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

[motoGpifupleez]

I have always admired the skill of a Cheney/Bush press secratary's ability to look right into that camera and lie. Knowing it's a lie and yet, do it unflinchingly, and without remorse. As Jon Stewart once asked Tony Snow-"what's it like, late at night when the demons come?"

[swift goat pet for truth]

IT IS NOT LYING...

if you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy.
especially, substance induced fantasy.

[curiousasheck]

She sure aged fast since taking this job.

[swift goat pet for truth]

not mentally

[shirleyfeeney]

Dana, have you spent so much time lying for your own boss that you have forgotten one important thing??? That there are still people with integrity out there. I don't think that an Obama administration is going to be as...what's the word....DIFFICULT as the Bush Admn. is/was.

[swift goat pet for truth]

"integrity" ? For Perino you need to spell it out, then get a dictionary

[hopefulnana]

Eight months? Hannity, Rush et al didn't give him eight minutes. Oh, wait, never mind. They're not the press.

[NotGuilty]

They're not the press, they've aligned themselves with al Qaeda.

[Julie02]

Oh Dana, don't be jealous. How awful that you are part of the worst administration in history. Must hurt that you're not part of Obama's.

[haval2]

NEWSFLASH...SHE'S NOT HOT BUT SHE IS CLUELESS!

[nikky]

SHE IS A JEALOUS B**CH

[swift goat pet for truth]

GOPers easily substitute clueless-ness for hot-ness. Virtually the same thing.

[Bitsko]

Considering her track record, President 0bama will be in for eight years.

[protagonia]

Why would she magically be correct about this one detail?

That is, unless she knows something about that timetable which the rest of us do not.

[mamaboulet]

Oh, to be finally rid of Perino's smarmy fake mona lisa smile and her lies in the name of Bush.

[shep65]

Sorry but this woman was gut wrenching to watch. She was about the worst press secretary that I ahve ever seen. She was uniformed and next to Sarah Palin probably could not find Africa on a map. Good ridance.

[BushBites]

My favorite moment was when she thought the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis were the same thing.

http://crooksandliars.com/2007/12/09/npr-dana-perino-dont-know-much-about-history/

[ObamAtomic]

she is still sooooooo hot! Sooooooo cluelessssssssss!

[shirleyfeeney]

hot? um...ewww...I think I just threw up a little bit...

[seenitall]

I see Dallas Cowboy cheerleader white boots in her future....skilled communicator, don't you know.

[Grunty1]

Seems to be a recurring trait in Republican women....

[BushBites]

An attractive woman just has to spout a few conservative cliches to get hundreds of chubby, half-witted wingnut nerds to fall all over themselves in worshipful admiration.

[landoffools]

Ahhh !
Dana Perino !

When it comes to brains and intelligence, cut from the same cloth as Sarah Palin !

[Mannock]

Don't insult Sarah Palin. WOW! I can't believe that I just said that!

[ChicagoDMT]

It doesn't seem fair that Obama only gets an eight month honeymoon from the press, when the press gave Bush a five year pass.

[nikky]

I COUNTED 7

[NotGuilty]

8.

[swift goat pet for truth]

When did it end?

[osage]

What the wholly incompetent cronies in the Bush administration DON'T COMPREHEND is that EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE eliminates the concept of a press "honeymoon"! What will guarantee that Obama and the Democratic Party has an extremely long White House tenure.....and a friendly press...... is a president that accomplishes good things for the vast majority of Americans rather than lying to them and placating them with false promises, while stealing their jobs, homes, money and self-respect and handing over control of their lives to the greedy immoral interests of big business and fat cats who are being provided taxpayer bailouts and personal golden parachutes.

[MASHON]

Thank you for saying that.

[namewithheld]

Okay, politics, lies, and war crimes aside, she is still sooooooo hot!