Obama will push off anyone ANYONE who could be a slight threat to him and his ambitions.

And they use to put Hillary down everyday and this Obama gets to pretend like he doesn't know the people around him?

As a sidebar to this issue:

I wonder who Obama has his mortgage with? Countrywide? Nah!

I think Obama wants a veep that can get him out of his empty promise to withdraw by bringing on a veep of military.

Plus, someone who can debunk McCain, for obvious reasons (McCain -POW).

and the implosion continues. it's like watching a train wreck slowly come to a grinding halt, as it lurches towards the convention. it's a good thing for the dems they still have clinton in the wings, ready to pick up the pieces of the self-destructed obama campaign.

Mr. Johnson was also involved in some of the more controversial executive compensation decisions in recent years, serving on the board of five companies that granted lavish pay packages to their executives -- and often playing a key role in approving them.

One of the more well-known cases involves UnitedHealth Group, a Minnesota company, where Mr. Johnson was a board member and later head of the compensation committee.

The company came under fire after the chief executive was granted more than $1.4 billion in stock options -- some $618 million of which was returned as a result of settlements with federal regulators and shareholders.

The executive, William McGuire, resigned, but he kept $800 million from the package.

Because of cases like UnitedHealth Group, Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, introduced legislation in the Senate last year to restrict runaway compensation.

There are many ways Obama and his team could be responding to this, but they are doing what they've done in the past when turbulence hits, which is to hunker down, stick to their talking points and wait for the storm to pass, which it often has.

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It isn't clear whether the uproar over Johnson is a passing storm or a more serious problem for the Obama campaign. For now, the campaign has decided to treat it as a minor annoyance that will soon disappear. But the candidate's response has raised questions about the candidate himself that could well linger past the moment.

But Queen says it best: Another one bites the dust

WaPo: Obama Defense of Johnson Raises Questions

[There are many ways Obama and his team could be responding to this, but they are doing what they've done in the past when turbulence hits, which is to hunker down, stick to their talking points and wait for the storm to pass, which it often has.]

Bloomberg: Johnson Quits Obama's Vice Presidential Search Team

[One possible candidate if the Obama campaign decides to replace Johnson could be former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a national campaign co-chair for Obama.]

NYT: Vetting a Vetter

[Oversight groups have also raised questions about the number of boards on which Mr. Johnson served while holding a full-time position at Fannie Mae. Besides UnitedHealth and Goldman Sachs, he served on the boards and compensation committees of KB Homes, the Gannett Corporation and Temple Inland. He was also a board member at Target.

Here's what the meme is setting up to be from the Republicans (from The National Review)

"And in a political culture marked by grandiose promises, outsized egos, evasions of responsibilities, and "I'm sorry if you were offended" apologies, there was something refreshing and honorable about an elected official who came out and said, "I was wrong" -- and who could even express shame in a world that had seemed to become shameless.