President Obama has broken every existing presidential record on the number of times he has appeared on television since taking office. Mark Knoller of CBS News has faithfully chronicled Obama’s over saturation. This will be a regularly updated thread on Barack Obama’s love of self.
Sunday, February 7, 2010: Obama’s question and answer with Katie Couric of CBS News, was his 163rd interview since taking office. More than any other president in the first 13 months.
For the record here are Obama’s total stats:
SPEECHES, COMMENTS & REMARKS: 411
• Includes 52 addresses or statements specifically on his health care proposals.
• He used a TelePrompTer at least 178 times. (Technically, it was 177 ½ . On July 13, 2009, one of the teleprompter screens on the left side of his lectern fell to the ground and broke shortly after he began speaking. So he was left with half a TelePrompTer.)
NEWS CONFERENCES: 42
• Of which 5 were formal, solo White House Q&A sessions. Four were in prime time. His last one was July 22, 2009.
• Nearly all of the other press availabilities were joint appearances with foreign leaders at which as few as 1 question was taken by Mr. Obama.
• Predecessor George W. Bush did 21 news conferences his first year of which 4 were formal, solo White House sessions. Only 1 was in prime time.
INTERVIEWS: 163
• This is a striking number of interviews and far more than any of his recent predecessors in their first year. Ninety of the sessions were TV interviews. Eleven were radio. The rest were newspaper and magazine. The number reflects the White House media strategy that Mr. Obama can best respond to questions in an interview setting.
TOWN HALL MEETINGS: 23
• Includes 1 in Strasbourg, France and another in Shanghai, China
POLITICAL FUNDRAISERS: 28
• The events raised at least $27.25 million. (3 of the events Mr. Obama attended declined to disclose how much was raised.
• George W. Bush did 6 fundraisers his 1st year raising over $48 million.
CAMPAIGN RALLIES: 7
• The rallies were for Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds, D-Va, and U.S. Senate Candidate Martha Coakley, D-Mass. All of them lost.
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Sarah Palin: “We need a Commander In Chief, not a Professor of Law, standing at a lecturn”
Gov. Sarah Palin addressed the Tea Party Convention in Nashville tonight. It was not necessarily a “wow-them” speech, but one containing all of the hot button issues that are on the minds of a majority of voters. Twitter and Facebook were buzzing with pro and con comments and it reflects all of what Sarah Palin stirs in people. The huge chorus of haters proves how much she gets under their skin. Palin’s speech was covered live by CNN, MSNBC, Fox and C-SPAN — that speaks volumes to how important and influential she is in the politics of this nation.
Sarah Palin addressing the Tea Party Convention, Nashville, TN
To me, Sarah Palin represents the type of people who served in our first United States Congress; fisherman, farmers, and shopkeepers who went to New York to serve this country and spoke in common sense terms.
Sarah Palin does not come off as a smooth professional seasoned politician. She speaks plainly and directly to the issues. That is 180 degrees opposite from everybody else in Washington today and that is a great part of her appeal.
In her Op-Ed in USA Today , Sarah Palin said, “l look forward to meeting many Americans who share a commitment to limited government, common sense and personal responsibility. This movement is truly a grassroots, organic effort. It’s not a top-down organization; it’s a ground-up call to action that already has both political parties rethinking the way they do business.”
“The soul of the Tea Party is the people who belong to it — everyday Americans who grow our food, run our small businesses, teach our children how to read, serve the less fortunate and fight our wars. They’re folks in small towns and cities across this nation who saw what was happening to our country and decided to get involved. Thank God for them. Many of these good Americans had never been involved in their government before, but now they attend town hall meetings and participate in online forums. They write letters to the editor. They sign up to be precinct leaders and run for local office and support other independent patriots. They have the courage to stand up and speak out.”
In Nashville Sarah Palin spoke to a crowd of about one thousand attendees, “It’s so inspiring to see real people, not politicos, inside-the-beltway professionals, come out, stand up and speak out for common-sense conservative principles,”
She called the Tea Party movement a “ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way they’re doing business.”
Palin reminded the administration to take note of the last three election results, saying “you better stop lecturing and start listening.” “The Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb of big government,” she added, saying “voters all over the country are sending a message that they want change in Washington.”
