedy during the 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith.

    3. He represented the Cuban father of Elián González during the 2000 child custody dispute.

    4. Craig represented United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan during the Volker Commission’s investigations in 2004 into the scandals involving the oil-for-food program.

    5. Recently, he represented Pedro Miguel González Pinzón, a Panamanian legislator wanted in the US for the murder in 1992 of a US soldier, and the attempted murder of another.

    6. In 1983 to 1984, working with Edward Bennett Williams, Mr. Craig represented Victor Posner who was charged with tax evasion in federal court in Miami.

    I get the feeling that when little Greg Craig watched cowboy movies in his youth…he wasn’t rooting for the guy in the white hat.

    He and Obama/Clinton will be perfect together.

51. #577475
    On December 25th, 2008 at 12:32 am, RabbidSquirrel said:

    You racist simpletons just cant wrap your feeble little minds around the greatness and intricate complexity of Democrat politics can you. Answers with truth are for persons of intellect far superior to ours. Dont question. You cant understand what little there is for you to comprehend as it is.

52. #579343
    On December 30th, 2008 at 10:56 am, Cosmo said:

    All of this hard-hitting investigation comes up with “one or two conversations”???

    Which one is it?

    This is Clintonism at its finest. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” “I didn’t inhale.” “That depends on what your definition of “is” is.”

    More change we can believe in, I suppose?

53. #583796
    On January 5th, 2009 at 8:05 pm, cabrerski said:

    Problem #103 of 2000 things wrong with our country…

    When did we allow spokesholes like Greg Craig to speak on behalf of anyone without questioning them of how they obtained the knowledge? This is how a real Q & A session (press conference) should go…

    Craig: The Chief of Staff to the President-elect only had one or two conversations with the Governor.
    Reporter: How do you know? Were you there?
    Craig: Uhh…no. It was reported to me.
    Reporter: Who reported it to you and who was present during the conversations?
    Craig: I am just trying to clarify the situation…
    Reporter: Well, if you don’t know, then why are you telling us otherwise unless someone directed you to tell us. Who would that be?
    Craig: Uhh…I cannot reveal that.
    Reporter: So you are either lying or have nothing to add to this conversation, is that it?
    Craig: (Angry) You son of a b****, I’m telling my Mommy…You’ll never get an interview in this town again…

    Ok, ok…took it a little to far, but I am sure you get the gist.