Plouffe Backtracks on Visit to oli-rich Azerbaijan
Does anyone believe that one of the brightest political and media strategists on earth was not aware that Washington lobbyists representing the authoritarian, oli-rich country of Azerbaijan had a hand in arranging his puff visit to Baku? Plouffe owes the 13 million subcribers of Obama for America, including yours truly, an apology for betraying the values of the Obama campaign and for inserting himself into a geo-political world where such visits do more damage than good.
Barack Obama’s Campaign Manager David Plouffe’s impending trip to Azerbaijan is inappropriate and should be cancelled. I hope that the President and Sec. of State Clinton dissuade Plouff from traveling to an authoritarian county to promote the government’s undemocratic ambitions.
This kind of trip is dangerous and represents the worst of American foreign policy. It’s anything but a break from the past 8 years. Cozying up to a government not because they share our values of liberty and freedom, but because of oil revenues
Shame on Plouffe – let’s hope this story turns out to be false. There’s a lot of money for Plouffe to make – he doesn’t need to go to Baku to do it.
