Posted on 10/14/2010 1:03:03 PM PDT by fightinJAG
Veteran Democratic operative Pat Caddell is unloading on the White House, saying hes had enough with the president whose hypocrisy on campaign finance is just mind-blowing.
President Obama has made a point while campaigning to call out conservative-leaning groups for hurting the integrity of elections by not voluntarily disclosing donors. Caddell says Obama has no room to talk.
My problem with Obama started the day he blew up public financing of presidential campaigns, Caddell said in an interview with The Daily Caller. Hes the man whose done the most to destroy whatever integrity there was in campaign financing.
Obama declined public funding of his presidential campaign in 2008.
The administrations attacks, Caddell said, on groups like the Chamber of Commerce and donors like the conservative Koch brothers reek of McCarthyism.I was the youngest person on Richard Nixons enemies list. I take this stuff seriously. What theyre doing is Nixonian its McCarthyite, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Caddell is a reminder that once upon a time Democrats had integrity and loved this country.
McCarthy was correct.
Obama is a Liar.
These are the people we never let in the room when we had serious business to do. Now theyre running the country.
:>P
The Koch brothers also donated money to NORML and the ACLU. It is ridiculous to suggest that they are a shadowy arm of the Republican party.
Exactly. You can disagree, but have an honest debate.
“Obama declined public funding of his presidential campaign in 2008.”
... After promising publicly that he would accept only public funding.
Obama declined public funding of his presidential campaign in 2008
IIRC, he originally pledged to use ONLY public financing in his campaign. Then he totally reneged on that pledge rather abruptly. And also, isn't he the one that shut down the mechanism on his donation website that would allow for donors giving by credit card to be identified? Yeah, Jerk the Wonder Prez has LOTS of room to talk. Good for Caddell, though. Nice to see someone in that pack of jackals has integrity.
Caddell is the last of an endangered species...A Dem with an intact brain and no yellow stripes.
Billiant statement.
Please note that LeO Gerard a Canadian seems to have made donations to the Dems! Wikipedia=Leo W. Gerard (born 1947)[1] is a steelworker and a Canadian and American labor leader. He was elected president of the United Steelworkers (USW) in 2001, and is the second Canadian to head the union.[3][4] He is also a vice president of the AFL-CIO.
opensecrets...... GERARD, LEO CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP,PA 16066 STEELWORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION/PR 6/16/08 $500 Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte (D)
Is it leagal for him to make a contribution?
Does anyone know whether Pat has ever written anything about his friendship with Hunter Thompson?
And now, in Politico, we have another guy calling the Prez's tactics "McCarthy-ite."
Between that and Huff Po ragging mercilessly on Obama's pick for NSA, I can honestly say I have never heard Libs and Rats allow their pages to be used to go after their own guy quite like this --> Obama's Mini-Me.
>>>Caddell is a reminder that once upon a time Democrats had integrity and loved this country.
Dittos. Too bad there are very few like him left.
I love seeing Democrats cannibalize each other.
Perhaps they will rethink giving money to lefties. Maybe Target will too.
“Caddell is a reminder that once upon a time Democrats had integrity and loved this country.”
Caddell needs 24/7 protection.....it appears he is one of the last true democrats alive on the planet....
an endangered species.......
Not with a Marxist. They lie about everything.
I meant with an old-school DemocRat, like Caddell.
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