Obama has.... FANGS!!!! re: Jim Johnson

[housewolf]

From Steve Clemons at the Washington Note blog

One of the things I really, really liked when I met Howard Dean in January 2003 at an event that I helped organize between the New America Foundation and the Atlantic Monthly on the subject of the "Real State of the Union" was how ferocious and tenacious I saw he could be. Dean was smart too, had great ideas in my opinion, but he was a son of a bitch pit bull as well. I thought that only the toughest, most tenacious kind of personality could beat George W. Bush.

I have wondered whether or not Obama had a similar kind of tenaciousness. I knew that Hillary Clinton did -- but sometimes it's tough to see how long and how hard someone will fight under the banner of hope.

But today I saw something significant. Obama had to ditch his VP vetter Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson over some shenanigans related to preferential mortgage treatment from Countrywide Financial. We all have bad days.

But then Obama put out this statement through spokesman Bill Burton:

"We don't need any lectures from a campaign that waited fifteen months to purge the lobbyists from their staff, and only did so because they said it was a 'perception problem. It's too bad their campaign is still rife with lobbyist influence and doesn't see a similar 'perception problem' with the man currently running their own vice presidential selection process, a prominent DC lobbyist whose firm has represented Exxon and a top Enron executive, or their campaign chair and John McCain's top economic adviser Carly Fiorina, who presided over thousands of layoffs at Hewlett Packard while receiving a $21 million severance package and $650,000 in mortgage assistance," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

That's tenaciousness -- and it gives me hope.

-- Steve Clemons

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/06/obamas_fangs_gi/




:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Shakespeare]

1. Damn. That's awesome.

Strike back so fast you catch 'em flat-footed. The ONLY way to do it.

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[housewolf]

14. I become more impressed by the day with this man, Obama,

our nominee for the President of the United States!

:hi:

[LSparkle]

2. The only problem Obama has is he makes it all look easy ...

Ivy League education, easy path to State legislature
and then to national office ... Democratic nominee
first time out.

This is a biracial man, raised by a single mother
who had to rely on food stamps and probably felt
like an outsider for the majority of his life. We
haven't even BEGUN to see the fight in this man ...

[TahitiNut]

5. "We haven't even BEGUN to see the fight in this man ..."

Of that, I'm certain. :party:

:bounce: :bounce:

[Lint Head]

3. And he is sucking the blood out of the Re-Pubic-Rats!

:dem:

[jazzjunkysue]

18. He's like a beam of light. Roaches and bats shy away from him.

They scurry away, afraid, looking for a new safe, dark corner to hide in.

[blm]

4. In 2004 what was needed to beat Bush was a DNC that did its job for four years

so that the Dem nominee who did HIS job could get the votes he earned allowed, cast and counted.

But then, getting wins in 2002 and 2004 was never a priority for McAuliffe's DNC was it?

Dean has had to work his entire four years rebuilding party infrastructures in too many states that Clinton-McAuliffe's DNC had for a decade collapsed as unimportant for their personal political needs.

Some of us believe the collapse of state party infrastructures was deliberate and planned to keep 2008 open for a Clinton run.

[Cha]

6. Yes, our gracious Obama can

pull out his fangs when he needs them. Fascists who want to keep our country it a permanent state of WAR and submission make it easy for him to do.

[Forkboy]

7. Well that certainly deserves to be on the greatest page.

:kick:

[housewolf]

10. Thanks!

It gave me a big smile, too

[Yael]

9. Oh that is SWEET!

:rofl:

[JNelson6563]

11. Damn Skippy!

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! W00t!

Julie

[AdvancedProgress]

12. I hope this keeps up...

It will be hilarious to watch everything they throw at him come back like a boomerang!

:evilgrin:

[seafan]

13. We've got a fighter on our hands. And it's been a long, dry spell. n/t

[tavalon]

15. I worried too until well into the primary war when he had to smack down the Clinton campaign

a number of times. He did it quickly and without much dilly dallying. I stopped worrying.

[windoe]

16. K & R what a way to clean up Washington

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[NatBurner]

17. boosh!