David Broder: then Obama 'brought in my friend Bill Daley'

[Enrique]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/28/AR2011012806735.html

Thus fortified, he began to repair the White House, giving it a distinctly Clintonian cast. He had already hired Jack Lew, a skilled negotiator, as his budget chief. He brought in my friend Bill Daley, a politically savvy operative with strong business and banking ties, as chief of staff, and Clinton administration veteran Gene Sperling as his top economic adviser. Liberal Democrats fretted, but the vibes from Washington to Wall Street were good.

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Maybe they know each other from the hair club for men.

[frazzled]

1. And Howard Dean's friend, and John Kerry's friend, and Al Gore's friend, and ...

almost everybody in the Democratic establishment's friend.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. Of course in politics the word friend

is a term of art.

[jenmito]

3. And so you choose to believe that all the liberals that called him their friend didn't

really mean it like David Broder did, right? :eyes:

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Is that what I said? No it was not.

It's a joke. And I'm not even the first to tell it. Not about them, just in general. It is an old joke, about politics probably from a movie or something. Not intended to be a comment on these particular people.
Good gravy. (oh, that is not a comment on gravy, that is a well known statement intended to imply exasperation. By using it, I neither endorse nor criticize gravy, those who eat gravy, or those who love them.)

[asjr]

7. "good gravy"-- I hadn't heard that expression

in years. I used to say it all the time. Thanks for reminding me of it. I'll start using it again. You from the South?

[jenmito]

4. "Maybe they know each other from the hair club for men." How juvenile. n/t

[Ken Burch]

5. Anytime somebody you helped elected brings in a guy David Broder would call his "friend"

You KNOW that hope is lost.

[zalinda]

8. When will dems get it

Clinton's economic success was a fluke! If the Internet hadn't boomed, his administration would look much like Obama's.

zalinda