Posted on 03/03/2007 9:23:34 AM PST by John Cena
WASHINGTON -- Greg Craig, a Washington super-lawyer with close ties to the Clintons, is supporting Sen. Barack Obama for president. Craig was a White House special counsel defending President Bill Clinton in the Senate impeachment trial. A partner in the Williams & Connolly law firm founded by the legendary Edward Bennett Williams, Craig served as an adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. In confirming to this column his presidential preference, Craig called Obama unique and added: "I've never seen anyone who has made the impact on people and on me." He said he was impressed with Obama when he first met him at the home of investment banker Vernon Jordan, an intimate friend and supporter of the Clintons.
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Craig knows all the Clinton's lies. However, since he is in the most ethical profession in the world, he will honor the attorney client privilege and never divulge what he knows.
Judging from bill's commentary about her heinous, it would appear he has already defected!
I've seen polls that show that close to 75% of Americans want a change in '08. Hillary doesn't represent change. She represents going back to the 90s where it was all about scandal and being in denial about the terrorist threat. People, even Democrats, were weary of the Clintons by 2000. If anything, that weariness has grown. I give these Democrats willing to jump ship on Hillary some credit for courage.
Hillary is having cramps over all this kerfufle.
"Seems that those who know the Clinton's the best are bailing on them."
We all know how much Dick Morris loves Hillary. He has dirt on her he hasn't yet divulged, but that he alluded to one night on Hannity and Colmes. Hope he's saving to use in case it's really needed.
The "Good Ship Hitlery" is sounding like the Titanic!
I think it's time to stop backing candidates because they are "the only one who can beat Hillery". She is not going to be the dem nominee!
We will win in 2008 by being true to ourselves & what are we? We're CONSERVATIVES!
Or that she will be the nominee. Whereupon, she will dramatically "bring the party together again" by selecting Obama as her Vice Presidential nominee.
The first Clinton administration needed the resolute obtuseness of an Algore. The second Clinton administration may well need the effervescent naivete of an Obama.
I don't know that the Clintons are at all forgiving. Don't they hold grudges forever?
Here's my problem .. I'm not sure if all these defectors are truly defecting .. or part of some plan hatched up with the Clinton's
Either they are trying to snooker everyone in to believing that Hellary doesn't automatically has this primary already tied up (which I wouldn't put it pass them to do) or there is a major rift with their former supporters
If the rift is real .. it could spell real trouble for the Clinton's ... because all there needs is to be one believable person to spill the beans on those 2 crooks
I have to admit, I'm amazed they've been able to keep people in line this long
Sure. But, sometimes, they don't work in a very direct fashion.
The Obama build-up has always had a certain manufactured quality about it -- the media almost certainly didn't come up with him on their own. Since they slavishly do her bidding, it wouldn't surprise that the Obama boomlet got a kick start from the Clintons.
The very idea of a Clinton-Obama ticket would send most liberals into a swoon of ecstacy...
I saw my first Obama bumper sticker today. The goon driving was traveling at a high rate of speed while bouncing from the white line to the yellow line. When he finished his cigarette he flicked the butt out the window....
Yeah, I know they want want to corner the black, female and Marxist vote and Clinton/Obama fills the bill.
They most certainly do. Good point!
You have a gift with words, but not prognostication. A Hillary/Obama ticket is a sure loser unless there is a strong 3rd party candidate.
This is getting interesting. :)
I agree, the conservatives are gone, all we are left with is the watered down 'why can't we all get along with' crowd of repubs - it does'nt bode well for the future of this nation. Summing it up, the politico's, all of 'em, just want to step between the puddles, have their club win and keep their jobs and of course all the perks that go with it. End of story, except that we have 21 months of bullcrap to centend with.
Not prognosticating the general election, only the possible outcome of the Democrat convention.
And how does the name "John McCain" strike you as a "strong 3rd party candidate"? The media has been assiduously setting McEgo up to make such an independent run for several years now. Would you trust him to take his licking in the GOP primaries like a man? Or will he lash out "in vengeance against the conservatives who denied him what was justly his"?
Well, people can be "impressive" in different ways, especially to a lawyer who specializes in impressive hot air. I would read "impressed" as meaning, Craig decides Obama has the best line of BS since Billyboy-- not that he is impressive in qualities normal humans would value.
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