Finally, channeling Bill Clinton’s “is-is” parsing, Obama attempted to argue that his dubious veep selection committee members don’t really “work” for him: “They’re performing that job well. It’s a volunteer, unpaid position. And they’re giving me information, and I will then exercise judgment in terms of who I want to select as a vice presidential candidate. So these aren’t folks who are working for me, they’re not people I have assigned to a particular job in a future administration.”
To me, that’s the bit that’s finally made up my mind for certain that he’s just the same old same old gussied up. That’s about the most pathetic excuse I’ve ever heard. Not working for you. THEY’RE JUST LOOKING FOR YOUR VP, THAT’S ALL.
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Last week, D’Oh-bama announced the appointment of D.C. denizens Jim Johnson and Eric Holder to head his veep search committee — along with a Kennedy (Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg) thrown in for glamorous good measure. John McCain supporters rightly jumped on Johnson and Holder as shady Washington operators. Holder was the Clinton Justice Department official in the middle of the sleazy pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich.
Johnson, who has advised past failed Democratic nominees Walter Mondale and John Kerry, was CEO of the beleaguered, government-backed mortgage giant, Fannie Mae. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported that Johnson accepted more than $7 million in below-market-rate loans from scandal-plagued subprime lender Countrywide Financial Corp. The company’s CEO, Angelo Mozilo, had set up a very special loan program for his high-powered pals. Johnson had named Mozilo to Fannie Mae’s national advisory committee more than a decade ago and they maintained a cozy friendship.
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I see that it's in common use on the Internet (in slightly different forms).
I remember Clinton's first administration and how the MSM employees edited-out his stumbling and fumbling -- lots of luck with Doh!-bama, guys and gals. Maybe most of you have the right idea. Don't ask.
One would think, that if fumbling a relatively simple and basic function as a VP search committee, what would he do on Cabinet positions, or various appointive offices, up to and including the Supreme Court?
Not ready for prime time. George Soros really should have been working with this fellow for several years BEFORE pushing him to the front, just to show the Power Couple from Arkansas who is boss.
Herself, the Cold and Joyless, could STILL pull this thing out at Denver. Or, it would be made to appear so, if the Soros octopus manages the strings on his marionettes well enough.
In your face, America. You been punk’d.