“How’s that hope-y, change-y stuff working out for you?”, Palin said.
The text of her remarks are not posted, so here is a link to video of her speech: Sarah Palin Remarks to Tea Party Convention
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It seems that national security has been thrown under the bus once again by the White House, as it uses the Christmas Day Underwear Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a political football to demonstrate that they still have their eye on the ball of Radical Islam. Confused?
President Obama ponders his polling numbers rather than the security of the nation
Six weeks after his 50 minute interrogation and then lawyering-up, the White House is proudly telling us that Farouk is now spilling his guts and ratting out Yemeni terrorists and giving “valuable intelligence”. Once it was revealed that Abdulmutallab was unsuccessful and then arrested on December 25th, 2009, every bit of actionable intelligence was flushed away, erased or destroyed by any one who had contact with him. So everything that Umar is saying today is very old news.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said: “The fact remains that all the intelligence he possessed concerning the locations, training techniques, and communications methods of Al Qaeda in Yemen is perishable. Yemeni forces needed that information on December 25th, not six weeks later. Meanwhile, the American people are left to wonder whether, in place of interrogations, their safety depends on terrorists having families who can persuade them to talk.”
This is purely an attempt at P.R. by the beleaguered Obama administration to walk back their failure to deal effectively with terrorist threats to the homeland.
“The first hint that Mr. Abdulmutallab was talking again emerged at a Tuesday hearing before the Senate intelligence committee. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said of the interrogation of Mr. Abdulmutallab: “We got good intelligence. We’re getting more.”
Republican Senator Kit Bond, today sent a scathing letter to President Obama about the handling of intelligence surrounding Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s detention. Senator Bond claims that FBI Director Robert Mueller told him that details of Abdulmutallab’s cooperation with law enforcement should not be disclosed as a matter of national security. But Bond pointed out that within 24 hours of the FBI Director’s testimony to lawmakers, the White House released details of Abdulmutallab’s cooperation and how that information was obtained. Gibbs defended the administration in today’s daily briefing, saying intelligence officials did NOT leak sensitive or classified information.
Attorney General Eric Holder is leading the charge for Barack Obama on the issue of giving constitutional rights to all captured terrorists. During the Bush Administration, Holder’s law firm, Covington & Burling, provided pro-bono services for about 20 of the enemy combatants held at Gitmo. In lawsuits Holder and his firm brought against the American people, Covington contributed more than 3,000 hours of free, top-flight legal assistance to these violent terrorists.
General Eric Holder released a letter yesterday defending the Obama administration’s criminal justice system approach to prosecuting the war against al-Qaeda. Defending his administration’s handling of the Flight 253 terrorist, Holder wrote: “I made the decision to charge Mr. Abdulmutallab with federal crimes, and to seek his detention in connection with those charges, wtih the knowledge of, and with no objection from, all other relevant departments of the government.”
“Even now, his Covington colleagues continue to allege rampant torture at Gitmo. They’re fighting hard to have detainees tried through the US court system—essentially given the same rights as US citizens. And their arguments and plans hinge largely on having Holder issue a bad report card.” (Michelle Malkin – Culture of Corruption)
So round and round we go as critics, both Democrats and Republicans question Obama’s policies on national security. Obama wants the world to love us — the American people want to know that the President will protect us. It’s transparency just like Obama promised. Unfortunately it is transparently political.
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Last Friday, Barack Obama made another televised campaign stop in Baltimore at the House Republicans Retreat where he emphatically stated, “I’m not an ideologue.” When the laughter died down he persisted, “I’m not.”
In his State of the Union address Obama spoke of continuing the fight for a Healthcare Bill, Cap & Trade, the closing of Gitmo and the criminal prosecution of KSM and four other 9/11 co-conspirators. Days after taking office he shutdown the Enhanced Interrogation Program, started by George Bush. From now on any captured terrorists can only be questioned under the rules of the Army Field Manual.
Barack Obama is not just an ideologue, he’s a hard-left ideologue. Our ship of state is being steered by a ship of fools.
