Dueling Spin Calls Again

About the 50th installment...

First, at 11am ET, Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson hold court. (Will Penn be asked about this Los Angeles Times piece?)

Then, at noon, David Plouffe answers questions about delegates, Tony Rezko, SNL and Austan Goolsbee.

Comments

Please record audio for us and post it.

Thanks!

Posted by Erik | March 3, 2008 11:24 AM

Yeah, effort that shit up, Marc.

Posted by Jeff Larson | March 3, 2008 11:51 AM

BTW guys I found some brilliant/awesome analysis on Obama’s campaign. I haven’t seen anything like this mentioned anywhere in the MSM.
Check out “Al-Qaeda Gets Offended” http://savagepolitics.com/?p=162 and “Predatory Lenders and the Red Phone” on http://savagepolitics.com/?p=158

Plus check the news article “The Intern….” Here is the news bit:
“An additional cut into the ‘messianic’ mesh of Barack Hussein Obama is looming in the distance. “Super Tuesday 2″ turned out to be not only the biggest test for both Democratic candidates during this electoral season, but also the start of the Tony Rezko case in Illinois (fraud and corruption charges). The case has plenty of new prosecution witnesses and novel evidence that are prone to certainly embarrass the Presidential hopeful. Recently the head magistrate in the case, Judge Amy St Eve, declared that the presentation of evidence regarding the finder’s fee ($375,000) which was allegedly skimmed from investment quotas paid by the Illinois state teachers’ pension fund, must include the $10,000 which ended up in the Obama campaign through the donation of a man called Joseph Aramanda. The prosecution has found that many of these “redirections” of funds to Obama (and others) were done at Rezko’s direct behest and not on their own accord. Additionally it has been found that Mr. Aramanda’s son, John Aramanda, was able to land a ‘highly coveted’ internship in Barack Obama’s Washington Senate office a year after said funds landed in the Senator’s campaign bank account. As the Times UK reports, neither Joseph Aramanda nor his son have been accused of any wrong doing, and the Obama campaign denies that the internship was ‘bought’ for with the donation. Nevertheless, what is quite interesting regarding this new development in the Rezko case is, that there was apparently a lot of money from the ’slum lord’s’ coffers that did not arrive directly from him into the Obama campaign but that were instead “redirected” through other individuals.
As we all know, Obama has admitted his faulty judgment in dealing with Tony Rezko (he has called it a “bone headed mistake”), and has claimed to have given all of this ‘dirty money’ to charity. What he has NOT done is provide true transparency regarding his other business relations involving Rezko and, he has not provided satisfactory information regarding what has happened to all of that money that he DID receive from ‘other sources’ and that may soon be proven by the courts to have also come from illegitimate sources. As the trial commences and participants begin to testify, it would be quite interesting to see how much work the Mainstream Media will have to do to keep this story under wraps.”

SAVAGEPOLITICS.com offers brilliant writing & analysis.

Posted by Elsy | March 3, 2008 12:15 PM

There is more. Please read Todd Spivac, Houston Chronicle.com, "Barak & Me". This is enlightening narrative of the relationship between Barak Obama and a reporter who covered him for several years during Barak's tenure as a Chicago Legislator, will give you a clear vision with transparency..a view of Barak Obama.
I don't begrudge anyone any association they feel comfortable with, but, I do take issue when someone extolls the virtues of honesty, transparency in public dealings of politicians and sets the new standard in government in their rhetoric, all the while accusing others of not meeting the standard. I take issue and react with contempt to his debate denial, which was a little more extensive than what you quoted, and his subsequent admission of a 20 year relationship with Rezko that included financial gain on February 20th to the Chicago Tribune, through a surrogate.
The whole situation deserves another quote from someone a bit more knowledgeable..It is "do as I say, not as I do"?
Mr Obama is a disgrace to African Americans who have voted for him, to date, because of their pride in his heritage. He does not deserve their awe or their faith. He should be in jail for defrauding the good people who believed in his message as he robbed them of something very important-their hope.

Posted by MMiller | March 4, 2008 1:21 AM