politico.com - 12/9/2008
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December 09, 2008 Categories: Barack Obama Blago calls Obama "motherf---er" By Jonathan Martin The tapes reveal a two-term governor who no longer wants his job, badly wants cash and is determined to leverage a financial benefit out of his appointment powers. He also appears to think little of ...
politico.com - 12/11/2008
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politico.com —
The stinging criminal complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod
Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris raises...
lots of questions for President-elect Barack Obama.
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7 Blago questions for Obama
politico.com - 12/9/2008
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politico.com —
By Jonathan Martin The tapes reveal a two-term
governor who no longer wants his job, badly wants...
cash and is determined to leverage a financial benefit out of his appointment powers. He also appears to think little of the president-elect, whom ...
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Blago calls Obama "motherf---er"
motherjones.com - 12/9/2008
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motherjones.com —
BLAGO UPDATE.... Thanks partly to this being a
slow news day and partly to the sheer juiciness...
of the whole thing, the blogosphere is ablaze with chatter about the arrest of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges. Main theme: the guy ...
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Blago Update
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Blago had no love for Obama
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... Blago wanted a deal with the Obama team for the Senate seat, but he didn't get one. And, he didn't love Obama as Jonathan Martin reports: ...
The bright spot…
Upper Left —
…in the Blagojevich mess is that the next President of the United States comes across as encouragingly incorruptible (pre-bowdlerized by The Politico)... ...
12/10: The Blagojevich Fallout
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... . Lefty bloggers are pointing to the fact that Blagojevich cursed Obama out in his taped phone conversations as evidence that Obama and Blagojevich are not close. OBAMA: Six Degrees Of Blagojevich Conservative bloggers continue to link Obama to Blagojevich (and Chicago machine politics more generally): OBAMA II: Finally, He's Going To Get Some Scrutiny! Conservative bloggers believe that the Blagojevich scandal will force journalists to investigate Obama's background in Chicago politics, which they felt did not receive adequate scrutiny during the presidential race: ...
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hotair.com 12/10/2008 — Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama tried to distance himself from Governor Rod Blagojevich after his arrest on corruption charges related to his pending appointment to Obama’s now-vacant Senate seat. Obama himself said that he had had no ...
A special election for Obama's seat? —
First Read 12/9/2008
From NBC's Carrie Dann Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois called today for a special election to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat, saying that "no appointment could produce a credible replacement" in light of this morning's arrest of Gov. Rod ...
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