••• "Bozo the spokesman" Gibbs to head DNC -- Never has our party been so clueless. •••

[breadandwine]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/10/04/5226340-first-thoughts-an-october-to-remember



Alan Grayson --- Gibbs is "Bozo the spokesman" and should be fired for doing a "miserable job" and failing to sell the President's achievements to the American people. Grayson said Democrats on Capitol Hill, not just Grayson, call Gibbs "Bozo the spokesman" ----


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiCyWlriuJ4&feature=player_embedded


I am not ashamed to admit it. I do not understand the Democratic party. I am at a loss to understand a party that gave us D-Day, the landing of a man on the Moon, the social safety net, Social Security, Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, the New Deal that got us out of the Great Depression and everything else great that you can think of, the party founded by Thomas Jefferson himself, and yet which is so incredibly stupid when it comes to saving itself.

By contrast, consider this:

There have been 4 great stock market crashes in this country:

Panic of 1873.
Crash of 1929.
Crash of 1987.
Crash of 2008.

What do all these have in common?

THEY ALL HAPPENED UNDER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS.

ALL.

So it's settled. The Republicans are good for you!

They'll save you money and put a chicken in your pot and a car in your garage!

So elect Republicans.

And let's put Gibbs in as DNC head too!

[Ken Burch]

1. How could ANYONE "unrec" this thread?

Gibbs is a man of NO achievements.

[CreekDog]

2. here's a tip: if you call someone "bozo", anyone "bozo"...

there's probably some reasonable person that's not going to like it.

:eyes:

[Fumesucker]

12. I'm sure there are "reasonable people" who don't think Dubya is a bozo..

:eyes:

[ProudDad]

33. No...

there will be some childish DUer whose little eyes can't stand seeing "words" that "upset" them...

Or that might "offend" their tender sensibilities...

Or that might cause them to question their precious assumptions...

Hardly "reasonable" -- more like the "Ministry of Language"...

[CreekDog]

43. Silly argument...you talk about oversensitivity to a word

without talking about oversensitivity to an unrecommend.

[ProudDad]

58. your "response" is unresponsive to my response... (n/t)

[EFerrari]

3. I thought the White House denied this yesterday?

[Canuckistanian]

5. Denied what? That Gibbs is a Bozo? n/t

[EFerrari]

6. LOL. No, that he'd be heading the DNC. It was in GDP

so I didn't read the whole thread.

[EFerrari]

9. Here's the tweet:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=463988&mesg_id=464287

[Canuckistanian]

22. Thanks

Still, Kaine needs to go. In addition to being a lousy DNC Chair, he's been the Invisible Man on nearly EVERY issue, from health care to fiscal policy.

I don't know if Gibbs could be worse.

[Dr.Phool]

20. Do you realize what this means? Gibbs could be Christine O' Donnells father.

I read yesterday, I believe it was at TPM, that the Witch Lady's father was one of the Bozo the Clowns!

[Canuckistanian]

24. Ah, it's a family tradition

Entertaining people with bizarre behaviour.

[breadandwine]

50. LOL.

...

[breadandwine]

49. That doesn't mean much. Politicians often deny their moves before making them.

....

[countingbluecars]

7. I did.

It is speculation stated as truth in the thread title. Also, I think Grayson should be capable of criticizing his own party without petty name calling.

[EFerrari]

10. Grayson should be drug tested. (edit)

-------->>>>>> :sarcasm: <<<<<<----------

[Dr.Phool]

18. If he turns up positive, will he share?

Just asking.

[Jackpine Radical]

31. Share what,

his pee?

[metapunditedgy]

23. Gibbs should too. n/t

[Dr.Phool]

15. Oh, he has one loathsome achievement.

He was in charge of the destruction of the Dean candidacy in 2004.

[karynnj]

39. I think that honor should go to Mr Trippi

who managed to waste nearly $40 million in Iowa and NH in one month. Trippi, in his ridiculous book, however, blames Dean - his logic was that the campaign was great, but Dean himself imploded in late 2003/early 2004 and started to do ineffective things.

I know all about Gibbs being the spokesman for the interest group that put out the obnoxious ad that could easily be seen to favor Bush over Dean on protecting the US. The fact though is that it got very little play and not even that much coverage. I also assume that any Democrat remotely likely to vote for Dean was simply angered by it. (What this likely means is that Gibbs at that point was allied with Gephardt, who had Pouffle been Gephardt's deputy chief of staff (1997-1998) and a Gephardt campaign strategist. )

Neither that ad or the (non)scream were what stopped Dean. It was his battle to the (political) death with Gephardt and the strong campaigning of John Kerry.

[sharp_stick]

21. Gee I wonder n/t

[bobthedrummer]

44. On a break from the Kerry 04 campaign he did market the fastcut ad alternating Osama bin Laden and

Howard Dean, that was after the Iowa primary as I recall-it's one of his "perception management" achievements, Ken.

Robert Gibbs Spokesperson For Group Who SMEARED Howard Dean (8-12-10 TPM)
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/i/c/ickyma/2010/08/robert-gibbs-spokesperson-for.php

I'm on record here (through many years) of consistently stating a simple fact, a very unpopular fact among some DUers, that there are powerful opposition moles and operatives within the big tent of The Democratic Party.

It has to change.

[breadandwine]

46. Don't worry. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Some people actually unrec threads so they won't compete with theirs on the Greatest Page. Or so they have actually told me in unreccing some my posts.

[ecstatic]

56. Nasty OP title... why such vile headlines aimed towards our

own party?

