Word: elections
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...following day, Blagojevich attempted yet another contact with the Obama transition team in hopes of floating the 501(c)(4) idea. He said he wanted to tell an unidentified adviser to the President-elect that he wanted money to be raised for the nonprofit. The same day, he said in a phone conversation that mentioning the nonprofit to the President-elect's adviser would be an unspoken way of raising the question of Senate Candidate 1, among others. In the same conversation, Blagojevich suggested using an unidentified individual as an intermediary to the President-elect's adviser...
...Senate seat - is still for sale. Or at least it was. Blagojevich, along with chief of staff John Harris, was arrested in Chicago on Dec. 9 on charges that included conspiring to commit wire fraud and soliciting bribes in exchange for the Illinois Senate seat - vacated by President-elect Barack Obama - that Blagojevich was obligated to fill. If convicted, Blagojevich, who turns 52 on Dec. 10, faces up to 30 years in prison. What a birthday...
...real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain. You hear what I'm saying. And if I don't get what I want and I'm not satisfied with it, then I'll just take the Senate seat myself." - On finding someone to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat, during a taped Nov. 3 conversation with an adviser...
...Afghanistan - the war that President-elect Barack Obama pledged to fight and win - has become an aimless absurdity. It began with a specific target. Afghanistan was where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda lived, harbored by the Islamic extremist Taliban government. But the enemy escaped into Pakistan, and for the past seven years, Afghanistan has been a slow bleed against an array of mostly indigenous narco-jihadi-tribal guerrilla forces that we continue to call the "Taliban." These ragtag bands are funded by opium profits and led by assorted religious extremists and druglords, many of whom have safe havens...
...Before he sends another U.S. soldier off to die or be maimed in Afghanistan, President-elect Obama needs to deliver the blunt message to the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan that we will no longer tolerate their complicity in the deaths of Americans and our allies, a slaughter that began on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and continues to this day. Obama will soon own this aimless war if he does not somehow change that dynamic...