Obama again denies discussing Senate successor with Blagojevich.»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/10/obama-reiterates-denial/

Obama again denies discussing Senate successor with Blagojevich.»

Yesterday, President-elect Obama denied discussing with Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) who should fill his recently-vacated U.S. Senate seat. However, bloggers quickly noted two different news accounts suggesting that Obama had recently met or spoken with Blagojevich regarding his successor. Yet in a joint interview with the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune today, Obama again denied any contact with Blagojevich regarding his seat:

Q: Have you ever spoken to Gov. Blagojevich about the Senate seat?

OBAMA: I have not discussed the Senate seat with the governor at any time. My strong belief is that it needed to be filled by somebody who is going to represent the people of Illinois and fight for them. And beyond that, I was focused on the transition.

Yesterday, Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said he was “mistaken” when he recently suggested that the President-elect had met with Blagojevich to discuss the open seat.

[ananda]

1. If Obama HAD discussed the seat with Blag..

.. wouldn't it be on tape?

[mrcheerful]

2. Like that really matters to the nit wits and MSM? Did that stop them from saying he had

strong ties to Ayers? Did it stop them from saying he was a muslum and went to an asian radical muslum school? Did it stop them from any of the crap they spewed every since he started his run for the white house? The answer sadly is no, he has ties with the gov, they lived in the same state and both work in government so there are ties..................to the nit wits and MSM.

[monmouth]

3. Exactly....Next?...n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Even if he did, so what?

As long as he wasn't making promises to get his guy in, there would be nothing in and of itself unethical about advocating for a successor to your own seat.

[babylonsister]

6. He said he didn't. I tend to believe him. There'd be no reason to lie. nt

[gratuitous]

5. Nothing in the indictment, no statement from Blago, and a direct denial from Obama

That's enough for our faultless media to continue to ask and ask and ask. But one irrelevant non-denial denial from the Bush White House about something that actually means something, and it's a shrug and "Okay, they had nothing to do with the leaking of Valerie Plame's identity" (or whatever).

[babylonsister]

7. Yup, the double standard is alive and well. The rethugs are on tv

demanding an explanation! :eyes:

[gratuitous]

8. They know the media will cover them as long as they're making noise

And that sets the table for an endless feast of "lingering questions" and "a cloud over the Obama presidency" until such time as some actual questions arise. Then it becomes the eternal referent: "Since before he was even sworn in as president, ethical questions have dogged Barack Obama . . ."