Obama Talks Blago

Barack Obama hosted a press conference today to introduce Tom Daschle as the new Secretary for Health and Human Services, but the press corps was fixated on Rod Blagojevich. "What I am absolutely certain of is that my office had no involvement with any deal-making around that senate seat," Obama said. He added that he would provide a complete account of staffers' contact with the governor in the coming days. As further evidence of his distance from Blagojevich, Obama pointed out that the Illinois governor had some choice words for him in the FBI transcripts released on Tuesday. "I won’t quote back some of the things that were said about me," Obama said, "This is a family program, I know."