This Blago issue is just a waste of time, we all know Obama didn't do anything wrong, yet the press in collaboration with GOP keeps beating dead horse.

Frankly, i have not seen any good reason to watch cable TV nor read main stream propaganda news media, see politico website, since the election. I'll continue to read blogs, provided they maintain certain level of sanity, or else nothing is worth paying attention to.

As I've said in the beginning of my questioning why Obama hadn't released his results to his internal investigation -- if he's been ordered NOT TO, then just SAY SO. Otherwise explain why he isn't releasing the info.

As for why Fritzgerald would have him delay till WEEK of 22nd -- all I can figure is, it's the holiday week and less people paying attention. Cause if Frit's is hoping to catch Blogo at something, telling him when they will stop doing so (the 22nd) won't help much.

All I know is, thank you Pres Elect Obama for finally telling us the reason for the silence.

I am so glad that the Obama team came out with this statement, maybe now the talking heads will stop talking. I for one have had it with the likes of "Morning Joe". I will have to stop watching to keep my sanity.

More from Karen Tumulty at Time.com:

"...
In the course of those discussions, the US Attorney's office requested the public release of the Transition review be deferred until the week of December 22, in order not to impede their investigation of the governor. The Transition has agreed to this revised timetable for release," said Obama Transition Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer.

TRANSLATION: Obama's team was planning to release its findings about contacts between Obama aides and the Illinois Governor's today. (I'm told it turned out to be "pretty milquetoast stuff.") However, when White House Counsel-to-be Greg Craig informed U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald of that, the U.S. Attorney asked him to hold off. Why? That's unclear. One possibility is that having that information in the public domain would make it more difficult for Fitzgerald to pursue leads involving other parties. "

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/12/15/fitz...

I wish Fitzgerald would release a similar statement about his request.

Wait, now what do we talk about for the next week?

It's only Monday and we have to wait until next week!!!

Hrmm...we could re-hash the Hillary wants to take over the White House story again. Or we could ask ourselves about Obama, Who is he really?

My guess is the Holder drama is going to take over again until the Blagflabomich stuff comes out next week.

What big appointments are left for Obama? Does anyone have some sort of organizational chart with the names of those appointed and ?'s next to the appointments still needing to be made? I hadn't really seen one yet.

Here is my lawyer's take on this.

Assistant U.S. Atty.: (picking up phone) Yello.
Transition Counsel: Jimmy, it's Ted.
AUSA: Hey, thanks for getting back to me. What's up?
Trans Counsel: So we had our IT guy get all the stuff together, and we talked to the people who talked with the Blago people, and we put all that into declarations, as requested.
AUSA: Super. That was pretty fast.
Trands Counsel: Ha, not to Fox News or Limbaugh.
AUSA: I hear you. So when can you get it to me?
Trans Counsel: Today, if you need it. I can send the CD by Fed-Ex, or I can get the e-mails to you by .pdf, however you want.
AUSA: Just overnight 'em.
Trans Counsel: Okay, I'll get it out today.
AUSA: How much we talking about?
Trans Counsel: Less than a redwell full. Not much.
AUSA: Cool. Well, listen, we want to review it, and I am going to need to run it by some people here. We don't want the defense to know what's in there before us, so do you mind keeping a lid on it for a while until we do what we need to do with it?
Trans Counsel: How long do you need?
AUSA: How about January 2 or 3?
Trans Counsel: Ugh, that's not going to work. we have to get this off the plate, it's too big a distraction. How about Wednesday or Thursday?
AUSA: Well, give us until the 22nd. We want to make sure we know what's in there before the beans are spilled. Blago's defense counsel reads the paper, too.
Trans counsel: Erm. Let me check, but the 22nd may work.
AUSA; I would appreciate it.
Trans Counsel: Okay, let me get back to you.
AUSA: Yeppers.
Trans Counsel: Later.

(end call)

OH THE DRAMA!!!!

Man, Obama's team has a looooong way to go until they learn how to handle the media. This has been terribly handled.

peopel here are like a bunch of old ladies.(no offense to old ladies)

relax!

this means NOTHING!.

and did you ever think for a second, just 1 second,thats ONE second, that YOU are guilty of keeping this in the news as much as anyone else by yapping about it here in comments?

Oh if Obama doesn't come clean on this right now the country could get into an unnecessary war or we could lose 3 million jobs or an American city could drown or someone on Wall Street could ruin our economy or the Taleban might shut down transport of supplies to our Afghanistan forces from Pakistan or terrorists might take over a hotel or hijack a supertanker or North Korea could detonate a nuclear weapon!