Daschle was Obama's first real betrayal of his "Change" mantra

[Rex_Goodheart]

According to news reports, Obama said today that he didn't excuse Daschle's income tax error.

Bullshit.

If giving somebody a Cabinet position is not excusing somebody's behavior then there's very little that is.

Obama should have taken the lead and withdrawn the nominations of BOTH Geithner and Daschle. This is beginning to border on Bush-like obscene. Same old same old.

[nichomachus]

1. And the Gregg flim flam was #2

Well, McClurkin was #2 -- or maybe 1. Then, there was Rick Warren. Then, Gates. So, maybe Daschle was really Number 4 -- or is it five. It's so hard to keep track.

The Obama cultists are working harder than Freepers to find excuses for all these.

[MNDemNY]

30. Rule 1. Obama can do no wrong.

Rule 2. If Obama does something wrong, see rule # 1.
See, you only need 2 rules.

[Life Long Dem]

33. No. It's not cultist that's the problem.

[Taverner]

2. Just checking - - are we supposed to hate Obama now?

:shrug:

Just wondered when the hatefest begins so I can clear out...

[Pirate Smile]

6. Apparently.

[Deep13]

11. Yes, he is now worse than Hitler.

Apparently, the real object here is to be able to continue bitching despite getting exactly what we asked for in November.

[Taverner]

13. Ahhh but is he worse than the Clenis?

They say the Clenis is just a myth - and old story politicians tell their kids at night. "Go to bed or the Clenis will get you..."

[Deep13]

18. I know a guy who saw Clenis in the woods once! nt

[Taverner]

19. Did he take a picture?

And if so, did it make the little memory chip inside the camera explode?

[Deep13]

22. Nah, he didn't have a chance to get a picture.

He shot it an made a rug out of it for his den. It's really weird looking.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

15. It's been TWO WEEKS

and look!

He's hasn't changed the world nor has he fixed everything.

Let us now speak of Obama's Failed Presidency.

(Do I need that "sarcasm" thing here? Do I? Really?)

[Taverner]

16. There's a Dean thread around here that I got, but most didn't so, yeah, maybe...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

37. Yes, and you're always supposed to whine, "This isn't CHANGE! Wah!"

[newtothegame]

38. No, who cares? He looks different so HURAAYYYY!!!!

[Taverner]

40. Yep, Obama and Bush no difference

:eyes:

And do I really need to put a :sarcasm: in there?

[newtothegame]

41. If people really cared for a substantive difference beyond skin color...

there would have been less pictures of Obama in sunglasses and weeping senior citizens on here and more discussion of how we could defeat Prop 8, elect real progressives, etc.

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[Taverner]

42. Um, this makes no sense

I just don't get it

:shrug:

[nichomachus]

43. DOn't let the . . . .

criticism is not "hatred" -- unless you live on Free Republic.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Hillary? Emanuel? Summers?

I would have preferred Democrats for those positions, but hopefully Obama can keep a lid on them.

[marshall]

10. I'm still holding my breath wondering if Emanuel will end up being dragged down by Blago

The former governor is a man scorned and he seems particularly bent on taking Emanuel down with him.

[GreenTea]

4. And ignoring the great Howard Dean's worth to the Democratic party SUCKS!

[Jack Sprat]

14. yes n/m

[Deep13]

5. Ye gods!

Someone dropped a deuce in the punchbowl!
:eyes:

[geardaddy]

9. LMAO!

:rofl:

[Idealism]

7. Clearly, impeachment is the only option we are left with

:eyes:

[hfojvt]

24. impeachment, bah that's such a cop-out

it's time for revolution!!! Take to the streets!! Smash some cars!! Break some glass and some skulls!!! Wipe out the human race and start over with ants because everybody sucks!! The human race is a virus!!!

Except for me, of course, I have never done or even thought anything that was wrong. That's what allows me to harshly judge all these other imperfect and corrupt a$$holes.

[Captain Hilts]

8. No. Hanging with Jim Cooper, Sam Nunn and Colin Powell was. nt

[uponit7771]

12. Was DassHole a recess appointment?!?! Jus sayin, 99% of his other selections are on the up & up

[corruptmewithpower]

17. The President's political upbriging was in Chicago

If he wasn't a little pragmatic in his associations, who could he have talked to? I think our new president should be able choose who to hire and fire, sleaze factor being just one of many variables to his equation.

[Pirate Smile]

20. Democrats excel at turning on Democrats. Today is another great example - and I'm not talking about

Obama.

[LaPera]

21. Why would anyone allow the minority party, the republicans, to call any shots what-so-ever?

Am I missing something here, just because the republicans love to make big empty threats, scream as loudly as possible, make lots of silly stupid noise to get noticed....

The republicans are by far the fucking minority party, they lost overwhelmingly.

The republicans love to preach democracy, well then, let's shove democracy down their lying, hateful, greedy little republican throats!

MAJORITY RULES! - GET IT YET REPUBLICANS?

[EFerrari]

26. Maybe the Democrats have to "get it" first. n/t

[RiverStone]

23. Not quite Bush-like, but Obama did stray off message

He will make mistakes.

And yet on balance, his worst mistake will still be better than Shrub's best day (err, if he had one?).

[Deep13]

25. I'm sorry...

[tekisui]

27. This is FAR from b*sh-like obscene.

So far this thread is funny.

[saracat]

28. No. That was Emmanuel as the first betrayal

[Peregrine Took]

29. But yesterday he backed him "absolutely!" What happened?? n/t

[MNDemNY]

31. Shit.

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. If I had a penny for every time a resignee had been "backed absolutely"

by any President, etc etc etc.
Just shows Daschle has more smarts than Geithner.

[bvar22]

32. The First Betrayal?

Nah, merely the last in a growing list.

[FraDon]

35. Grandma, are we governing yet? •

Sure starting to look like it; whaddya you think?

[Metta]

36. Summers, Gertner, Gates, all the intelligence people so far .... I'm sure there's more.

Oh, and Rahm Emmanuel, a Dem hack and thug from way back. Have a nice day.

[Joe Fields]

39. Agreed. K&R.

[dflprincess]

44. The tax thing was bad enough but Obama should have been more concerned

with Daschle's ties to the health insurance industry. Assuming he's serious about ethics and conflicts of interest.

[Juche]

45. I don't think Daschle was that bad

Daschle seems to support single payer (he considers it politically unfeasable mind you) in his book and reforming healthcare to make it more like the federal reserve, where competent people make the decisions independently of politics and where we research the most cost effective ways to address health.

His tax cheats were fairly minor, and he was willing to make amends.

[Bluebear]

46. Frankly, I think his pandering to the right wing Christian church was his first betrayal of change