Obama lied? You decide.


What did the president-elect know, and when did he stop knowing it? Yesterday, the Lightworker attempted to distance himself from his good buddy Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) in familiar Obama fashion – by tossing the accused crook under the bus:

“Obviously like the rest of the people of Illinois I am saddened and sobered by the news that came out of the US attorney’s office today. But as this is a ongoing investigation involving the governor I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to comment on the issue at this time.”

This was apparently “not the Rod Blagojevich” he knew. Pressed harder on the question of whether he had discussions with the governor’s office about any potential candidates for his Senate seat, Obama replied:

“I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not… I was not aware of what was happening.”

That curious answer was somewhat Clintonesque, in the manner of, “I did not have political relations with that man, Governor Blagojevich.” It seems even more curious in light of the fact that Obama’s senior advisor David Axelrod had gone on the record last month with a statement which contradicts what the president-elect said. The Axeman said on Chicago’s Fox affiliate that although Obama had not designated any specific person to warm his Senate seat:

“I know he’s talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.”

Team Obama quickly made a course correction and issued a statement from Axlerod:

“I was mistaken when I told an interviewer last month that the President-elect has spoken directly to Governor Blagojevich about the Senate vacancy. They did not then or at any time discuss the subject.”

So “I know” became inoperative, to be replaced with “I was mistaken.”

“Fair enough,” said a relieved Obamedia. “No problem.”

But unfortunately for the Hope and Change set, there is a problem. Let’s set the Not-So-Wayback machine for November 5, more than two weeks before the day Axlerod allegedly “misspoke.” Quincy, IL television station KQHA reported:

Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

That’s one of Obama’s first priorities today.

He’s meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it.

Three days later, the station followed up with this update:

Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it…

So in light of the two KHQA news reports, are we expected to believe that Axlerod really didn’t know what he originally said he knew?

Welcome to Crooks and Liars, Corruptocrat style. And you can throw that Hope and Change nonsense under the bus… that is, if there’s any room for it among the pile of political corpses. That’s the Chicago way.

Update 1: Some events which I can only be describe as Orwellian  have transpired since this was posted.

First, Connect Tristates, the site where the two KQHA stories my post linked to, scrubbed both articles.  They no longer exist, at least on that site.

Shortly thereafter, KQHA posted the following on the Tristates site:

KHQA TV wishes to offer clarification regarding a story that appeared last month on our website ConnectTristates.com. The story, which discussed the appointment of a replacement for President Elect Obama’in the U.S. Senate, became the subject of much discussion on talk radio and on blog sites Wednesday.

The story housed in our website archive was on the morning of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place. Governor Blagojevich did appear at a news conference in Chicago on that date.

Well, that sure didn’t take long, did it? If history proves to be embarrassing, just change it! I wonder who made the phone call to KQHA? Fortunately, some intrepid souls familiar with this sort of revisionism by our unworthy political opponents, got screen captures.

The only way to perpetuate a lie is by telling more lies.

Update 2: Still up on the Governor’s website is this press release dated Nov. 5, with the following header:

Governor Blagojevich Congratulates President-elect Obama and Discusses U.S. Senate Seat To fill President-Elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat, Governor will use deliberate process to select suitable replacement

They can scrub this one too, but Gateway Pundit has the screen capture here.

If the KQHA report was indeed mistaken, as the station now maintains, why did it and the updated report which was posted three days later and appeared to confirm the Nov 5 story both remain on the Tristate website for over a month?

Update 3: When Obama insisted yesterday that he had “no contact with the governor or his office,” did he mean no contact at all or no contact about the Senate seat?

According to a Dec 1 report by stations WBMD and WZZY in Springfield, IL:

Governor Rod Blagojevich is turning to the president elect for help in a billion dollar budget shortfall.

The governor will meet Monday and Tuesday Philadelphia with Barack Obama. Their discussion will focus on Illinois’ $2 billion deficit and how the Land of Lincoln will manage its 2009 fiscal year.

Also, the suburban Chicago newspaper The Daily Herald reported on Dec. 3rd that Gov. Blagojevich flew to the National Governors Association meeting in Philadelphia to “tell fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama how bad things are in the state they both


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4 years of Obama scandals. I'm so pumped. (nt)

RJD (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 1:39PM EST (link)

*snark*

 

I almost feel sorry for Obama

JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 2:29PM EST (link)

Almost.

Every morning, when he wakes up, he has to be hit with the thought: “Who will it be today? Who will turn out to be ‘not the (fill in the blank) that I knew’?”

Does he wake up in a cold sweat, heart pounding, wondering exactly how many friends he has left to “distance” (emphasis on “dis”)?

Ok, my moment of sympathy has passed. Back to giggling and snickering.

