[Harold] Ickes is Clinton's not-so-secret weapon

LA Times ^ | March 31, 2008 | Peter Nicholas

[SunkenCiv]

Harold M. Ickes never forgets a favor, especially if he's the one who did the favor. So the veteran political operative made sure that, when the time was right, he alone would call Garry Shay, former chairman of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party... And once Ickes started calling, he didn't stop until Shay said the words Ickes wanted to hear -- that he would support Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August... the man in charge of Clinton's feverish effort to lock up superdelegates is Ickes, whose enthusiasm for no-holds-barred politics sometimes rattles friends and foes alike. Ickes once got so carried away that he bit another political operative on the leg... Aggressive, profane, openly scornful of rivals, Ickes rules Clinton's superdelegate operation with an intimidating style and a mythic persona... He is the son and namesake of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's famously irascible Interior secretary... He worked in Sen. Eugene McCarthy's 1968 campaign to unseat President Lyndon B. Johnson. He joined Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) in trying to deny President Carter renomination in 1980. He worked for Jesse Jackson's presidential bids in 1984 and 1988. Unhappy about the way Jackson was being treated at the '88 convention, Ickes hatched plans that included a threat to hand out 1,700 plastic whistles to Jackson supporters so they could disrupt the proceedings. Some of his ideas unnerved even Jackson; Ickes remembers him saying, "Ickes, you want to get me run out of white man's America."

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops, photo credit is Andrew Councill (?)

[sanjacjake]

Hes’s a Carville with hair.....’nuff said. JK

[mortal19440]

Douche Bag!!!

[WorkingClassFilth]

A second generation of Presidential Wormwood. His father was FDR’s handler. Not only is our government infested with commies, they move in and openly breed like the rats they are.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I was going to say the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.

[ChildOfThe60s]

He worked in Sen. Eugene McCarthy's 1968 campaign to unseat President Lyndon B. Johnson.

That was successful

He joined Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) in trying to deny President Carter renomination in 1980.

More success

He worked for Jesse Jackson's presidential bids in 1984 and 1988.

Well damn. I'm impressed.

[McBuff]

nor the fecal matter from the anal passage

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, that kinda hurts.

[SunkenCiv]

Those were cited in the context of his being a maverick. The fact is, “Clean Gene” showed LBJ that he couldn’t win the nomination, and he dropped out of the race. RFK entered the race, was on his way to the nomination, was assassinated, and Humphrey wound up the nominee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy#The_1968_campaign

“Despite strong showings in several primaries, McCarthy garnered only 23 percent of the delegates at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, largely due to the control of state party organizations over the delegate selection process.”

(some things never change, eh?)

[Anti-Bubba182]

Harold M. Ickes

"..Ickes is a political strategist working on Hillary Clinton's campaign in the 2008 presidential election.

Ickes was a member of the Democratic National Committee who voted in favor of stripping Florida and Michigan of their convention delegates for moving their primary dates earlier than allowed by DNC rules. He has since changed his support of these sanctions, however, calling on the DNC to reconsider its penalties. [2].."

Whatever helps Hillary! They left off Hypocrite in his bio.

[SunkenCiv]

Top Clinton Adviser Says Superdelegates Will Decide Election,
Obama’s Victories ‘Irrelevant’
Fox News
Posted on 02/16/2008 5:11:10 PM EST by Sub-Driver
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971565/posts

[snip] Harold Ickes, a 40-year party operative charged with winning over superdelegates for the Clinton campaign, made no apologies on Saturday for the campaign’s convention strategy. “We’re going to win this nomination,” Ickes said, adding that they would do so soon after the last contest on June 7 in Puerto Rico. “You’re not going to see this go to the convention floor.” [end]

[rod1]

He and Sid Blumenthal (D)wi are two peas in a moldy pod.

[rod1]

“You’re not going to see this go to the convention floor.”

Well not after he runs around smashing all the TV cameras with a hammer.

Ickies should be in a cell with Sandy the Burglar man

[SunkenCiv]

That’s a given, due to his party affiliation.

[Rocky]

They left off Hypocrite in his bio.

No need to be repetitive. He's a Hillary supporter. It goes without saying that he's a hypocrite.

[SunkenCiv]

Democratic Debacle (1964 convention, repercussions today)
America Heritage | July 2004 (cover date) | Joshua Zeitz
Posted on 07/27/2004 9:59:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179981/posts

[mortal19440]

Not you, Ickes the Douche Bag.

[KosmicKitty]

And Mr. Ickes was on the winning team how many times?

