Posted on 01/14/2009 9:47:56 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Conservatives sworn to dinner secrecy By: Jonathan Martin January 14, 2009 12:40 PM EST
Call it a charm offensive or a high-level “Listening Tour,” but Barack Obama is already signaling that he intends to break with the current president in one obvious way: hearing from his critics.
Obama Tuesday night trekked to the Chevy Chase, Md., home of conservative columnist George F. Will to talk politics and get to know some of his fiercest intellectual adversaries: Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Larry Kudlow, David Brooks, Rich Lowry, Peggy Noonan, Michael Barone, and Paul Gigot.
The two-and-half-hour dinner, which came at Will’s request, is only the first get-together between the president-elect and Washington’s opinion-makers. Wednesday morning he met with prominent columnists and liberal commentators, including the New York Times’ Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd and the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne.
The right-leaning attendees were largely mum over what was discussed over the lamb chops at Will’s table, pledging fealty to off-the-record ground rules and hoping that the Democrat may again extend an olive branch if he knows his company can keep confidence. They were Obama’s ground rules, but Will swore his guests to secrecy.
“You can’t have these kinds of meetings if everybody reports on them,” said one attendee, who suggested that President Bush may have received more sympathy had he held similar session with liberal writers.
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The first red flag is to call these people conservatives.
There’s no doubt this ‘dinner’ was staged to usurp the Medal of Freedom ceremony.
Where is Christopher Buckley? Where is Kathleen Parker?
Well, Larry Kudlow and Rich Lowry are anyways....
CINOs all.
Or it was staged to confuse right-wingers into thinking he met with El Rushbo, since the dinner was the same night. It may serve both purposes.
Pure posturing.
Ah yes. That worked so well with Senator Kennedy.
Bull.
I'd like to know who that idiot is again, so I can know never to trust his judgment about anything again — if I ever have.
The article mentioned “intellectual adversaries” were at the party? Anyone know who they are? I saw a lot of Palin haters and Rinos on the list,,,,, but no adversaries.
When I don’t see conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Oliver North and Michael Medved seated at that table, I’m not sure I can say that table represents (a) conservatism and (b) Obama’s fiercest intellectual critics.
Unless some of the above were actually there and can’t (or won’t) comment on it, it sounds like talk radio was under-represented. Only Beltway/Establishment conservatives were invited.
It should come as no surprise to us that there are no authentic, effect conservatives among the guests.
The dinner participants are dead to me....they can go to hell.
Evidently BHO adheres to Don Corleone’s advice: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.
As for the so-called ‘conservatives’, they fall into Lenin’s clever description of useful idiots. I consider them useless idiots.
What is it about the air in Washington? Next thing you know the conservatives will be attending parties at Barney Frank’s apartment and Ted Kennedy will be the designated driver.
If Obama is serious, he needs to meet with folks from outside the Beltway. But I doubt he will.
You know the old saying a secret is compromised if more than one know it, or something like that.
The indoctrination begins/continues.
This woman was trained in the process, listen to her here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDyDtYy2I0M&feature=related
If they can do it to students, teachers and police, I am sure they can do it to a Talkshow Host.
God save us, He is our only hope.
They’re not conservatives, they’re “inside the beltway” types. Aside from Krauthammer, they are the ones that want to send the GOP further and further to the left.
Bingo !
Most of them are RINOS anyway, but now you won’t be able to trust anything they write.
You doubt he will, I know he won’t. Obama to me is not just some empty-suit Democrat, he’s an enemy to every thought and thing I hold dear.
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