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It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.
Sun Tzu (544 BC-496 BC)
OK, someone has to step up, so I'll do it. I'm a scientist, so I will not be encumbered by the crazy reasoning systems of lawyers. Instead, I will implement a stunning new strategy. I will use logic.
Before the confirmation hearings start to heat up, here's an outline of my key positions.
(1) I will re-read the Constitution. Then I will apply it to American law.
(2) For example, gun control is easy. There won't be any. Anyone over 18 can carry a gun on public property. Period. That is the writ of the Constitution. No, it's not a misprint. They wrote it that way and they meant it. Only the owners of private property can regulate or forbid carrying guns on their own property.
(3) Freedom of speech is also straightforward. Anyone can say anything they want in public. The only exceptions are advocating a crime, or defamation, or slander. Nothing else is forbidden. I may consider capital punishment for any legislator who attempts to over-ride this law. They know the rules. If they weren't prepared to die defending the Constitution, they shouldn't have taken the oath in the first place. Legislators who knowingly pass laws that violate the Constitution should be handled as traitors.
(4) Having read the Constitution, I can plainly see that Obama is not eligible to be president. He said so himself when he said he was born with divided loyalties. Within the first ten minutes of taking office, I will issue a court order requiring Obama to vacate the White House forthwith. He will be walked out the front door by an officer of the court within 30 minutes, carrying nothing.
(5) All legislators and senior civil servants who have supported Obama or followed any of his orders will be called to account, to show cause why they should not be indicted for treason.
(6) I will hang all Socialists for treachery. The Constitution grants the right to all liberties which are not specifically limited by its writ. This of course includes the right to prosper financially. Ergo, free enterprise is fully legal everywhere, and socialism of any type is unconstitutional. Socialism abrogates the peoples' right to prosper from their own efforts. Socialists can be hanged because they are advocating the abrogation of the Constitution, which is treason.
In Arabic, Islam means submission. Here's Obama, half-kneeling as he bends over to kiss the hand of the Saudi leader. He has his back to the camera. Canada's Prime Minister Stephan Harper is in the background, looking amazed.
Americans voted for him, but here is Obama paying complete obeisance to the Saudis. To me, this photo presents an open and shut case. I cannot imagine Obama would kneel and kiss the hand of ANY American.
Obama is more supplicant to Saudi Arabia than he is to America.
Obama promised a "review" of his staff's communications with Blago about the vacant Senate seat.
"We have a report," said Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter. "It's been ready for release for a week. We've held off at the request of the U.S. Attorney's office and that continues to be the case, though we expect to be able to release the report shortly."
The main parts were leaked on Mon Dec 22. The review (1) ignores evidence of unethical conduct, (2) downplays incriminating evidence, and (3) obfuscates efforts to discover the whole truth.
This was not an independent investigation, and it provides no new information. An official familiar with Obama's internal review said the president-elect's team wrote their report without having access to transcripts of the FBI's taped conversations. The review relies on hearsay. It describes what people said they said to others. No follow-up was done to independently verify what Obama's staff actually said or did.
(1) The review shows that Blagojevich believed Emanuel was advocating Obama's friend Valerie Jarrett for the Senate seat. He said he was doing this so he would not have to compete with her for Obama's attention in the White House.
Emanuel spoke many times to the Blago camp, including one direct call with Blagojevich. Emanuel spoke especially Harris, who was co-indicted with Blago. Emanuel pushed the Valerie Jarrett appointment. He argued that appointing Jarrett would make Blagojevich look good. This is unethical conduct. Blago’s responsibility was to appoint the best person for the position. Instead, Blago tried to sell the seat. Emanuel ignored this obvious wrongdoing and responded by arguing in favor of Jarrett. If a teaching post opened up at my child’s school, I would want the best teacher to have the job. If Obama called, to get the principal to hire his friend, I would object. The principal should not be pressured. The best teacher should have the job, period.
Valerie Jarrett would not be the best choice for the people of Illinois in any case. She has her own very shady past. Emanuel ignored the best interests of the people of Illinois and pushed Obama’s friend.
Obama’s review ignores this unethical conduct.
