TheLastManInAmerica

This may not be the best way for Barack Obama to start his stint in the Oval Office. The stench surrounding Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich spreads across the entire state and sticks to every politician around. But the noxious fumes might affect the president-elect worse than anyone, including Blago himself.

The problem is the contradiction surrounding the Obama team’s answers to questions regarding communication with the disgraced governor. On Tuesday Obama said that he had not any contact with Blagojevich but seemed to recant mid-sentence saying, “I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so we were not - I was not aware of what was happening.”

This runs contradictory to a statement made by Obama adviser David Axelrod last month. In an interview with a Chicago news outlet, Axelrod said, “I know he’s (Obama) talked to the governor and there’s a whole range of names, many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.”

That’s a pretty detailed account of an exchange that, following Obama’s denial on Tuesday, Axelrod later called a Mulligan on, saying he, “was mistaken when I told an interviewer last month that the president-elect had spoken directly to Governor Blagojevich about the Senate vacancy. They did not then, or at any time discuss the subject.”

Did you hear that? Directly. So instead of them having a detailed discussion on the subject which Axelrod described last month, this clears the way for them to later say they spoke indirectly through channels. Nice back-stepping there, Dave.

This does not bode well for an administration who campaigned on the idea of Change. No it appears that Obama could very well be playing the same old tired poolitical games. So forget Jesse Jackson Jr. and the four others who may have been willing to pay to play, I want to know what role our next president had in this twisted plot.  

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