Barack Obama’s chief Veep vetter, James Johnson has resigned, though Obama said just yesterday that Johnson wasn’t working for him. That sounds confusing, which may be why the official word is that Johnson did not want to be one of those “distractions” Obama really does not like.
On the short list to replace Johnson? How about Zoe Baird, Kimba Wood, Lani Guinier, Bobby Inman or Henry Foster? Ah yes, it’s looking like the 16-year cycle is coming due even before an Obama victory.
Update: The real “distraction” here was likely the Wall Street Journal story reporting that Johnson failed to disclose the friendly loans he got from Countrywide to Fannie Mae (of which Johnson was CEO) at the same time that Fannie Mae was buying Countrywide’s loans.
(h/t Memeorandum.)
Distractions, distractions I tell you. And none of this will help Michelle with the arduous task of keeping fresh fruit in their mansion for the children. Why must you engage in the politics of the past, and why can’t you embrace the hope and change that Barack Hussein Obama represents. Oops, I am a racist. Nope, I am a volunteer.
I both celebrate and denounce you, JD. You are on the hopey-changey bandwagon, though, so ultimately you will be forgiven. The Obamessiah is kind and just.
Let us pray.
“Jim did not want to distract in any way from the very important task of gathering information about my vice presidential nominee, so he has made a decision to step aside that I accept.”
– Obama
You see, now Obie has Jim using the lingo for him!
Oh, I doubt Jim wrote that lingo.
I think O! is the lead clown in the Dimmocrat circus.
Prevent defense: I denounce whatever.
Watching the O! and his cronies gives me a thrill around my little toe.
dre, are you sure that thrill around your little toe isn’t gout?
I wonder who else is advising the Pure and Perfect O! Mike Tyson?
Speaking of wondering, you think Hillary has any molar dentin left from all the grinding she’s doing watching this rank amateur?
Comment by cranky-d on 6/11 @ 3:03 pm #
I checked. Poison ivy.
Johnson was just a subprime choice to begin with.
You know something I’ve noticed thats really creeping me out. All during this primary I’ve been watching Obama talking heads. Now I, like so many other people listen to Obama’s typical speeches, and you always come away wondering what the fuck he just said.
– So you think, Well, when they get around to asking the Dem spokespeople, that will clear things up. But the truth is, so many times their refusal to explain Obamas words, the way they always are forced to fall back of “happy words” of vision this and future growth that, says loud and clear, that they don’t know what the fuck Obama’s talking about either.
– On FOX today Magyn was asking a fem Democratic spokesman just what Obama meant when he said he’d “wished the oil prices had changed more gradually”.
– She tried 5 times, and the Dem gal just couldn’t answer. Thats whats bad about this whole O! thing.
Why do all of you seek to distract from the hope and change that Barack represents?
This shit’s spreading. The city of Kansas City’s lawyers are doing it now:
“City attorneys have said the city is not responsible for any alleged comments by Gloria Squitiro because she does not draw a paycheck and thus is not a city employee.”
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James Johnson has stopped
not workingvolunteering for Barack ObamaCommunity Organizers™ get no respect.
Actually, BBH, what that says to me is that they KNOW what Obama is about and support it, they’re just not willing to say so publicly because they’d be (metaphorically) drawn-and-quartered.
– Well I certainly agree that the party Left leadership has certainly got all Socialism all the time in mind, but the way this gal looked, and lots of other Dem/Obama reps I’ve seen, was actually totally confused and frustrated, and like she couldn’t think of anything else to say so she just spun off into the “glad happy feel good” stuff. They really look like they’re just as confused as everybody else.
He needs to replace Johnson with a volunteer who knows something about Wahington, who can put up with a media spotlight and who also shares some of his politics. Cindy McKinney would do a good job I think. She won’t take any shit from any fucking media, that’s for damn sure and she’s not any crazier than Rev. Wright or Father Pfleger.
What could go wrong?
I saw somewhere that Sandy Berger is free.
Someone needs to steam-clean the undercarriage of the Obamabus. Stat!
Obama: “Jim, just go away and let me eat my damn waffle!”
