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OBAMA GOES TO JAIL

Obama Transition Team Reports That Obama Transition Team Did Nothing Wrong

The Obama camp’s internal investigation report about its contact with Blaggy’s office regarding the “fuckin’ valuable” Senate seat “thing” has been released. Written by Obama’s fancy lawyer, Greg Craig, the report comes in at a brisk 4.5 pages. No one on the Obama team, according to the Obama team report, ever discussed any sort of quid pro quo with Blaggy.

Rahm Emanuel talked to Blaggy “once or twice,” to pass on some of Obama’s preferences, and to chief of staff John Harris four times. Valerie Jarrett talked to some of these clowns but stopped eventually, because who wants to talk to clowns. David Axelrod had no conversations. And that time he was on teevee saying that Obama had been in touch with the governor regarding the Senate seat? Well, he was high or something.

Unlike the FBI crew that pulled in Blaggy, Greg Craig is not a very comical writer of official reports. This is the only vaguely amusing thing in the report:

Ms. Jarrett recalls that [Illinois SEIU head Tom] Balanoff also told her that the Governor had raised with him the question of whether the Governor might be considered as a possible candidate to head up the Department of Health and Human Services in the new administration. Mr. Balanoff told Ms. Jarrett that he told the Governor that it would never happen. Jarrett concurred.

Ha ha, because he sucks.

Transition Team Releases Review Of Contacts [Change.gov]


5:09 PM on Tue December 23 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. ToeCramps says at 5:14 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    I knew there was nuttin to this buttsecks report! Hopey said he don’t be talkin to no bighair freaks! AND I believe Hopey cuz dats Change We can Believe In! End of comical non story!

  2. Violenza says at 5:19 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Greg Craig?! Jesus. I don’t even know what to say. I think he and Campbell Brown are each other’s yin and yang, name-wise.

  3. actor212 says at 5:19 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    But at least they were brief in their debriefing of the briefings.

  4. EnBuenOra says at 5:20 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    This proves that Obama is guilty of something.

  5. 4tehlulz says at 5:21 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    This obviously is a summary, as it left out the 5 min. when Mr. Balanoff and Ms. Jarrett laughed at how retarded ROD BLAGOJEVICH is.

  6. The Cold Sea says at 5:22 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    If there’s nothing going on then why did Rahm go to the country of Africa? Hengnn?! Hengnn?! He’s probably burning birth cirtificates as we write.

  7. V572625694 says at 5:23 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Axelrod was probably lying the first time, thinking he’d sound like an out-of-it flunky if he weren’t consulted on who’d get Hopey’s seat. Imagine his surprise when he found it you didn’t want to be on the selection committee!

  8. I won’t believe The Blagger until I see him with his shirt off. I hear his chest hair is as supple and feathered as the hair on his head.

    Oh, what do they say about the color of your eyebrow hair and what that matches?

  9. BigIrish says at 5:25 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    This also proves that Axelrod is guilty of LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND ISN’T THAT THE ONE THING THEY ALL SWORE THEY WOULD NEVER DO?

  10. Kev-O-Tron says at 5:25 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    What does Larry Sinclair say about all of this?

  11. actor212 says at 5:26 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    The Cold Sea: Tchk! Everyone knows that birth certificates in Africa are chiseled in stone. They never invented paper, stooped savages! That’s why Chief Korir could never present this stuff to FOX News! The baggage charges alone would have crippled the Norwegian economy!

  12. V572625694 says at 5:27 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    BigIrish: Nah, that was Carter. Hopey’s gonna lie whenever he needs to. It’s in the Democratic Platform.

    V572625694: I give up on using the goddam itralics.

  13. His name’s “Balanoff”? Guilty, I say!

  14. Internally valid says at 5:29 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Did anyone else notice that this review did not include a copy of Nobama’s birth certificate? Something is up here . . .

  15. Dramatist says at 5:35 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Obama is so boring. Ugh. He’s not even shooting hoops or innocent bystanders.

  16. shanemcgowan says at 5:39 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Rahm Emanuel is in Africa. Robert Mugabe is in Africa. Coincidence? Great reports, you decide.

  17. shanemcgowan says at 5:43 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    shanemcgowan: Thats “Greta reports . . .”

  18. obfuscator says at 5:46 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    shanemcgowan: Hmm… Obama enjoys eating arugula… which kind of but not really rhymes with ‘Aruba’, which is where Natalie Holloway was last seen before Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod sold her into white slavery!!

  19. Canmon (the Inadequate) says at 5:53 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Obama says Obama is innocent. Blagojevich says Blagojevich is innocent. That’s good enough for me.

  20. greatgooglymoogly says at 6:01 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Unrelated but worth getting all worked up about: Bush pardons all criminals everywhere! Hooray! (Not really, just 19 or so small time liars and drug dealers. How did they get W to do that, anyway?) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081223/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_pardons

  21. Those two make a sexy couple. Can’t you just feel the sexual tension?

    Blaggy is a total bottom.

  22. Kev-O-Tron says at 6:02 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Canmon (the Inadequate): Let’s not forget that OJ is still looking for the real killer although that effort has been slowed somewhat in recent weeks.

  23. assistant/atlas says at 6:03 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    If I were Blaggy right now, I would be very, very scared of Rahm Emanuel.

