With 300 advisers, why did this person get an appointment:
the media and bloggers did the vetting that Obama and his team neglected, and found that Asbahi had a habit of speaking at events sponsored by fundamentalist mosques and had served on a board …

I mentioned this general topic in email to a friend and blogger today. Now Ed at Hot Air and others have been pointing out what they believe to be a vetting issue with Obama’s camp – the last pertinent incident…

I like the OBLAHBLAH nickname, especially in conjunction with Barry Whosane…can I use it? ;-)

Team Obama’s vetting proves inexperienced, too

So the OBLAHBLAH bus made another trip around the Chicago loop, and dumped off another body. This time, his Middle East hit connection man. Who’d thunk!

Oldnuke on August 6, 2008 at 10:38 AM

Don’t us Roman Catholics get outreached?

“Good” Islam is lazy backsliding Islam.

BL@KBIRD on August 6, 2008 at 8:28 AM

Heh.

Bad appointments were a big part of the undoing of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and arguably of George W. Bush as well (Mike Brown, anyone?) This Obama campaign is surely not giving anyone much confidence that it will be any more competent at hiring than the last two presidents were.

“Roadkill”.

These will be the same people who appoint people to government posts if Obama wins the election. How many of these “mistakes” will occur then?

We will need another Joe McCarthy to rout the Reds and subversives out of the Executive Branch after Hussein opens the barn door.

Faster than one can say “the wheels of the bus go round and round”, Asbahi found himself underneath them

The piles of bodies under the obamamessiah bus just keeps on a growing

It may not be, but a symptom of how Barry’s team think they can do or say anything without getting caught.

They should be learning, but aren’t, methinks. Angry they tried to appease Muslims, but not that they should choose different people.

PoliticallyIncorrectSandy on August 6, 2008 at 9:04 AM

Well now you’ve done it! Your comments are sure to raise the brain-dead “vote McCain because he isn’t Obama” zombies. The mere mention of one of the more qualified candidates is enough to put these people on a warpath talking about how you are just a crybaby and you need to get behind McCain because he’s the candidate that isn’t Obama, etc….

Personally, I can defend my support of Romney by his positions. I get very uneasy having to frame any idea of supporting McCain with the opening arguement that he isn’t as bad as the other guy. If John McCain wants my support he’s going have to earn it by proving that he is listening to social conservatives and evangelicals (Huckabee doesn’t count because he isn’t really an evangelical). Time is running out and McCain seems more interested in making stupid comments about Paris Hilton than working on shoring up the GOP base by energizing them.

The big story isn’t so much how Asbahi would have been a threat to the US as a member of Obama’s campaign (answer: not much), but in how inept Obama and his team are at background checks.

I seem to recall that Jimmy Carter had the problem. Obama is so retro!

Yeah, well at least he wasn’t the commissioner of an Arabian horse association!

Seixon on August 6, 2008 at 9:06 AM

Why, because Arabian horses are fundamentalist Jihadis?