Obama on Giannoulias: "I know his character"

Posted on | August 6, 2010 | No Comments |

"And he is just who I need to run this country into the ground." (I added that part.) It seems Obama knows lots of characters: Reverend Wright, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, Anita Dorn, etc.

From Politico:

Barack Obama's home-field disadvantage

At a fundraiser here for Giannoulias’s campaign, Obama offered an endorsement that doubled as a defense of the candidate’s moral fiber. As Giannoulias, the Illinois state treasurer, struggles to overcome questions about his tenure at his family’s failed bank, Obama declared: “Alexi is my friend. I know his character. I know how much he loves this country. I know how committed he is to public service for all the right reasons.”

“You can trust him. You can count on him,” Obama insisted, with Giannoulias seated behind him on stage at Chicago’s Palmer House Hilton.

Well, I won't take your word for it, O, because you are a proven liar.

And we don't know how much Giannoulias loves his country. But we do know how much he loves crooks:

National Republicans have tagged the Democrat a “mob banker” because of loans the Giannoulias family-owned Broadway Bank gave to felons. Days before the trip for Giannoulias, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched an ad campaign, urging voters to “look at his record of economic failure: Giannoulias was an executive at Broadway Bank, which was driven into the ground and taken over by the feds.”

So does Obama really mean it when he says, "You can trust him"?

While Illinois’s strong Democratic lean makes Giannoulias a viable candidate in the general election against Republican Rep. Mark Kirk, there’s little question that the White House would have preferred to have Obama wrapping his arm around a different kind of candidate.

Really? Then just because he's a crook with a D next to his name, you go ahead and campaign for him anway?

So what did Giannoulias have to say about Dear Leader?

“He’s got a great smile and he’s warm, and he’s huggable, as everyone likes to say – all the ladies tell me all the time,” Giannoulias said.

Hmm. Did Giannoulias provide the escorts last night? And when will the Obama sex scandal erupt?

Giannoulias added: “He will go down in history as one of the toughest presidents we’ve ever had.”

No Alexi, he will go down as Jimmy Carter 2.0.

Obama ended with this:

“I know he is in this race for the right reasons. ... He’s not in this to help lobbyists or special interests,” Obama said. “He is going to be an outstanding senator and I need you to fight for him so he can fight for you in Washington.”

Was he in banking for the right reasons, too? I'm sure he'll try to rid Washington of lobbyists just like Obama promised.

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