Reply #43: No. Even though Rachel Maddow cringed at that too,

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I'd already heard clips of Blagojevich cussing out the Obama team for not going along, so his statement just sounded true to me. More like his being careful as he has admirably been on many topics. It has been a pleasure to hear him choose his words precisely.

So when Rachel Maddow expressed the same angst about his phrasing, I thought it a little overblown, because it is an ongoing investigation and I know Obama and his team wouldn't make deals with an unstable, widely distrusted governor. So I took his statement at face value.

Obama is so different from the Bush Cheney gang in his ethics that the standard, true declaration didn't bother me.