Rahm Emanuel Had Direct Talks With Blagojevich About Empty Senate Seat

When news broke about Illinois Governor Blagojevich attempting to sell president-elect Obama’s senate seat to the highest bidder Barack Obama emphatically denied that nobody on his staff had ANY conversations with Blagojevich about the senate seat. I know I have written that same exact statement before, but I can’t emphasize it enough. He said that NOBODY on his staff had ANY conversations about the senate vacancy with the corrupt governor of Illinois.

When it was found out that Rahm Emanuel DID speak to Blagojevich Obama went into spin mode.

A source with the Obama camp strongly denied Emanuel spoke with the governor directly about the seat, saying Emanuel only spoke with Blagojevich once recently to say he was taking the chief of staff post.

But then word came that not only did Rahm Emanuel have A conversation with Blagojevich he had TWENTY ONE conversations with him.

It appears as if Emanuel was deeply involved in “persuading” Blagojevich” to chose the candidate that Barack Obama approved of. More involved than either he or Obama have led us to believe.

President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had a deeper involvement in pressing for a U.S. Senate seat appointment than previously reported, the Sun-Times has learned. Emanuel had direct discussions about the seat with Gov. Blagojevich, who is is accused of trying to auction it to the highest bidder.

Rahm Emanuel isn’t accused of any wrong-doing here, and I am not accusing him either. But what I find disturbing is how president-elect Obama has no problem standing on the podium and blatantly lying about this whole situation.

Barack Obama knew that Emanuel was contacting Blago about the senate seat and he stood up there and lied to us. If he didn’t know that Emaneul was in contact with Blago about the senate seat then he should fire him for sneaking around behind his back.

If he did know than this is not “change we can believe in” it’s more like “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”

Either way, Rahm Emanuel needs to step down.