Hey Obama! What kind of change do these two incontinent old Clintoon characters represent? Can they crap their pants? Yes they can!!
Posted on 06/25/2008 4:35:16 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has reached out recently to heavyweights in the Clinton camp, keeping his group of Washington outsiders in the background. Since locking in the Democratic Party presidential nomination in early June, Obama has expanded his team of campaign advisers without doing away with the core team that has advised him since the start of his bid in 2007.
Obama's choice however to associate with Washington outsiders has sometimes resulted in mistakes by association.
One was when unpaid foreign policy adviser Samantha Powers described Hillary Clinton to a reporter as a "monster," and quickly resigned.
Another was when University of Chicago economist Austan Goolsbee, another unpaid adviser, was quoted in Canadian media suggesting that Obama's campaign talk on re-negotiating parts of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) should be viewed as political positioning.
Obama's main spokesperson on foreign affairs issues is Susan Rice, a former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the second term of Bill Clinton's 1993-2001 presidency.
Criticized for his lack of experience after less than four years as US senator, Obama on Wednesday announced the formation of a "National Security Working Group" that included experienced big-name Democrats like former senator Sam Nunn, an expert on nuclear proliferation issues, and Lee Hamilton, the former co-president of the September 11 inquiry commission.
Also on the list was both of ex-president Clinton's secretaries of state, Madeleine Albright and Warren Christopher, and his former defense secretary William Perry.
At an event presenting the group, Obama said that he wanted to turn the page of the "rigid ideology" that he said characterized the George W. Bush presidency, and return to "the pragmatic tradition of American foreign policy."
Obama took a similar approach towards the economy, announcing earlier in the month that his campaign had engaged Jason Furman -- an economic centrist close to Bill Clinton's former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin -- to direct economic policy.
On the other hand, Obama has not hesitated in putting distance between his team and the Washington crowd, to the point that he has relocated part of the Democratic Party operations from the US capital to Chicago.
Obama's top strategist is David Axelrod, a New York native who has lived in Chicago for decades. And the architect of Obama's innovative primary strategy that racked up victories in small states to balanced Clinton's victories in large states, campaign director David Plouffe, is another Washington outsider.
Axelrod and Plouffe visited Capitol Hill on Tuesday -- and as Senate Majority Leady Harry Reid said, these people "are always under the radar screen. You don't hear much from them."
To best illustrate his distance from Washington, on Wednesday Obama announced he had hired Patrick Gaspard, a leader at the powerful Massachusetts-based Service Employed International Union (SEIU), as his campaign's political director.
Hey wait a second; I thought B. Hussein was the candidate of change - new blood, new life, not old Washington. Well that lasted all of about 2 months.
happy days of democrat party
unity are here again!
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Hey Obama! What kind of change do these two incontinent old Clintoon characters represent? Can they crap their pants? Yes they can!!
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