Obama 2012 Smacks Down Jim Clyburn For Criticizing Bain & Vampire Equity Firms

[Karmadillo]

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Obama 2012 Smacks Down Jim Clyburn For Criticizing Bain & Vampire Equity Firms, Obama Supporters Pretend Not to Notice

by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

What's more disgusting? An original act of cynical hypocrisy, like President Barack Obama's hollow criticisms of Mitt Romney's parasitic Bain Capital, while his own campaign and administration are honeycombed with execs and consultants from similar and even bigger bloodsuckers like J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, or the craven chorus of diehard Obama supporters insisting that we look the other way every time their president and his team show what side they're really on?

When Newark mayor and Obama campaign surrogate Corey Booker on Meet The Press defended the way so-called “private equity” firms like Bain Capital make their money he was defending his own, and the president's friends on Wall Street who do the same thing Bain Capital does, and who make both their careers and the careers of an entire generation of Democratic party politicians possible.

So how did the chorus of Obama supporters respond? For a solid week Obama fans, most of them avid supporters of Booker until then, fell all over each other denouncing Corey for not representing their president, or more accurately their idea of this president. Somebody should have noticed that in all that time, nobody from the White House or the Obama campaign denounced Corey Booker.

But when South Carolina's Jim Clyburn accurately described Bain Capital's technique as enriching its partners by “raping” companies they acquired the Obama campaign wasted no time in publicly smacking Clyburn down. Barack Obama and his campaign know that if public anger is focused at the vampire capital industry rather than just at Romney's Bain Capital alone, it's bad news for them and their campaign contributors as well. So their self-interested hypocrisy is understandable, though not excusable.

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[cali]

1. lol.

[pnwmom]

2. Terms of service: "If you are bashing, trashing, undermining, or depressing turnout

for our candidates during election season, we'll assume you are rooting for the other side."

[SidDithers]

14. You Better Believe It!...nt

Sid

[Kahuna]

23. Huh?

[Zalatix]

19. It sure seems that a lot of people are finding ways around this rule.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

3. When will we all wake up

Both sides are completely lost and in the end it is all of us who
will pay the price

[pnwmom]

21. All people are flawed, but our side is at least trying. How can you put them on the same level?

[Warren Stupidity]

4. The issue the Obama campaign had here was 'rape rhetoric'. I call bullshit.

The Obama campaign distanced itself from Clyburn’s remarks Tuesday. “We strongly disagree with Congressman Clyburn’s choice of words — they have no place in this conversation,” campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said in an email.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76619.html#ixzz1wXWZQPj7

Defend that. Better yet delete this campaign ad for Romney.

[AtomicKitten]

12. !!

[Skinner]

5. I checked the article to find out what this disgusting smack down was.

Curiously, the article didn't actually give any details. You'd think if something were so "disgusting" as to warrant an article, then the article might provide the shocking details.

Fortunately, I know how to use The Google so I could find this disgusting smack down myself:

Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith said in an email, "We strongly disagree with Congressman Clyburn's choice of words- they have no place in this conversation."

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=16405609

My God! A presidential campaign distancing itself from an over-the-top comment by one of its supporters?! What a disgrace!

[cali]

6. I'll hazard a guess that you weren't surprised

what I'd like to know is when is consistent bashing of our Presidential candidate enough? And I'm not talking about reasoned criticism no matter how strong.

[FSogol]

15. Exactly. When is Enough is Enough?

[SidDithers]

17. Soon, I hope...nt

Sid

[Warren Stupidity]

8. The google worked for you too?

And I was guessing it must have been offline when this op was posted.

[loyalsister]

9. Exactly

Remember
"I'll just say this, which is, it's not the language I would have used," - Mitt Romney

Zero tolerance on demeaning language and analogies diminish the seriousness of rape. I am certain that that was not Clyburn's intent, But that unfortunate word choice matters.

[Kahuna]

7. The president doesn't want Bain as an entity to be the issue. Rather he wants rmoney's claims

about his job creation at bain to be the issue. Cory Booker and Clyburn's remarks change the frame of the president's message. The president is rightfully annoyed. They are both old enough to know better.

[99Forever]

10. I know..

... how dare those American citizens use their Constitutional right to free expression to voice their own opinions? The nerve of 'em!

[zbdent]

11. Too bad the "liberally-biased media" is not pointing out the fact

that the "outrage" from the Obama camp was because of the use of the term "rape" ...

something that the Repugs apparently don't have a problem with ... oh, wait, that's throwing acid on women, not "raping" them ...

[99Forever]

13. Perhaps everyone...

.. should send their comments to you before they say them and you can pre-screen and let them know which meet your approval.

[Kahuna]

22. Whatever! They can voice it, but they can then not claim to be team players. nt

[SidDithers]

16. ...

Keep trying.

Sid

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

18. Trashing this ridiculous thread. The ODSers just can't get enough. Try again!!

[dionysus]

20. keep trying.

[spanone]

24. t3

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