Oh,never mind.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

On the stump, Bill Clinton pokes fun at superdelegate contest
Billings Gazette | April Fools Day, 2008 | Associated Press
Posted on 04/01/2008 6:55:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995261/posts

[harpo11]

A little background on the old Hillary kool-aid drinking Harold Ickes according to David Horowitz and Richard Poe, THE SHADOW PARTY published 2006, page 158, as folllows: "...In 1965, Ickes traveled to the Dominican Republic, where he lent assistance to a junta of leftist colonels seeking to oust the sitting government. Some of the rebels displayed a worrisome degree of sympathy for Castro's revolution. The plot was foiled when President Johnson landed 20,000 Marines on the island."

His next move was to organize Viet Nam Anti-War protests, and through this he met Bill Clinton.

Since Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News are filling their programs with Obama's now distanced "crazy uncle" Pastor Wright, I felt it would be good to examine one of Hillary and Bills "crazy friends" and associates.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

Bill Clinton's Garbage Man
by Michael Lewis
Published: September 21, 1997

[mimaw]

Hill& Bill and friends are far more dangerous than Obama. These people need to be defeated before they can get the nomination. If with the help of the idiot Limbaugh and Fox news she wrangles it away from Obama I know she'll win.

[pankot]

True. Why don’t the Opps Research people dig into his life. Can’t believe there are no festering skeletons there.

[harpo11]

That's the truth, and he calls himself The Truth Detector. He's sleeping with the devils, Bill and Hillary. I feel like he has betrayed the good women in his loyal and vast listening audience because he is supporting that harridan hag twit, who has no more right to say Obama should distance himself from Pastor Wright, than Obama would in telling her to distance herself from her represhensible husband who is a serial sexual predator.

I think it is time for Rush Limbaugh to untie the other half of his brain and start planning for an Operation Chaos exit plan, because the Clinton Family will win it by exploiting the rules, and what are rules to these two lawless scumbags.

[Nonstatist]

Youre too late, Thugkes. Nothing can save the Witch now.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

I have not heard Hannity mention his “Stop Hillary Express” for weeks now. Weeks. Nothing but Obama bashing. Meanwhile.....as I’ve tried to tell every talk radio bot on this site-the latest poll in my state (Oheilo) has Obama at 44%-McCain at 60%-and The Clintons at 54%. I’ll tell you all again. Psssttt. Obama CAN NOT win OheilO. But The Clintons could.

[no dems]

I am one of those who refuses to count out The Clintons. They just might pull it out in Denver.

Someone else give me your opinion.

[Timeout]

...Ickes said, describing the campaign's methods. "And before you know it, you can pick up useful information. None of this is insidious information; it's information about what makes a person tick politically."

Yeah, right. I'm sure it's all about what they like to eat for breakfast~!

[Jimmy Valentine]

He's a lot worse than "Carvile"

All Carville has going for him is a big mouth.

Ickes is a labor attorney with a plethora of very sinister connections which he does not stint to use to achieve his goals.

He is Richelieu to Hillary's Louis XV.

[SunkenCiv]

...or what plane they’ll be taking in Yugoslavia, or what park they’ll be visiting at lunchtime...

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995261/posts?page=11#11

There’s a drive on to keep the nomination from Hillary and award it to Obama. Hillary is not havin’ that happen. Realistically, neither of them can clinch the nomination with the remaining delegates still to be chosen in primaries etc, so the superdelegates are everything. Hillary’s campaign is made up of old cutthroats, and perhaps they’ll wind up neck and neck, give or take the FL and MI delegations. Hillary plans to force the party to either seat those delegations, or have to publicly refuse to do it in front of the whole world.

Check out Richard Poe:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978774/posts

[sanjacjake]

I concur....but he is a sneaky SOB..and uses his
loyal(?)friends to keep his political profile
as Clintonian as possible....in summation, he is
overrated by his half/a$$ peers. JK

[ChildOfThe60s]

Still, the story reads like they are in admiration of a guy that is a total, scummy prick. One can play hard ball without being a complete slimy rectum.

[SunkenCiv]

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/03/07/PH2006030701975.jpg
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/03/28/PH2006032801594.jpg
http://www.msek.com/images/newsimages/harold_ickes.jpg
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/ickes.jpg
http://blogs.tampabay.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/19/ickes.jpeg
http://images.politico.com/global/071119_haroldickes_fecfine.jpg

Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In Discussions With Super-Delegates
TPM | April 1, 2008 | Greg Sargent
Posted on 04/01/2008 4:46:08 PM PDT by george76
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995207/posts

[College Repub]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804EED81438F932A1575AC0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.