Rahm Emanuel Had 21 Conversations with Blago About Obama’s Senate Seat

When the news broke about Illinois Governor Blago trying to sell the president-elect’s senate seat to the highest bidder Barack Obama rather emphatically stated that neither he nor any of his staff had ANY conversations with the corrupt governor.

I will give president-elect Obama the benefit of the doubt about one thing, he himself probably didn’t have any conversations with Blago about his senate seat. At least directly. But it is quite obvious that one member of his staff did in fact have conversations with Blago about the seat. Rahm Emanuel DID contact Blago about Obama’s seat.

Now there are rumblings that there are taped conversations between Blago and Emanuel, in fact there are 21 conversations that may have been taped.

Are we to believe that all of these conversations were on the level, if so why would there be a need for 21 conversations? It sounds like negotiations were going on if you ask me.

Barack Obama’s senate seat was for sale and Rahm Emanuel made 21 phone calls to the man selling the seat and we are supposed to believe that there was nothing funny going on here?

So either Barack Obama didn’t know that Rahm Emanuel was contacting Blago behind his back, or he did know and he lied to the American people. I don’t know which is worse. What I do know is that Rahm Emanuel needs to resign as the president-elect’s chief of staff. President-elect Obama’s first post election decision was a bad one. So much for the “good judgement” that he ran on.