Obama Refuses to Release Emanuel/Blagojevich Records

  President-elect Barack Obama conducted an internal investigation into his staff’s contacts with Illinois Governor Blagojevich, the results of which are to be released this week.

 Despite reports that Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel had 21 taped phone conversations with Blagojevich and that these taped conversations were about the vacant senate seat that the disgraced governor was trying to sell Barack Obama’s internal investigation is about to reveal that Emanuel had only one conversation with the governor and it wasn’t about the senate seat. And you know what? We are just going to have to believe the president-elect because he is refusing to release any of the documents that could either prove or disprove what Obama is about to claim. And he never has to release these documents. 

 Talk about a phony investigation. We will never know the truth. We are just going to have to take him on his word. We are supposed to believe that he is telling us the truth this time even though he has lied to us already about contact his staff has had with the governor.

This is the transparency in government that president-elect Obama spoke about during the campaign? President-elect Obama has been spinning his staff’s involvement in this controversy since the beginning and now he is going to tell us the results that he found in an investigation without providing any hard evidence of his claims and we are just supposed to believe it. 

 Barack Obama cut his political teeth in what is widely considered one of the most corrupt state governments in the country, we are supposed to believe that none of this corruption rubbed off on Obama even though this is the state in which he CHOSE to become an active politician.

 This whole thing stinks and it is immune from the Freedom of Information Act so we will never know the truth. Barack Obama’s change just seems like more of the same.