(2) As I write this at midnight, the overnight MSM in Australia and Britain are already downplaying the review. Typical headlines read, “Blago made one call,” or, “ Obama releases report absolving his staff of impropriety.”
(3) Rather than helping, the review muddies efforts to discover the truth. Others will now declare, “an internal review exonerated Obama.” In fact, the review exposes unethical conduct.
Releasing the review at Christmas will not bury the scandal deep enough, because new revelations keep surfacing. With Obama, there’s always more dirt coming.
Some of this money was passed up to Blago and Obama. A key player was Raghuveer P. Nayak who just sought immunity on Dec 22. To stay out of jail, Nayak will have to talk a lot. And he knows a lot. He has been heavily involved with Blago and the development of Medical buildings and real estate in Illinois.
Well, OK, but brush your teeth first, because you're going to be talking for a long time...
Blago says he's going to rely on the truth as his main defense strategy. But then the trial would last about five minutes.
As a general rule, the cost of a criminal defense is inversely proportional to the strength of the prosecution's case. So Blago will need money, lots of money. He has already spent many hundreds of thousands on legal matters, because he has been under investigation for about five years.
That's probably why he's been caught on tape complaining of financial distress. He has refused to pay a $500,000 legal debt to his previous lawyers.
So he stiffed his lawyers and got a new one. Blago could very easily spend more on lawyers than he has ever earned in his life, including the shady income. And he will probably still lose, unless he can somehow get the taped evidence thrown out of court.
That looks like an expensive long-shot to me. He may soon wind up in solitary, like Rezko, thinking of plea bargaining.
Now if Blago generates a lot noise about this case, Obama will inevitably be named very publicly, very often, and in many shady ways.
So is Blago implicitly demanding a golden parachute from Obama to go down quietly, and name only the non-Obama co-conspirators?
Fitzgerald has probably already seen this coming.
One thing for sure, Blago is NOT NUTS. He's just dishonest, and often has trouble reasoning clearly.
Another card has fallen in the governor's house of cards. Christopher Kelly -- Gov. Blagojevich's close adviser, fund-raiser, and friend -- is set to plead guilty in his federal criminal case, according to a court filing. Last year Kelly was charged with failing to report gambling proceeds.
He was not charged with other corruption, but he widely
known to be under scrutiny for fund-raising schemes under Blagojevich, Obama, and Rezko.
Kelly was implicated in the criminal case against Tony Rezko. Many of the charges laid against Rezko related to bribery, kicks-backs, and extortion of Illinois hospitals and other health-care facilitates. Kelly was involved in many of those activities.
Corruption in Obama's Little Hospital Board Project
The corruption of the Illinois state health planning board was enabled by Obama. After Obama was elected Illinois State Senator, he joined and then chaired the Illinois Senate’s standing committee on health care. Obama then pushed a bill
through the Illinois state legislqature which forced a reorganization of the existing state health planning board. Obama's bill dismissed the existing 15 board members, and set up a new one with 9 newly appointed board members.
Obama's forced change didn't seem to have any medical or administrative benefits.
But it was personally very beneficial for Obama, Blago, Rezko, Kelly, and others. It enabled Blago to dismiss the existing members and appoint a new chairman and new members. Many of the new members were corrupt. For example, the chairman
of the board paid a bribe to be appointed to the board. Also, Rezko had three doctor friends appointed, who voted the way he specified. An email from that period suggests Obama was involved in recommending candidates for the board.
Thus, the board was stacked with a chairman and board members who would approve
certain medical building projects in exchange for bribes and other
benefits. For example, Mercy Hospital was trying to build a new facility, and had chosen a specific building contractor. The corrupt politicians jumped on the contractor and forced him to pay a substantial bribe to the corrupt politicians in exchange for having the board grant permission to build the facility.
Money that was intended for patient care was being diverted to the corrupt politicians who were connected with this "board."
Obama, of course, has disavowed all knowledge or responsibility. He has not been charged for his role in this. Personally, I'm sure he's innocent, and I can't possibly imagine why anyone would ever accuse him of any wrong-doing in this matter.