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

 

Wow

Lammo (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 2:35PM EST (link)

The junior senator from illinois travels from “I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to comment on the issue at this time.” to calling for the Democrat Governor’s resignation in what, less than 24 hours? Pretty soon he’ll be changing his story before the ink can dry. That and there’s going to be a shortage of busses somewhere.

Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (John Corapi, The Black Sheep Dog)

 

who could/would/should take the IL Senate seat appointment from BlahGo... I'll tell you who...

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 2:46PM EST (link)

Yesterday afternoon I already started saying What did Oblahblah know and when did he know it? … The need for a Special Prosecutor</a), because after all it is a “serious set of circumstances” and any allegations, or even implications, “demand we look into this matter.” I say that, specifically, because you (may or may not) remember how the Democrats always ask the General Public to get behind them in the need to invoke Special Prosecutors to investigate anything/everything that involves Republicans, whether a Republican President is involved OR NOT! So, DEMOCRATS, let a Special Prosecutor look into this matter and make sure your Radical-Elect isn’t involved.

As for who could/would/should BlahGo attempt to appoint to Obambam’s empty Senate seat and take it?!?! I have several options. If BlahGo wants to still boldly go forth with his appointment process out of spite, and I greatly encourage him to do so ;-) he has the following potential options and the following folks should seriously consider accepting the post for the short time they would get to Office before being voted out in the next election.

Before I name them, Why should they say Yes? Simple…. they are relegated to obscurity anyway, and here is there ONLY chance to actually make a splash in national US Politics…

but now that I think about it.. I think I’ll look into this premise a tad more…. Watch for a coming Diary soon ;-) at RS:JLenardDetroit Diaries.

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
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“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
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The Folly Of Electing A Cypher

hunter (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 3:25PM EST (link)

If the democrats and the press ahd done their job of closely scrutinizing Barak, instead of enabling his hype, we would not be dealing with this potential disaster.
There is no way he or his close insiders were not at least somewhat involved with this business-as-usual scam in Illinois.
Jesse Jackson Jr was out trying to bid on the seat.
Obama, from the public record, did in fact meet with the Gov. on the succession plan.
Why not?
He got his other two election victories by playing machine insider games.
We know he played financial games in this election.
What other games has team Obama been playing?
Putting a seat out for bid is nothing to players like this.

hunter

The BigLieOvich - Obama connection:

redneck_hippie (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 5:30PM EST (link)

Empty Suit brokers Empty Seat. No mystery at all.


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BHO bought the presidency...

izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 3:27PM EST (link)

…so what is new?

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

Don't go too far with this yet.

John E. (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 3:56PM EST (link)

The Sun-Tmes reported on Nov. 6 that Blagovich said he had not yet met with Obama.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/10/no-discussions-between-blago-and-obama-maybe/

And you believe him?

Josh Painter (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 5:20PM EST (link)

Yeah, Blago has really shown himself to be the zenith of crediblity, don’t you think?

- JP

“An armed society is a polite society” – Robert A. Heinlein, “Beyond This Horizon” (1942)

 

John E., in the land of lawyerspeak

mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 6:11PM EST (link)

“met with” and “talked to” are not even close to being the same thing.

C'mon Becker.

John E. (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 8:11PM EST (link)

You must know I’m didn’t post this to defend Obama.This is to defend us.

I wanted to find support for the KQHA quote (which BTW, the content is blocked on the initial report link) but what I turned up is this from the Sun-Times. I’m including it here because apparently it is too troublesome to follow the link…

“When it comes to filling the remaining two years of Obama’s term, Blagojevich said he intends to turn over the vetting process for Obama’s successor to several high-level staffers in his office whom he wouldn’t name. The governor also said he intends to appoint someone no later than Jan. 1 and possibly before Christmas.
“I’ve never had more friends than I do today. And when I make the final decision, I won’t have nearly as many as I have now,” he said.
Saying he had no favorite candidate yet, Blagojevich said he has not spoken to Obama about the matter but would give “a great deal of weight” to the recommendations the president-elect might make.
The governor said some suitable Obama replacements included Senate President Emil Jones (D-Chicago), Veteran Affairs secretary Tammy Duckworth, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) but cautioned against “reading anything into” his naming of those people.

This is contemporaneous reporting just like the KQHA stuff is. One of these news outlets got it wrong and I am disappointed but I think it was KQHA. There is no reason Blago would be contradicting on Nov.6 something we are reading into his web stie press release of Nov. 5.

Obama was a Blago supporter and his transparent-politics/reformer image is hyporcrisy given his success in Chicago politics. But this KQHA story doesn’t make our case.

John, I was adding a touch of snark to the recipe.

mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 8:18PM EST (link)

This has the hallmark of an “interesting” event.

well.... ok

John E. (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 8:34PM EST (link)

I’ll grant you that I’m often the last to grasp the humor. Gong! Peace be upon you.

