Clintonite-Turned-FOX Pundit Lanny Davis Lobbying Congress in Support of Honduran Coup

[marmar]

via AlterNet:



Clintonite-Turned-FOX Pundit Lanny Davis Lobbying Congress in Support of Honduran Coup

Posted by Al Giordano, Huffington Post at 5:42 AM on July 14, 2009.

Davis was a Hillary cheerleader during the election. Now she's lobbying for a military coup?




Dear Mr. President:


Remember, during the 2008 presidential primaries, the constant screeching national media presence from lawyer-lobbyist Lanny Davis? Yeah, him. The guy who night after night went on every cable TV channel to scream that Obama wasn't electable, that Obama couldn't win swing states, that Obama couldn't win white voters, that Obama had to explain his position on race, that Obama couldn't answer the 3 a.m. phone call...

He's baaaack.

And now he's representing the Honduran coup d'etat.

Yup, one of those very same bottom-feeding lobbyists who you banned from your administration is now out to prove that you really are the "inexperienced" rube he said you were.

And (as your Spanish-speaking U.S. citizen it is my duty to inform you) the way that much of Latin America sees it, your administration -- and particularly your Secretary of State -- are being successfully played by.. cough ... cough ... Lanny Davis!

Who can forget Lanny's January 17, 2008 "Open Letter" to you, asking: "What Exactly in the Clinton-Era Nineties Did You Not Like?"

Well, other than lobbyists wagging the dog of Washington (in general) and Lanny Davis (in particular), I'll bet that heavy-handed U.S. policy over the previous 28 years (including the 1990s) toward Latin America didn't leave a good taste in your mouth either, Mr. President. It certainly didn't down here. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/141293/clintonite-turned-fox_pundit_lanny_davis_lobbying_congress_in_support_of_honduran_coup/

[RandySF]

1. And before anyone says

that it's an attempt to fight the primaries wars again, it has nothing to do with that. Anyone who claims to be a Democrat and lobbies on behalf of this coup needs to be called out big-time. It's important that we hold each other accountable.

[scheming daemons]

2. After the Dem convention, Lanny has seemingly been very PRO Obama....

..in all of his appearances and writings (especially in the "Arena" section of Politico).

It is true that during the primaries he was a BIG Obama basher.... but after the Dem convention, he was very conciliatory and has been an Obama cheerleader for months.

[peacetalksforall]

3. That is not easy to follow, but it is powerful. Powerfully truthful. This guy

outlined it perfectly. What Obama does here is very important to me. I am one who cries at the way this country has treated the little people of Central and South America, plus the Caribbean.

If we allow this coup under these wishy washy reasons, it means that Obama is not any improvement over Bush and what he, the French, the World Bank, the CIA, our military did to Aristede and the good people of Haiti.

If Obama supports this coup, you will see the corporations taking down the country. Meaning earth resources. This is another part of the plan to own it all.\

Someone has to wake up here. It's time for the people to own their country, not U.S., Canadian, and European corporations. Nor Chinese or Australian. Let those people be. They can take care of themselves.

Someone please pass this letter to Obama.