Bumbling, Stumbling Barack
I can’t get all riled up about Jim Johnson, the guy vetting Sen. Barack Obama’s VP candidates, getting sweetheart mortgages. If I were a Countrywide shareholder I’d be mad as hell at the CEO using the company to help out his buddies.
What is interesting is Obama’s response:
He sputters along like a lawn mower that hasn’t been tuned up in a decade. If it’s not a set speech in front of thousands of fawning fans he fumbles. I fear what would happen if he actually had the chance to sit down at one of his unconditional meetings with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or Hugo Chavez.
Slate’s John Dickerson take this a little more seriously since Obama claims to be forging a new kind of politics:
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.
Still, in this instance there’s not a lot here for me to sink my teeth into. At least I get to watch Obama flop around like a fish.
“Thrown Under the Bus Watch: Eric Holder & Jim Johnson“
