Posted on 02/21/2007 8:42:28 AM PST by seanmerc
As Obama rails against "slash & burn" politics, his top Hollywood fundraiser - David Geffen - personally attacks Hillary & her family
Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson issued the following statement today demanding that Barack Obama disavow personal attacks that his campaign finance chair made against Senator Clinton in this morning's New York Times:
"While Senator Obama was denouncing slash and burn politics yesterday, his campaign's finance chair was viciously and personally attacking Senator Clinton and her husband.
"If Senator Obama is indeed sincere about his repeated claims to change the tone of our politics, he should immediately denounce these remarks, remove Mr. Geffen from his campaign and return his money.
"While Democrats should engage in a vigorous debate on the issues, there is no place in our party or our politics for the kind of personal insults made by Senator Obama's principal fundraiser.
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So, what did Geffen say?
Expect to see this tagged to some right wing blog, not the Clintonoids.
Clinton will annihilate Obsama Obama, but it is amazing that a few democrats have a dim awareness of how evil Hillary is.
"no place in our party or our politics for the kind of personal insults "
Because "their" party is so squeaky clean and polite.
The way some people are lovable, the Clintons are attackable. They both leave a slime trail behind.
I, too, love a good Democrat in-fight.
It was compliments and adoration.
You know how libs take things out of context.
So...what did Geffen say?
"Everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it’s troubling,” Geffen said.
Among other things, Hollywood and music mogul Geffen told Dowd, "God knows, is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton?" and "Obama is inspirational, and he’s not from the Bush royal family or the Clinton royal family. Americans are dying every day in Iraq. And I’m tired of hearing James Carville on television.”
"I don’t think anybody believes that in the last six years, all of a sudden Bill Clinton has become a different person,” Mr. Geffen says, adding that if Republicans are digging up dirt, they’ll wait until Hillary’s the nominee to use it. “I think they believe she’s the easiest to defeat.”
-- She is overproduced and overscripted. “It’s not a very big thing to say, ‘I made a mistake’ on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can’t,” Mr. Geffen says. “She’s so advised by so many smart advisers who are covering every base. I think that America was better served when the candidates were chosen in smoke-filled rooms.”
-- Once, David Geffen and Bill Clinton were tight as ticks. Mr. Geffen helped raise some $18 million for Bill and slept in the Lincoln Bedroom twice. Bill chilled at Chateau Geffen. Now, the Dreamworks co-chairman calls the former president “a reckless guy” who “gave his enemies a lot of ammunition to hurt him and to distract the country.”
-- They fell out in 2000, when Mr. Clinton gave a pardon to Marc Rich after rebuffing Mr. Geffen’s request for one for Leonard Peltier. “Marc Rich getting pardoned? An oil-profiteer expatriate who left the country rather than pay taxes or face justice?” Mr. Geffen says. “Yet another time when the Clintons were unwilling to stand for the things that they genuinely believe in. Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.”
Who care what he said? We are all ready to roll on the floor watching this, just as the Dims are already rolling on the floor watching our performance here. When somebody yells "fight" on the playground it gets attention.
"Clinton will annihilate Obsama Obama, but it is amazing that a few democrats have a dim awareness of how evil Hillary is."
She is the most evil without question. But Bill and Hill have put together a machine that is beyond compare. Hillary! will be the next POTUS, the machine will make sure that happens by whatever means necessary.
Geffen's gay, isn't he?
Can't argue with that.
I think he's entertaining.
I'll let you watch him for me.
If Oboma starts letting Hillary's campaign team call the shots, he won't be able to speak out at all.
Don't let her censor you, Oboma. You have just as many rights as she does.
Bob Kerrey is now one of Hillary's constituents...they should haul him out to testify to Bill and Hillary's love of the truth.
OK, but I can only stand it for short periods of time. I hate snakes.
Geffen took long enough to see through the mud, but he eventually did.
Hillary might be smarter to let this crap roll off her back, rather than keep it in the headlines...
Yes, he is pretty slimey. I appreciate your sacrifice. :-)
Oraq Ibomba is sincere bout everything but does not know if he is white or black.
