Things I’d Like to Post About Today ….. (061008, Morning)
….. But I Don’t Have Any Time For:
- Obama and Khalidi sittin’ in a tree …..
- If you want to start getting your arms around why people with standards are losing the culture wars, this would be a good place to start.
- Michelle Malkin has all you can stand to know about Defaultin’ Dem Laura Richardson of Long Beach, CA. This will not make your day — Richardson won her Democratic primary election on June 3 and is as of now unopposed in the general election.
- Michelle (as far as I’m concerned, she’s THE Michelle, not THAT Michelle) also has news on another Dem defaulter in North Carolina. The underlying news story waited until the 12th paragraph to tell us that Julia Boseman is a Dem.
- Patrick Poole has posted the US Justice Department’s Statement of (very inconvenient to jihad deniers, also exposed by Poole) Facts about the recently convicted Christopher Paul.
- Easy, really — “The Wall Street Journal reports that a very special friend of Sen. Barack Obama is also a very special friend of embattled Countrywide Financial co-founder Angelo Mozilo. The Journal reports that James Johnson — a high-ranking advisor to Obama — was part of an elite group — ‘friends of Angelo’ — who got more than $7 million in special loans from Countrywide.” Read on at the link, and you see that the Objectively Unfit Obama is playing the same old games with the same old pols. How audacious. Update: Kaus has lots more. The person involved, Jim Johnson, is as old-style pol as you can get. Obama seems to have done the impossible — He has a rough equivalent of George McGovern’s Tom Eagleton problem (arguably worse, in context) even before he picks his Veep. He can’t even pick a selection committee without stepping in it.
- This news explains why I don’t consider myself a partisan Republican. A sensible analysis of issues usually leads me in the direction of what the party is supposed to be but isn’t. Dumbkopf moves like the one described at the link sap much of my potential enthusiasm for the party itself. Update: Matt Hurley has related hurlings.
If I was a longtime Countrywide stock holder I’d look at the Johnson deal (among other deals) as nothing less than Mozillo stealing from the company to give to his buddies. I’ve long been against excessive government involvement in company business, but the actions of many CEO’s scream out for greater corporate governance. When you have a public company you can not treat company property/funds the same as if it was a private company owned just by you.
Comment by largebill — June 10, 2008 @ 2:21 pm