Tammy Bruce: The Messiah Tries To Answer a Hard Question

The Messiah Tries To Answer a Hard Question

Without a teleprompter. He fails.

ABC News' Sunlen Miller today asked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, how he could "rail against Countrywide Financial Corp as an example of insiders and today's economy while your VP search is headed by someone who got questionable loans from Countrywide?"

"And in addition," Miller continued, "another person on that same VP search team – Eric Holder -- has also been involved in the Marc Rich scandal."

"Well, look," Obama said, "the, the, I mean - first of all I am not vetting my VP search committee for their mortgages, so you’re gong to have to direct -- "

"But shouldn’t you?" asked Miller.

"Well, no," Obama said. "It becomes sort of a, um, I mean, this is a game that can be played - everybody, you know, who is tangentially related to our campaign, I think, is going to have a whole host of relationships -- I would have to hire the vetter to vet the vetters. I mean, at some point, you know, we just asked people to do their assignments...

"So this – you know, these aren’t folks who are working for me," Obama said. "They're not people you know who I have assigned to a job in a future administration and, you know, ultimately my assumption is that, you know, this is a discreet task that they're going to performing for me over the next two months."

Well, actually, no we don't know. That last bit surprised Jake Tapper at ABC. It is sorta weird, after all. Here you've got a team of three people who are helping you with the most important decision you'll make as a candidate for the presidency, yet these people aren't "working" for you. Read all of Tapper's post, and take a gander for yourself at the video of the Teleprompterless, Spinning, Confused Messiah. But take some Dramamine, you're gonna get dizzy.

UPDATE:

When it comes to how badly Barry has handled the Johnson issue, John Dickerson at Slate wonders what exactly is 'new' in Obama's new politics.

The Johnson Test
Will Obama show us the instruction manual for his new kind of politics?

...Barack Obama called out Countrywide by name on the campaign trail during the primaries. He particularly criticized the company's CEO for his excessive compensation and more generally "infecting the economy and helping to create a home foreclosure crisis," which he linked not only to the 2 million who lost their houses but to school districts that couldn't purchase supplies and pay teachers. This is the same CEO who gave Johnson his sweetheart deal. Obama's aides also criticized Clinton's then-campaign strategist, Mark Penn, for giving PR advice to the company.

Now the man Obama has entrusted with what he has called the most important decision of his campaign is wrapped up in Countrywide and tied to the CEO. There are lots of unanswered questions about the Johnson deal, though no evidence as yet that he did anything wrong. But the Obama standard isn't wrongdoing. It's mere connection to the company. By that standard, this is bad news.

Since Obama has just held a national seminar for 16 months on changing politics and shedding the old insider way of doing things, you might expect that he'd take these disclosures seriously, if for no other reason than to show that even when it might hurt him, he's committed to letting the light shine on his associates. Nope—his campaign has called the issue irrelevant. Double bad...

Posted by Tammy · June 10, 2008 12:57 PM · Permalink
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As Bugs Bunny used to say: "What a maroon!"

Posted by: St. Thor at June 10, 2008 01:39 PM

You can't criticize The Obama in this manner, it's an unfair smear on all people like him.

Cephalo-rectal Americans can't help themselves. Yes, he has his head completely ensconced in his own ass, but that's a protected condition under the Americans with Disabilities Act, so back off, sweetie.

Posted by: XWL at June 10, 2008 02:43 PM

Tammy,
If that photo is any indication of where Obama's VP search has led him then there are any number of potential running mates to be found there--Gore, Kerry, Carter, Dean, etc.

Posted by: Dan Noutko-Kennedy at June 10, 2008 03:50 PM

This just gets better and better.

He's an endless source of smiles and laughter. Who'd have expected it of a marxist/racist?
:D

Posted by: LongviewCyclist at June 10, 2008 09:09 PM

The people advising Obama on his VP don't work for him and are all volunteers.

I ask all Tammy readers to volunteer for Obama's VP Pick Sub-Committee.

Obama -- The New Coke of the Democratic Party.

Posted by: Jack Bauer at June 11, 2008 01:59 AM

A first caliber pious-moron if ever. This is the Marxist-Messiah that will save us. The intellectual snob who can relate to the poor.
We might as well have Bugs Bunny as President.

Posted by: Mahatlek at June 11, 2008 07:10 AM

I think this is going to be an interesting election for both sides. Half the Dems are not enamored with Obama, and half the Republicans seem to feel the same about McCain.

It's going to be a long time until November.

BAC

Posted by: BAC104 at June 11, 2008 07:29 PM

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