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Obama and Jim Johnson: Change You Can’t Believe In

WisCon on June 11, 2008 at 11:15 AM

Change you can’t believe your watching him spew with a straight face.

The Obama Skeleton Parade continues:

Chicago Closet –> Obama campaign –> Bus.

Repeat ad nauseam.

It also has some relevance to that executive-pay argument we had all day yesterday, but don’t let’s get into that again. Last month, Sen. Barack Obama turned to James A. Johnson, a former Fannie Mae chief executive and Washington insider……

He doesn’t realize that initial denial combined with a later dump make him look even more squishy.

He doesn’t realize that initial denial combined with a later dump make him look even more like the corrupt slimeball he clearly is.

FIFY

Then the people doing the original vetting get wind that the people they are vetting have hired vetters, more vetters are brought in to vet the vetters who are vetting the original vetters.

Before too long, every person on earth is either a vetter, or a vet-ee and the universe collapses on itself, snuffing out all life.

If things were going well with his people, it would be “very important”> When things go wrong, it’s a “tangential distraction”.

Like liberal morality, it all depends on the circumstances.

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

I suspect Obama is digging in his heels on this because he realizes if he has to keep throwing away advisors, the pattern of bad judgment becomes so obvious he can’t hide any more. He doesn’t realize that initial denial combined with a later dump make him look even more squishy.

a capella on June 11, 2008 at 11:33 AM

I am waiting for Obama to start firing some of his campaign people. This business with Johnson is simply an unforgivable and enormous mistake. It just totally blows one of Obama’s signature issues in the campaign and has stepped all over his big economic policy tour this week. Whoever brought Johnson to him and convinced him he should run his VP selection ought to be fired immediately. Of course, this will not happen. And we can count on more mistakes, and more unconvincing denials from Obama.

I’d like to see the McCain campaign or the RNC start some heavy parodying – how about “Beliefs We Can Change” or “Keep The Change.” This is going beyond simple primary-to-general flip-flopping and into complete incompetence.

Well let me tell you something, I revere and honor the service of John McCain to this country; he’s a genuine American hero. He deserves our respect and our gratitude

many times but I swear he followed it once by questioning McCains friends or associates in the past. But I can’t find full transcripts anywhere.

I think it was from this speech on February 27, but as the link shows there is a gap between the quote and video:

So George Soros’ business partner is helping select Obama’s veep. How interesting that Obama just keeps coming up with friends (and appointees) with very dubious assocations.
JiangxiDad on June 11, 2008 at 11:59 AM

Barkeep,… another round, please.

Which is it — Obama’s ready to be President or doesn’t have the first clue?

I vote for “doesn’t have the first clue.”

.there is more on Johnson. In 2001, he joined Persueus LLC as a Vice Chairman. Perseus has a number of funds. Among them:

PERSEUS-SOROS BIOPHARMACEUTICAL FUND, L.P., which Perseus co-manages, was formed in 2000 with capital commitments totaling $449 million to make investments in life sciences companies

So Perseus is a business partner with George Soros. And Johnson is the Vice Chairman …

Incidentally, as Say Anything Blog notes, Perseus also seems to own the publisher of the Scott McClellan book

So George Soros’ business partner is helping select Obama’s veep. How interesting that Obama just keeps coming up with friends (and appointees) with very dubious assocations.

a capella on June 11, 2008 at 11:33 AM

Further good news. That will leave Caroline Kennedy to run the VP vetting process. Now her qualifications would be…??

(chirp chirp)

a capella on June 11, 2008 at 11:33 AM

Guess that means we’ll have to wait until some Friday around 5:30pm to dump Johnson.

Sonorous voice: “This isn’t the Jim Johnson I knew.”

This editorial does not even scratch the surface of the dirt they have on Jim Johnson. Most likely it is a shot across the bow of the Obama campaign. They will drop the rest of the dirt if Obama doesn’t dump Johnson ASAP.

rockmom on June 11, 2008 at 11:15 AM

I suspect Obama is digging in his heels on this because he realizes if he has to keep throwing away advisors, the pattern of bad judgment becomes so obvious he can’t hide any more. He doesn’t realize that initial denial combined with a later dump make him look even more squishy.

The choice of running mate is the most important decision a nominee must make, and the manner in which that decision is made (and the choice itself) speaks volumes about the candidate.

The second part of that statement is definitely true but is choosing a running mate REALLY the most important decision a nominee must make? I’d agrue that formulation of a strategy is more important and the running mate comes out of that deliberative process.

McCain, for example, has completely ignored conservative voters and is sticking to a strategy of courting right-of-Obama Democrats. He assumes conservative are just going to vote for him as the least objectionable liberal still running (a flawed strategy IMO). Because of this strategy, McCain is going to have to go further to the right than his little socialist heart would desire to “balance” the ticket and keep up the charade that he is a conservative. The irony here, of course, is that McCain is ancient and his running mate might well end up getting that 3am call.

Obama and Jim Johnson: Change You Can’t Believe In

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G0qesvVD1Q&feature=related