Um, shouldn’t you have done this before stating that nobody in your camp talked to Blago? Then again, I guess it’s easier when you already know who did the talking.
President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday morning that he is “confident” no one representing him took part in any pay-to-play dealings with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich over filling Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, and pledged to release details of contacts between his team and the governor’s office in the next few days.
“I have never spoken to the governor on this subject. I am confident that no representatives of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat. I think the materials released by the U.S. Attorney reflect that fact,” Obama said at a Chicago news conference. “I’ve asked my team to gather the facts of any contacts with the governor’s office about this vacancy so that we can share them with you over the next few days.”
This is a little trick I like to call “stalling for time.” It’s pretty transparent and makes you look guilty as hell.
Side note; one intrepid reporter did ask Obama how Blago would have known that Obama wasn’t going to play ball if nobody from Team Obama talked to him. He decided to skip that question.