So therefore, Obamais completely innocent, and don't ask him about it. You would simply be "wasting your question".
Today, Dec 19, Blago said he will fight the charges against him. Then Balgo's lawyer said,
"We have had, in this state, for the last six years, a governor that has one agenda on his mind, and that is health care, and making sure seniors get health care, and he's going to continue to promote that."
I think I understand what the lawyer meant. Blago stiffed his previous lawyers for $500,000. That's why Blago complains about being broke. The new lawyer will need new money from Blago, lots of it. And in the past, health care has been very lucrative for Blago!
If we're lucky, Christopher Kelly will tell what he knows.
It seems pretty clear by now that Rahm Emanuel is mixed up in the Blago scandal.
Fox News Chicago has two reports that Rahm Emanuel had multiple conversations with Blago about who should be appointed to the senate seat. Rahm Emanuel provided Blago with a list of candidates who would be acceptable to Obama. Those multiple discussions are probably on tape with the FBI. The source had no clarification about “deal-making” versus “deal-discussing”.
If Rahm Emanuel simply provided Blago with a list of Obama’s acceptable candidates, that would only require an emial, a fax, or a brief telephone message. Why would multiple conversations be needed? There may not have been “deal-making” going on, but there clearly there was “deal-discussing” going on. Many many hours of conversations were recorded.
The criminal complaint mentions a [“President-elect Advisor”] several times. That person seems to be Rahm Emanuel.
Blagojevch was recorded saying that he wanted the “President-elect Advisor” to know what Blagojevich wanted in exchange for the Jarrett appointment. Blagojevich said, “He asks me for the fifth CD thing, I want it to be in his head.” Emanuel represents the 5th Congressional District in Illinois.
So Blago was attempting to negotiate something about Rahm Emanuel’s seat, which will be vacant when Rahm Emanuel resigns the seat.
In recent days Obama has issued several denials about any contact between him or any of his staff with Blago, or any of Blago’s staff. On Thursday Dec 11, Obama made a carefully-worded statement he was "absolutely certain" his staff didn't engage in “deal-making” about the Senate seat.
This denial seems strange, because it’s not logically possible. It’s not physically possible for Obama to know absolutely everything his staff discussed with everyone else. But Obama’s statement is technically true if you twist it a certain way.
We know that no deal was actually made on the Senate seat, because Blago said so, and the Senate seat is still open. Therefore, Obama could truly be certain that no “deal-making” occurred, because no deal was made. But he was never suspected of “deal-making.” He and his team are suspected of discussing a deal, which later fell through. So Obama denied something irrelevant, and most people didn’t notice the twist. Nixon would be proud of him!
At the news conference on Dec 11, a questioner asked Obama why the governor thought he could even make a deal with Obama in the first place. "I can't presume to know what was in the mind of the governor during this process," Obama said. "All I can do is read what's in the transcripts like the rest of you . . . read it and shake my head."
But that statement seems incorrect. Obama could find quite a bit about what was in Blago’s mind. He just had to ask Rahm Emanuel about what he discussed with Blago, and what Blago wanted. The Players So Far
Senate candidate 1 - Obama Associate Valerie Jarrett – implicated Senate candidate 2 - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan Senate candidate 3 - U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (probable) Senate candidate 4 - Deputy Governor Louanner Peters, Senate candidate 5 - U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. – implicated Senate candidate 6: - U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez Senate candidate 7: - U.S. Rep. Danny Davis
In recent days Obama has issued several denials about any contact between him and any of his staff with Blago, or any of Blago’s staff.
Obama declared on Thursday Dec 11 he was "absolutely certain" his staff didn't engage in “deal-making” about the Senate seat.
But Fox News Chicago reports their sources say Rahm Emanuel had multiple conversations with Blago about who should be appointed to the senate seat. Rahm Emanuel provided Blago with a list of candidates who would be acceptable to Obama. The source had no clarification about deal making.
But providing a list of names would only require an email, a fax, or a brief telephone message. Why would multiple conversations be needed?