Obama and his White House laughing at us
On Monday, Obama trotted out his 2011 budget that plans to spend an additional $1.7 trillion and run up an additional $2 trillion in budget deficits. Obama is proposing an annual budget deficit 49 percent larger than last year’s, increasing the debt by an additional 6 percent of GDP. By 2020 our national debt will be over $18 trillion.
The White House follies continued with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visiting Miami’s Sun Life Stadium and stating that preparations are in place to thwart any terrorist threat or safety problem at the Super Bowl.
Meanwhile in January the three stooges; Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, FBI Director Robert Mueller and National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter could not explain why the Christmas Day Underwear Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was Mirandized after only 50 minutes of interrogation by the FBI and not treated as an unprivileged enemy belligerent subject to military detention and more interrogation.
Nor could they explain why Abdulmutallab was not questioned by special intelligence interrogators under the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG created by the same White House last August, 2009.
The reason: It has not been staffed yet and we have that idiot, Attorney General, Eric Holder who is a friend to every terrorist and the enemy of the CIA.
Jennifer Rubin of the Weekly Standard put it this way, “Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to ask a special prosecutor to investigate for possible criminal prosecution CIA operatives who interrogated terrorists in overseas locations is the latest and most egregious instance of political gamesmanship by Holder, who strode into office promising to remove the taint of politicization from the Justice Department.”
All fingers point back to President Barack Obama who is running this asylum. If you read Marc A. Thiessen’s “Courting Disaster”, you will see that Obama’s wholesale dismantling of the enhanced interrogation apparatus will result in a devastating terrorist attack on our soil by al Qaeda.
But you wouldn’t know that by listening to Barack today in Nashua, New Hampshire at his 26th Town Hall Meeting since taking office. As coached by his re-hire, David Plouffe, Obama was back to spearing the Republicans, repeating his succesful stream of attacks that won him the White House in 2008.
Barack Obama has never stopped campaigning and he never will, because that is the only thing he can do; besides being an arrogant elitist who is too stubborn to listen to the people.
This November we’ll deliver the message loud and clear — your agenda stinks fools and change is coming fast and for real.
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The chosen one has decided to walk among us. That was the central thrust of President Obama’s first SOTU speech before a joint session of Congress. David Axelrod earlier today said, “President Obama will be talking directly to the people.”
Wow, I’m impressed. So what exactly has Obama been doing over the two years of campaigning and one year as President, if not talking to the American people? The answer; he was just practicing, for tonight’s speech.
President Obama walks among the Congressional elitists
The theme was “Rescue Rebuild and Restore” — I think all that applies to his Presidency and the Democratic party. So what did Obama say that is new — NOTHING. Pundits were asking each other if President Obama would move to the center. Obama is still strongly rooted in his leftist policies; he just spoke occasionally as a centrist.
Obama still wants Cap & Trade and Healthcare and more spending, more spending and more spending. The “centrist” part, a three-year freeze in nonsecurity discretionary spending, which will save $250 billion over a decade or one eighth of the total annual budget.
Annual deficits are forecast to total $7.1 trillion over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office, adding to a total federal debt expected to reach $13.6 trillion by 2019.
“Now, I am not naïve. I never thought the mere fact of my election would usher in peace, harmony, and some post-partisan era.”
Really? Everyone of your stump speeches alluded to that belief, especially your speech in Berlin!
“I campaigned on the promise of change – change we can believe in, the slogan went. And right now, I know there are many Americans who aren’t sure if they still believe we can change – or at least, that I can deliver it. But remember this – I never suggested that change would be easy, or that I can do it alone.”
Mr. President you acted like you could do it alone and then scolded, blamed and denigrated any one who disagreed with your policies.
“We have finished a difficult year. We have come through a difficult decade. But a new year has come. A new decade stretches before us. We don’t quit. I don’t quit. Let’s seize this moment – to start anew, to carry the dream forward, and to strengthen our union once more.”
If you give the American people their constitutional right to freedom and get government out of the way and out of our lives, then, we will “carry the dream forward, strengthen our union once more.”
Newly elected Virginia Governor, Bob McDonnell a Republican delivered the best response to Obama’s speech and the Congressional majority,
“The circumstances of our time demand that we reconsider and restore the proper, limited role of government at every level. Without reform, the excessive growth of government threatens our very liberty and prosperity.
