I'm so happy Tom Daschle is an Obama advisor

[cboy4]

as opposed to leading the Senate.

(I'm no big Harry Reid fan, either, to be honest)

But I just saw Daschle on a news story, and it brought back bad memories of how weak he was standing up against the Republics.

Just a real timid guy, who I thought did a terrible job.

Really like him as a person, but I was always so frustrated with him.

Poor guy. lol

[Guava Jelly]

1. I'd rather have him on Obamas team than Terry McAuliffe

That guy is almost as big of a turd as Carville

[cboy4]

5. Yea, McAuilffe was a horrible chairman of the DNC.

I was so happy to see him leave.

ughhh

[blm]

13. McAuliffe ran the DNC only around the Clintons' needs and let it collapse for any other purpose

like supporting Democratic candidates and their voters.

[cboy4]

14. Well, the bottom line is he needed to go. n/t

[depakid]

2. Daschle made us all proud, didn't he?

[SunsetDreams]

3. Or Mark Penn lol

[depakid]

7. At least Penn has enough gumption to fight

[JI7]

11. Penn only cares about getting his millions

Daschle did more than almost anyone for the native americans. he was a huge loss for them and others.

[Yossariant]

4. The beginning of the pink tutu Dems. Will it ever end?

[cboy4]

6. I hope so. n/t

[blm]

16. Baloney - the day Clinton deep-sixed all the efforts of the REAL Patriot Dems is the day

the Dems donned the pink. But many of you are too devoted to Clinton to realize it.

Clinton wasn't TOUGH ENOUGH to stand up for the Dem party or this nation's historic record - he chickenshitted it out because he FEARED GHWBush and Jackson Stephens - his benefactors who placed him in power TO COVER UP FOR THEM.

[JVS]

8. Daschle might not be much of a Washington operator, but he deserves some credit on a couple things,

1. How a pro-choice senator was able to maintain his position 3, and almost 4 terms in the South Dakota (a place where his chastisement by a Bishop carried a hell of a lot more water than Kerry's in MA) Shows that he knows how win an election in hostile ground.

2. That knowledge may be part of the reason that they guy who he's helping campaign has kicked ass in MN, IA, WI, NE, ND.

[cboy4]

9. Yea, I remember the way he was treated by the church....

despicable.

But I wouldn't be so quick to credit Tom for what Obama is doing. lol

Eh, but who knows?

[Double T]

10. Glad Daschle is an obamacrat and soon to be obscured AFTER........

HRC wins the nomination and the GE.

[Mezzo]

12. along with half his losing campaign's staff who now work for Obama nt

[blogslut]

15. Destroy Tom Daschle = Jeff Gannon's first mission as a "reporter"

Anyone remember that little tidbit of history?

The National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman singled out South Dakota Senator-elect John Thune (R) for special praise, noting that he ousted the first leader of either party running for reelection in over 50 years. He had previously said that beating Daschle would be like picking up three seats .

-- "Jeff Gannon", November 17th, 2004 (Talon News)

One of Gannon's first projects was an attempt to discredit the South Dakota Argus Leader, South Dakota's major paper, and its longtime political writer, David Kranz. According to the National Journal, which reported on this last November, Gannon wrote a series of articles in the summer of 2003 alleging that Kranz, who went to college with Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle, was not only sympathetic to him but was an actual part of the Daschle campaign. These articles then got a huge amount of play on the blogs of John Lauck and Jason Van Beek, and were picked up by other conservative sites and talk radio. The paper was bombarded with messages about its bias and acknowledges that these had an impact on its coverage.

Daschle opponent John Thune's campaign manager was Dick Wadham, an old political crony of Karl Rove's; the kind of pal Rove could ask to hire his first cousin, John Wood, a few years back. Wadham put the bloggers on the campaign payroll and the symbiotic relationship between the campaign, the bloggers and "reporter" Gannon continued. On September 29, Gannon broke the story that Daschle had claimed a special tax exemption for a house in Washington and the bloggers jumped all over it. According to a November 17 posting on South Dakota Politics--a site that Van Beek, who has become a staffer for now-Sen. Thune, has bequeathed to Lauck--"Jeff Gannon, whose reportage had a dramatic impact on the Daschle v. Thune race (his story about Sen. Daschle signing a legal document claiming to be a D.C. resident was published nearly the same day Thune began to run an ad showing Daschle saying, 'I'm a D.C. resident') has written an analysis of the debacle."

Daschle aides told Roll Call, "This guy (Gannon) became the dumping ground for opposition research." The connections are so strong that there is an FEC challenge which could be a test case on the limits of the use of the Internet in federal campaigns...

link: http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/02/credible-evidence-emerges-that-jeff.html

[xchrom]

17. back in the day he was pretty widely despised around here. nt