Obama said he was "absolutely certain" his staff didn't engage in deal-making about the Senate seat. Obama’s denial cannot be factually correct, because its not physically possible for Obama to know everything his staff discussed with everyone else. Given that the Blago-Emanuel conversations were recorded, they would indicate precisely what they were about.
At a news conference on Dec 11, a questioner asked Obama why Blago thought he could even make a deal with Obama in the first place. "I can't presume to know what was in the mind of the governor during this process," Obama said. "All I can do is read what's in the transcripts like the rest of you . . . read it and shake my head."
But that statement seems incorrect. Obama could find quite a bit about what was in Blago’s mind. He just had to ask Rahm Emanuel what he discussed with Blago, and what Blago wanted.
“Advisor A”
Blagojevch spent along time in phone discussions with an unnamed “Advisor A”. Many of these discussions involved specific deal-making over the senate appointment. Blago asked “Advisor A” to clarify to Obama what Blagojevich wanted in exchange for the Jarrett Senate appointment.
Blagojevich also said, “He asks me for the fifth CD thing, I want it to be in his head.” (Rahm Emanuel represents the 5th Congressional District in Illinois.)
So Blago was attempting to negotiate something with “Advisor A” and Obama about Rahm Emanuel’s seat.
Rahm Emanuel Doesn’t Want to Talk About It
Rahm Emanuel was uncharacteristically absent from Obama’s news conference on Dec 11. A Chicago Sun-Times reporter spotted him 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.
The reporter asked Rahm Emanuel if he was “Advisor A”. “You’re wasting your time,” Emanuel said. “I’m not going to say a word to you. I’m going to do this with my children. Don’t do that. I’m a father. I have two kids. I’m not going to do it.”
But that statement is patently false. Here's a photo of the two of them shaking hands and discussing something on Dec 2, 2008, only one week before Obama issued his denial.
This was taken at the National Governors Association meeting on Dec 2, 2008. It's clear the handshake is accompanied by an exchange of words. Blago is clearly happy to see Obama.
Obama declared
on Thursday Dec 11 he was "absolutely certain" his staff didn't engage in dealmaking about the Senate seat. But it's not logically possible for him to be "absolutely certain".
Before the meeting on Dec 2, Blagojevich said he had asked Obama’s transition team for federal stimulus aid of $3 billion over the next three years to help fill Illinois’ estimated $2 billion deficit. Valerie Jarrett is one of three co-chairs of the transition team. We don't know exactly what was discussed. Obama doesn't know either, because he swears he wasn't on the phone. Therefore, he can't be "absolutely certain" (which would have a probability value = 1). Logically, Obama can only make a probabilistic statement like "fairly certain" (where the probability value is less than 1).
So in his four denials Obama was untruthful twice. At this point his accuracy rate is only 50%, and all the evidence isn't even in yet!
Obama is now denying that he or any of his associates ever lived on the same planet as Blago. His people have never spoken to any human being in Illinois for several years. In fact his people have never actually spoken with anyone, ever. They have never used sign language, they didn't use semaphore or Morse code, there were no eye winks or elbow twitches. There were no messages bounced off the moon. In fact Obama has never heard of Blago, never met him, and has never even heard of Illinois. He thought it was a country in Africa.
But of course there are those dratted logicians who keep hanging around, looking suspicious, and always getting into trouble. They keep asking anti-social questions like, if Blago thought he was communicating with Obama, and sent messages to Obama, and received replies from Obama, well then what was Obama doing? How was it that on Nov 11, Blago turned down the deal with Obama to seat Jarrett in the Senate, and then on Nov 12, Jarrett withdrew her name? This is coincidence?
Obama says he did not communicate with Blago, but obviously Blago thought he was communicating with Obama. The only way for Obama to get out of this if he claimed that he has an evil twin, called Non-Obama. Non-Obama exists in a different dimension, so no one knows about him except Blago. Blago also has a telephone which connects to Non-Obama. So it was Non-Obama who spoke to Blago. Non-Obama offered the deal on the senate seat.
Or perhaps, rather than imagining a whole new dimension for Obama's evil twin, perhaps it's easier just to accuse the visible Obama of lying in this dimension? I say we waterboard the guy.
