Thanks for the Memories (liberals thrown under the bus)

New York Times ^ | November 25, 2009 | Maureen Dowd

[reaganaut1]

At his Cabinet meeting Monday afternoon, President Obama took a moment to give thanks to his team.

Sipping a glass of water, the president offered special gratitude to the woman on his right.

“I advised this hard-working Cabinet to get a little bit of rest this week,” he said, looking at Hillary Clinton, “particularly the people who have been traveling around the globe day-in and day-out and don’t know what time zone they’re in.”

The secretary of state, with a china cup and saucer in front of her, smiled.

In the back of the room, back where they were parched, back where no water or coffee was served for the two-hour meeting, sat Greg Craig, the White House counsel who was a ghostly presence, given his death by a thousand leaks.

Only a year after he had helped Barack Obama get elected by eviscerating his close friend, Clinton White House colleague and Yale Law School classmate, Hillary Clinton, Craig was himself eviscerated by the Obama inner circle.

I remember meeting Craig at a book party during the campaign. He upbraided me for writing critical things about Obama. I didn’t like being chastised, but I admired his loyalty.

It couldn’t have been easy for Craig, a special counsel in the Clinton White House who directed the response on impeachment, to break away from the Clintons and help the insurgent Obama shatter Hillary’s dream of shattering the Oval glass ceiling.

As Todd Purdum wrote of Craig in The Times in 1998, “At Yale, he surrendered his $75-a-month apartment in New Haven to Mr. Clinton and his girlfriend, Hillary Rodham, who were a class behind him, and he remains especially close to Mrs. Clinton, friends say.”

[reaganaut1]

I enjoyed this column. Clearly some Obama cabinet members (including Craig) are upset with him. Maybe we can send bottled water to the White House. We don't need left-wing activists to vote for the Republican nominee, we just need them to keep their checkbooks closed and/or to stay home on election day.

[SueRae]

Was Hillary invited to last night’s soiree?

[originalbuckeye]

Greg Craig's ouster is the ‘shabbiest episode of his Presidency’?? When even Dowd starts understanding that the only person Obama cares about is Obama, the Dems are in real trouble. I couldn't be more pleased. Pass the popcorn, it's going to be a bumpy but enjoyable shadenfreude type ride.

[Seruzawa]

Liberals are a vicious pack of hyenas. They betray each other with great enthusiasm. That the conservatives can’t defeat them shows just how incompetent their political leadership is. I mean it. A liberal will sell out his “friends” for pocket change.... heck, they’ll sell each other out for the mere promise of pocket change.

Funny to see Craig get stuffed the way he stuffed his “friend” Hitlery.

[sodpoodle]

For contrast - The Bush family was lampooned or viciously criticized for being loyal - even as their friends & associates were being destroyed by the MSM - Dan Quayle comes to mind.

We should always remember that for the Socialists - power is used to push the program - people are fungible. There is no loyalty among the theives who are stealing our liberty, our wealth and our posterity.

[sodpoodle]

***They betray each other with great enthusiasm***

And they betray us with even more!!!!

[thirst4truth]

Bill and Hillary lived together in college before they got married?

[Red Boots]

Writing in Politico, Elizabeth Drew called it “the shabbiest episode of his presidency,” saying that it had caused people who had helped Obama rise to question whether he would behave in as classy and non-Clintonian a fashion as they had hoped.

They are just now starting to have questions ? I thought these were the smartest people in the room ?

[Hoodat]

Good catch.

[Phlap]

In my best Homer Simpson voice "Mel Brooks is Jewish?"

[Ratman83]

Hey why not pictures of Z

[midnightcat]

yes, she was there.