Truthtelling from Lannie Davis (What about “Iron My Shirt”?) [UPDATE: And from CNN?!]
By SusanUnPC on February 27, 2008 at 3:58 PM in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Patrick Fitzgerald, Tony Rezko
UPDATE (CNN? My stars! Really?):
(Original) Lannie Davis hits a home run — on everything from the double standard (Obama photo vs. the Obama-ite who wore a misogynistic “Iron My Shirt” t-shirt) to Obama’s, um, flexible words on the war in Iraq (”I don’t know” response to how he would have voted on the war had he been in the U.S. Senate, instead of speechifying in the safe liberal environs of Chicago’s university neighborhood). [Thanks, Jim, for the link.]
Here are some more great stories today:
- “Feds hit Rezko’s ties to gov’s office — TRIAL STRATEGY | Campaign director will be first witness,” from the Chicago Sun-Times. [Talk about luck for Sen. Obama! The federal prosecutors' opening statements won't take place until March 6. How convenient, since Obama's name is sure to emerge in the trial, along with his many associations with Tony Rezko. The prosecutorial team is led by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.]
- “Obama jokes: Dime a dozen at $11 m GOP dinner,” from the Baltimore Sun’s Swampland blog. [A sample: "What a great crowd! At least, that's what Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told me to say.," said Missouri governor Matt Blunt.]
The money flowed too: “The Republican Governors Association said it set a new record with last night’s fundraising dinner at the National Building Museum: $10.6 million collected from 1,400 people.”
MORE:
- “Got Scrutiny?” by Taylor Marsh
- Sean Wilentz’s outstanding piece in The New Republic, from which Taylor quotes.
Race Man
by Sean Wilentz
How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.
After several weeks of swooning, news reports are finally being filed about the gap between Senator Barack Obama’s promises of a pure, soul-cleansing “new” politics and the calculated, deeply dishonest conduct of his actually-existing campaign. But it remains to be seen whether the latest ploy by the Obama camp–over allegations about the circulation of a photograph of Obama in ceremonial Somali dress–will be exposed by the press as the manipulative illusion that it is. … ..
… .. To a large degree, the campaign’s strategists turned the primary and caucus race to their advantage when they deliberately, falsely, and successfully portrayed Clinton and her campaign as unscrupulous race-baiters–a campaign-within-the-campaign in which the worked-up flap over the Somali costume photograph is but the latest episode. While promoting Obama as a “post-racial” figure, his campaign has purposefully polluted the contest with a new strain of what historically has been the most toxic poison in American politics.
More than any other maneuver, this one has brought Clinton into disrepute with important portions of the Democratic Party. A review of what actually happened shows that the charges that the Clintons played the “race card” were not simply false; they were deliberately manufactured by the Obama camp and trumpeted by a credulous and/or compliant press corps in order to strip away her once formidable majority among black voters and to outrage affluent, college-educated white liberals as well as college students. … ..
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It was so frustrating to see Joe ask Lannie over and over why they didn’t try to get this point about the Iraq War out earlier!!! THEY DID AND THEY WERE ACCUSED OF RACISM!!! Bill Clinton said it, Hillary spelled it out at the South Carolina debate, they have said it over and over again but the press is like a bunch of eight year-olds with their fingers stuck in their ears who hear only what they want to hear. THEY DID hammer this point home, but the press REFUSED to cover this, they REFUSED to investigate it, and instead decided to call the Clintons racist for DARING to criticize Barack “I am god” Obama. So damn irritating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saddest thing is all of this is O-Bomba tying the hands of his own party. In a lot of ways I feel he’s in the pocket of the GOP. Seriously.
The GOP will make all of the jokes and catcalls about O-Bomba, and if any Dem says the same, not only the race card will be played, 51 other cards, too.
Personally, I’d throw the gauntlet down and drive a 100ft wide hole through O-Bomba’s compaign. But Dems are on the “unity” track, which means a straight jacket on top of loaded deck of cards. That approach is doomed to fail Hillary, and will fail O-Bomba in the end.
Have to fight to win, concensus is defeat.
We must reverse the bomatide and make sure we nominate Hillary. It isn’t too late and we should do it for those young people that we love. They think because he’s like god to them that they’ll be able to elect him and all will be good and right with the world.
Plus, we are fighting two wars and there’s no way we want a freshman senator who says things like he’ll consider going back in Iraq if al queda establishes a stronghold after we leave. If that didn’t send chills up everyone’s spine it should’ve. That sounds more like we’ll never get out to me.
Vote HIlllary.
Please look at my research on web marketing and the Obama campaign. I know you don’t know me in the blog world, but I linked you for your blog. It’s all about the target marketing being done.
I’m glad you are called No Quarter, and right now, no quarter is what should be happening in terms of the Democratic Party.
Thanks! (from a friend and greenish hued dem)
I came over for a look..Nice website VBONNAIRE..