One of
Blagojevich's main go-betweens was Deputy Governor Greenlee, who resigned on Dec 10. Greenlee may talk. It turns out Greenlee is not a physicist who specializes in communications with other dimensions. He's just a lawyer. And he has a cell-phone. Which has a stored database, indicating to whom he spoke, and when, and for how long. He also remembers what he said to whom, and what they said in reply. Greenlee will probably face serious charges. Being a lawyer, he would be familiar with the phrases, "throw away the key", "plea bargain," and "turn state's evidence".
As I've predicted before, its likely these scandals and dark revelations will continue indefinitely. They will continue because Obama has a very long concealed history. In fact, if I were to write a book about all the things that I know for sure about Obama, it would be a very thin book. It
might even be a pamphlet. If Obama was going to change, he would have done it by now.
Obama should consider himself lucky if he gets stopped right here, right now. No president-elect wants to go out like Nixon, and when Obama walks, Watergate will seem like it was a picnic. It's better to get rid of this guy now, before every state secret has been sold to the highest bidder.
Obama and Blagojevich: Follow the money. Follow the contacts. They lead back to Obama.
“Offering a benefit” means to give, offer, or promise anything of value to any public official, with the intent of influencing that official in the performance of their duties [See Note 1.]
Blagojevich has been under criminal investigation for five years, and throughout that time he and Obama have been associates and mutual supporters. Blagojevich clearly thought he could obtain a benefit from Obama. On that basis, he actually did solicit a benefit, although he was not able to get a good enough deal from Obama. Obama offered benefits to Blagojevich to have Valerie Jarrett appointed to the Senate seat, but they were not lucrative enough for Blagojevich, so he turned Obama down.
My observations are not speculation, they are based on existing evidence. All I did was take the known facts and order them in time sequence. The evidence is there for all to see. But please don't hesitate to check my sources. I think you will agree with my conclusions. And then tell everyone you know!
photo: Valerie Jarrett and daughter.
Obama wanted Valerie Jarrett (a.k.a., 'Candidate 1') to be appointed to the Senate seat. The Obama's are long time friends and associates of Jarrett. Valerie Jarrett hired Michelle Obama for a job in the Chicago mayor’s office years ago. Jarrett is a Chicago businesswoman who was a high-level adviser to Obama's presidential campaign, and is one of three co-chairmen of Obama's transition team.
On Nov 3, Blagojevich said on tape, "Unless I get something real good for Valerie Jarrett, s***, I'll just send myself, you know what I'm saying." The Senate appointment was a very high priority for Obama. Before the election, Blagojevich said about he and Obama, "We have had some discussions about a process which we'll share... if all goes well." Obama's campaign stated he would meet with Blagojevich about it the day after the election. Obama did meet with Blagojevich on Nov 5 to discuss the senate seat [details below in Note 2].
Obama's aide David Axelrod confirmed these discussions between Obama and Blagojevich about the the senate seat. David Axelrod told Fox News Chicago on Nov. 23: "I
know [Obama has] talked to the governor, and there are a whole range of
names, many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a
lot of them" [see Note 2].
Obama wanted Valerie Jarrett to take the seat. Iranian by birth, Valerie Jarrett is a long-time player in Chicago politics, and has been involved in several Chicago real estate scandals. She was a business associate of Rezko. Rezko is also tied to Blagojevich. Rezko and his associates tried to get U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald fired. He is the man prosecuting Rezko and Blagojevich .
There are many who disapprove of Valerie Jarrett’s past. Judicial watch says, "Like
Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett is a product of the corrupt Chicago
political machine. And it is no stretch to say that she was a slumlord," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "We
have real concerns about Jarrett's ethics. Washington already has
plenty of corruption. We don't need to import more of it from Chicago."
On Nov 11, in a phone conversation with an aide, Blagojevich talked at length about Valerie Jarrett and said he knew that Obama wanted her for the open seat but "they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation. (Expletive) them."
The FBI tapes indicate Blagojevich wanted to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself or his wife. Blagojevich made specific proposals to Obama. These proposals didn't include just having his wife on paid corporate boards. Blagojevich
wanted a cabinet post, placement at a private foundation in a
significant position, campaign contributions, or an ambassadorship.
