Jim Johnson is out of there. The former chairman of Fannie Mae who received several preferential loans from Countrywide, has announced he's leaving Barack Obama's vice presidential search committee.
This is in keeping with the Obama campaigns new tactic of knee-capping supporters whose scandals distract from the campaign's messages of hope and change. The operating principle (if not an actual campaign slogan) seems to be: No more Reverend Wrights!
Johnson Quits Obama's Vice Presidential Search Team [Bloomberg]
Posted by guest , Jun 11, 2008 3:13PM
gonna run out of candidates before long.
"damn, running for president is harder than I thought!"
Posted by guest , Jun 11, 2008 3:19PM
Gee, Carney....now I wish you'd been working on getting the stinkers out of the Bush administration.
Posted by guest , Jun 11, 2008 4:00PM
@3:19 no need to worry. the media scrutinized them.
Posted by guest , Jun 11, 2008 6:23PM
Eric Holder will be the next one to go "under the bus".
Johnson will be back as chair of the "transition committee" after BO is elected.