Obama picks presidential assassin’s lawyer as White House counsel
November 17th, 2008 at 01:11pm kimberly
From HotAir:
Barack Obama has selected Gregory Craig as White House counsel, a move that will recall some controversial legal cases over the last few years. Craig has plenty of experience in politics as well as the courtroom, having served as Bill Clinton’s legal counsel during the impeachment hearings. Craig flipped from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama early in the primaries, and Obama has repaid his support — but Craig’s caseload will raise a few eyebrows:
Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials.
Craig is intimately familiar with the president-elect’s record because he played the role of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in debate preparations.
The officials said Obama has settled on Craig but were not sure when the appointment would be announced.
The choice gives the president-elect both experience and loyalty. During the primaries, Craig was an early Clinton alumni defector to Obama. Columnist Robert D. Novak reported back in the winter of 2007 that Craig had told him he “was impressed with Obama when he first met him at the home of investment banker Vernon Jordan, an intimate friend and supporter of the Clintons.”
Craig was an Obama foreign policy adviser during the campaign. At the start of the Clinton administration, he had been the State Department’s Director of Policy Planning, the head of State’s in-house think tank. He also was senior adviser on defense, foreign policy and national security to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).
Besides defending Clinton through the impeachment process, an effort that Craig lost, who else had the benefit of Craig’s counsel?
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1. Max | November 17th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
John Hinckley, Jr - Craig presented and won the insanity defense that allows Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin to spend weekends with his family now.
That representation is mind blowing.
I didn’t vote for Obama but I sure wouldn’t want him to be assassinated. Seems kinda risky to appoint someone who has a direct tie to an assassin, makes me wonder why he would choose this guy. This attorney is going to have direct access to Obama at any given time. Gosh Obama you might want to rethink that choice.
2. Obama Chose Reagan’&hellip | November 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
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3. Rough Rider | November 17th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Obama again chooses poor Character. This guy is scum
4. Bang Bang | November 17th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
He is obviously a brilliant lawyer who twists the law to override justice and help scum. The fact that he is willing to defend scum speaks to his character. The fact that Obama seeks his guidance does not say much for his own Character.
Forgive them M.L.K for they do know what they do and yet they say they do it in the name of your dream.
5. Max | November 18th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Bang Bang
Forgive them M.L.K for they do know what they do and yet they say they do it in the name of your dream.
Profound.
I saw a T-shirt at local flea market this last weekend that had Obama and M.L.K. together on the same shirt. I took a double take because I wasn’t sure if I saw it correctly. I thought it was odd that they would put them together. I didn’t catch the wording because I wasn’t close enough but I’m sure it had something to do with M.L.K. Jr.’s Dream.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. He was the one who said “It’s not the color of a man’s skin, but the content of his character.”
As (Dr.) Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has asked (about infanticide):
“Who among us is so cold-blooded as to vote to deny health care to a baby born alive during a late-term abortion and allow that baby to die?”
Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Does Not Support Obama
http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Support-Barack-Obama-For-President/344736
(Dr.) Alveda King explained that Senator Obama’s approach to solving social ills is dead wrong and can prove counterproductive to the African-American progress. “Senator Obama’s answer to the ills of society, of higher government spending, weaker national defense, continued tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, and support of gay marriage are diametrically opposed to everything African-Americans truly believe and an anathema to the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” [emphasis mine]
She says it again:
Concluding, Alveda King says, “For those who suggest that Barack Obama advances the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I say look again. His politics are anathema to the dream!”
National Black Republicans
http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-Why%20MLK%20was%20a%20Republican
also posted on this site was this:
White Guilt Emancipation Declaration
We, black American citizens of the United States of America and of the National Black Republican Association, do hereby declare that our fellow white American citizens are now, henceforth and forever more free of White Guilt.
This freedom from White Guilt was duly earned by the election of Barack Hussein Obama, a black man, to be our president by a majority of white Americans based solely on the color of his skin.
Freedom is not free, and we trust that the price paid for this freedom from White Guilt is worth the sacrifice, since Obama is a socialist who does not share the values of average Americans and will use the office of the presidency to turn America into a failed socialist nation.
Granted this November 4, 2008 - the day Barack Hussein Obama was elected as the first black president and the first socialist president of the United States of America.
6. Sergei Andropov | November 18th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Hinckley was insane.
7. Pom Pom Girl | November 18th, 2008 at 11:59 am
He is obviously a brilliant lawyer who twists the law to override justice and help scum. The fact that he is willing to defend scum speaks to his character. The fact that Obama seeks his guidance does not say much for his own Character.
Forgive them M.L.K for they do know what they do and yet they say they do it in the name of your dream.
8. Pom Pom Girl | November 18th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Sergein Andropov, Hinkley IS insane. There is no cure for insanity
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