Just a Governor in My State
There are so many people Barack Obama claims not to know, or know well—Ayers, Wright, Rezko, Blago—I’m beginning to think the guy was a hermit. Or a blogger.
“I did not have interpersonal relations with that man, Governor Blagojevich.”
Ill. governor meeting with Obama today
By Carol Sowers
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 at 10:39 a.m.CHICAGO, ILL. — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.
That’s one of Obama’s first priorities today.
He’s meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it.
Well, David Axelrod says they did—until he said they didn’t. But the story somehow still stands:
Duckworth comments on consideration for Senate
By Alexis Hunt
Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 9:48 p.m.QUINCY, IL — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.
Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it. Illinois law states that the governor chooses that replacement. There’s already been speculation about his selection…from Congressman Jesse Jackson, Junior to Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth.
Either he did or he didn’t; we’ll find out soon enough.
Part of me says he probably didn’t because to lie about something that doesn’t taint him much is ridiculously stupid. Also, Blago sounds certifiably insane.
However, messiahs don’t like to be tainted messiahs. The Elect (I forgot that nickname I coined) wants us to see him as immaculately conceived, politically speaking, untouched by the raw sewage of Chicago politics—even though that’s all the politics he’s ever known.
Rather, they were not the Chicago politics he thought he knew.
When it comes to his past, lying is all he’s ever done. (And that’s not hyperbole, but cold hard fact.)