Back to seriousness. The window Fitz has opened has the hallmark of a revealing event into Obama’s character.

 
 
 
 

Mayun, and I thought that the Clintons were word parsers.

phred (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 6:36PM EST (link)

We’re going to need interpreters to get through the next 4 years.

Liberalism: Equally shared misery.

 
 

which lie

emgbane (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 4:58PM EST (link)

Which was the lie. Were they lying to make Obama seem engaged, or are they lying now about Obama’s engagement. I imagine since the feds have recordings of Blago, the lie was that Obama was engaged.

It is so hard to find the real Obama in all this stage management.

I’m still waiting to discover who he actually is. I’m waiting because while the left always claimed Reagan and Bush were sock-puppets the facts were never on the left’s side. Obama may actually be a sock-puppet, time will tell.

 

a good in depth look at a piece of the puzzle

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 6:07PM EST (link)

bringing all the pieces together the BlahGo affairs.

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

 

too sad

Janice Cantore Wednesday, December 10th at 7:40PM EST (link)

This would be funny if it were not so sad. I guess growing up politically in corruption, being surrounded by corruption in the friends you pick, engaging in corruption to further your own career, doesn’t really mean you are corrupt.

I was ready and willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, Though I didn’t vote for him, he is now the president, and I wanted to believe he really was concerned about the best for the nation, not his own corrupt politics, now this. Man, this presidency looks like it will be Bill Clinton’s on steroids.

Sorry if this is rambling, but I feel like I’ve been watching a train wreck, I new it was going to happen, but I hoped and prayed that it wouldn’t happen but it did happen and when it did it was way worse than I ever thought it could be.

Janice Cantore

 

The real question here is ......

Michael Dugas (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 7:54PM EST (link)

The real question here is why would Blagojevich feel that it was ok, there was no problem and no danger in approaching Obamasan about such a criminal enterprise? And when Obamasan dissed him he was angry like he had been betrayed. These are not the actions and reactions of someone unfamiliar with who they were dealing with.
For example:
“The governor was overheard saying of the transition team: “they’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation. F**k them.”

At another point, the Blagojevich used the same epithet with regard to Obama himself.

It appears that the governor sought various and sundry benefits for himself, his wife and his campaign in return for Obama’s seat. Blagojevich is quoted as saying that a Senate seat “is a f**king valuable thing, you just don’t give it away for nothing.”

There are links to stories and the tapes transcripts in previous posts
on this string. Read the transcripts, it is a VERY interesting inside look into the Chicago, Illinois politics that birthed our very own Obamasan. There are some very familiar names in those transcripts, “Tony” Rezko, Ali Ata, and they all seem to be doing some talking. Who knows what the future will bring but it is obvious
that a majority of our country voted for an empty suit who never put much thought into who he is associating with, or maybe he did and determined they were “His” kind of people. The Indicted Kind!

Intro to Federalist Papers; section 5;
paragraph 4.
“…dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the zeal for a firm and efficient government.”

Remember: A Citizen on the dole is a Liberal Vote at the Polls.
END ENTITLEMENTS!

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum !

 

Speaking of Caroline Kennedy...

JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 10:07PM EST (link)

I wonder how much Hillary’s senate seat is going for?

I’m just sayin’.

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

 

Which is worse: clueless or completely corrupt?

JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Wednesday, December 10th at 10:15PM EST (link)

So the Guv of IL is selling anything he can to the highest bidder. The guy who helped Obama get his house, Rezko, is a convicted felon, now apparently singing for a lighter sentence. JJ2 is Candidate 5, allegedly bidding a reported million bux. Rev Wright has been spewing hate for years. And Bill Ayers is an unrepentant bomber.

Did I leave anyone out? I’m sure I did.

Sez the Prez-Elect: Gee, I never noticed. These are not the peeps I knew.

Uh huh.

I bet the CoS never noticed either.

I wonder if they are planning on bringing Mrs O’Leary’s cow with them to Washington.

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson

 

Welcome to my neighborhood America!!

cookcountyconservative (Diary) Thursday, December 11th at 2:59AM EST (link)

n/t

 

"The Gut"

OccamsRazor (Diary) Thursday, December 11th at 3:07AM EST (link)

We ALL know the president-elect is involved.

and only the blogosphere will uncover it...

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, December 11th at 3:22AM EST (link)

the ObaMedia has invested far too much in getting the Obamaniac elected to let ANYTHING come anywhere close to him…. They will be covering some aspects of these stories, but they will all only be presenting facts (and other da**ed lies) that fit the agenda….. Anything that Obama has said/done where video and/or soundbites exist will come out quickly so they can SPIN the best tale! What they can’t explain away to the ObaZombies, they will bury!

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

 
 

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