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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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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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

Is he talking about blacks or communists???


21 posted on 10/14/2010 1:33:56 PM PDT by chadwimc (Proud to be an infidel ! Allah fubar !!!)
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To: fightinJAG

Caddell also took a swing at Obama’s inner circle.

“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.”

The biggest idiot of them all is Barack Hussein Obama mmm MMM mmm. Way over his head, inexperienced, and the least qualified man in the room.


22 posted on 10/14/2010 1:34:05 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: fightinJAG
... reek of McCarthyism.

Seems to me that, since the release of all those Soviet documents, "McCarthyism" is no longer the pejorative it once was.

23 posted on 10/14/2010 1:35:44 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston
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To: stocksthatgoup

He is a dual citizen.


24 posted on 10/14/2010 1:35:51 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: fightinJAG

Who exactly did finance Obummer’s campaign.


25 posted on 10/14/2010 1:37:39 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Nepeta

I honestly think this is exactly — and ALL — Bubba meant when he made that comment about “a year ago these are the people who would be pouring our coffee.”

I didn’t take it as a racist remark at all. I took it as a recognition that, just as Caddell says, these people, including the President, have no experience, no training, no nothing to recommend them to anything other than ENTRY-LEVEL POLITICAL STAFF JOBS, especially in the WHITE HOUSE.

Yes, these people are the ones who, while they supposedly are also learning the trade by being around the big boys, pour the coffee, pick up the dry cleaning, make the squash court reservations or do whatever else comes up to support the actual leaders.

These are indeed the minimum-wagers who are running the country.


26 posted on 10/14/2010 1:38:17 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: fightinJAG
I honestly think this is exactly — and ALL — Bubba meant when he made that comment about “a year ago these are the people who would be pouring our coffee.”

I agree. This is about the only time I would give Clinton the benefit of the doubt.
27 posted on 10/14/2010 1:46:53 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: fightinJAG

Dang... I didn’t know that Caddell had a sensible bone left in his body.


28 posted on 10/14/2010 1:52:19 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: chadwimc
Is he talking about blacks or communists???

Neither. He is talking about "academics."

29 posted on 10/14/2010 1:55:14 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: Nepeta

Big Dittos to that! That sums it up pretty well, and Zero is the biggest inexperienced idiot of them all. But no one seemed to pay attention to that small detail during the ‘08 campaign.


30 posted on 10/14/2010 1:56:23 PM PDT by peteram
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To: Nepeta

“Now they’re running the country.”

What’s wrong with making NASA responsible for teaching Arabs about Muslim contributions to science?


31 posted on 10/14/2010 2:07:40 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: fightinJAG
McCarthyism?

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Er, uh, er, let me be clear. As a matter of fact I don't have any shame.

32 posted on 10/14/2010 2:41:18 PM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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To: Tribune7
Yes, Caddell does have some integrity, but he still refuses to recognize that McCarthy was mostly right. Funny how people keep bring up McCarthy when the opening of the USSR records showed how right he was in many cases.
33 posted on 10/14/2010 2:42:36 PM PDT by pepperdog (Why are Democrats Afraid of the Military Vote?)
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To: buccaneer81

thanks for the update


34 posted on 10/14/2010 3:30:31 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup
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To: fightinJAG

Now we have a pattern of liberal journol-lists using the same talking point about Obammy - McCarthyism.


35 posted on 10/14/2010 3:37:02 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Tribune7

I love the last three sentences -— “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.”


36 posted on 10/14/2010 3:43:39 PM PDT by rex regnum insanit (falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus)
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