In recent months, the American people have made clear that they want government leaders to listen and act on the issues most important to them. We want results, not rhetoric. We want cooperation, not partisanship.”
“Here at home government must help foster a society in which all our people can use their God-given talents in liberty to pursue the American Dream. Republicans know that government cannot guarantee individual outcomes, but we strongly believe that it must guarantee equality of opportunity for all. That opportunity exists best in a democracy which promotes free enterprise, economic growth, strong families, and individual achievement. Many Americans are concerned about this Administration’s efforts to exert greater control over car companies, banks, energy and health care. Over-regulating employers won’t create more employment; overtaxing investors won’t foster more investment.
Top-down one-size fits all decision making should not replace the personal choices of free people in a free market, nor undermine the proper role of state and local governments in our system of federalism. As our Founders clearly stated, and we Governors understand, government closest to the people governs best.”
That is a State of the Union we all want and need.
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President Barack Obama is attempting to get his old mojo back with the Saturday announcement by the White House of the re-hiring of his former campaign manager, David Plouffe, to oversee the 2010 midterm elections in the House, Senate and governor’s races.
"Team Obama", Robert Gibbs, David Plouffe and David Axelrod
This is merely an attempt at putting a fresh coat of paint on a rusty vehicle. Obama’s team just does not get it and this was reinforced on the Sunday news shows.
Robert Gibbs on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace said that Scott Brown’s win last Tuesday was because, “More people voted to express support for Barack Obama than to oppose him.” He then had the audacity to state that the stimulus bill has “saved or created over one million jobs”; an already tired and disproved Democratic talking point.
David Axelrod on CNN’s State of the Union, mirrored the same line on the economic stimulus (no coincidence, but he said it is 2 million jobs!), “Given the speed with which this program had to be undertaken, there’s been a remarkable lack of controversy about it, I think the Vice President and his team who have run this program have done an extraordinary job and it is making a difference in communities around the country”
The true telling of their mindset comes from Obama himself. In his weekly presidential address he criticized the Supreme Court’s favorable decision on First Amendment rights of corporations and labor unions to permit them to directly spend on political campaigns. “I can’t think of anything more devastating to the public interest. The last thing we need to do is hand more influence to the lobbyists in Washington, or more power to the special interests to tip the outcome of elections.”
This from the President who received more than $60.7 million in campaign donations from the public services union SEIU and $9.5 million from Wall Street PACs. Obama’s promise of transparency, no lobbyist and an end to the influence of special interests in his White House is a complete failure.
Here are former lobbyists Obama has tapped for top jobs:
- Eric Holder, attorney general, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm.
- Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.
- William Lynn, deputy defense secretary, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.
- William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.
- David Hayes, deputy interior secretary, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.
- Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.
- Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.
- Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.
- Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
- Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.
- Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.
- Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.
Don’t forget the Healthcare bill paybacks that Obama made to Big-Pharma and the waiver of the Cadillac healthcare plan taxes to the AFL-CIO. As well as the Senate’s payoffs to gain passage of their version of the bill.
- The “Cornhusker Kickback,” to Ben Nelson.
- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), $10 billion in new funding for community health centers.
- Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) exemption for non-profit insurers from a hefty excise tax.
- Pennsylvania, New York and Florida – all won protections for their Medicare Advantage beneficiaries
- $300 million increase for Medicaid in Louisiana, that won the vote of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu.
President Obama tested the re-branding of his populist rhetoric in a speech in Ohio on Friday, where he dropped the ‘g’s’; “I won’t stop fightin” and attacked the “fat-cat bankers”.
The simple truth is that they will continue their far left agenda as stated in an opinion piece today in the Washington Post, by the same David Plouffe, “November doesn’t need to be a nightmare for Democrats”.
His miracle cure is to tell his fellow Democrats to extol the “success” of the Stimulus package, not accept any lectures on spending and pass their health insurance reform bill without delay.
Talk about not hearing the people — these Democrats are looking up their ass to see if their hat is on straight.
(HT to my late maternal grandmother’s cockney expression.)
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President Barack Obama said Thursday that the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts in the Special Senate Election was a “systemic failure”. Mr. Obama said information that could have prevented Brown’s victory over Democrat Martha Coakley, did not get the attention it deserved.
