Thrown Under the Bus Watch: Eric Holder & Jim Johnson.
My, that was quick.
By Moe Lane Posted in 2008 | A Child wearing an adult's clothes | Barack Obama | Eric Holder | Jim Johnson — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
This would almost be painful to watch (Via Jake Tapper, who gets extra points for uttering "my stars" in response.):
Almost. Fortunately, I'm laughing too hard at the sight of watching someone who is supposed to be the second incarnation of Demosthenes fumbling his way through an explanation of how you can get somebody to do your VP pick for you while still not having them actually work for you.
Media figures, please take note from Sunlen Miller's example: Senator Barack Obama is fun when he's flailing about.
Moe Lane
PS: Semi-transcript (grabbed from Tapper) after the fold.
PPS: See also our own Kevin Holtsberry, over at Stop Him Now. I hope that you haven't thrown out all the old stationary yet, Kevin.
Well, look," Obama said, "the, the, I mean - first of all I am not vetting my VP search committee for their mortgages, so you’re gong to have to direct -- "
"But shouldn’t you?" asked Miller.
"Well, no," Obama said. "It becomes sort of a, um, I mean, this is a game that can be played - everybody, you know, who is tangentially related to our campaign, I think, is going to have a whole host of relationships -- I would have to hire the vetter to vet the vetters. I mean, at some point, you know, we just asked people to do their assignments.
"Jim Johnson has a very discrete task," Obama continued, "as does Eric Holder, and that is simply to gather up information about potential vice presidential candidates. They are performing that job well, it’s a volunteer, unpaid position. And they are giving me information and I will then exercise judgment in terms of who I want to select as a vice presidential candidate.
"So this – you know, these aren’t folks who are working for me," Obama said. "They're not people you know who I have assigned to a job in a future administration and, you know, ultimately my assumption is that, you know, this is a discreet task that they're going to performing for me over the next two months."
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Why yes I shall be so bold and it is a fact not a suggestion...he has enraptured the youth of America with his platitudes while reading off a screen however the moment he speaks off the cuff, if you will....he shows himself to be a mental midget.
Freedom of Religion NOT Freedom from Religion
What a bunch of jibberish. This made my day after reading Streiff's astute but very depressing story.
This clip shows that we certainly can beat this guy if we can get him off is Messiah-at-the-telepromter pedestal and put some tough questions to him that he hasn't pre-rehersed for.
actually use some of this crap on his "Great Moments in Presidential Speeches" (aka Bash Bush) segment? When Bush fumbles around for words he is an idiot. I don't hear any critiques of Obama on this stuff.
Almost. Fortunately, I'm laughing too hard at the sight of watching someone who is supposed to be the second incarnation of Demosthenes fumbling his way through an explanation of how you can get somebody to do your VP pick for you while still not having them actually work for you.
So is Obama stating this man is, his Slave?
This is the 3rd time in less then a week where Obama tried to talk off the cuff and stumbled. He must have a whole dumptruck full of BS by now.
If you don't want to deal with the Obama then stop trying to attack McCain on this issue and then stating your nice and clean.
Crooked people will pick a VP similar to them so, Obama/Murtha 08.
Voting for the Sexy(Pres) - Sexy(VP) Dream Ticket
Jindal/Palin 2012
...same as the old ones. What a bunch of meaningless spin! The McCain campaign and the RNC should be licking their chops at this.