Welcome To The Jungle

By Kleinheider Posted on October 6, 2008 at 11:47 am

In a Q&A session following some welcoming remarks to the assembled media here at Belmont University (which includes very little of the celebrity journalists one might have expected), Governor Phil Bredesen gave a preview of the civility forum he and Senator Howard Baker will be participating in later today.

While Bredesen views some of Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s recent remarks as “over the top”, the Governor said that both candidates were guilty of excess and assaults on positive civil discourse.

“Both candidates have taken the campaign deep in a gray area, ” Bredesen explained. “I am looking forward to this afternoon when we can hit the pause button on some of the excesses of the campaign.”

On the subject of a Tennessean story recounting his hiring of a personal media consultant earlier in the year to help him traverse the national media’s interest in his national superdelegate primary idea, Bredesen said the speculation about the hire has been overblown.

He is not interested, nor is he angling towards a job in a potential Obama administration. And the media consultant he hired is no longer in his employ.

“I don’t even know where she’s working right now,” Bredesen said matter of factly.

As to whether he will be advising the Obama campaign any further in the weeks ahead, Bredesen laughed and said simply, “No, I will not.”

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