Check the fine print — that’s only after the mail-in rebate.
“On FOX today Magyn was asking a fem Democratic spokesman just what Obama meant when he said he’d “wished the oil prices had changed more graduallyâ€Â.
– She tried 5 times, and the Dem gal just couldn’t answer. Thats whats bad about this whole O!”
I don’t know, BBH. I think I would be tongue tied trying to talk to Megyn even if I were a woman. I have trouble even eating my dinner when she is on “FOX”.
And once again. Whis the new blonde on “FOX”?
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Meanwhile, in other news, John McCain continues to insist he will be a dolt with regard to ANWR and further drilling in the US. And now to sports! Take it, Keith.
Hope and Change – A Handbasket You Can Believe In!
#5 dre – The Obama Doctrine! Preemptively denounce everything and everyone!
“Thank you for that warm welcome Mr. Smith; I denounce it and you. Before I begin I would like to denounce this speech…”
Johnson also had that little problem with the $1.9 million in a cooked books scandal at Fannie Mae.
http://patriotroom.com/?p=422
J. Goldberg visit to ANWR in 2001 can be read here.
Link
By the way, I denounce his anti mosquito bigotry.
Comment by Sdferr on 6/11 @ 4:20 pm #
“Meanwhile, in other news, John McCain continues to insist he will be a dolt with regard to ANWR and further drilling in the US. And now to sports! Take it, Keith.”
John NcCains campaign slogan:
“Give them a litle hope, AND THEN KICK THEM IN THE BALLS AS HARD AS YOU CAN!”
It blows my mind that McCain thinks he can make proggs like him.
Doo-Doo! Doo-Doo! Doo-Doo! Danger, Will Robinson!
On a serious note, I am writing to every representative I can find, and asking them to stop sucking the Sierra Club’s cock (well , not actually in those words) and START FUCKING DRILLING IN AMERICA! (Once again, not in those words).
I am hoping that if enough rational people dissent, we might be able to overcome the Appr. 3% of the population that keeps us from self sufficiency. You know. The Reds that call themselves “Greens”.
The problem is, that the “aides” to our representatives are stupid little twits, who weren’t even smart enough to be journalists. It’s pretty much of a head fuck that 20 year old nitwits hold the key to what our representatives see, and what information they get.
I don’t believe for a second that what I say to my representatives has one chance in hell of being passed on.
Only with a landslide will these little arrogant fucks even THINK about telling their boss what is really happening.
Or, let’s put it this way.
The Nishinuts of the world hold enough power to ignore rationality, unless that rationality comes in a soaking downpour.
Ah, yes, the sweet, sickening stench of Democratic corruption.
Over at Balloon Juice, John Cole is also pushing Sandy Berger as a replacement for the just resigned volunteer, Jim Johnson.
OT: It is reported via Ed Driscoll that Paul Newman has terminal lung cancer.
A class act Mr. Newman has always been. A big Bravo! for him.
#32 Martin – Who knew John Cole wanted to elect John McCain?
#34-Mikey NTH – I stand corrected. I misunderstood Cole’s comments; I believe he was actually endorsing Terri Schiavo as a Jim Johnson replacement.
Well, Karl, I don’t believe this shit about Obama’s Johnson not working. Just yesterday, Arianna Huffington said it was like a magic wand.
One of these days I will just admit that I do not care what my people believe as long as they just beat you.
Just out of curiosity, does Obama know anyone who is NOT an out and out thief?
An utter partisan, matoko?
Surprising…Not!
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Comment by Great Mencken’s Ghost on 6/11 @ 7:53 pm #
Just out of curiosity, does Obama know anyone who is NOT an out and out thief?”
The O! is a pencil geek who liked hangin’ with de bad boyz.
Another one bites the magic bus.
I think we’re going to find out he spent two weeks in a work gang for some silly ass misdemeanor and that is where the O! Show was first proposed, and every single political connection he’s got stems from there.
I can see the conversation around the big gray steel water cooler on the back of the tool trailer:
“Shit man, there will be VIDEOS!”
