December 17, 2008
I thought I would transcribe this video in case it disappears…when it disappears. From the RNC. Posted here also.
BARRY: Right now (6-27-02) my main focus is to make sure we elect Rod Blagojevich as governor. We are…
MAN: You working hard for Rod?
BARRY: You betcha!
MAN: Hot Rod?
BARRY: That’s exactly right.
The New Yorker 7-21-08
Obama gained his first high-level experience for statewide campaign when he advised the victorious gubernatorial candidate Rod Blagojevich.
Chicago Daily Herald 7-27-06
BARRY: If the Governor asks me to work on his behalf, I’ll be happy to do it.
Axelrod’s admission on FOX (11-23-08) that barry had talked to Bagojevich.
Chicago Tribune (12-10-08)
JOHN (REPORTER): Are you aware of any conversations between Blagojevich or [his Chief of Staff] John Harris and any of your top aides, including Rahm [Emanuel].
BARRY: John, let me stop you right there, because as I said out there out there it’s an ongoing investigation. I think it would be inappropriate for me to, you know, remark on the situation beyond the facts I know…
…And that’s the fact that I didn’t discuss this issue with the governor at all,
11-5-08 BLAGOJEVICH:
Can’t fill the seat until president elect decides to vacate that and that’s a decision he will maket but our process will begin immediately. Obviously I’m interested in whatever insights President Obama might have with regards to his thoughts on the subject. That would have, obviously, a great deal of weight on the decision that I would make.
New York Times 12-11-08
Mr Emanuel was one of the few people in Obama’s circle who occasionally spoke with Mr Blagojevich. He declined to answer questions on Wednesday.
WFLD 12 -12-08 Reporter
A reliable source familiar with the investigation is telling me tonight that there were indeed conversations between Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and the governor himself about candidates who might be filling the seat vacated by Barack Obama, and those conversation may have been taped.
12-10-08 Countdown
RICHARD WOLFFE: He’s been sitting on the sidelines with just about everything until now. You just cannot – what are they thinking? You cannot sit out a story this big about your own senate seat in your own state. And worse than that – the comments today were so vague and general that you could easily construe them as not credible. When he says he wasn’t aware of what was going on…
12-10-08 MSNBC Live LYNN SWEET:
If there were conversations, at all, with anyone, I think this is what it means transparent If anyone said anything–even at a lower level- -they need to be able to talk about and live with it
11-5-08 BLAGOJEVICH
I hope for me to be able to be in a position to make a final decision and an announcemet some time hopefully sometime before Christmas. But I don’t want to promise then because there could some other circumstances and factors that develop.
Little did he know…
