Top Obama Aide Who Runs Pro-Clinton Super PAC Shills for UK Conservatives on the Side

[marmar]

via truthdig:



Jim Messina helped get Barack Obama elected and, if given half a chance, he’ll do the same for Hillary Clinton. So what is he doing in the U.K. trying to keep Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron in power?

The New York Times profiles Messina’s entry into British politics, along with fellow Obama campaign veteran David Axelrod. Unlike Messina, Axelrod is advising the Labour Party, with an anti-austerity message that would sit well with Obama circa 2008.

Messina says he is quite comfortable working for Cameron, but his former colleagues aren’t so understanding. According to the Times, there is a “sense among some Obama campaign and administration veterans that Mr. Messina’s work for the Tories has crossed an ideological threshold that his consulting for casinos and corporations only approached.”

Axelrod, on the other hand, seems tickled by the arrangement. “I’m not here on business,” he is quoted as saying. “If I were doing this for business reasons I’d be doing something else.” .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/top_obama_aide_who_runs_pro-clinton_superpac_shills_for_conservatives_on_th

[brooklynite]

1. British Parties don't always mean what you think they do...

In the last election, a slogan was:

"If you're liberal, vote Conservative"
"If you're conservative, vote Labour"
"If you're labour, vote Liberal"

[marmar]

2. Cameron is a privatizing conservative snake by any standard

Nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. I've never heard that (I am British), and a Google search turns up zero results

anywhere on the net, even just for the part "If you're conservative, vote Labour" (apart, that is, from your previous use of it: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x657077 ). I don't know where you got it from, but it's got nothing to do with British politics.

[sabrina 1]

5. Cameron is a Right Wing Conservative Shill for all that US Liberals Oppose. So just what are

American political operatives doing in Europe and elsewhere trying to put Right Wing Wall St supporting politicians in power? Why are they all over the world, see Rove in Sweden eg, where they got what is known as 'Sweden's Ronald Reagan'? WHY are Americans influencing Europe's elections? Do the European people know we are now involved in THEIR elections?

[geek tragedy]

3. never cared for Messina, nor did many Obama insiders, who outed him as the one

who threw Shirley Sherrod under the bus

Hope Axelrod kicks his ass

[sabrina 1]

6. Axelrod, the Liberal hater?

[Leme]

7. isn't this about money?

I mean, whoever wants to spend money needs a bundler.
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I really have little background on this.
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but it sounds like "follow the money"

[davidpdx]

8. Apologies to our friends across the pond

Anyone campaign on behalf of that bs is not part of the party, but part of the problem.