April 08, 2008
Lobby Layers and Loose Lips
All of us here at Dakota simply cannot understand why Mark Penn was asked to resign from the Clinton Campaign just because his firm lobbied for a free trade agreement with Columbia, even though that conflicts with Hillary's stance on the issue, especially when that very same firm, or it's "subsidiary" prepped Blackwater founder Erik Prince for his congressional hearing
We cannot understand why there are lobbyists working on Hillary's campaign in the first place, especially when their affiliations are so suspect.
We cannot understand why lobbyists are actually running John McCain's campaign too. Charles R. Black, McCain's chief campaign strategist works for the same firm as Mark Penn.
We cannot understand why George W Bush and Dick Cheney were not asked to resign for election tampering, starting an illegal war that has killed over 600,000 Iraqis, 4000 American soldiers, and wounded and maimed another 29,000, war profiteering and constitutional corrosion.
Samantha Power was asked to resign from Obama's campaign for calling Hillary a monster.
Randi Rhodes was fired from AirAmerica for calling Hillary a whore
Oh ..h..h we get it! Uncouth is unacceptable, corporate or criminal is fine.
No that's not quite right
After all, John McCain wasn't asked to resign when he called his wife an unseemly name, but that was 1992.
Photo note: A metaphorophoto - confusing picture of a lobby (get it?) on two different levels with blurry figures underneath and only a slice revealed on other levels - shot at the MOMA
Posted by Dakota at April 8, 2008 06:44 AM