Instapundit lifts this from Mickey Kaus:
“Barack Obama’s choice of Jim Johnson to vet his VP prospects is already embarrassing his campaign . . . Johnson was an atrocious, tin-eared choice on many other grounds. He’s symbol of old Democratic elites–the Mondale Restoration!–and of Beltway business as usual. He’s gotten obscenely rich off of public service while pursuing a failed liberal antipoverty theory (community develpment) and taking credit for spreading around other peoples money. . . .
Why would Obama, in his first big personnel decision, choose a paleoliberal greedhead with a track record of failure? You tell me. He’s described Johnson as “a friend.” It looks as if he was at best highly susceptible to amicable overtures from someone he should have had some critical perspective on.”
In other words, the Big O. has more to learn than his hopesters dreamed or they have more to learn about cynicism from him than they dreamed.
Forget Eric Holder for now . . .
(Hopester, sighing: Well at least there’s still Caroline to help pick a veep.)
Blithe Spirit 
Caroline Kennedy is just another Kennedy rich socialite — of course, she would know all the right liberal folks and Democrats, so she might be a good one to know who would help Obama’s ticket.
Too bad they won’t pick someone who actually is smart and can talk about subjects off the cuff and not flub pathetically like Obama does when the teleprompter is off.
You should have been listening to Rush yesterday when he played some remarks Obama made about health care — hysterical. If Bush had ever stumbled so badly, it would have been replayed on the news ad nauseum.
If this guy was head of Harvard’s Law Review, it was an affirmative action selection for sure.
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