    Look at that frakkin’ guy. Blaggy looks like Grimace next to him. Blaggy gon’ get effed up. Not today. But someday.

  24. shanemcgowan: All it takes is a walletful of those Zimbabwe $500m notes and you’ve bought up GM and Citibank.

  25. Delicious says at 6:26 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    “Once or twice”?

    That’s some prosecutorial precision right there, I tells ya.

  26. Nothing to really contribute, just that if a movie were ever made about Blaggy, I’d probably cast Sean Astin as him.

  27. Darehead says at 7:01 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Here’s what Blaggy will look like after 2 years in prison:

    http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/07/21/karadzic-arrested.html

  28. Kev-O-Tron: OJ’s chances of finding the real killer might have been actually enhanced by going to prison.

    Since that’s where the murderers are kept and that.

  29. Nothing wrong?? What about that “beefcake” photo from his lost Hawaian vacation?

  30. Makeithurt says at 8:25 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Oh so the Obama team has the same internal inspection team that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld had, huh? Wow, I feel so much better that the ones who could’ve been guilty found out that, wow, they didnothing wrong. Just like Bush.
    Fuck Barack Obama. Lying assed homophobe. Somebody give me a shoe.

  31. President Beeblebrox says at 8:32 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Makeithurt: Was that sarcasm or just thinly veiled Nobamism? Teh horrah!

  32. finallyhappy says at 8:51 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    I saw Obama’s beach photo- what more proof of his team’s honesty do I need?

  33. If I ever become Emperor, I will issue an edict that no one can be named “Greg Craig.” People could be named “Greg” or “Craig,” but NOT “Greg Craig.”

  34. Chief Grinning Eagle says at 9:23 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    I still want to hear Fitzgerald’s taps on the phone conversations between Libby and Cheney. Rewind the tape back a few months. This Blagojevich stuff is really awfully tame. I want to hear something really treasonable. They appoint judges, too you know. Who fusses about that process?

    Long Dong Silver?

  35. Darehead says at 9:23 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Aurelio: And no one’s middle name is Hussein. And no one’s last name is Butts,

  36. Best of all, Team Obama can recycle the executive summary repeatedly during the next few years: After a thorough inquiry, there’s no stink on us, case closed.

  37. Darehead says at 9:33 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    finallyhappy: That was a very effective stimulus package.

  38. Everyone know Obama has nothing to hide:
    http://www.tmz.com/2008/12/22/barack-hard-abs/

  39. Darehead: I think we could get rid of the “Jessica”s and “Tiffany”s too.

  40. smellyal8r says at 10:46 pm, December 23rd, 2008

    Blaggy will be found in a park with a gun in his hand and a suicide note…right? Right?

  41. Good enough for me!

    It’s all Mad-Sad-Blag’s fault.

  42. snideinplainsight says at 12:27 am, December 24th, 2008

    Aurelio: What if I were named Craig Greg? What then?

    Or what about Craig Greg Butts?

  43. Every administration needs an Evil-Dick-Cheney-Karl-Rove-Don-Rumsfeld character and Rahm Emanuel is it for the Big-O.

  44. ladymacbeth says at 12:34 am, December 24th, 2008

    meh. if this is the best scandal we can look forward to for the next 4-8-a million years, i’m tots voting republican next time.

  45. ladymacbeth says at 12:39 am, December 24th, 2008

    slick7: except for the fact that Evil-Dick-Cheney-Karl-Rove-Don-Rumsfeld are seriously lacking in the man-boobs / shirt off dept.

  46. villageatrois says at 12:46 am, December 24th, 2008

    smellyal8r: “with a gun in his hand and a suicide note” Yew effin’ kiddin me, Mr. Smellyator? Fake suicides are fer effin’ pussies! Not the Chicaguh Way.

    The Blags will be found, on a SUNDAY MORNIN’ (important!) with his little Italian Beatle boots stickin’ out of a sewer pipe. And he will be found by an OFF-DUTY COP (important!). Church attendance will be at an all-time record on that day, and lots of family pitchers will be taken by various aldermen, US Congress members, and sundry Prominents to prove it. WGN and NBC Channel 5 will be running weekend features on church attendance, and will inadvertently interview many of the Prominents. I don’t bet much, but I’d look fer this kinda stuff around St. Valentine’s Day.

    Oh yeah, as the weak-kneed sissies on Wonkette say, “just saying’”.

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  48. Trust us, we’re from the High Command.

  49. Warren Terror says at 7:53 am, December 24th, 2008

    Mission Accomplished

  50. This is amazing stuff without the aid of time travel Obama is able to tarnish his oath of office before he takes it. Its the sort of thing that would make me proud to be an American. If I was one.

  51. actor212 says at 9:46 am, December 24th, 2008

    Kev-O-Tron: See, and here I thought he got himself arrested and convicted because he knew the killer was in San Quentin.

    You know, kinda like that show “Prison Break” on Fox, he set himself up.

  52. PerhapsSo says at 9:53 am, December 24th, 2008

    Godot: But he has to also wear the hobbit feet, because who knows, Blago’s feet could really look like that.

  53. jodyleek says at 1:56 am, December 25th, 2008

    Bruno: Thinking about that makes me shudder for Martin Scorsese’s significant other.

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