Semantics.

His responses have been nuanced different each time he's addressed this. I have the gut feeling that Obama is lily-white in this, no pun intended, but that someone on his staff may have overstepped decorum.



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>>Well, OF COURSE he's lying by assumption of the logic I already posted. I just don't understand why. He had nothing to lose by admitting that he and/or his staff was working with Blag on the transition of the Senate seat if they weren't complicit in the scandal. I truly believe that Obama would not have played along in this scandal and Blag's cursing him out in the tapes seems to back that up.
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>>The thing that bothers me is that assuming I'm right about Obama not playing games with Blag (good for him), why the knee-jerk reaction of a bald-face lie? Is this how he's going to react to any controversy going forward - lie to us and hope it sticks? If I were an Obama supporter listening to months of how open and honest he was going to be I'd be seriously perturbed.
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>Here's what Obama said: ""I have never spoken to the governor on this subject. I am confident that no representatives of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat."
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>Where's the lie? He didn't say that no one on his staff had talked to the governor. He said he hadn't and that he was sure his staff wouldn't have been part of a deal.
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>Tamar