Comments on: Bhutto: Shameless and Pathetic Political Exploitation http://www.1115.org/2007/12/29/bhutto-shameless-and-pathetic-political-exploitation/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: sarabeth http://www.1115.org/2007/12/29/bhutto-shameless-and-pathetic-political-exploitation/comment-page-1/#comment-75027 sarabeth Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:13:12 +0000 http://www.1115.org/2007/12/29/bhutto-shameless-and-pathetic-political-exploitation/#comment-75027 My apologies to David Axelrod. "Miss Bhutto" seems to be <em>The Guardian</em>'s phrase, not Axelrod's. But Axelrod still deserves a withering amount of contempt for the <a href="http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWE0OWZkZGMzMjJmOWY3MTU1YWE4YTA1M2QxZDkzMzg=" rel="nofollow">remarks he made about Bhutto's assassination</a>: <blockquote>Obama adviser David Axelrod, however, later seemed to draw a connection between Clinton's initial support for the invasion of Iraq and Bhutto's death. "Barack Obama had the judgment to oppose the war in Iraq, and he warned at the time it would divert us from Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, and now we see the effect of that,," Axelrod told reporters. "Al Qaeda's resurgent, they're a powerful force now in Pakistan, they may have been involved — we've been here, so I don't know whether the news has been updated, but there's a suspicion they may have been involved in this. I think his judgment was good. Sen. Clinton made a different judgment, so let's have that discussion."</blockquote> Not just totally tasteless but lunatic. And Obama not only <a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/28/536362.aspx" rel="nofollow">justified and supported Axelrod's remarks</a>, he also uttered some blatant untruths in the process: <blockquote>Obama was on <em>CNN</em> last night and <em>NBC/NJ</em>'s <strong>Aswini Anburajan</strong> reports that during the interview, Obama was grilled by <strong>Wolf Blitzer</strong> on whether his chief media strategist, David Axelrod, had placed blame on Hillary Clinton for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. "I don't need to hear what you read because I was -- you know, I overheard it when he said it, and this is one of those situations where Washington is putting a spin on it. It makes no sense whatsoever," he said. However, this could not have occurred since Axelrod had spoken to a large scrum of reporters in the back of the hall where Obama gave his speech, well after Obama had left the room. Obama went on to say that Axelrod had been asked a politicized question, on how the assassination would affect the Iowa caucuses, which resulted in a politicized answer on exercising good judgment on foreign policy. "But his [Axelrod's] response was simply to say that if we are going to talk politics, then the question has to be, ‘Who has exercised the kind of judgment that would be more likely to lead to better outcomes in the Middle East and better outcomes in Pakistan?’” he said.</blockquote> Just another example of how Obama will bring us all together when he's President. Just another reason why you should vote for him twice and give him the opportunity. My apologies to David Axelrod. “Miss Bhutto” seems to be The Guardian‘s phrase, not Axelrod’s.

But Axelrod still deserves a withering amount of contempt for the remarks he made about Bhutto’s assassination:

Obama adviser David Axelrod, however, later seemed to draw a connection between Clinton’s initial support for the invasion of Iraq and Bhutto’s death. “Barack Obama had the judgment to oppose the war in Iraq, and he warned at the time it would divert us from Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, and now we see the effect of that,,” Axelrod told reporters. “Al Qaeda’s resurgent, they’re a powerful force now in Pakistan, they may have been involved — we’ve been here, so I don’t know whether the news has been updated, but there’s a suspicion they may have been involved in this. I think his judgment was good. Sen. Clinton made a different judgment, so let’s have that discussion.”

Not just totally tasteless but lunatic. And Obama not only justified and supported Axelrod’s remarks, he also uttered some blatant untruths in the process:

Obama was on CNN last night and NBC/NJ‘s Aswini Anburajan reports that during the interview, Obama was grilled by Wolf Blitzer on whether his chief media strategist, David Axelrod, had placed blame on Hillary Clinton for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. “I don’t need to hear what you read because I was — you know, I overheard it when he said it, and this is one of those situations where Washington is putting a spin on it. It makes no sense whatsoever,” he said.

However, this could not have occurred since Axelrod had spoken to a large scrum of reporters in the back of the hall where Obama gave his speech, well after Obama had left the room. Obama went on to say that Axelrod had been asked a politicized question, on how the assassination would affect the Iowa caucuses, which resulted in a politicized answer on exercising good judgment on foreign policy. “But his [Axelrod's] response was simply to say that if we are going to talk politics, then the question has to be, ‘Who has exercised the kind of judgment that would be more likely to lead to better outcomes in the Middle East and better outcomes in Pakistan?’” he said.

Just another example of how Obama will bring us all together when he’s President. Just another reason why you should vote for him twice and give him the opportunity.

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