Posted on 05/21/2008 10:04:38 PM PDT by PROCON
Yes he shows a lot of judgment... If elected, he’ll probably want to scan an FBI list to see if there are any good candidates for his cabinet.
Please tell me it isn’t so, but horse sense, that finest of American qualities seems to be fading. For example, I’m really surprised that the Reverend Wright business proved to be just a sort of road bump and not a thick brick wall.
God Bless America? No no no... God £$&&//&% America?!?! Even if his preacher of twenty years had said a more benign “God Help America!” the whole premise of the outburst should have made Obama disappear. In better times, I’m sure it would have. You can’t have had a greater exhibition of BAD JUDGMENT than that one. Even this latest news pales in comparison... and yet there he is!
Okay, I’m a foreigner, what do I know? But my impression is that Obama is not really an American. He treats his country with the disdain and detachment of some foreign leftist. Therein lies the big danger, in my opinion, even more, than the classical struggle between right wing and left wing politics, in which one supposes that both candidates at least love their country.
Hinckley is not a Leftist.
Hinckley is a Jodyist.
The Sick PoS.
The resume’s of the Obama ‘folks’ is coming out in dribbles and drabs; but heavy with warnings.
Repubs should make a scrolling ad; resume like; with the highlights of ‘work experience/background’ of those close to Obama.
Could say a great deal; in small amount of space/time.
Well, well, well.
Greg Craig...talk about shades of the past..It’s all just one big incestuous circle, isn’t it?
Sure is ..
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http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=C2DDFA95-3048-5C12-00D52425F636BE0B
Washington elite lead Clinton backlash
By: John F. Harris
January 29, 2008 12:26 PM EST
In September 1998, Greg Craig, a lion of the Washington legal community, left a top job at the State Department to go to the White House to help Bill Clinton fight impeachment during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
One of his first stops was to an old Democratic friend, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, who warned him what he was stepping into: “You’re about three days away from a delegation of senior Democrats coming up there to ask the president to resign.”
That anecdote, recounted in Peter Baker’s history of the impeachment saga, came echoing back to mind in recent days.
Washington’s liberal establishment — members of Congress, fundraisers and commentators — has coalesced around the view that Bill Clinton is soiling his legacy and wounding Hillary Rodham Clinton’s prospects as he rambles around the country in a peevish, piece-of-my-mind monologue ostensibly devoted to helping her win the Democratic nomination.
Conrad was one of the first Democratic senators to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). Craig, who once worked for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), is now a senior adviser to Obama. Over the past week, he played an important behind-the-scenes role in facilitating the Democratic race’s latest thunderclap: Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama for president.
Kennedy has been supportive of both Clintons in the past. But, according to advisers who have spoken with him, Kennedy was motivated to publicly bless Obama in part because he was offended by what he regarded as Clinton’s divisive and distorted arguments against his wife’s chief rival.
Bill Clinton, in other words, botched a big one — at a moment when Hillary Clinton can afford it least.
It is striking how many people around town seem to be loving it. But it should not really be surprising.
Clinton spent so long as the dominant personality in the Democratic Party that it is easy to forget: Lots of elite Democrats never liked the guy that much. Or, perhaps more precisely, their feelings of admiration were constantly at war with feelings of disdain.
The ferocity of anti-Clinton sentiments heard around Washington in recent days — as even some former Clinton White House aides say they are enjoying the Kennedy endorsement and the implicit rebuke of the Clintons — has reached levels that haven’t been seen for seven years. Clinton’s pardons in the closing hours of his presidency prompted a similar backlash.
One of the party’s most experienced fundraisers, a former Clinton administration appointee who is close to the Democratic leadership in Congress and both leading presidential campaigns, said that several top Democratic contributors have told him they are furious with what they perceive as Bill Clinton’s campaign of complaints, mini-tirades and smart-alecky talking points.
It was enough to send this Democrat’s wife off the fence and to Obama over the weekend.
The toxic relationship between the Clintons and Washington was always one of the main paradoxes of the Clinton administration — and one of its main mysteries.
More at link
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What goes around ........
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