Not a minute to spare. In reality, it seems that Obama was much less than cooperative with Blagojevich.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) wasted little time in trying to tie President-elect Obama to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), who was arrested Tuesday morning on a variety of corruption charges.
Shortly after the news broke that Blagojevich was arrested for, among other things, seeking to profit for filling the Senate seat vacated by Obama, the RNC fired off an e-mail to reporters that included laudatory remarks the president-elect has made about the troubled governor in the past.
Included in the RNC e-mail was an Obama quote: "If the governor asks me to work on his behalf, I’ll be happy to do it."
The e-mail also noted that when Obama endorsed Blagojevich for a second term, The Associated Press reported the president-elect said: "We’ve got a governor in Rod Blagojevich who has delivered consistently on behalf of the people of Illinois.”
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