Blagojevich refused the deal with Obama on Nov 11. On Nov 12, Valerie Jarrett made it known that she was not interested in the Senate seat. Three days later, on Nov 15, Obama announced that Jarrett would be a senior White House adviser and assistant for intergovernmental relations.
Obama and Blagojevich have a long history of collaboration. Obama and Rahm Emanuel were two of the chief strategists for Blagojevich's initial run for governor in 2002.
One top aide to Obama, Michael Strautmanis, also previously worked for Blagojevich. Strautmanis is a native of Chicago and was legislative director and
counsel to Blagojevich when he was a Congressman. He also helped
Blagojevich win the governorship in 2002. Obama has appointed Strautmanis to a senior position in the White House staff.
Obama is also close to Illinois Senate President Emil Jones (a.k.a., 'Candidate 4'). Jones has been Blagojevich's strongest supporter in the Illinois legislature.
Obama also knows 'Candidate 5' very well. He is Jesse Jackson jr.
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NOTES
Note 1. Here is some specific US law that may be relevant: § 201. Bribery of public officials and witnesses ... (b) Whoever— (1) directly or indirectly, corruptly gives, offers or promises anything of value to any public official or person who has been selected to be a public official, or offers or promises any public official or any person who has been selected to be a public official to give anything of value to any other person or entity, with intent—-- (A) to influence any official act; or (B) to influence such public official or person who has been selected to be a public official to commit or aid in committing, or collude in, or allow, any fraud, or make opportunity for the commission of any fraud, on the United States; or (C) to induce such public official or such person who has been selected to be a public official to do or omit to do any act in violation of the lawful duty of such official or person;...
Note 2.In the main body of the text I write, "Obama, and his campaign stated he would meet with Blagojevich about it the day after the election. Obama did meet with Blagojevich on Nov 5 to discuss the senate seat." But since then there have been several surprising developments. Obama denies having a direct meeting, and the confirmatory news reports have tried to "disappear".
On Dec 10, Obama said: Question: "Have you ever spoken to [Illinois] Gov. [Rod R.] Blagojevich about the Senate seat?" Obama: "I have not discussed the Senate seat with the governor at any time."
Obama has made only a very technical denial, because he does not deny he discussed this with one of his own staff, who then spoke to Blagojevich. Most important, Obama doesn't deny that one of Obama's staff spoke to one of Blagojevich's staff, which of course is how these things are usually done. I would call this "denial lite".
One of
Blagojevich's main go-betweens was Deputy Governor Greenlee, who resigned on Dec 10.
Greenlee appears to have been "Deputy Governor A," who is frequently named in the
complaint. "Deputy Governor A" was heavily involved in the
negotiations between Blagojevich's camp and Obama's camp. If one of Obama's staff spoke to Greenlee, then Obama would be legally correct in saying he did not speak directly to Blagojevich.
In fact, the main communication appears to have mainly gone on between Obama's staff and Greenlee. Both Obama and Blagojevich appear to have been aware of the content of the discussions. The FBI affidavit states, "Blagojevich had been told by an adviser 'the president-elect can get Rod Blagojevich's wife on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect's pick to the Senate.'"
Four credible news sources and the FBI affidavit indicate that
Obama's camp communicated with Blagojevich's camp.
(1) Before Nov 4, Blagojevich discussed the Senate seat appointment with a reporter and said about Obama,"I just don't want to jinx him and I don't like the karma of me thinking that far ahead, "Blagojevich said of Obama's prospects in Tuesday's election. The governor added, "We have had some discussions about a process which we'll share... if all goes well."
(2) On Nov. 23, 2008, David Axelrod told Fox News Chicago : "I know [Obama has] talked to the governor, and there are a whole range of names, many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them." Obama's campaign now claims Axelrod "misspoke". See Note 3 below to view the tape.
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(3) On Nov 5, 2008, This story appeared:
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.
Illinois law states that the governor chooses that replacement.
(4) On Nov 8, 2008, this story confirmed that Obama did meet with Blagojevich on Nov 5
to discuss the senate seat:
Department of Veterans' Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth Considered For Senate Seat. By Alexis Hunt, ahunt@khqa.com 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.
