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Obama: Moving From Dubious Associations To Dubious Choices

Written by Rick

During the Presidential campaign we heard plenty about the numorous dubious associates in Obama’s background. Now word is out of a dubious choice being made for White House Counsel.

Politico.com has published an exclusive claiming that to Democratic officials President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Gregory B. Craig to be his White House Counsel.

According to Mike Allen at Politico:

“Craig was an Obama foreign policy adviser during the campaign. At the start of the Clinton administration, he had been the State Department’s director of policy planning, the head of State’s in-house think tank. He also was senior adviser on defense, foreign policy and national security to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).”

But there’s more to Craig than meets the eye, and his selection, according to Ed Morrissey at Hotair.com, would make Craig the first White House Counsel ever to have represented a man who tried to assassinate a President.

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But that’s not all. Morrissey further publishes a list of Craigs former, and one present, dubious clients of Craigs:

  • Elian Gonzalez’s father – Craig represented the father who demanded the return of his son after his estranged wife died trying to take Elian to freedom.  Most people saw this as a thinly-veiled publicity stunt from Fidel Castro, attempting to embarrass the US.  The dispute got resolved when Janet Reno ordered an armed assault on the house where Elian’s family in the US provided him a home.
  • John Hinckley, Jr – Craig presented and won the insanity defense that allows Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin to spend weekends with his family now.
  • Kofi Annan – The former Secretary-General of the UN hired Craig to defend his interests in the Volcker Commission probe of the Oil-for-Food scandal, which put billions of dollars into Saddam Hussein’s pockets while providing cash for Annan’s son, his deputies, and some allege Annan himself.
  • Pedro Gonzalez Pinzon – A Panamanian legislator wanted for murdering an American soldier in 1992.  The Dallas Morning News demanded that Obama force Craig to drop the case during the campaign, but no report of whether he did is easily available.

( Source: Obama picks presidential assassin’s lawyer as White House counsel ).

Obama seems to have a flair for falling in with controversial people. It is like he is a magnet drawing them too him, or him to them. If this is a hint of the next four years, Obama has made a good start at keeping the question of his ability to excercise good judgement alive and it’s going to make it difficult for even the fairest of his critics to see his administration as anything but questionable.


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