Sunday Scoops: Rezko-gate and Adviser-Gate
By SusanUnPC on March 9, 2008 at 4:04 PM in Austan Goolsbee, Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Hillary Clinton, Tony Rezko
OF NOTE: “Clinton is viewed favorably by 75% of Likely Democratic Primary Voters. However, that figure includes just 56% of Obama voters. Obama is viewed favorably by 68% of Likely Democratic Primary Voters, a figure that includes 41% of Clinton supporters.” Rasmussen Reports
TANTALIZING SPECULATION OF THE DAY: “Was There an Obama-Daley Deal on the Presidency?”
Okay, now for the “Gates” news:
- “Going to school on presidential politics — As an adviser in Barack Obama’s campaign, U. of C. economics professor Austan Goolsbee finds himself caught in the NAFTA crossfire,” Chicago Tribune, March 9, 2008. Here are a couple tidbits:
“It’s [NAFTA-gate] very frustrating for him, because he says everything that’s being said about what he said is all very false,” said his mother, Jane Goolsbee. “It’s very, very frustrating.” [...]
… Goolsbee lunches regularly with economic conservatives on the U. of C. faculty such as Kevin Murphy and Nobel Prize winner Gary S. Becker. He remains close to MIT’s Poterba, who chaired an economics panel that advised President Bush on his tax-cut strategy. [...]
“He’s a strong free-trade person,” Becker said. “He believes in free trade, as a vast majority of economists do.”
- “Spotlight reveals Obama camp missteps,” Politico.com, March 9, 2008. …
- From “Spotlight reveals Obama camp missteps“:
… elements of his inner circle are still dangerously new to the maelstrom of presidential politics. [...]
There’s little doubt as to the cause of their unforced errors: the sheer novelty of the spotlight. [...]
[F]ormer State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin called it “amateur hour on making foreign policy.”
“He can’t seem to run a foreign policy team the way it’s supposed to run,” he said.
- “Obama’s inner circle,” columnist Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times, March 9, 2008. (From David Axelrod to Julianna Smoot.)
- “Run Herd on the Obamans?,” columnist Victor Davis Hanson, The Corner blog, National Review Online, March 9, 2008.
Obama’s campaign needs to take a time out, gather together, and start to get a grip. First, the candidate gets huffy at a press conference,then the unnecessary NAFTA flap, then Michelle is back at it again (America is “just downright mean”),and then his adviser Ms. Power (not content to be sober and judicious despite past attacks on her) gives an unnecessary book promo interview and dubs HIllary a “monster”.
All this has a deer in the headlights look to it, as the mantra “hope” and “change” starts to get old, and we are getting back to to a normal old 19th century campaign of head-to-head invective and back and forth—which Obama has not yet gone through.
Two things are starting to happen and the Obama pros need to get a handle on it asap. One, there is a McGovernish flavor to the campaign of a bunch of freelancing ideologues that are going off message and in sloppy fashion ranting and raving in petulant 60-style. Two, the shelf life of all messiahs is not long if they don’t produce miracles, and Obama has not quite yet knocked Hillary off as expected,. So the above-the-fray, change the world love-ins will have to change a bit. …
- “Obama and the Pet Rock,” columnist Victor Davis Hanson, The Corner blog, National Review Online, March 9, 2008.
BONUS ITEM: “The Sorrow and the Pity Party,” James Wolcott, Vanity Fair, March 9, 2008. Wolcott takes down a Daily Kos diarist — and how — along with other crybabies of his ilk.
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