The Bland, Brazen and Special Robert Gibbs

The AP reports that Obama has picked Robert Gibbs to be his press secretary. He was Obama's communications director during his campaign. This is not good news. When I saw Gibbs on television I was always left with a yucky feeling, kind of like when I see someone picking up poop behind their dog. From the article:

One critic called Gibbs "the bland face of brazenness" when he said Obama's decision to resign from his church amid the controversy over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was "a deeply personal decision, not a political decision."

To me he's a bit worse than bland but I agree that he's brazen. According to a former employer (former Rep. Glen Browder, D-AL) he's also special:

"Robert had a special quality even back then. In retrospect, it was clear Robert was destined to make his mark."

It takes someone really special to stand in front of America and say that Obama's decision to denounce his pastor of twenty years was not politically motivated. That the timing of his "deeply personal decision" just happened to occur when Wright was getting a lot of bad press and Obama was in the midst of his campaign. And the poor guy was not joking.

Gibbs reminds me of Billy Mays. They both are trying to sell us a load of crap. In fact I may have stumbled upon Gibbs' job description: Clean up the crap your boss leaves behind and then sell that crap to the public.

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