“Well… I HOPE so.”
*laughter*
“Better get a BIG bus!”
Truth is always stranger than fiction. ‘Specially in times of CHANGE.
That’s not nishi/matoko/superiorintellect, he/she/it doesn’t believe in capitalization.
I’m on strike until Dan comes back. The homogeneous banality of your collective vacuity disturbs me.
Translated for Big Bang Boy – My fist has already come rendered mutatis mutandis upon your pout. All that’s left for me to give is deleterious left-crosses to erstwhile KK sheet wetters.
Spoiled for time, so forgive me, until Dan’s terror returns.
James Johnson wasn’t helping Michelle Obama’s kids.
How WSJ fabricated the story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-fiderer/how-the-wall-street-journ_b_106600.html
I’m an idea guy. I get ideas all the time. There flying around my head like Aaaahhhgghh….. wait, feed the tuna mayonaise.
…..but if some industrious sound engineer put together all of Barry’s less scripted moments, I think you’ve got a Top 10 rap song right there bro:
it’s like, uh, it’s a game, uh
now wait a minute,
hold on now,
I can’t hear myself,
Uh….it would cost twice as, uh…
hold on there sweetie,
It would cost half, uh
now wait a minute, uh
The cost, uh
hold on now,
I can’t hear myself, uh
it’s this game, uh
hold on there sweetie
GOLD!!
“They’re” there flying around my head, uh, hold on, they are there flying, hold on now sweetie
– Note to morning Cleaning crew: Was and buff the main hallway, and be sure to use extra Lysal on the toilet seats in the womans lounge. sashal was seen lurking in that end of the building again this morning. – Bldg. sup. Hunter
#43 I realized that when I looked at this thread this morning. Strange, I didn’t notice it before.
Wasn’t HuffPo the paragon of journalism that broke the story about cannibalism in New Orleans?
– They only use unpaid volunteers from O!’s campaign over at Huffpo.
Rob and hunter, thanks for being objective and checking david fiderer article published in HuffPo.
sashal – I read it, and found it unconvincing. All it does is reinforce the idea that Baracky’s unpaid volunteer, now found under the back of the bus, was closely tied to the CEO that Baracky likes to routinely hold up as a scoundrel. 2 of the 3 loans given to Johnson were shown to be below the market rates at the time, though not significantly.
Sashal misses the point by getting all caught up in the details. Baracky’s claim is to be new, better, different. Reality is quite contrary to that.
– sashal – Everything thats ever been connected to either of the “Happy slut party bimbo” from California has been so discredited for so many years you couldn’t trust her to give you the correct time of day. Why do you insist on wasting your time with those confabulators. You beed to get a job or a hobby.
sashal
When something like this…
And suddenly, there is buzz in the Washington press corps that gives Republicans a pretext to argue that Democrats are just as corrupt the GOP.
…appears within the first paragraph of an article, isn’t it a sign of possible party loyalty issues which might cloud the rest of the argument? How do you not find this problematic?
– As far as being objective, I was following her antics out here back in the days before you even knew she existed. She went through all three Political partys in the space of two months after her rich hubby dumped her party animal ass, and finally decided she could get the most attention from the brain dead Progressives. They’re all about plastic tits and botox, right up her alley.
– As far as her site, I read the old one for awhile. It was 150+ posts a day calling Bush Hitler. Thats it. BDS rants wall to wall. I have better things to do with my time. Taking a dump is a better use of your time than reading her fairy tales. Shes a gold digger, attention whore, political groupie, and dumber than a sack of carpet tacks.
“…back of the bus…”
JD:
Would you like to denounce yourself, or must I do it again?
Cowboy – BBH issued a ongoing and perpetual denunciation and condemnation for all actual and perceived slights that I may type.
Sashal’s using Huffpo as proof of…anything?
lulz indeed.
Are we sure HuffPo isn’t a spoonerism?
(I attributed spoonerisms a while ago to Lysander Spooner, for which I apologize both to him and to William Archibald S.)
Sashal,
You may want to check your link again – seems like the HuffPo was a bit premature. Oops.