[AlinPA]

4. Where and when was it announced that he will head the DNC?

[breadandwine]

26. Read links in opening posts much?

It's not official. But read the first link, scroll down for "Gibbs."

It looks like they're easing it into the air waves or trial ballooning it.

[AlinPA]

51. I was looking for the official announcement. I read the link before I posted.

The link was only speculation. Oh, yes, I do read links .

[WilliamPitt]

8. I'm not seeing the announcement you refer to.

[EFerrari]

11. Politico story yesterday posted in GDP. n/t

[Aramchek]

14. firstly, it's Politicon. secondly, it was a rumor.

[EFerrari]

17. Will asked a question and I answered him. What Bozo does or doesn't do

is of no interest to me whatsoever.

[breadandwine]

48. It sounds like more than a rumor. It sounds like a leak to trial balloon this thing

and see if they can get away with it.

[NoPasaran]

16. It's a preemptive Five Minute Hate

Waiting to go berserk until something actually takes place is so 2009.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. I find this post to be particularly unhelpful at the current time

All due respect to the poster.

[WhiteTara]

19. I'm thinking Peter Principle

he was unqualified for this job, so in order to get rid of him gracefully, he is promoted on to the next job for which he will be unqualified. Is he close to retirement? No, sad for us of the Professional, Retarded Left. He will lead us straight off a cliff. Can we revolt and get Michael Steel instead? At least he's entertaining.

[FrenchieCat]

25. Speculative hate-on is soooo productive.

Yeah...Red Meat!

Let's discuss something that hasn't happened yet
so that we can all get mad about it!

This is brilliant! :applause:

[Stinky The Clown]

52. The term "Bozo the Spokesman," a report that he's leaving, and a report that he's going to the DNC

. . . . are all in the current news.

There is a loyal Democratic contingent that has no use for the guy. The result of all that?

Chatter happens.

Even if you don't like it.

[jaysunb]

53. LOL !

Let's discuss something that hasn't happened yet
so that we can all get mad about it!

:rofl:

[breadandwine]

27. Of course, we could NEVER have Howard Dean.

50 state strategy?

Nah! We need to QUARANTINE the Democratic party to selected BANTUSTANS and let the rest of the country go Republican. Triage and all that.


It's a battlefield and the first thing a warrior should do is figure out who to abandon.....


Great leadership we have in the party.........

[joe black]

28. That's what they want.

It's part of the Obama theater.

[PopSixSquish]

29. I Doubt Very Seriously That Gibbs Goes to the DNC

He more than likely becomes a senior advisor to the President and Bill Burton, becomes Press Secretary.

Also look for Dan Pfeiffer, who is the Director of WH Communications, to take a more prominent role in speaking for the administration after the mid-terms...

[Erose999]

35. Don't underestimate the current administrations capacity for promoting fuck-ups.

I called it recently that Gibbs would be replacing Rahm Emmanuel. I see that they picked an even higher post for him.

[golddigger]

30. Some people say, that Gibb's is

having an affair with Sarah Palin.

[valerief]

32. Bozo the spokesman!!!! I love it!

:rofl:

[Erose999]

34. Gibbs as the head of the DNC? JESUS H. FUCKING CHRIST ON A CRACKER....

Maybe the "professional left" needs to form a "tea party" of its own since the establishment keeps pushing us out of the tent.

Gibbs should have been sent back to fucking FOX NEWS where he came from. Anybody but him. Not just for his "professional left" comments either. He has the charisma of a handful of wet Kleenex.

[Erose999]

36. If Gibbs gets the job and has us drug tested, I'd be more than happy to gend the DNC a

generous sample of my urine.

[breadandwine]

45. It would be very interesting to try to figure out what makes Gibbs tick.

Would he prefer the professional right?

[karynnj]

37. How well is Grayson doing this year - given the year of saying things that made him a DU hero?

I don't particularly like the laid back, but snarky style of Gibbs, but he has defended Obama more successfully than Grayson, making more solid points and getting "in trouble" less than Grayson.

[breadandwine]

38. Grayson is in trouble. He was doing great in the polls until he ran his "Taliban Dan" ad.

In one week he fell behind because the GOP demagogued the matter.

The ad said Grayson's opponent Dan Webster was hostile to women and that was true but in calling him a name and so forth the ad gave the goopers an opening to attack Grayson.

Grayson is losing and this country is going nuts.




As for Gibbs, when was the last time you or ANYBODY can remember anything memorable he said to defend our side?

[quinnox]

40. OMG, if this becomes reality then Dems are screwed!

Gibbs is one of the worst spokesman I have ever seen. Honestly, how did this guy ever get the job in the first place? Was he childhood buddies with Obama or knew someone important or somethin'? On the other hand I guess he does do an excellent job, that is, an excellent job in making the President and the administration look bad!

Put this guy somewhere behind the scenes where no one will know he is there, and then studiously ignore any advice he may give. I mean, it is a good sign that the Obama people are finally recognizing that this Gibbs clown needs to go, but don't put him as head of the DNC! Instead, put someone who is actually competent there please.

[bobthedrummer]

41. K&R Robert Gibbs comes from the "perception management" i.e. political mind control world n/t

[Name removed]

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[Dappleganger]

47. If this becomes reality...

I'm gonna need some better drugs.

:hangover:

[Hubert Flottz]

54. Oh Fuck...

Too bad Gilligan's dead.

[breadandwine]

57. Or Maynard G. Krebs.

"Of all the stupid ridiculous things!"

Krebs: "You raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang?"

[elehhhhna]

55. Hey! They looked at the head of the RNC & said --

"They bring a knife, you bring a gun. They bring an idiot, you bring a moron." Or something.