Folks, there is never any smoke without fire.
Let’s take a quick walk down memory lane, September 29th to be specific:
Rezko promises not to squeal as long as Obama and Blagojevich take care of him:
“Your Honor, the prosecutors have been overzealous in pursuing a crime that never happened,” he wrote. “They are pressuring me to tell them the ‘wrong’ things that I supposedly know about Governor Blagojevich and Senator Obama. I have never been a party to any wrongdoing that involved the Governor or the Senator.”
“Despite my belief in my innocence, I understand I may well lose this case, If I do, I am prepared to serve my sentence.”
Earlier today, guess who was arrested? Governor Blagojevich of course, why was he arrested? Primarily because he engaged in a blatant pay for play scheme involving, guess who, Barack Obama of course:
“Unless I get something real good [for Senate candidate 1], s***, I’ll just send myself, you know what I’m saying,” Blagojevich was taped saying on November 3rd, the day before Election Day.
Blagojevich added that the Senate seat: “is a f***ing valuable thing, you just don’t give it away for nothing.”
The complaint does not mention her name, but the description makes clear that Blagojevich is referring to Valerie Jarrett, a senior campaign adviser to Obama who has been tapped as a top White House aide.
“By this time, media reports indicated that Senate Candidate 1, an adviser to the President-elect, was interested in the Senate seat if it became vacant, and was likely to be supported by the President-elect,” the complaint states.
It must be noted that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald specifically stated that:
“I should be clear that the complaint makes no allegations whatsoever about the president-elect or his conduct,”
but that he still needed
“to find out what happened.”
and last but not least that the U.S. Attorney office is not in the business of
“giving clean bills of health.”
While we take his statements with a pinch of salt, let’s remember few things:
1) Blagojevich is not a political neophyte, and he didn’t get to be the Illinois State governor by virtue of being a saint. If nothing else, his experience in the Governor’s mansion, and his path to the Governor’s mansion have given him a pretty good idea as to who is on sale in Illinois politics and who isn’t.
2) It always takes two to tango, Blagojevich would not have spoken to his closest aides about a “pay for play” scheme involving Barack Obama, if there wasn’t a possibility of a “pay for play” scheme involving Barack Obama. Blagogevich knew Obama had a price, but his frustration was borne out of the fact that he could not afford it, or that Obama wasn’t a willing seller in this instance.
3) Similar to point #2, the fact that Barack Obama did not agree to play, is what led Blagojevich to get pissed off, probably because in the past Obama has played, and played extensively for that matter.
4) Though Fitzpatrick said there are no “allegations” about Barack Obama or “his conduct”, in the letter referenced at the beginning of this post, Tony Rezko indicates that the Feds have been pressuring him to squeal on not only Rod Blagojevic, but also Barack Obama. So either Tony Rezko threw in Obama’s name for gravitas (unlikely), or Patrick Fitzgerald is not saying everything he knows (highly likely)
Now you can take this whichever way you want, but I’ve been stating for months that Obama and Blagojevich were under scrutiny by Fitzpatrick, time has validated my statement about Blagojevic, I am certain time shall also validate my observation about Barack Obama.
Swampland has this analysis:
To be clear, the bugging and wire tapping of Blagojevich suggests that Obama was not playing in the corruption scheme. The complaint states, “Blagojevich said he knew that the President-elect wanted Senate Candidate 1 for the open seat but ‘they’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation. [Expletive] them.’ ” But that is not the operating factor here. U.S. Attorney investigations often end with indictments far from where they start. (See the cases of Valerie Plame and Jack Abramoff.) And Fitzgerald is going to continue to follow the facts, which means many more questions for people close to Obama. So regardless of Obama’s innocence, this will continue to be a burden for the president-elect and those around him. Politics, like life, is not fair.
So let’s see, the way it has been so far, Rezko squealed on Blagojevich (and maybe) Barack Obama to reduce his sentence. If given the chance to squal (and he shall be), who could Blagojevich possibly squal on? Hmmmmm
Anyway, after all is said and done, there are four possible scenarios:
1) Barack Obama shall be indicted before January 20th
2) Barack Obama shall be indicted after January 20th, and impeached and possibly removed
3) Barack Obama shall not be indicted, but shall be impeached and possibly removed
4) Barack Obama shall carry on like nothing happened, for nothing shall happen
With the passage of time, 1 or 2 seem to have a higher probability of happening than 3 or 4…
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