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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:06 PM
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Terry McAuliffe said WHAT????
This is a quote from Terry McAuliffe on McClellan's new book:

I would also say, and I gotta add a personal thing, I never like it when someone works for someone and then comes out and writes a book trashing them. I just think that is, I don't care if it is politics or life, if he was that upset about everything, he should have quit. Remember Gerald Ford's press secretary quit when he disagreed with pardoning, Ford pardoning Nixon. If you don't agree, then get out. And I just, I find it abhorrent the way these people come out and write books about their boss. It made 'em money, it made 'em prestige, it gave them all this power and then they turn around and slap 'em. I just, I gotta tell you, I just uh, I don't care who it is- Democrat, Republican- it's wrong.

You gotta be kiddin' me!!!

SOURCE: http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0508/McAuliffe_doesnt_like_McClellan_book_either.html
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:07 PM
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1. terry is just an obscenely paid used car salesman..creepy
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:08 PM
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2. Stooge.
God, I can't stand that man.
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:09 PM
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3. Somebody stuff that guy back under the rock
he crawled out from. Seriously.

The Clinton Campaign is starting to sound like Rush Limbaugh re-runs.
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:10 PM
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4. Terry is a GOP in Dem's clothing
Gotta say it, Scottie was the White House press secretary, he was a public servant not
a court lackey, this is a democracy not a monarchy and government employees serve US
not Bush. The fact that he is speaking out now is good, better late than never, anything
to undercut this stupid invasion and occupation of Iraq, an innocent country that had
nothing to do with 9-11 and was not a threat to us.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:19 PM
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12. I have more respect for Scott now than I do the whole of bushco
He is doing the right thing and hes going about doing it the right way.
All the while bushco is killing the Iraqi like there is not tomorrow, its wrong, wrong, wrong
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:42 PM
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20. well, I think that Scottie has stopped the spin machine
they can try to make the old wurlitzer go but it's not going to work. Can Bush pardon
Scooter Libby for being prosecuted for something he authorized. It's as if Nixon
pardoned the Watergate burglars. Can this be valid, I have been thinking about this
a great deal. Scottie is the only one who said that Bush authorized the Plame leak
and he is willing to testify under oath, he's one of the few in this administration that
has offered to do this.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:11 PM
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5. McAulifee is an idiot ---
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:11 PM
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6. Um he did quit, terry you douchebag.
Wait until all the books come out about the 2008 clinton campaign clusterfuck written by your pals. On second thought you are probably writing one yerself. Asshole.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:13 PM
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7. why are we ONLY hearing this from clinton crowd dems ... n/t
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dansolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:15 PM
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10. They have the same attitude about loyalty that Bush does
They demand absolute loyalty from anyone that they feel they have helped. Look at what they did to Bill Richardson.
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:21 PM
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13. Absolutely right about this.
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:15 PM
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8. Terry is REALLY worried about what people may reveal about him.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 11:10 PM
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23. Him and the entire Clinton Administration n/t
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:15 PM
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9. Wow now it is all loyalty against honesty.
What a bunch of jerks.
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:18 PM
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11. Seems McAuliffe, while wrong, reflects the majority opinion among journalists
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lob1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:28 PM
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16. Yeah, it's the same journalists
who claim they asked tough questions of the administration during the run up to the war. Claude Raines journalists.
I didn't see them, either.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:26 PM
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14. TM personifies whay went wrong with the Democratic party.
It pisses me off that these assholes call themselves Democrats.

The republicans are a bunch of goddamn criminals and we don't need a bunch of ass-kissing shitheels like McAuliffe to fight them.

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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:28 PM
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15. Sounds like what Bob Dole said
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:29 PM
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17. He still thinks he's playing a damn game.

Their team, OUR team.. scoring points gaining an edge

Stupid Fuck
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:36 PM
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18. He's from the GOP wing of our party
so what else did you expect from him?

