On Monday, New York Post Washington Bureau Chief Charles Hurt, as part of his continuing audition to become a Republican hitman on FOX calls “Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Obama's old pal and political ally.”
If that's Hurt’s definitions of a pal, he'd probably call Malcom Smith & Pedro Espada are blood brothers and say that Mike Bloomberg & Mark Green were running mates.
Here’s what the Washington Post reported about Obama & Blago's alliance –
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121103936_pf.html
Obama and Blagojevich rarely interacted until Blagojevich ran for governor. Obama told his friends in Springfield that he was unimpressed by Blagojevich's résumé, and he tried to lobby his friend Durbin to enter the race before deciding to support Roland Burris in the Democratic primary.
"When Blagojevich beat me, I told Barack to get on board with him," Burris said. "It was kind of like swallowing his pride a little bit, because he didn't really see that they had anything in common."
… Blagojevich never endorsed Obama in his U.S. Senate bid in 2004, and he expressed a preference for two other Democratic candidates