Duckworth made an appearance in Saturday's Veterans' parade in Quincy. We asked her about the possibility of filling Obama's seat.
"The Governor's office confirmed yesterday that he is considering me and I am deeply honored jus to be considered. I hope whoever is selected is someone who is willing to travel around the state and gets to know this wonderful state. I'm just honored to be considered," Duckworth said.
The governor expects to make his decision before Christmas. Part of the timing depends on when Obama officially vacates his senate seat.
I thought this might happen, so I made sure I backed up the information before it was pulled. The original evidence has also been preserved on other websites.
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(5) On Nov 10, 2008, the news source for stories (3) and (4) disavowed all knowledge and responsibility for story (3). TV station retracts stories about Obama-Blago meeting. They try to explain why they made the stories "disappear".They disavow all responsibility for story (3). However, they don't disavow story (3), they just pulled it. The author of story (4), Alexis Hunt , at ahunt@khqa.com might know what's going on.
Note 3. This is the Axelrod interview. He doesn't seem to have "misspoken" to me.
Note 4. Here are some relevant news reports about the long-standing associations between Obama and Blagojevich:
Obama Advised Blagojevich On His Victorious Gubernatorial Run. “That year, [Obama] gained his first high-level experience in a statewide campaign when he advised the victorious gubernatorial candidate Rod Blagojevich, another politician with a funny name and a message of reform.” (Ryan Lizza, “Making It,” The New Yorker, 7/21/08)
Obama: “If the governor asks me to work on his behalf, I’ll be happy to do it.” (John Patterson, “Senator Says He’s Still Willing To Help Blagojevich Despite Hiring Concerns,” Chicago Daily Herald, 7/27/06)
Obama Endorsed Blagojevich For A Second Term. “Obama, who endorsed Blagojevich for a second term nearly 18 months ago, said he’s ready to help Illinois democrats in the upcoming elections.” (John Patterson, “Senator Says He’s Still Willing To Help Blagojevich Despite Hiring Concerns,” Chicago Daily Herald, 7/27/06)
Obama: “We’ve got a governor in Rod Blagojevich who has delivered consistently on behalf of the people of Illinois.” (Deanna Bellandi, “Illinois Democrats Talk Unity But Don’t Show It,” The Associated Press, 8/16/06)
The pace of events is intensifying. More people are doing more and more every day, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to summarize all the breaking events in a single web posting. Here are two highlights. ___________________________________
From Ron Polarik, PhD, comes this carefully researched and written report which specifically examines and reviews key Obama documents. Polarik's final report: Obama's 'Born' Conspiracy Forged images, phony photos, and felony fraud
This quote gives a taste, but the report itself has much more.
“There is conclusive and irrefutable evidence that the COLB image created and distributed by Obama's campaign to the Daily Kos, Annenberg's Factcheck, and the St. Pete Times, Politifact, is, unquestionably, a false identification document. Furthermore, there is conclusive and irrefutable evidence that the photos taken by Annenberg's Factcheck, in collusion with the Obama campaign, are themselves, false identification documents, having been made from the same false identification document image, as well as from additional false identification documents created for the same purpose; namely, to proffer these false identification documents as true reproductions of a genuine, Hawaii-issued and certified, "Certification of Live Birth" document, and thereby, intentionally deceive the American public into believing that Barack Hussein Obama is a natural-born citizen of the United States, and thereby, fully qualified to become their President.”
Polarik is alluding to fraud.
Fraud Function: noun. Etymology: Middle English fraude, from Anglo-French, from Latin fraud-, fraus. Date: 14th century. 1 a: deceit, trickery; specifically: intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right b: an act of deceiving or misrepresenting: trick 2 a: a person who is not what he or she pretends to be: impostor; also: one who defrauds: cheat b: one that is not what it seems or is represented to be. – – Webster’s
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Millions of Americans may think this eligibility issue is not worth bothering about. Here’s a relevant quote from Samuel Adams, one of the founding fathers of the United States Constitution:
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence.
It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
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