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Is Emanuel the adviser on gov tape?

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Is Emanuel the adviser on gov tape?

President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, refused to take questions from reporters this morning about whether he was the Obama “advisor” named in the criminal complaint against Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

The complaint states Blagojevich wanted a promise of a high-level appointment or some other reward for Blagojevich in exchange for Blagojevich naming Obama’s friend Valerie Jarrett to replace him in the U.S. Senate.

Emanuel was uncharacteristically absent from Obama’s news conference this morning. He was spotted two hours later in the lobby of Chicago’s City Hall. He was there to listen to his two children performing in a concert with their school, Anshe Emet.

Rahm ducks reporters' questions on Blago :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: 44: Barack Obama



Uh oh.......


This would not be a good start for Obama now would it?
 
Uh oh.......


This would not be a good start for Obama now would it?

Dear Rev. Hellhound,

The One is hope, change and our future. The people have spoken, the world has spoken, and your attempts to create dissent or fear, hate or anger to destroy The One with malicious innuendo and snide commentary is not to be tolerated. The One was thoroughly vetted by the last bastion of hope for honesty, the media, and by the American People. Are you saying the American People were wrong? You arrogance knows no bounds!

Even the mere suggestion that Rham Emmanuel was in anyway shape or form associated with the Ill. Governors shameful behavior shows you are nothing more then a rabid right winger who cannot accept the loss of your party, your candidate, and by this thread shows you have not accepted your irrelevance!

Please refrain from further embarrassing yourself by trying to tie The One to that one.

;)
 
What did he supposedly do? All that I can find in the article is this

Blagojevch was caught on tape saying that he wanted the Obama advisor in question to know what Blagojevich wanted in exchange for the Jarrett appointment.

And googling the advisor and the tapes now comes up with only carbon copies of that article. If that is all I really don't see what the big deal is, since Blagojevich is the only one taking action in that quote.
 
What did he supposedly do? All that I can find in the article is this



And googling the advisor and the tapes now comes up with only carbon copies of that article. If that is all I really don't see what the big deal is, since Blagojevich is the only one taking action in that quote.

Time will tell. With Fitzgerald, there is more to the story.
 
I really was asking, not debating. What is the adviser supposed to have done?

There was a deal talked about that would get the Gov. into a nice fat high paying job from a third party that Obama would then help later to avoid anyone being able to say it was a quid pro quo affair.
 
There was a deal talked about that would get the Gov. into a nice fat high paying job from a third party that Obama would then help later to avoid anyone being able to say it was a quid pro quo affair.

From what I heard and read, Blagoevich said somethign along the lines of "That muther****er Obama wants such and such cadidate to get the seat and for nothing? I'd rather put such and such in there instead and get soemthign in return"

That's paraphrased, but he defintintly called Obama a mother****er and that he was not getting anythign in return for it.

Its in the transcript somewhere. I don;t really see any wrongdoing in that. If anything it looks like he wouldn't play ball if the idea of compensation was involved.
 
There was a deal talked about that would get the Gov. into a nice fat high paying job from a third party that Obama would then help later to avoid anyone being able to say it was a quid pro quo affair.

So where does the adviser come into play? If Emanuel is the adviser on the tape, what was he taped doing?
 
Dear Rev. Hellhound,

The One is hope, change and our future. The people have spoken, the world has spoken, and your attempts to create dissent or fear, hate or anger to destroy The One with malicious innuendo and snide commentary is not to be tolerated. The One was thoroughly vetted by the last bastion of hope for honesty, the media, and by the American People. Are you saying the American People were wrong? You arrogance knows no bounds!

Even the mere suggestion that Rham Emmanuel was in anyway shape or form associated with the Ill. Governors shameful behavior shows you are nothing more then a rabid right winger who cannot accept the loss of your party, your candidate, and by this thread shows you have not accepted your irrelevance!

Please refrain from further embarrassing yourself by trying to tie The One to that one.

;)

:rofl Now THAT is a funny :funny You do "Liberal" well.
 
From what I heard and read, Blagoevich said somethign along the lines of "That muther****er Obama wants such and such cadidate to get the seat and for nothing? I'd rather put such and such in there instead and get soemthign in return"

That's paraphrased, but he defintintly called Obama a mother****er and that he was not getting anythign in return for it.

Its in the transcript somewhere. I don;t really see any wrongdoing in that. If anything it looks like he wouldn't play ball if the idea of compensation was involved.

"They're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. **** them."

Obama is clearly not involved in the scandal except in that he refused to do anything crooked. From the sound of the OP, though, there are tapes of an adviser doing something bad
 
The below I do believe is what many feel is where Obama is most vulnerable. It has been suggested taht Emannuel is one of these people.

On November 10, in a lengthy telephone call with numerous advisors that included discussion about Blagojevich obtaining a lucrative job with a union-affiliated organization in exchange for appointing a particular Senate Candidate whom he believed was favored by the President-elect and which is described in more detail below, Blagojevich and others discussed various ways Blagojevich could "monetize" the relationships he has made as governor to make money after leaving that office.

Two days later, in a three-way call with Harris and Advisor B, a consultant in Washington, Blagojevich and the others allegedly discussed the prospect of a three-way deal for the Senate appointment involving an organization called "Change to Win," which is affiliated with various unions including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

On November 10, Blagojevich, his wife, Harris, Governor General Counsel, Advisor B and other Washington-based advisors participated at different times in a two-hour phone call in which they allegedly discussed, among other things, a deal involving the SEIU. Harris said they could work out a deal with the union and the President-elect where SEIU could help the President-elect with Blagojevich's appointment of Senate Candidate 1, while Blagojevich would obtain a position as the National Director of the Change to Win campaign and SEIU would get something favorable from the President-elect in the future. Also during that call, Blagojevich agreed it was unlikely that the President-elect would name him Secretary of Health and Human Services or give him an ambassadorship because of all of the negative publicity surrounding him.

In a conversation with Harris on November 11, the charges state, Blagojevich said he knew that the President-elect wanted Senate Candidate 1 for the open seat but "they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. [Expletive] them." Earlier in that conversation, Blagojevich suggested starting a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization, which he could head and engage in political activity and lobbying. In that conversation with Harris and other discussions with him and others over the next couple of days, Blagojevich suggested by name several well-known, wealthy individuals who could be prevailed upon to seed such an organization with $10-$15 million, and suggesting that he could take the organization's reins when he is no longer governor, according to the affidavit.

On November 12, Blagojevich spoke with SEIU Official who was in Washington. This conversation occurred about a week after Blagojevich had met with SEIU Official to discuss the Senate seat, with the understanding that the union official was an emissary to discuss Senate Candidate 1's interest in the Senate seat. During the November 12 conversation, Blagojevich allegedly explained the non-profit organization idea to SEIU Official and said that it could help Senate Candidate 1. The union official agreed to "put that flag up and see where it goes," although the official also had said he wasn't certain if Senate Candidate 1 wanted the official to keep pushing her candidacy. Senate Candidate 1 eventually removed herself from consideration for the open seat.

TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Blagojevich Charged With Selling Obama's Senate Seat, Plotting To Purge Trib
 
It's not hard, turn off higher brain brain functions like logic and reason, turn on heart and engage superiority complex.

;)

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