Obama: What Did He Know, And When Did He Know It?
By Lee Hemen
December 12, 2008
What did he know and when did he know it? This should be the question anyone with brains should be asking Barack Obama. Anyone with any common sense understands that someone who declared himself as a “community organizer” within the Chicago neighborhoods understands that these organizers are up to their armpits in Chicago-style neighborhood Blagojevich politics.
An examination of the FBI complaint against Blagojevich and the days immediately following Obama’s historic election victory suggests the governor was highly interested in Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett as a potential Senate appointee, albeit with a steep price tag. She is highly regarded by Obama and Jarrett was a former finance chief for Obama’s earlier campaigns and an incoming senior White House adviser.
Obama’s own cryptic statements makes it sound as if he knew more than he is willing to relate and he probably did. He was high on Blagojevich at one time, supporting him for his run for governor, then, Obama’s relationship began to sour. Why? Did he know what the Democrat Governor Blagojevich was up to all along because he is intimately familiar with Chicago politics? For anyone to say otherwise sounds idiotic. Why in the world would Obama say, “But what I’m absolutely certain about is that our office had no involvement in any deal making around my Senate seat, that I’m absolutely certain of.” Oh? Would it not be prudent for the President elect to talk with the governor of the State where his Senate seat resides? By the way, has anyone noticed this but me that when Obama has to speak “off the cuff” and he is not prepared by his staff, he sounds like the burping snowmen on YouTube? He is someone searching for an answer and can only make “ah” and “um” noises.
During a Nov. 5 call, Blagojevich said the Senate appointment was a thing of value, something not given away “for nothing.” Obama understands this intimately.
Two days later, Blagojevich allegedly suggested he’d be willing to “trade” the Senate seat to Jarrett in exchange for the Health and Human Services secretary’s job. He repeated that desire during a separate, three-way call involved Blagojevich, Chief of Staff John Harris and someone identified only as “Advisor B,” a Washington-based consultant. However, David Axelrod, a senior Obama adviser, said Obama had intended from the start to have Jarrett in the White House, and that Jarrett withdrew from Senate contention once Obama made her part of the White House team.
Obama knows full well how strong arm down and dirty political tactics work. He used them to gain his State Senate seat and again to gain his US Senate seat. Obama used voter records to disqualify his opponents. He used the same kind of thuggery during his campaigning for President as well with his support of ACORN. If one wants to remember, Obama went to Chicago in the first place to gain his “props” and to learn from the street what it took to get into thug-style politics. These are his own admissions from his own biographies.
Blagojevich is a thug. Many of the people like Reverend Wright, Ayers, and others Obama so deftly involved himself with and then later threw off the train are these kinds of folks as well. They are part and parcel of the street machine Obama familiarized himself with. So far, the mainstream media has been willing accomplices in ignoring any culpability by Obama. How long will this last? Will they finally have to be “Clintonized” again? The question remains and should be asked over and over: “What did he know and when did he know it?” For the media not to ask this is for them to be part of a cover up and tacitly involved in Chicago-style Blagojevich politics.
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1 Comment
December 12, 2008 at 7:52 PM
The main stream media is tasked with asking Obama what he knows. We all know that they won’t be asking any question harder than, “What are you going to name your dog?”