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6 Responses to “Change We Can Believe In”

1. December 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
   Rick B.

   I guess those “distractions” Obama dismissed during the campaign were a sign of things to come. Who would have guessed?

2. December 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
   doug

   Indeed, Rick. Although I am starting to get the feeling that the shine may come off this presidency quicker than others…who knows.

3. December 18th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
   N Chung

   That was a dumb question, asking someone about something he’s legally forbidden to talk about.

4. December 19th, 2008 at 12:55 am
   doug

   …something he’s legally forbidden to talk about.

   Really?

   Obama isn’t even in office yet and already the talking points for spinning bad news like this is: “Oh, we can’t comment on that ongoing investigation.”

   Chung, he should have just come out and said, “Yes, we pushed for Valerie Jarrett. She would be an exceptional United States senator. Unfortunately, in discussions with the governor it became clear that he was making unethical requests and wanted special favors which we were obviously unwilling to offer him.”

   Instead, Obama initially lied and said that they were going to be “hands off”, when in fact he had Rahm Emanuel pushing for Jarrett behind the scenes.

   If the tapes of Emanuel are leaked or released it may turn out that Obama’s team was actually willing to play ball with Blago, but from the governor’s conversations with others it appears that he was upset because Obama’s team was not willing to.

5. December 19th, 2008 at 4:46 am
   Ryan

   Obama isn’t even in office yet and already the talking points for spinning bad news like this is: “Oh, we can’t comment on that ongoing investigation.”

   Taken in or out of context, that is really really funny…ominous…sad.

6. January 6th, 2009 at 4:21 am
   Caveman

   http://www.drudgereport.com/flashacn.htm

   “We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.”