Lincoln Davis' Chief of Staff Beecher Frasier to Adam Kleinheider:
"No one in their right mind, including me, believes Senator Obama has ties to terrorism. It is truly ridiculous for anyone to try to make hay out of these comments.”
Here's what the original City Paper article says that Frasier said in response to TNDP Executive Committee member Fred Hobbs' asinine comments on Obama:
His chief of staff, Beecher Frasier, said he doesn’t know for sure if Obama is “terrorist connected” but he assumes he’s not.
So what's going on here? Did he or did he not express uncertainty to the City Paper? It seems like he either said something really dumb not thinking he'd get called out on it and is now backtracking, or the City Paper needs to issue one hell of a clarification.
And honestly, it's hard to tell who's telling the truth here. TNDP spokesman Wade Munday seems to believe that Frasier WAS simply misquoted by the City Paper, but if that's the case, then you'd think Frasier's clarification would make that point. That is the heart of the matter, after all. It sounds more like he's upset that people are making a big deal over it.
But then what's Fred Hobbs' excuse?
“I don’t exactly approve of a lot of the things he stands for and I’m not sure we know enough about him,” Hobbs said when asked why he thought Davis wasn’t endorsing Obama. “He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”
This is exactly the same thing as with the president of the Knox County Young Democrats. You're more than welcome to be as conservative of a Democrat as you want to be. But if you're in a position of leadership within the Democratic Party, then you sure as hell better show a little discipline and support the nominee. Senators Jim Webb and Jon Tester are conservative Democrats from very red areas--they don't agree with the rest of the party all of the time, but they certainly know that if you're a party leader, you have to act as a force for unity and not for division. If you're incapable of doing anything other than handing the Republicans talking points on silver platters, then you'd probably be better off in another type of job.
One thing I'm looking forward to next year, when President Obama takes the oath of office and we have a larger majority in Congress, will be that all of these little Joe Liebermans will be on the outside looking in.
By the way, Lincoln Davis...you could end all of this right now and say that you will support the Democratic nominee. Just sayin'.
1 comments:
Fraiser's statement is a non-denial, denial.
Either he said it or not. He's putting it off on the reporters, which is supposed to somehow exonerate him, but the truth of the matter is that it's on him to exonerate himself.
Look at the second sentence, "It is truly ridiculous for anyone to try to make hay out of these comments." This is not a denial, this is a "quit making my life hard and go away" statement.
If anything, that sentence alone is a tacit admission that he said something to that effect.
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