“When the Democratic National Committee has information on a known Republican candidate and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been and this candidate wins an election that could cost me the White House, a systemic failure has occurred. And I consider that totally unacceptable,”
Actually, President Obama said nothing today about Scott Brown’s stunning upset and the quotes I used were from his speech on December 29th, 2009, four days after the unsuccessful “underwear bomber” Christmas day attack aboard that Detroit-bound airliner.
President Obama dancing as fast as he can
This President, his administration and the Democratic party are playing a Carney-style shell game with the American voters.
On Wednesday Obama suddenly made a pivot to the center, just like when he was campaigning for the job of president. In an exclusive interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos he said,
“We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values,”
“lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people”
In President Obama’s first year in office he has made 411 speeches, comments and remarks.
- 52 Speeches on his health care proposals.
- 42 News Conferences.
- 158 Interviews of which 90 of them were on television.
- 23 Town Hall meetings.
- 28 Political Fundraisers.
- 7 Campaign Rallies — for all the losers; Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds, D-Va, and U.S. Senate Candidate Martha Coakley, D-Mass.
Instead of speaking even more to the American people, Obama should have been listening to the American people.
All of the Democratic pundits are telling us that Obama will become a centrist and a populist. That’s a bold-faced lie, just look at his voting record as an Illinois State Senator and then as a U.S. Senator. Hell, just look at the legislation he’s been trying to cram down our throats as President!
Obama blamed the Democrats’ stunning loss of their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate on his administration’s failure to give voice to the economic frustrations of the middle class, a disconnect that White House aides vowed to quickly address as they continue to work to advance the president’s agenda.
That’s just double-speak as the arrogance and contempt for you and I will continue. Publicly and privately, aides to the president repeatedly stressed that the White House has heard the message from angry voters. But they insisted that they are not backing away from key items on the president’s agenda, including health-care reform, energy and bank regulation.
White House aides rejected the idea that the Massachusetts election was a referendum on Obama. Really? Barack Obama had a +26-point victory in November 2008, to Martha Coakley’s 5-point loss; that is a 31-point negative swing in the vote!
The White House is unwilling to acknowledge the party’s new problem with independent voters, who were key to Obama’s victory. “Democrats on the Hill and in the White House don’t seem to get that independent voters are upset with them,” said a source, who spoke candidly about the president and his team on the condition of anonymity.
Proving that Obama and the White House are stuck in cement, they trotted out their former communications director Anita Dunn, who still regularly provides advice on communications strategy. Asked whether Obama was having a bad day, Dunn laughed and asked: “Why? Because he’s only got 59 votes in the Senate? Can we get a little perspective here, people?”
Frankly I hope this “let them eat cake” attitude continues right through next November. The Democratic party will have to spend all of their campaign funds to support the reelection of their 19 Senators and all 257 in the House of Representatives.
There will be huge losses for the Democratic party in November, no matter what Obama and Pelosi tell us in the next nine months. That’s the real systemic failure.
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A political earthquake has struck in one of the bluest states in the union, Massachusetts. Scott Brown a Republican has defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election for the senate seat held for more than 40 years by the late Ted Kennedy. The last Republican to hold a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts was Edward W. Brooke, the first African-American senator to be elected since Reconstruction, winning in 1966 over Democrat Endicott Peabody.
Brown won over Coakley by a margin of 5 points (52% – 47%). This rebuke of President Obama’s big government, big spending policies follows the same pattern set in last November 3rd’s gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, both won by Republicans. These are all foreshocks to the big one that will occur this coming November, when angry voters will throw as many Democrats as they can out of office!
An interesting note is as Brown’s vote totals continued to lead all over Coakley, CNN switched to Larry King Live and it’s Haiti coverage. Rather than let their viewers see this Obama defeat, they changed the subject!
So how did the Democrat’s respond to their failing administration and legislation; continue along the same lousy course. Why listen to the voters? These elitists are tone-deaf to the reality. Instead of bailing their sinking ship, Nancy Pelosi said, “We will pass quality, affordable Healthcare for all, very soon.”