Good article..gald you have link to NQ here..I will be back to check out your other material..One Poet to another..
Thanks..
Your website/blog is outstanding. I bookmarked it!
I looked at your site briefly, but liked it-the research and topics-and will be back.
Drive by Democracy like the invention of the TV dinner…
First the tinfoil then the Microwave.
I look in befuddled amazement at the “lemmings with little parachutes”. (NQ post)
Every so often there is a culling. The large majority of Americans have been thrown into a pressure cooker. Every day for the 8 years the pressure has been building to the the point where the lid will blow without. The “hope” of a better day is not a part of reality when ruled by a tyrant.
The lid has not blown off just yet, but is showing signs of failure.
The steam heat escaping in fits and bursts negating the ability to reason. When all the steam has boiled off what is left will be the residue we call “president”.
You cannot tell a junkie the drugs are gone…they will only be motivated to prove you wrong in the most destructive way possible, while looking for “sister morphine”. Equal justice in the MSM means equal time. Every night as kid I would watch the news, Kronkite would end the show with a shot of the flowers in front of the White House and silence. I am fresh out of fear, but this is where we are going. All the political cancer expressed in the weakest points of American society will most certianly collapse under the load of hypocrisy.
Susan and all went to an Obama rally today at St John’s arena in Columbus Ohio. 10 to 15,ooo people there. Very diverse in age, race and gender. From what I witnessed today I think it is going to be very hard to stop the tidal wave that Obama is riding.
I went in a skeptic and came out a skeptic, although it was impressive how Obama really digs down under peoples skin…impressive. Talked to lots of people today including the head of the Teamsters legislative team, students, 50 something women and others. People seemed to have more specifics as to just why they are on Obama’s bus. Will share when I can.
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As much in my heart I think Obama is guilty, my head says he is gonna get away with it all. He will get away with it all as did Bush. Fitz will disappoint me again.
Fitz is widening the search for missing emails from Cheney.
That isn’t over. Check this week’s AP wire.
Right now at 6pm EST Hillary will be on CNBC “Krammer”, I gotta go watch this.
Oh cool. I just switched. Hope I didn’t miss it.
Lanny Davis has no credibility left after he continued to cover for Bill regarding Monica.
He was also a LOBBYIST for Pakistan during the Clinton administration. Does Hillary plan to bring him back?
First Schlussel now Davis. Ugh.
No going back to bad experiences of the past.
It occured to me today that every trendy new Messiah needs a trendy new prayer, so:
THE MESSIAH’S PRAYER
Our savior, who art Obama,
Shallowed be thy game.
Thy record none,
Thy sham be done,
On kos as it is at Huff Po.
Give us this day our daily fluff,
And reinforce us our biases,
As we accuse those against us of bias.
And lead us soon into debacle,
Cuz experience is evil.
For thine is the con job, the hubris and the ego. At least ‘till November. Oy vay.
that’s good. But it’s over for Clinton.
Susan, is true about Hillary dropping out Friday??
It’s at Daiily Kos as well coming from a Boston radio sation….
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/27/153044/184/615/465173
Um, no, I don’t think so…her volunteer teams are going strong…
Thanks Sam; what a relief…it got me really down.
I just noted on Hillary’s website they are asking for money 1.9 M to match Obamas increased in TV
Ads. I wonder whether these rumors are meant to
stifle her ability to raised money…?
Well, she raised a ton this month. Outdid Obama’s January. I am sure he will continue to outdue her, but she did REALLY well…certainly does not give the impression of a dying campaign.
stifle her ; this is the MO of Axlerod (tires not included) ,look at his other work.
I am still wondering what Axelrod’s gig was with Exelon.
Obama looked out over the Convention hall what did he think?…
In chess, there is a name for this gambit.
2004 Dem Convention
If Senator Obama says words matter then here are his. Keep in mind, while reading this next passage of Cosmic Debre Senator Obama has done very little if anything to follow thru on any of it.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm
Cosmik Debris
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm
No! They asked volunteers to travel to Texas. I signed up to go then later changed my mind, but they called yesterday to check.
Here’s another site that is a must:
http://www.stop-obama.org/
These people do their homework!! (PS–Jamal McCoy, who writes most of the pieces…brilliantly…is a Democrat who also happens to be black…something I normally wouldn’t have to write, but these days, it appears to be relevant, just to prove that some don’t join the bandwagon…
This is good - very professional, multiple writers, young, all races represented.
He is good. E-mailed me. Smart guy.
