Caught this at another blog.

PEBO’s Monday presser:
Reporter: “Mr. Present-Elect, when can people expect to see jobs created?”
PEBO: “I have no crystal ball.”
Wow that’s leadership! He sounded tired and cranky.
apparently he really said that.

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081215/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/15/barack-obama-i-investigated-myself-and-i-decided-i-am-innocent/

Barack Obama: “I Investigated Myself, and I Decided I Am Innocent”

That is what I glean from an article entitled “Obama: Review shows no inappropriate contact”. I quote:

CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama said Monday a review by his own lawyer shows he had no direct contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about the appointment of a Senate replacement, and transition aides “did nothing inappropriate.”

In other words, Obama has mimicked George Bush’s behavior in the wake of the Bush administration’s bungled response to Hurricane Katrina: he will investigate himself and his staff, and he will decide whether he and his staff engaged in any misconduct. Bush was rightly and roundly criticized for deciding he would be the one to “investigate himself.” How odd it is that the chorus of government critics who raised their voices in 2005 is silent now that Barack Obama has decided that George Bush’s version of transparency is the model to follow. Does anyone seriously believe Obama’s attorney would claim Obama and his staff are guilty of engaging in inappropriate discussions with Governor Rod Blagojevich about the Senate seat Obama vacated? Does Obama believe we are that easily duped?

It gets better. I quote again:

Obama said he is prepared to make the review public, but decided to hold off because prosecutors asked for a delay and “I don’t want to interfere with an ongoing investigation.”

Transparency, in other words, was and will remain a campaign promise. Any excuse, including that of an “ongoing investigation,” will be cited in order to shirk any form of accountability. Because the investigation of his office’s conduct is independent of the investigation of Patrick Fitzgerald, one would assume it would not interfere with the federal probe. After all, it was Obama who on Thursday stated the following:

I am confident that no representatives of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat. I think the materials released by the U.S. attorney reflect that fact.

If he truly believed the documents Fitzgerald and the FBI issued last week confirmed he and his staff were in no way entangled with Blagojevich’s attempts to secure kickbacks for Obama’s vacant Senate seat, he would release information compiled by his attorney. For he and staff do not, if I may quote Obama, “have any part of the deals related to this seat.” I hope he clarifies this at his next news conference.

Let us continue to read the article. I quote:

Controversy has swirled around the president-elect and his incoming White House chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, following Blagojevich’s arrest last week on charges he schemed to trade Obama’s Senate seat for personal gain.

Obama, fielding questions at a news conference, sidestepped when asked whether Emanuel had spoken with aides to the governor.

Emanuel was one of several aides who watched the news conference from the wings.

Was Obama’s staff engaging in inappropriate conduct with Blagojevich or not? Why is Obama incapable of answering reporters’ questions about Rahm Emanuel’s confirmed conversations and written correspondences with Blagojevich’s Chief of Staff Mike Harris and the other operatives whose words are recorded in the Criminal Complaint filed by Special Agent of the FBI David Cain? Is Rahm Emanuel not Obama’s Chief of Staff? And why is Rahm Emanuel ducking reporters? Why is he present at a press conference when he is not answering reporters’ questions? Moreover, why is the President-elect who claims to be transparent unresponsive when asked about his Chief of Staff’s confirmed communications with Rod Blagojevich’s staff? What about the list of candidates Obama approved that was handled by Emanuel? Will Obama hold Emanuel accountable, or will Obama continue to instruct Emanuel to avoid reporters? Is this change in which those who desire transparency in government can believe? Or is opacity the new transparency?

Here is the penultimate paragraph of the news article:

The president-elect pledged the results of the investigation by his incoming White House counsel, Gregory Craig, would be released “in due course.”

What is “due course?” May we have a date? And why are we expected to believe that your future White House counsel, Gregory Craig, conducted a thorough investigation? Are we expected to simply believe you? And why is anyone expected to accept your pledge as sincere? Did you not renege pledge after pledge both during the primary and the general election? And how are we to take the investigation conducted by your future White House counsel seriously when we learn this in the final paragraph of the article?

He said the probe was complete and thorough, but did not say which of his aides Craig interviewed, whether any of them was under oath at the time, or any other details.

In other words, we have no idea if an actual investigation was conducted: so much for Obama’s intention to run an open and transparent government. Or maybe he will arbitrarily deem his secretive tactics transparent, and all the reporters and mindless drones who support him will stupidly nod their vacuous heads in slavish agreement.

December 15th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
DAMN! I’m listening to statements BO made about blogogate and he is stammering and stuttering like crazy!
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Obama’s consistently concise, cool, calm, coherent, intelligent phrasing lets us rest assured that he is:

* innocent of any wrong doing
* a “master politician”
* perhaps the Smartest Person Alive
* extremely well-prepared
* able to think on his feet; Who needs a teleprompter when it’s all right up here (points to head)?
* to be trusted to be steward of US foreign policy and fight terrorists

Yup, a freakin’ genius.

To quote his recent speech: “uh, um, er, what i mean to, uh, say,…um, is that…Hillary is right…about this topic”.

December 15th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
DO YOU THINK THIS IS JUST MORE PAY TO PLAY?…OBAMA PROTECTION VIA MSM???…I DO

Chicago Tribune Stopped Working With Prosecutors, Forced Arrest of Ill. Gov. Too Early

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YES.

1) I don’t think this means she’s a frontrunner for the seat, or even close. Otherwise, there’s no point in her launching a public campaign. Besides, is this even news? It’s just a rehash of what we heard a week ago.

2) I believe this is simply an effort on the part of the Kennedy clan to pressure Paterson to pick her, and nothing more. And I’m guessing Paterson isn’t too thrilled about it.
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Paula: I like your analysis.