Vetting Obama

IBD ^ | June 12, 2008

[Kaslin]

Election '08: If Barack Obama has such difficulty picking friends, mentors and advisers, should voters entrust him with the responsibility for picking a Cabinet and Supreme Court justices?

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Sen. Obama was going to ride into Washington aboard a white horse and clean out the stables, except his high horse keeps coming up lame.

With the resignation of Washington insider James Johnson from Obama's vice presidential search team, we see the now-typical Obama pattern — surround yourself with either questionable characters or those who don't live up to the standards you yourself set, tap dance awhile, accuse your accusers of political motives, then disown those you said you could not or would not disown.

Obama has a history of railing against "predatory" mortgage lenders, and one in particular, Countrywide Financial. Then it's discovered that Johnson, the former head of the quasi-governmental mortgage agency Fannie Mae, benefited to the tune of $7 million in below-market-rate personal loans and was one of the "Friends of Angelo," Angelo being Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo.

Obama's response was to say, gee, it's not like I'm paying him, and besides, his function was only "tangential" to his candidacy. Forgive us for going off on a tangent, but helping pick the person who is going to be a heartbeat away from the presidency is tangential? What if Johnson were to recommend another Friend of Angelo?

[alecqss]

Pretty good summary.

[Salvation]

Well, he's un-American!

[Dajjal]

That’s very true, the next Barack Hussein Obama scandal will involve either:
1. Rezko
2. The Rich pardon aide
3. anything else

I keep knocking on doors, pushing for Shepard Fairey.

[taraytarah]

I am now considering having the event fed live on the web.”

Live on the web is the best option. We saw what the National Press Club didn't do with the information given them from 31,000 scientists rejecting global warming.

[taraytarah]

...he is saying what he THINKS the masses of skulls full of mush want to hear...

He's actually saying a lot of pretty scary stuff...he's being amazingly blunt about a lot of things. His masses aren't hearing, though, because they're so brainwashed by the media, it goes right past them.

[aruanan]

If Barack Obama has such difficulty picking friends, mentors and advisers, should voters entrust him with the responsibility for picking a Cabinet and Supreme Court justices?

Since 1976 every time the Republicans ran someone who was weak or perceived as weak, a complete dick was elected (Carter, Clinton, and Clinton), and W only narrowly beat Algore, one the most stupendous dicks in the history of politics, the first time round, and he didn't even manage to crush Kerry like Reagan did his opponents. Now in McCain we have someone who is weaker that either Ford or Dole running against someone for whom large numbers of the public have a greater infatuation than they ever did for Carter or Clinton or Gore, added to that their fear of being called racist for not voting for him.

Perhaps this liberal Supreme Court decision on unlawful enemy combatants combined with the gas crisis created and exacerbated by Congress would be enough to drive folks to turn control of Congress back over to Republicans.

[Beckwith]

Can BO get the top security clearance required by the president?

If he is elected Commander-in-Chief he will automatically have the highest clearance possible and access to every secret there is.

However, if he were an enlistee, training for a sensitive job in the military, his background investigation would raise every red flag in the book and he would undoubtedly be denied a clearance.

His associations with Frank Marshall Davis and Bill Ayers would be sufficient to deny him clearance.

[woodbutcher]

It is beyond my understanding; it is mind boggling that anyone can run for president regardless of his character.

If this is the case, Ayers himself could run because he was not convicted and therefore is not a felon.

We are in trouble.