Hey, where's Dan Chmelewski on this one? He's awfully quiet.

In fact, I don't hear a peep over at The LiberalOC

Still crickets over at LiberalOC on this issue.

Dan and the gang are always quick to jump on any real or perceived slight by a Rep. His and his co-bloggers silence on this speaks VOLUMES about them.

Miss me boys? Monday and Tuesday are killer meeting days for me and I just opened a new office in Santa Ana so IT issues have taken priority.

Wow, a photo of Obama in ceremonial Somali elder attire. Its an outfit worn as a sign of respect to his hosts. Obama is half African after all. I didn;t view this in any more negative light than photos of Nancly Pelosi and Laura Bush wearing veils in Islamic countries, or President Bush wearing ceremonial grab in Thailand.

Go ahead and get yourselves all worked up about it. Isn't it the right wingers who constantly mix up Obama and Osama, or refer to Senator Obama's middle name of Hussein? Its not going to change one Democratic vote and whomever the nominee is, the party will unit behind that candidate.

More spin from Dan that's completely beside the point; a variation on Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams response.

Then again, i wasn't expecting an honest, straightforward answer from Dan. Shift and spin. Shift and spin.

The above is from me, by the way.

Funny how Hillary-supporter Dan talks about the Obama picture as if it just appeared out of thin air, and completely avoids discussing how it became an issue in the first place: Hillary's campaign put it out there in order to slime Obama.

Shift and spin, Dan. Shift and spin. You'd make a fine campaign flack.

Oh boy. I was just reading LiberalOC. I thought Dan's comment here was spin. It pales in comparison to his post on the subject over at TheLiberalOC.

Dan claims it is "right wingers" who are getting upset about the circulation of the Obama in Somali dress photo, and then tries to change the subject to Abu Ghraib and Duke Cunningham. What a joke! Even Chris Prevatt called B.S. Dan's vortex of spin.

Note this date: the day Dan Chmielewski forfeited any claim to being a serious blogger. He's just a hack.

It is pretty disingenuous to rip Clinton for a tactic that is right out of Karl Rove's playbook.

What? What does Karl Rove have to do with it?

Clinton also said as far as she knew her campaign had nothing to do with circulating a photograph of Obama wearing a white turban and a wraparound white robe presented to him by elders in Wajir, in northeastern Kenya.

"I take Senator Clinton at her word that she knew nothing about the photo," Obama said.

So we were supposed to believe John McCain wasn't cozy with a young attractive female lobbyist because he denied it, but I'm guessing you don't believe Hillary even though she has?

Thanks for the referral to our site Watcher; we love the traffic!

Drudge has the e-mail from a Clinton campaign person. Maybe Hillary didn't have direct knowledge, maybe she did. She's not exactly the poster child of truthfulness.

No credible observer believes the SOP denial from her campaign. Obama is doing the classy, above-the-fray thing because that's the Obama way. It works for him. It's why the Clintons haven't been able to slime him and make it stick.

But you're being purposely naive.

"So we were supposed to believe John McCain wasn't cozy with a young attractive female lobbyist because he denied it, but I'm guessing you don't believe Hillary even though she has?"

Shift and spin. You just can't help yourself can you, Dan?

There's no evidence McCain had this "cozy" relationship you're hinting about. But there's evidence of the Clinton campaign's involvement because of the e-mail.

Big difference.

Your welcome for whatever traffic my comment gives you. The more people seeing your mealy-mouthing the better.

Glad to have fans and readers.

"No credible observer believes the SOP denial from her campaign."

Good, cause I don't believe John McCain either.

"Drudge has the e-mail from a Clinton campaign person. Maybe Hillary didn't have direct knowledge, maybe she did. She's not exactly the poster child of truthfulness."

Neither is Drudge.

McCain actually has lots of cozy relationships with Lobbyists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEROVh8zK4

"Good, cause I don't believe John McCain either."

Funny. A few days ago you were trying to claim you on your blog WEREN'T implying he was having an affair. At least you're finally telling the truth. Hard to keep the spin straight, huh?

Drudge may get things wrong sometimes, like any other media person. But he doesn't lie about it. Hillary "I don't know how those long missing billing records suddenly appeared out of thin air" Clinton can't say the same.

Keeping trying to shift the debate to McCain. I wouldn't want to defend slimy Clinton campaign tactics either. And as a Clinton backer, you shouldn't go down the "cozy with lobbyists" road.

"Funny. A few days ago you were trying to claim you on your blog WEREN'T implying he was having an affair."

That should read: Funny.. A few days ago you were trying too claim on your blog you WEREN'T implying he was having an affair."

"redperegrine said:

It is pretty disingenuous to rip Clinton for a tactic that is right out of Karl Rove's playbook."

Well, that wasn't in my playbook. But it is now. Classic

I don't get the impression anyone is buying what you're selling, Dan.

What I meant about John McCain were his denials about being cozy with Lobbyists. That's pretty well documented. I stand by the he didn't have an affair with the lobbyist, even though his staff certainly thinks it was headed in that direction.