Posted on 02/08/2009 4:25:24 PM PST by Robwin
Sen. Christopher J. Dodd went one contrivance too far last week at his carefully choreographed press event to explain his mortgage deals with Countrywide Financial. Dodd has engaged in so many contradictions in trying to manage the gathering storm that he probably did not recognize his stunning blunder.
At his Monday event, Dodd wouldn't let reporters have copies of the selected documents he let them glimpse. Instead, Dodd released a report from a Chicago firm hired with campaign funds to review his mortgage transactions. The report is carefully constructed to vindicate the Dodds and even make them appear to have fared worse than many other borrowers. It includes references to "detailed evaluation" of internal Countrywide documents that the mortgage giant used in processing the Dodds' applications for more than $800,000 in loans. The firm hired by Dodd, it's clear, had documents from Countrywide.
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The senator and his circle of advisers, supporters and sycophants must believe that the stark contradictions between his rhetoric and his actions are of no consequence to his constituents. The document that Dodd released at his manipulative appearance with his wife last Monday was a campaign brochure. It included no mortgage documents. Its comparisons of mortgage rates and fees were selective and misleading.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
Don’t count on it.
I love this. Rennie is not letting up on Dodd. My m-i-l lives in Hartford. When my husband called her last week and mentioned this to her, she didn’t know anything about it. She said she couldn’t understand how people like Dodd got into office. Of course, she is an 80-y.o. CT Dem who thinks the Republican party hates the poor and would thus never consider voting for one of “them.”
The article is excerpted, but is critical to read the stunning conclusion of this short investigative article. Dodd is totally nailed! Click and enjoy!
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-rennie0208.artfeb08,0,7093093.column
Does the article's omission regarding his political affiliation offer a clue to his political party?
Dodd is nailed.
There's enough in this one article to defeat him in 2010 -- if the GOP has a decent candidate. And a will to win.
“There’s enough in this one article to defeat him in 2010 — if the GOP has a decent candidate. And a will to win.”
That’s the problem here in CT the pubbies have not had a good candidate in my recollection!
>Sweet. And that’s from this lowlife’s home town newspaper. Maybe the people of Connecticut are starting to show some brains.
Maybe people are tired of being smiled at, nodded to, and then stabbed in the back.
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