I find Geffen's comments about Hillary rather accurate.
As flamingly queer as a San Francisco democrat
Catfight alert!
I am telling you this is going to get more vicious as it goes along, the big demos don't want Hillary and they are sending Obama after her big time. TOO much fun
This is particularly amusing because Bill and Hillary thought that Hollywood loved them. Hillary was quoted in the book, Partners in Power, as saying that there were two kinds of people in Arkansas, the dirt and the rich, that they got their votes from the dirt and made their friends among the rich. Some one should tell Hillary that she and Bill don't have any real friends. You have to be a friend to have friends.
This ending blurb is just RIPE with good stuff. The pardon of Marc Rich and Pincus Green was so telling -- and it is one of the things that should give Rudy a wonderful counterpoint if he gets the nod to oppose Hillary. It was Rudy who was the prosecutor pursuing Marc Rich only to see Bubba give him a last minute pardon ("he had been punished enough"). This will bring back all of Bill and Hill's last minute shennigans and pay-offs for political donations, etc.
Nice to see David Geffen being honest enough to make these statements despite knowing how the Clintonoids would come back at him. I wonder how the Hollyweird celebs will react to Clinton's camp going after one of their favorite sons.
"This" is a vicious and personal attack???..lawdy, lawdy..
Senator Clinton and her husband; is this another change in style?
Kind of like saying, Kermit and his father.
Ding!
What round is this? :-)
With the Clintons, it's ALL about the money!! They are nothing but white trash. Thought they could buy some class by hanging out with Hollywood millionaires, but even the millionaires have seen through them now. They got NOTHIN'. Hear how loud they screech when they lose their money people. The voters? Not so much.
It will be fun seeing them try to kiss and make up when one is the prez nominee and the other is vp. Make some great commercials for the GOP to show one ripping the other.
Or, it will never happen.
David Geffen has REAL power in this country. He ain't scared of no Clintons. "Politics is just Hollywood for ugly people."
Actually, I might have to disagree with you there.
At the big Speilberg-Geffen bash, Mr. Hussein Obama was able to gross only $1.3M, which is an absolutely PATHETIC take.
Mitt "The Stormin' Mormon" Romney is regularly taking in more than FOUR times that amount at his dinners [$6M+].
When the PIAPS does Hollywood, she'll be expecting to draw EIGHT times that amount [$10M+].
If a measly $1.3M is the best that Mr. Hussein Obama can muster from the likes of David Geffen & The Sodomites, then the dude is toast: Break out the champagne, Hillary, 'cause the fat lady has sung.
the dems know how evil the Clinton's play the game
that is the real under tow here , just not stated as it would open a can of books (worms) to this effect.
The imperious Camp Clinton really expects adversaries to "cut ties and return cash" because they are allowing a supporter like David Geffen to tell the truth about the Clintons as he sees it???Unbelievable, but expected!
All I can say to Geffen is "YOU GO, GIRL!!!!!!
THis kind of stuff will only harden large parts of Hollywood's resolve against Hillary, as it should....remember that some of what Geffen said about being a "good liar" was also said years ago by another Democrat, Bob Kerrey.......
In this Team Clinton directive, though, we now see just how they take any opposition: they put Obama's entirely legitimate bid to be the nominee and his supporters' REAL criticism of the entirely Establishment Hillary Clinton as equivalent to , say, major financial support by some fanatical far Left OR far Right fringe group. I can't even think of any examples, because these groups have already been absorbed or nullified as players in the political realm. What NERVE of the Clintons to think that kind of strategy would "fly"!!!!!
bbbbwwwwwwwaaaaaahhhhhh!
P.S. STHU, Hildabeast!
Well, Geffen has his own political battles in Hollywierd. He had a severe falling out, IIRC, with Steven and all. That is not helpful to one's power base.
I hope these two run neck and neck right up to the end. Let the bleeding begin.
Why you gotta hate on the stone age tribe in Borneo, hilander UW?!? Why? (LOL)
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