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Let’s take a quick trip back to the campaign trail of young Barack Obama. In the summer of 2008, we saw the discarding of certain people as they became a “problem” for the Obama campaign. This became so much of a pattern, it is now assumed that if you do, say or think the wrong thing, you’re under the bus greasing the shocks. Stat.
It’s hard to remember who was first, but in rough order we saw the 20+ year mentor and father figure Pastor J. Wright tossed under for “God-damned” good reasons. Then Father Pflegger, Fannie Mae Exec and vice-president selecting aid, Jim Johnson took a dead cat bounce in June. Realty "helper" and now jailbird Tony Rezko had to go. Terrorist, William Ayers, became just a neighbor.
Let’s not forget Samantha Power’s comments on Israel, Ooops, see ya. And speaking of Israel, right hand man, Raum Emmanuel while not fully under the bus yet has been awfully quiet for the last 3 weeks considering the power player he is. In light of Gaza, Emmanuel would be a good man to have visible now. But then, that brings up the rest of this whole Chicago “situation”, you know (apologies to Caroline Kennedy)—Blagojevich who now has a Wikipedia page updates on the hour.
Astonishingly, The one Clinton in Obama's employ, seems to be the cleanest player. For now.
This weekend we learned of one more fellow to be thrown under the bus, Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson poised to be Commerce secretary. A fabulous choice for challenging economic times—another pay to player. Teflon is apparently not his suit of choice. Let's hear it for CHANGE! I can hear you critics already: "None of this reflects on P-E Obama himself". These are just people he surrounds himself with... Confides in...Trusts with the highest power in the land. Um, yeah. Next up? Reid? Pelosi? Rangel? Who knows. But it is hard to remember anything even close to this tossing of long time allies under the bus as the George W. Bush team came into office.
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