GOPs all march in lockstep and value blind loyalty above all else, no matter whose party they're in.
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:39 PM
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19. McAuliffe will be a Faux News contributer soon enough. Just watch.
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think4yourself Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:47 PM
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21. I can see that happening too
Now that you mention it. He really turns my stomach.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 11:32 PM
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25. Yeah, I can see that happening
I was hoping that he might finally disappear once Clinton concedes, but your suggestion is probably more likely :(
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New Dawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 09:49 PM
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22. The DLC loves Bush and the Neocons
Just read what "Will Marshall" was saying about the Iraq War in 2004: "lets stay and win" - the same line as George W. Bush.
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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 11:25 PM
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24. What does Terry McAulliffe have in common with GHW Bush? Global Crossing
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/12/politics/main515049.shtml

Corporate irresponsibility has become the Democratic Party’s main line of attack this week. Democratic honcho Howard Wolfson opened a can of worms in a meeting with members of the press when he said that corporate accountability could be a winning issue for Democrats across the nation.

Wolfson said, "While Democrats are on the side of investors, the GOP is on the side of corporate malfeasance" and he "couldn’t think of a district where this issue wouldn’t play."

But while the Democrats have made a major effort to tie the White House and the GOP to the corporate scandals, the party pining to recapture control of Congress has its own corporate cross to bear in fallen telecommunications giant Global Crossing.

The Center for Responsive Politics released a report earlier this year showing that of the $3.6 million that Global donated to parties and candidates since 1997, 55 percent went to Democrats.

The FBI and the SEC are investigating Global Crossing after the firm filed for bankruptcy this year. The telecommunications company was charged with dishonest accounting, enriching top executives to the detriment of lower level employees and misleading investors about its financial prosperity.

Ken Johnson, a spokesman for Rep. Billy Tauzin of Louisiana, chairman the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said, “As in the case of Enron, we’re trying to determine if some clever accounting hocus-pocus created an illusion of profitability.”

Among Democrats benefiting from Global Crossing were Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who made $18 million when he cashed out most of his $100,000 investment in the company back in '98 and '99.

The DNC chair was at one point a consultant to Global Crossing’s founder Gary Winnick and reportedly arranged golfing dates between Winnick and former President Clinton.

...more...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Crossing

Political contributions

Winnick helped Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe turn a $100,000 stock investment into $18,000,000. Winnick later gave a million dollars to President Bill Clinton's presidential library.

In 1998, former U.S. president George H. W. Bush gave a speech in Tokyo on behalf of Global Crossing, for which he was compensated with $50,000 of Global Crossing stock which he sold in 1999 and 2000 for more than $4.5 million.

Global Crossing's political contributions tended to be fairly evenly distributed between Republican and Democratic parties, with co-chairman Winnick tending to favor Democrats and co-chairman Cook favoring Republicans. In 2000, the company gave $250,000 each to the Republican and Democratic Conventions. In 1999, the company hired former assistant attorney general Anne Bingaman, wife of Democratic New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, as a Washington lobbyist, paying her $2.5 million between January and June of 1999 to try to block licensing of an AT&T, MCI, and Sprint consortium cable from the U.S. to Japan. The large bicameral donations have been suggested to be a reason why investigations against the company's upper management did not result in any criminal charges, despite the size of the bankruptcy and the large amount of circumstantial evidence that some sort of malfeasance had occurred.<6>

It has remained a major name in the business, and it also became a corporate partner of various governmental and academic networks, such as the UK's Immigration and Nationality Directorate, the U.S. government, European academic networks GEANT, SURFnet and others, the US Internet2 and the Canadian CA*Net.

In late 2006, Global Crossing announced acquisitions of Fibernet, a provider of private network services in the UK, and Impsat, an Internet provider in South America.

...more...
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-31-08 12:51 AM
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26. He wants McCain to win and he knows McClellan is not good for him.
Its part of Hillary 2012...the return.
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