anyone know anything about the former Clinton advisor

[Alcibiades]

who was on XM Radio's POTUS '08 today touting an article wherein he confesses that he, a true opponent of the war from the start, now thinks that we should stay in Iraq indefinitely?

What got my dander up was that this guy said he had a top secret clearance, and that national security issues are part of his area of expertise. What I find suspicious is that, in response to an adept question on the part of the interviewer, he said he's simply never discussed any of his pro-war views with Senator Clinton.

That claim is shocking. If you're some kind of security advisor, and you disagree with your candidate on the single major national security issue of the day, shouldn't you bring it up? If you fail to do so, shouldn't you lose your license to dispense free advice, given that you have not been honest when charged with giving paid advice?

I cannot seem to find out who this person was or what the title of his article, apparently recently published in some journal of opinion, was. Anyone remember?

I'd like to know because there's been a concerted media push lately, in case you have not noticed, to get Obama to reconsider withdrawal from the occupation of Iraq. This person was the first Democrat I've heard publicly to endorse this position. If he's really on record as saying one thing but not advising his candidate on it when he had a chance to shape that candidate's platform, he deserves to have his pundit's license revoked.

Anyone remember who it was?

[tabasco]

1. I'm sure he'll be carrying his dumb ass down to the recruiter's office straight away!

Whoever he is.

[ErinBerin84]

2. sounds similar to a Lanny Davis article that ran in the Washington Times

However, Lanny Davis of course wasn't a national security person or working for Clinton campaign in the primary (so he says)...but this is really something HE would do of all people, isn't it? Maybe it was part of his Fox contract, the little squirrel.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lanny-davis/confessions-of-an-anti-ir_b_114061.html


Huffington Post posted the article as well. Maybe it will ring a bell, not sure if that's what you're talking about. Again, Lanny isn't a security person so who knows.

[Alcibiades]

4. That was him

I just assumed he was an advisor from the way the question was phrased--the interviewer seemed to assume in his question that his war views would be something he would discuss with Senator Clinton, but Mr. Davis said "no" in what seemed to me to be a rather offhanded way.

Now, after reading the article, I find this guy's just a self-aggrandizing little asshat. He glibly throws out absolute stinkers that reveal either total mendacity or total ignorance, such as: "This willingness by the Shi'ite-dominated al-Maliki government to move against the Sadr Shi'ite extremists won crucial credibility for the government among many Sunni leaders and Sunnis on the streets, who joined together with Shi'ites to turn against the al Qaeda in Iraq and other Taliban-like extremists." As if he didn't know this was just the government's way of dealing with rivals.

Apparently, this fellow's not only a Joe Lieberman supporter, but also a Fox News commentator and a former fraternity brother of Bush. Not someone who can even remotely claim to offer legitimate advice to Democrats.

[notadmblnd]

3. any of these names ring a bell?

Initial team

Clinton's campaign is run by a team of advisers and political operatives. Patti Solis Doyle was the first female Hispanic to manage a presidential campaign,<16> which she did from its inception. Deputy campaign manager Mike Henry had managed Tim Kaine's successful campaign for Governor of Virginia in 2005 and coordinated the Democratic advertising efforts for the Senate elections of 2006.<17> Mark Penn, CEO of PR firm Burson-Marsteller and president of polling company Penn, Schoen & Berland has been described as Clinton's "strategic genius" in a role likened to that which Karl Rove played in George W. Bush's campaigns.<18> Howard Wolfson, a veteran of New York politics, serves as the campaign spokesperson. Evelyn S. Lieberman, who worked for Clinton when she was First Lady and served as Deputy White House Chief of Staff, is the chief operating officer of the campaign.<19> Ann Lewis, White House communications director from 1997 to 2000, is Senior Advisor to the campaign.<20> Cheryl Mills is general counsel for the campaign.<21> Jonathan Mantz is finance director, Mandy Grunwald the lead media consultant, Neera Tanden the campaign's policy director, Kim Molstre the director of scheduling and long-term planning, Phil Singer the deputy communications director, Leecia Eve a senior policy advisor, Nathaniel Pearlman the chief technology officer, and Minyon Moore a senior policy advisor.<22> Other campaign workers also date from the "Hillaryland" team of the White House years.<23>

Other advisers and supporters include former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,<24> Richard Holbrooke, Sandy Berger, Wesley Clark, former Rep. and vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, former Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley, and former Secretary of Defense William Perry.<25> Less well-known but key region and subject specialists have been the focus of an intense recruiting battle between her and fellow candidate Barack Obama.<26>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton_presidential_campaign,_2008