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Pat Caddell, furious over ‘hypocrites’ in the White House, unloads on Obama
Daily Caller ^ | Oct. 14, 2010 | Staff

Posted on 10/14/2010 1:03:03 PM PDT by fightinJAG

Veteran Democratic operative Pat Caddell is unloading on the White House, saying he’s 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. “He’s 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 administration’s 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 Nixon’s enemies list. I take this stuff seriously. What they’re doing is Nixonian – it’s McCarthyite,” he said.

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1 posted on 10/14/2010 1:03:08 PM PDT by fightinJAG
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To: fightinJAG

Caddell is a reminder that once upon a time Democrats had integrity and loved this country.


2 posted on 10/14/2010 1:06:05 PM PDT by Tribune7 (The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
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To: fightinJAG

McCarthy was correct.

Obama is a Liar.


3 posted on 10/14/2010 1:07:17 PM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: fightinJAG
My favorite part:

“These are the people we never let in the room when we had serious business to do. Now they’re running the country.”

:>P

4 posted on 10/14/2010 1:07:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: fightinJAG

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.


5 posted on 10/14/2010 1:07:36 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Tribune7

Exactly. You can disagree, but have an honest debate.


6 posted on 10/14/2010 1:07:36 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: fightinJAG

“Obama declined public funding of his presidential campaign in 2008.”

... After promising publicly that he would accept only public funding.


7 posted on 10/14/2010 1:08:29 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: fightinJAG
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.

8 posted on 10/14/2010 1:08:37 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Ronald Reagan: "our liberal friends....know so much that isn't so...")
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To: Tribune7

Caddell is the last of an endangered species...A Dem with an intact brain and no yellow stripes.


9 posted on 10/14/2010 1:10:19 PM PDT by WAW (Which enumerated power?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Billiant statement.


10 posted on 10/14/2010 1:11:17 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: fightinJAG

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?


11 posted on 10/14/2010 1:12:01 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup
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To: fightinJAG

Does anyone know whether Pat has ever written anything about his friendship with Hunter Thompson?


12 posted on 10/14/2010 1:14:59 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
So true, so sadly true.

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.

13 posted on 10/14/2010 1:17:44 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: Tribune7

>>>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.


14 posted on 10/14/2010 1:18:08 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: fightinJAG

I love seeing Democrats cannibalize each other.


15 posted on 10/14/2010 1:19:40 PM PDT by pallis
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To: fightinJAG
The last part is the best:

“These are naive idiots who’ve come out of academia and have never done anything real in their lives, and they are actually in power,” he said. “These are the people we never let in the room when we had serious business to do. Now they’re running the country.”
16 posted on 10/14/2010 1:21:05 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: GSWarrior
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.

Perhaps they will rethink giving money to lefties. Maybe Target will too.

17 posted on 10/14/2010 1:22:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: Tribune7

“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.......


18 posted on 10/14/2010 1:23:07 PM PDT by Thinkin (lead if you want to lead, follow if you want to follow, just get the hell out of my way !)
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To: jersey117
You can disagree, but have an honest debate.

Not with a Marxist. They lie about everything.

19 posted on 10/14/2010 1:25:09 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Time to Clean House.)
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To: Ditto

I meant with an old-school DemocRat, like Caddell.


20 posted on 10/14/2010 1:29:55 PM PDT by jersey117
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