It's Not Hypocrisy Barry. It's Pointing Out How Full of Horse Manure You Are.
By Erick Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Hypocrisy | John McCain | Obamafiles | Steven Farber — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Barack Obama *says* "no lobbyists allowed." Barack Obama *says* this applies to the DNC.
Of course, he has a problem.
While Senator Obama ordered the Democratic National Committee last week to stop taking donations from lobbyists, the co-chairman and lead fund-raiser for the host committee for the Denver convention, Steven Farber, is a lawyer and federally registered lobbyist with Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck LLP, a firm with offices in Denver, Washington, and elsewhere."Not only that, they're a donor," an advocate of tighter regulation of political funding, Stephen Weissman of the Campaign Finance Institute, said, pointing to the firm's logo among several dozen "partners" on the host committee Web site.
This comes on the heels of me pointing out that two of the DNC's vice-chairs are registered lobbyists.
So what is the Obama campaign going to do? They say John McCain is not allowed to talk about this. They say John McCain is hypocritical to harass Obama on this because he has so many connections to lobbyists.
Best I can figure, Obama must staff his campaign with high school dropouts because they very clearly don't understand the meaning of the word hypocrisy. Hypocrisy means you, Barry, set standards that you, Barry, are failing to live up to.
Pointing out your hypocrisy is not itself hypocrisy -- it's actually shoot fish in barrel.
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Personally I would rather associate with brutal dictators and almost anyone that works for a resource production company than 95% of the A.B.A.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I have been blogging about James Johnson's nefarious influence on the Dem Party for a while now. He was Chmn of the Mondale Campaign I worked in in '84 when I first came across him. HIs next job was Chmn of Target, and he effectively started a political campaign against Wal-Mart when free-market capitalism & market forces gave Wal-Mart a huge advantage over Target---dare to cheat, dare to win. From there he joined the Dem-controlled Fannie Mae At Fannie, a generation of Democratic Party insiders, such as James Johnson, Jamie Gorelik and Franklin Raines, made substantial fortunes in Fannie's executive suite. As Fannie Mae's top regulator, James Lockhart, pointed out in recent congressional testimony, the absence of debt-market discipline (the government guarantee makes Fannie and Freddie all but impervious to credit downgrades) makes pell-mell growth irresistible to shareholders and managers. Have a hunch, bet a bunch.
Johnson achieved a quadfecta of con-man feats of legerdemain, heading up Brookings and the Kennedy Center after mismanaging Target and the Mondale Presidential Campaign. My guess is that he, Jamie and Franklin would have trouble balancing a checkbook, let alone handling a monster-mishmash like Fannie Mae.At Fannie, where a generation of Democratic Party insiders, such as Johnson, Jamie Gorelik and Franklin Raines, made substantial fortunes in Fannie's executive suite. As Fannie Mae's top regulator, James Lockhart, pointed out in recent congressional testimony, the absence of debt-market discipline (the government guarantee makes Fannie and Freddie all but impervious to credit downgrades) makes pell-mell growth irresistible to shareholders and managers. Have a hunch, bet a bunch.
Johnson achieved a quadfecta of con-man feats of legerdemain, heading up Brookings and the Kennedy Center after mismanaging Target and the Mondale Presidential Campaign. My guess is that he, Jamie and Franklin would have trouble balancing a checkbook, let alone handling a monster-mishmash like Fannie Mae.
And in the shadow-world of Dem inside-the-Beltway pecking orders, Johnson is Chmn of the Board, like Sinatra in Hollyweird, as far as extending the tentacles of the ginormous Dem bureaucracy deep into every American life.
Too bad he got caught doing what Wall Street insiders would call "insider-trading," though of course the MSM will exonerate one of their own and deny Johnson's duplicity in the sub-prlme market scam, just as they protected John Edwards.
Johnson, when exposed to daylight, ran back under his rock.
Eric Holder, Marc Rich's DC house-boy, may be the next forced to exit.
As for Obama & "change," the Who said it best: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
I have been blogging about James Johnson's nefarious influence on the Dem Party for a while now. He was Chmn of the Mondale Campaign I worked in in '84 when I first came across him. HIs next job was Chmn of Target, and he effectively started a political campaign against Wal-Mart when free-market capitalism & market forces gave Wal-Mart a huge advantage over Target---dare to cheat, dare to win. From there he joined the Dem-controlled Fannie Mae At Fannie, a generation of Democratic Party insiders, such as James Johnson, Jamie Gorelik and Franklin Raines, made substantial fortunes in Fannie's executive suite. As Fannie Mae's top regulator, James Lockhart, pointed out in recent congressional testimony, the absence of debt-market discipline (the government guarantee makes Fannie and Freddie all but impervious to credit downgrades) makes pell-mell growth irresistible to shareholders and managers. Have a hunch, bet a bunch.
Johnson achieved a quadfecta of con-man feats of legerdemain, heading up Brookings and the Kennedy Center after mismanaging Target and the Mondale Presidential Campaign. My guess is that he, Jamie and Franklin would have trouble balancing a checkbook, let alone handling a monster-mishmash like Fannie Mae.At Fannie, where a generation of Democratic Party insiders, such as Johnson, Jamie Gorelik and Franklin Raines, made substantial fortunes in Fannie's executive suite. As Fannie Mae's top regulator, James Lockhart, pointed out in recent congressional testimony, the absence of debt-market discipline (the government guarantee makes Fannie and Freddie all but impervious to credit downgrades) makes pell-mell growth irresistible to shareholders and managers. Have a hunch, bet a bunch.
Johnson achieved a quadfecta of con-man feats of legerdemain, heading up Brookings and the Kennedy Center after mismanaging Target and the Mondale Presidential Campaign. My guess is that he, Jamie and Franklin would have trouble balancing a checkbook, let alone handling a monster-mishmash like Fannie Mae.
And in the shadow-world of Dem inside-the-Beltway pecking orders, Johnson is Chmn of the Board, like Sinatra in Hollyweird, as far as extending the tentacles of the ginormous Dem bureaucracy deep into every American life.
Too bad he got caught doing what Wall Street insiders would call "insider-trading," though of course the MSM will exonerate one of their own and deny Johnson's duplicity in the sub-prlme market scam, just as they protected John Edwards.
Johnson, when exposed to daylight, ran back under his rock.
Eric Holder, Marc Rich's DC house-boy, may be the next forced to exit.
As for Obama & "change," the Who said it best: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
How about some representative clients. Comeon, journalism!
Do they include brutal dictators and rapacious natural resource companies?
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only agreement please, kthx