blogs.telegraph.co.uk - 12/24/2008
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So the Obama team's internal report into its contacts with Governor Rod Blagojevich is out - held, conveniently enough, until late afternoon on the day before Christmas eve when Obama is in Hawaii and the normally very available Rahm Emanuel is en route to Africa. The US attorney's interviews ...
chicagobreakingnews.com - 12/30/2008
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burris400.jpg Then Governor-elect Rod Blagojevich introduces his board
of advisors, including Roland Burris (to the governor's left)...
in November 2002. (Tribune file photo / Chuck Berman) Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected today to name former Illinois ...
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Blagojevich to name Burris to Senate
chicagotribune.com - 12/30/2008
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected today to name
former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris to replace President-elect...
Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. The action comes despite warnings by Democratic Senate leaders that they would not seat anyone ...
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BLAGOJEVICH'S LATEST MOVE: Rod Blagojevich expected to ...
blogs.telegraph.co.uk - 12/30/2008
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Taking to the podium at the end of
a bizarre, shambolic press conference in which Governor Rod...
Blagojevich sought to appoint Roland Burris to the US Senate, Congressman Bobby Rush dared white Democratic senators to block a black man from joining their ...
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The race card is played: Don't "hang or lynch" the black ...
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... Meanwhile, while Obama working-vacations in Hawaii (it’s important that “working” be added in the MSM so that he’s not compared with Bush), Emanuel is off to Africa. It’s a big country, that Africa, and it would have been nice if they’d been more specific about where exactly Rahm is holidaying, but they aren’t. ...
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... . This did not help. The audience and panel were worried sick about another dangerous “Zionist,” (sic again) Rahm Emanuel , White House chief of staff-designate. My contribution to this heated assertion was to remind the assembled panel and crowd that “Zionist cohorts” (sic) are not about to take over the world. There was a murmur in the crowd whenever Emanuel’s name was mentioned — almost a groan — reflecting the apprehension already afoot in the British and Arab media about “son of Irgun fighter” Emanuel. (It should be noted that ...
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