Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Conflict Of Interest?

THE Daily Kos has posited an intriguing hypothetical about this presidential campaign.

Let's say that the Democratic nomination battle had been winnowed down to two candidates, and that one of those two candidates (let's call him Barack Obama) was a huge favorite to win. Meanwhile, the GOP nominee has been all but decided. (We'll call him John McCain.)

Now let's imagine that Obama's opponent (we'll call her Hillary Clinton) was desperately slinging every piece of mud she could at him without regard to whether or not her attacks would help John McCain.

Finally, imagine that you found out that Clinton's chief strategist was not only her campaign's leading advocate for these attacks -- but was also the CEO of a public affairs firm whose DC-based lobbying subsidiary was headed up by John McCain's top adviser.

Would you say this posed at least the appearance of a conflict of interest for the strategist in question?

What would you think if you found out that it's all true?

Click here to find out if it's true.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How incredibly incestuous....
One can judge a person by the people they surround themselves with, and that slime ball Penn has changed the inevitable winner in to the inevitable loser

Craig Hickman said...

I expect a scandal bomb to explode during the debate tonight. It's all they can do to stop him.