Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:00:28 PM
Barack Obama has gone out of his way to make his incoming
administration Clintonesque. Not only has he built 63% of his
transition team from Clinton administration officials, he even picked
Hillary Clinton for a Cabinet post. Now Obama appears to have restored
another Clinton tradition — in word parsing. Ace
has this picture from the December 2nd meeting with the National Governors Association
That image belies Obama’s statement from Tuesday, following the arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich:
“I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening.”
Is this anything like parsing the meaning of the word “is”?
Obviously, Obama made contact with Blagojevich a week before the
statement at the December 2nd NGA conference. Did they discuss the
Senate succession? Probably not, but it’s not necessarily out of the
question, either.
Barack Obama had better learn precision in the future.
Update: Verum Serum notes this photo as well, — taken from Blagojevich’s official newsletter dated 11/12/08, eight days after the election . The topic of the story? The Senate succession
Does this mean that they discussed the Senate succession? As I wrote
above, not necessarily, and it’s worth pointing out that the photo
itself is undated. Neither, though, does it mean that they didn’t discuss it, either before or after the election, or both.