If you've been reading about the Obama-Clinton contest in New York Times lately, I need not tell you that the Times has a dog in the hunt and has no qualms about showing it. If Howard Wolfson is Hillary's Communications Czar, Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson is Opposition Researcher in Chief. Unable to dig up any dirt on Obama, the Times has apparently resigned itself to tortured (but humorous) implications. In today's edition of the Times, Catrin Einhorn lowers the bar further with "In Developer’s Trial, E-Mail Note Cites an Obama Role."
Ms. Einhorn reports that Senator Obama's name appears in an email concerning a state health planning board that Mr. Rezko is accused of improperly influencing.
"The vaguely worded message also seemed to raise the possibility that Mr. Obama, who at the time was chairman of the Illinois Senate’s health committee, had been involved in recommending candidates for the board."
Ms. Einhorn notes that Governor Blagojevich had asked that the email be written and that the Governor had never discussed the appointment process with Senator Obama. Oh, and "Mr. Obama has not been accused of any wrongdoing, and his name is expected to come up only tangentially during the trial," Einhorn adds.
So let's recap. . . While Chairman of the Illinois Senate Health Committee, Senator Obama's name was mentioned in an email that involved a state health planning board and was written and dispatched at the Governor's direction. Gasp!
To her credit, Ms. Einhorn's concludes her article with some succinct and appropriate analysis by David Wilhelm, former adviser to Governor Blagojevic. The email message is "a nonstory," Mr. Wilhem said.
Cross-posted from Our Republic