Obama Sets Presidential Record For Getting Investigated By Federal Prosecutors
He’s the first President to do it before actually taking office.
Every president for more than three decades has had to talk with federal prosecutors at one time or another. President-elect Barack Obama may have set a land speed record by giving his first interview to investigators even before taking the oath of office.
Obama sat down last week with four investigators looking into the alleged attempt to sell his former Senate seat. As a witness, rather than a target, Obama seems to have had an easier time with the experience than some of his predecessors. But it is certainly not the way he wanted to begin his presidency.
Hope ‘n change!
And, for the record, I don’t buy that Obama is just a “witness” in the Blago affair. At the very least, I think Obama knew damn well Blago was trying to sell his old Senate seat and did nothing to stop it. At worst, he was playing ball with Blago and nothing incriminating has been dug up to date.
