And Lanny Davis has signed on with another tyrant:
Embattled Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo has hired a prominent American lawyer to determine ways to peacefully resolve the postelection crisis in that West African country.
Lanny Davis says his first advice was to recommend full transparency regarding the Constitutional Council’s Dec. 3 determination that Gbagbo won re-election over opposition leader Alassane Ouattara.
Maybe his next piece of advice will be to shut down the death squads.
I know the Clinton/Obama wars of 2008 were painful for everyone involved, but to this day, I am glad Lanny Davis and the rest of those creeps are nowhere to be seen.
And has anyone compiled the complete list of scum that Lanny has represented. He’s such a putrid bottom-feeder.
jl
No one has commented yet. You are supposed to be on vacation.
Go eat a rumball and kick back with the pets.
Linda Featheringill
That makes no sense on several levels. If you have post-election unrest, how would some high-priced fancy US political consultant help you?
And even if you were in the business of giving advice, why would you take this problem on? You stand of good chance of not walking away clean. I know about a fool and his money, but there are some fools you should leave alone.
Dennis G.
And as we may remember, Melanie Sloan, Lanny’s new partner has started working for the little prick even as she still runs CREW. No wonder Greenwald left their Board.
Perhaps Lanny will give Melanie the Ivory Coast account…
Dennis G.
And as we may remember, Melanie Sloan, Lanny’s new partner has started working for the little prick even as she still runs CREW. No wonder Greenwald left their Board.
Perhaps Lanny will give Melanie the Ivory Coast account…
serge
Wow, that’s breathtaking, even for Lanny the Rat. Is he being paid in blood diamonds? Or hot cocoa?
Wow.
pattonbt
Good to see the Cole vacation tradition of increased posting is still in effect!
Odie Hugh Manatee
Lanny is a natural at being slimy and that is what attracts the slime that he likes to sell his ‘talents’ to.
Ok, maybe slimy isn’t appropriate. How about slimy shit.
Phil Perspective
@serge: Isn’t the Ivory Coast the world’s largest producer of cocoa beans?
kdaug
Aaaand – Cole clocks in at less than 3 hours “vacation”.
Do regale us with your mopping tales from the dark side, John.
DougJ
@Dennis G.:
That is depressing.
Dollared
Melanie Sloan and Peter Orszag. There’s a New Yorker article about selling out in there somewhere. Too bad my daddy wasn’t rich enough for me to be a journalist
Maude
Next to the word amoral in the dictionary is a picture of Lanny Davis.
Mnemosyne
@Linda Featheringill:
It keeps any embarrassing stories about massacres and death squads out of the papers in the US, because the Villagers cover for each other and Davis is absolutely one of them.
It’s to control the coverage of the story in the US, not anything to do with soothing the people of the Ivory Coast.
SRW1
Pecunia non olet, and all. But some people sure do.
LosGatosCA
Lanny Davis singlehandedly drove me off of watching cable TV. Not even an exaggeration.
Restrung
I’m Afraid of Americans
Restrung
ok, I’m not afraid of Americans. But I can kinda see David Manson’s point.
IvoryCoastSoccerFan
Please, send Mr Davis this piece of the Ivory Coast elections law, which states the following:
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Article 64:
If the Constitutional Counsel notes irregularities serious enough to affect the sincerity of the ballot and the overall result, it announces the cancellation of the elections. The date of the new ballot is set up by decree at the latest forty five days after the decision of the Constitutional Counsel.
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Then, ask Mr Lanny Davis to explain (to America) how in the world the Constitutional Counsel managed not to cancel the elections (as the law indicates), but cancel only the numbers from areas where Mr Ouattara won by a large margin, and declare Mr Gbagbo winner ???
As ban Ki Moon said, this is a parody of Democracy.
Gbagbo must leave, and it is a shame that some american lawyers will be billing this poor country for a few more $ before this dictator is forced to leave.
A friend of the Ivory Coast.
trueivorian
@IvoryCoastSoccerFan:
Are you sure you know the ivorian constitution? there is no such article in the ivorian constitution. this is what the art 64 says:”Art. 64 Le compte rendu intégral des débats de l’Assemblée nationale est publié au Journal
officiel des débats. L’Assemblée Nationale peut siéger en comité à huisclos à la demande du Président de la
République ou du tiers des députés.” As you can see nothing close to what you stated in your post assuming you speak French. Next time do your homework.
Thanks
BA
Lanny J. Davis is actually doing an honorable thing to work for a peaceful resolution of the election crisis in the Ivory Coast. When did the concept of the infinite power of diplomacy and litigation become subordinated to preference of war and death for an entire population of about 22 million people?
Lanny, I say, please help stop the blood shed and return peace and stability to that poor African country.