THE PLANK NOVEMBER 16, 2009
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Using Greg Craig's departure as his hook, Lloyd Grove has an amusing roundup of erstwhile friends and allies--including Van Jones, Tom Daschle, and Jim Johnson--whom Obama has tossed under the bus in the past couple of years.
I don't think all of them warrant inclusion: the top commander in Afghanistan, David McKiernan, doesn't really fit the mold. (That was more a Gates/Mullen/Petraeus thing, and Obama never appointed the guy to begin with.) Still, it's a fun reminder that Obama doesn't fetishize loyalty the way his predecessor did.
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"tossed under the bus"? What does this mean? Could you please use some other hackneyed phrase that might, at least, have some meaning? A President does not have friends; s/he has allies and underlings. To think otherwise, and to suggest that by getting rid of political liability or incompetence, a President is something "tossing people under the bus", whatever that might mean, is to miss the point of Governance.
- icarusr
November 16, 2009 at 3:31pm
Yep, Obama fires people. Good for him.
- WandreyCer
November 16, 2009 at 4:08pm
It's not a metaphor, fools! Obama literally throws people under buses! Run for your lives!!!
- ratnerstar
November 16, 2009 at 4:26pm
damn right ick. ratty, per those pictures of Obama as the Joker, surely you know that these are just clown buses and no one actually ever gets hurt.
- blackton
November 16, 2009 at 5:08pm