I voted for Obama in my state’s election…I knew he isn’t perfect, the opposite is true; he is far from it…he doesn’t have all the experience that he probably needs—so what?….Hillary is very intelligent, has more experience, would do a better job as prez—so what?…she voted for the illegal Iraq invasion, Barack wouldn’t have, for any reason…the next thing that bothers me about Hillary, when she speaks about what she wants to do for America—she comes across to me as a machine, no humanity is present, she reminds me of a terminator robot running for president. I am sorry, I can’t vote for somebody (man or woman) who can’t really allow their feelings to show through when they need to…..anyway, is obama any better?…yes, in the way he means what he says, and does look like a human being when he speaks….is he more qualified??…probably not as much as he should be…our country needs a change, badly…I feel he is the right choice for the present…Hillary can wait, probably only until 2012; then I will vote for her, if barack doesn’t do what needs to be done.
Do you honestly believe any of this crap you wrote in this paragraph? Obama says anything to be liked. In front of a fervently anti-Iraq war crowd he makes his one speech against it. In front of a college crowd he tells them he wants to legalize drugs. In Idaho he tells the people he will defend their right to bear arms. In practice, he has voted to fund the war every time the issue comes up. In practice, he has made no speeches on the senate floor to end the war. In practice, he doesn’t really want to legalize drugs. In practice, he voted to eliminate hand guns 15 times in the Illinois legislature. Obama is simply full of shit. If you believe his lies then that makes you full of shit as well. And Hillary didn’t vote to invade Iraq, she voted to authorize force to get the weapons inspectors back in Iraq and to have full access. It isn’t her fault or John Kerry’s, or Ted Kennedy’s or any of the other Senators who supported the authorization that the American public decided to elect a narcissistic fool who convinced one of the most credible generals of all time to lie and fudge the data. For heaven’s sake hold the proper people accountable.
His opposition to NAFTA is new. Soon to disappear. All things to all people.
of course not, even if it were politically expedient, though he might have been somewhere else that day, depending on what the people who had their finger up the ass of public opinion advised.
by politically expedient, I mean needing to avoid accusations of being found wanting in martial ardor, aka a surrender monkey (discretely circumlocuted, of course) viz.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4356093&page=1
Wow, that story really looks bad for Obama. We all agree that AQ is in Iraq now but Obama wants to pull the troops out and then put them back in? Idiotic.
Susan: You hurt their wittle feeling over at Daily Delusion. They are out for your blood because you said bad things about Obamamessiah. Don’t you feel weally, weally bad?
Lou Dobbs asked a lot of questions about Obama today.
“She voted for the illegal Iraq invasion, Barack wouldn’t have, for any reason…”
I only wish that it were so. The totality of the evidence suggests otherwise, but Senator Obama gets a free pass because he did not sit in the US Senate at the time.
Those of us who opposed the war from the outset were outnumbered publicly about 8 to 1: the US Senate roll call vote was 77 aye, and 23 opposed. The equivalent joint resolution House roll call vote was 296 to 133, a measurably higher level of opposition at 31%,
Very little in Senator Obama’s historic comments or voting record suggests that he would actually have been in the minority, voting to oppose the Authorization for the Use of Military Force in Iraq. He has not explicitly made that claim himself, and could not defend it if he had.
A shameful number of Democratic Senators voted for this measure, including Senators Jospeh Biden, Maria Cantwell, Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschel, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Diane Feinstein, Tom Harkin, John Kerry, Bill Nelson, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and others, including ALL seated Republicans other than Senator Lincoln Chafee.
It’s way past time to keep giving a non-participant like Senator Obama a free pass on this issue, while effectively hanging Senator Clinton’s vote for the resolution around her neck as if it were an albatross.
Was it a bad decision? You bet your ass it was! Was it a calculated one in anticipation of a future run for the Presidency? Perhaps. Should she subsequently have publicly acknowledged what a poor decision it was? Yes, as did Senator Edwards. She chose not to do so, and has defended her position. I will give you that both of those choices, as well as her original vote, display a serious lack of judgement in my mind.
But, she was in the MAJORITY in doing so. In good company so to speak, of virtually everyone else in the Senate at the time, who ran as either a Democratic or Republican Presidential candidate in this cycle.
So, in a word, shut the hell up about this issue already. Put it in perspective and consider all of the facts, suppositions and claims that surround it. While I remain angry about her initial decision, and about her continued defense of it, this should not be a deal breaker in this primary cycle.
It surprises me this vote comes up so often as “proof” Hillary wanted to invade Iraq. Her website has copy of what she said that day, and she was clear this was not a vote to invade without UN approval and other conditions. A last resort.
Remember the confusion in the country over what happened and what response, beyond the invasion of Afghanistan, would be appropriate to Bush’s claim of Al Qaeda in Iraq? All of this was brand new to people in the US. New to me because under Clinton I knew better minds were at work running the country and, while I followed politics, it wasn’t an obsession with me as it is now. I knew Bush wasn’t to be trusted, but the media was no help in evaluating Bush, and if blogs were available, I didn’t know about them. Think back to how innocent we were.
I’m sensing that you guys don’t like Obama.
You’re right CWZ!! We don’t like Obama in any way, shape or form.
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