Obama ‘misstatement’ apparently exposed – Rahm talked to Blago about Senate seat

And named Obama’s “acceptable names”

Time for more retracted sentences from David Axelrod? Perhaps Obama himself? Why, if you (as I assume) have no taint, can you not give straight answers?

Incoming Obama chief of staff and Illinois Fifth District Congressman Rahm Emanuel talked with John Harris, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s chief of staff about filling Obama’s Senate seat, according to a Chicago Tribune source:

Emanuel delivered a list of candidates who would be "acceptable" to Obama, the source said. On the list were Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, Illinois Veterans Affairs director Tammy Duckworth, state Comptroller Dan Hynes and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Chicago, the source said. All are Democrats.

Well, one “misstatement” of Obama and his Essence magazine/Chicago insider mouthpiece, Roland Martin, is now exposed. Jarrett, if not tops among the four, was at least one of four preferred Obama replacements.

Other points to note? Harris, or other Blago reps, started talking with Rahmbo the Saturday before Election Day. Gee, that was right after Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Indian barbecue, wasn’t it?

Was Blago pursuing two separate lines of shakedown at the same time? Surely Rahmbo had heard about the BBQ blowout for JJ Jr., right? Was Obama, through him, trying to head JJ Jr. off at the pass? Is this why “somebody” pressured Blago not to name JJ?

Also interesting that, per Pat Fitzgerald’s original affadavit against Blago (PDF), Blago was told to, in essence, “chill” for two years — by Obama’s “Advisor B,” who may well be Rahm.

And, Obama himself, along with Rahmbo, Ax, etc., still have all those unanswered questions and non-answer "answers" waiting out there,

Man, more drama, and new plot lines, than you can shake a stick at. It’s “interesting” that MSLBs haven’t touched this with a 10-foot pole. (Update - TPM posted a story link, but no blog post about it, at 8:30 Central, finally. WM and Kos, among others, still nothing.)

Good thing Rahm hasn’t resigned his House seat yet. He could find out that his White House gig suddenly isn’t so secure.