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it depends on your definition of what *met* is

By American Girl in Italy on December 11, 2008 at 9:10 PM in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Current Affairs, Jesse Jackson Jr.

(bumped up from this afternoon)

Jesse *let me repeat* Jackson, “I met with Blagojevich for the first time in four years, on Tuesday.”

Now, perhaps he means in an actual conference room, with pens, pads of paper, and donuts (or bagels), but it’s not *just words* in these situations. I would think, during a press conference, in a serious situation such as this, you would be very, very careful.

Because, as I read on Newsbusters, here is Jesse last August, tearfully hugging Blagojevich. There is much more here, at newbusters, from P.J. Gladnick.

It sure sounds like, according to the reports, that someone was offering to pony up, up to a million big ones, for Jesse to get the Senate seat. So, he needs to be very careful about what he denies, and when he denies it happened.

And if Obama has nothing to hide, in addition to all the scrubbing going on wrt news stories, why are they now scrubbing their own web site, and not allowing any Blago questions? From Politico: Blagojevich questions censored on Transition site

Politico has another article called * 7 Blago questions for Obama*. Too bad anytime someone tries to ask Obama those questions, they are deleted.

Like I said in my previous post, it doesn’t sound like, according to the phone calls, that Obama agreed to any kind of pay for play. But, he denied any contact at all, which doesn’t appear to be true. And that leads one to believe that he at least KNEW that Blago wanted something for the seat. Every one seems to agree on that – that Obama’s team was not agreeing to pay to play. Also, I want to know why Obama continued to endorse him and stand by him for the last four years, when, according to Chuch Todd and Joe Scarborough, everyone knew Blago was corrupt.

I am just not buying the excuses that neither Jackson or Obama knew Blago was corrupt. Shocked and saddened just don’t fly.

Obama said today in his press conference that he personally has not had contact with Blago, but they are pulling together all the info they can, about who might have, from his camp, had talks with Blago about the Senate seat. We know someone did….

And then we have this doozy from Hot Air, via Verum Serum, a photo of Obama and Blagojevich taken from Blagojevich’s official newsletter dated 11/12/08, eight days after the election. (I wonder what they are whispering about?)
The topic of the Blagojevich newsletter story? The Senate succession: Here is Uncle Pat and Joe Sco discussing the scandal, this morning. And more here. And an interview with Mike Duncan, RNC Chairman, here.

As people always say, it’s not about the crime, it’s the cover up.