This hold steady on course policy is driven by Barack Obama and the White House, believing that this populist anger is a minor blip. Press secretary Robert Gibbs said a key theme of 2010 will be asking voters “whether the people they have in Washington are on the side of protecting the big banks, whether they’re on the side of protecting the big oil companies, whether they’re on the side of protecting insurance companies or whether they’re on the people’s side.”
David Axelrod, Obama’s senior adviser said the midterm elections will not become “a referendum on this administration”. Mike Allen, writing for Politico says, “The White House rallying cry, according to one Obama confidant, will be, “Buckle up — let’s get some stuff done.”
Obama has to blame someone else rather than believe it is a referendum on his lack of Presidential hubris. “And in private conversations, Hill sources say White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has blamed Coakley, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake for failing to see Brown’s surge in time to stop it.”, according to Yid With Lid.
Now that Obama has set his State of the Union address for January 27th, we’ll see how cocky he really is. Barack will spout lots of his bullshit over the truth, but hey, that’s how he got elected.
Not only does Scott Brown’s election spell trouble for Obamacare and Cap & Trade, but it will scare the crap out of all those so-called “Blue Dog Democrats” who are up for relection. If they swallow the poison that Pelosi and Reid are offering then say good-bye to them too, this November.
Here is an interesting behind the scene snapshot of the current Democratic voter; Are Coakley Voters Too Ashamed to be Polled?
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“Now is the Winter of our Discontent”, an apt phrase from William Shakespeare’s Richard III, written in 1591, depicting the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England.
Barack Obama and Democrats take note as the voters in Massachusetts are about to drastically alter your faux mantle of “Hope and Change.” Oh how the mighty have fallen since their strut of self-righteousness from November of 2006 to their super-majority earned in the election of ‘08.
Scott Brown campaigns at the Kenmore Diner in Worcester, Mass., Sunday. Robert F. Bukaty / AP
This is not just a referendum on Obamacare or a fight for Teddy Kennedy’s former senate seat, but a vote of no confidence in the entire Democratic agenda. The anger is palpable and they are frustrated over the failure of Barack Obama as President, to effectively turn the economy around, increase employment and stop the reckless spending by our government.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll from Sunday says, “Nearly half of all Americans say Obama is not delivering on his major campaign promises, and a narrow majority have just some or no confidence that he will make the right decisions for the country’s future.
More than a third see the president as falling short of their expectations, about double the proportion saying so at the 100-day mark of Obama’s presidency in April. At the time, 63 percent said the president had accomplished a “great deal” or a “good amount.” Now, the portion saying so has dropped to 47 percent.”
Even the much respected and Democrat leaning fivethirtyeight.com say Coakely will lose. “If the electorate which turns out tomorrow is this indifferent about Obama, I have little doubt that Coakley is headed for defeat. But I think we have to place into context just how lopsided turnout would be if indeed we see an electorate that is split 44/43 on Obama.
Obama carried Massachusetts by 26 points in November 2008. (His approval among registered voters there also appeared to be about +24 as of November 2009). So, if Democrats suffered from the same turnout gap in Massachusetts that they had in Virginia (which was billed as catastrophic at the time), Obama would be at a +17 or so. Instead, you have several pollsters showing him at a +1 or a +5 — which would imply a turnout gap of 20 or 25 points, more than twice as bad as the one Democrats suffered from in VA.”
The White House and Democrats are so fearful of loosing their 60 seat filibuster-proof majority, that Obama gave up playing golf and dropped in for a few hours at a Sunday Martha Coakely rally. His speech was all about himself and when he did attack Scott Brown, Obama’s elitist principles were in the fore.
Brown has made campaigning in his old pickup truck a signature of who he represents. Obama mentioned Brown’s truck a lot in his speech, “You’ve got to look under the hood,” “Forget the truck. Everybody can buy a truck.”
Mr President, Scott Brown is driving a GM truck and as Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit points out,
“Maybe Obama forgot that the US now OWNS General Motors.
You’d think he’d want Americans to “Buy GM” not “Bash GM”?
You’d think.”
President Obama, like all the Democrats and especially Martha Coakely are sadly out of touch with the people. Tuesday’s special election in Massachusetts will send a loud message to Obama. We’re coming for you and don’t get too comfortable in the White House, because you will be packing up and leaving come January 21st, 2013.
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