Obama “Going To The Mattresses”

What did Obama know … and when did he know it?
wnd …for complete article
Unanswered questions alarm anti-corruption investigators
The corruption arrest of Gov. Rod Blagojevich is raising questions about what Sen. Barack Obama knew of the Illinois Democrat’s alleged activities, including his apparent offer to appoint Obama’s preferred candidate to serve in the U.S. Senate in return for “private sector” help from Obama.

“This is a burgeoning crisis for Obama that should shake his presidency to its core,” said Tom Fitton, chief of the Judicial Watch organization today.

“The criminal complaint filed today indicates that Obama and his team knew about Blagojevich’s efforts to sell Obama’s Senate seat,” he said.

“Did Obama report Blagojevich to investigators about any efforts to sell his Senate seat?” Fitton asked.

ABC’s Jake Tapper also expressed concern over the same issue.
On his blog, he wrote that while appearances seem to indicate Obama “refused to go along with the ‘pay to play'” Blagojevich plan, there were significant questions.

For example, he wondered “how Blagojevich knew that Mr. Obama was not willing to give him anything in exchange for the Senate seat – with whom was Blagojevich speaking? Did that person report the governor to the authorities?”

The case did, however, mention Tony Rezko, a longtime Obama friend, fundraiser and real estate partner, Judicial Watch noted.

Obama told reporters, “I had no contact with the governor or his office, so I was not aware of what was happening,” clearly distancing himself from his home state and its governor, whom he previously had endorsed for re-election.

“I am saddened and sobered by the news that came out of the U.S. attorney’s office today. But as this is an ongoing investigation involving the governor I don’t think it would be appropriate for me to comment at this time,” he said.

But Tapper noted Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, appeared “said something quite different” in an interview Nov. 23 with Chicago’s Fox affiliate.

“While insisting that the president-elect had not expressed a favorite to replace him, and his inclination was to avoid being a ‘kingmaker,'” Axelrod said, “I know he’s 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.”

And there is THIS from CNN of all places…………….
Obama’s response insufficient in governor scandal
(CNN)

By Campbell Brown
Tonight, a call for a little more transparency from President-elect Barack Obama about what he did or did not know about the allegations against Gov. Rod Blagojevich in Illinois.
I will first re-iterate what we heard from U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. He said Obama did nothing wrong and there are no allegations of wrongdoing against the president-elect.
Then Obama himself said he never had contact with the governor about who should replace him in the Senate and had no idea any of this was going on.
Fair enough. But that is all Obama has said.
And what now looks pretty clear, at least based on these tapes and what the U.S. attorney is telling us, is that someone from Obama-world did have communication with the governor about this.
Who was it? What was said?
Attempts by CNN reporters and others to get answers have been met with a big: “no comment due to an ongoing investigation.”
Sorry, but that’s not good enough for someone who ran a campaign based in part on a promise of more openness and transparency.
At the very least you could have assured that you and your staff are getting to the bottom of this and fully cooperating with the investigators.
After all, we can figure some of this out on our own.
It seems pretty clear that Valerie Jarrett, soon to be one of Obama’s top White House advisers, was at one time on Blagojevich’s shortlist to take Obama’s Senate seat, and that there was some communication between Blagojevich and someone in Obama-world — someone who allegedly conveyed to the governor that all he would ever get from Obama was appreciation.
So who was this point-person on Obama’s team?
Did they know what Blagojevich was allegedly up to? And did they tip off investigators?
Or did they know the governor was allegedly soliciting bribes and did nothing?
These are unanswered questions.

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Wild Thing’s comment………..
When Clinton was in office, just about everybody he took with him to Washington or left behind in Arkansas was convicted of something, including the then Governor of Arkansas, and now Obama get’s elected and apparently everybody he was connected with in Illinois is going to jail.
The media and the Democrats managed to fool America into believing that the Clinton’s were the only clean politicians from Arkansas, and now the media and the Democrats actually want America to believe the Obama is the only clean politician from Illinois.
I think Obama will be protected by the media. They will not let the Messiah be asked difficult questions.
Funny, no press conferences from the fake office of president elect yesterday. Going to the mattresses I guess.
This reminds me of the scene in “The Godfather” in which Robert Duvall’s Tom Hagen, the Corleone family’s consigliore, and James Caan’s Sonny Corleone argue over how to respond to an attempt to kill Sonny’s father, Don Corleone.

“Sonny,” Hagen says, “let’s talk about this and get a meeting up.”

“No!” Sonny shouts back. “No more meetings . . . we go to the mattresses.”

In the film ” The Godfather”, going to the mattresses meant drawing in all the members of the extended crime family to sleep and eat in one place so they’d be together as they sought revenge for the Godfather’s shooting.

….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.