Dana Perino: Obama A "Phenomenal Candidate," "I'll Give You Eight Months" For Press Honeymoon

Washington Post:

The network stars were gone, the seats half empty and the questioning low-key as Dana Perino held a White House briefing last week, her biggest announcement that the administration would try to ease air traffic for the holidays.

President Bush has faded from the news, and the last year has been hard on his press secretary as she tried to follow his orders not to defend him from the verbal assaults of the campaign to succeed him.

"We took it from all sides, and it was difficult," Perino says. "When you're that close to your boss, it's hard sometimes not to take it personally."

Perino marvels at the glowing press that Barack Obama has gotten -- "He was a great candidate, a phenomenal candidate," she says -- but warned his incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, that it wouldn't last forever. "I'll give you eight months," she told him.

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Comments

[newpotusplease]

this woman is an

i d i o t

she can take her breathy little mousy style and go away somewhere

i swear if anyone tries to have her as a panel expert they will lose any and all credibility

[AnalyzeIT]

And just when did Ms. Prino become clairvoyant?

Sounds more like a WISH of her's rather than an actual vision.

Get a grip Dana, it's just possible that Obama's team can can handle it.

[BarackstarObama]

Does she really think anyone pays any attention to what she says? LOL

[weatherwaxx]

She should go sell ladies lingerie on the shopping channel. It's more her style.

[deeppeace]

Go away, Dana. I think Macy's needs a new perfume salesperson.

[KOisGod]

Or one of those mall kiosk's aggressive sales chicks that wants to smear some deep sea cream on you as you do the matador thing to get away .... -- .... /

[DaOne]

Dana....Cu­ban Missile Crisis....­..........­......

[WaterRat]

She should tap Hannity to be his co-host.

[luckyoldson]

All White House Press people are hard to believe, but Dana really pushed the "condescension" envelope. Serious questions were asked and she always had a tendency to brush them off as an interruption to the flow of the talking points she was sent out to repeat.

She will not be missed.

[KOisGod]

bingo - she's not a "PRESS SEC." she's the windup rethug talking point repeater that sarahcuda modeled herself after.

[Jaybot]

If this so called 'press honeymoon' exists at all then the 'press' hasn't learned a thing. After the circus the press made of the Clinton Administration and the (criminal) laxity that the Bush Administration was treated, one would think the press would realize their responsibility in this society. Here's a clue - they are information providers not entertainers!

[iamasocialist]

she wants to be laid...

[JiminNC]

Got a number?

[MalloMel]

Hard up... heh?

[AnnArky]

Needs to be laid.

[admiralj]

No, she desperately wants to get laid.
You know the old saying " any chick can get laid at 2am when the bar is closing"
Problem is, at 2:01am there is not enough liquor in any bar to make a guy want to lay her.

[Bitsko]

And to think she has been around for 7.2 billions years, just like you and me, when the atoms that make up our solar system were created. Yuck!

[SailFree]

Surely a phenomenal candidate. The question is, what sort of PRESIDENT? We do not yet know. All will become clear over the next few weeks.

[JiminNC]

We will find out over the next 8 years and it will be interesting to see how many obstructionist Hannitybots will be admit their status as ignorami as time goes by. Just a note to those that can't keep up, any deficit spending being done by the government in the next 4 years goes on the tab of the GOP.

[SailFree]

If it's an eight-month honeymoon, Obama is already into deficit spending. He's had at least 12 months already!

[SolarArray]

Bye bye. Good riddance Dana. If you had any sense of ethics and morality you would not have taken that job.....bu­t you did. You are one of the worst.

[43P04T34]

Goodbye and good riddance, airhead.

[chasmader]

I doubt we've not seen the last of her. My bet is she winds up on Fox News somewhere, home to many other brainless airhead newsreaders.

[MASHON]

I agree. I would call them "newscreators", or in other words, liars.

[Chavez08]

9/11 was a pretty handy "circumstance" to extend the "Press Honeymoon", don't ya think?