Comments on: Mickey Kaus on Obama’s choice of Johnson

By: gcotharn

gcotharn — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:19:00 +0000

How competent are Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy? How laughably unprepared is Obama?

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:20:52 +0000

Heck! I’m a completist. Why not write another verse to “Guys, I Hardly Knew Ye”? That’s just the kinda guy Obama is.

By: camojack

camojack — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:17:44 +0000

“Politics makes for strange bedfellows.”

By: njcommuter

njcommuter — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:58:12 +0000

Obama is mistaking a junk heap full of shiny loud politicians for a stable of new ideas. So are his followers.

By: JustADude

JustADude — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:04:02 +0000

Johnson had multiple issues that should have kept him out to start with.

He ran the Mondale campaign and has had a finger is choosing ever dem VP since with the exception of the Clinton years.

Not a very good track record to start with but he is still looked at as a master tactician inside the dem party.

He sat on the boards of many large corporations and was on the compensation committees for many of them to determine CEO pay which is a major hot button for Obama.

He is currently the Vice Chairman of the Perseus Fund which is a Soros entity and it also is the parent company of the publisher of the Scott McClellan book.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:09:32 +0000

I dunno. Seems to me, as a McCain supporter, that bringing in someone who would provide VP candidate along the lines of a mafia daughter chosen for her gender, or a multimillionaire ambulance chaser who plays po’ boy, would be a good thing. OTOH, if one were choosing for an actual job, as opposed to choosing for a potential job, not so good to have him doing it.

This also says something not so complimentary about Obama’s personnel choices.

(While Giuliani’s father had a criminal record, this has been known about for years, whereas the circumstances of Ferraro’s father did not come out until after the 1984 election.)

By: TorchofLiberty

TorchofLiberty — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:04:14 +0000

This is a case of the underqualified being guided by handlers. Since Obama has little to no experience, his political staff, Axelrod etc, are calling the shots and directing him. Johnson probably seemed like a logical choice since he has played the “search committee” role before.

By: J. Peden

J. Peden — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:20:14 +0000

This is a case of the underqualified being guided by handlers.

Exactly, Torch. Going beyond Wright, Pflager, Ayers, Rezko, etc., according to what Obama just said about the futility of the idea of having to vet vetters, he’s not going to be caught vetting anybody or anything, apparently including even his own statements.

Obama is pure “store-front”.