This has been a week when much of the news was a rewrite of articles we first wrote in 2007/2008. But instead of looking back we need to look forward. Wanna politically punch Obama like Trayvon punched Jorge and lay him flat on the ground, his gray head bleeding? Democrat John Wolfe for President. And Hey — it’s an open primary so everybody can join in.
Last week West Virginia voters voted for a felon currently residing in Texas with enough votes to almost beat sitting bowing president Barack Obama. So many voted for the Texas felon with an unfashionable haircut that he actually won at least 1 delegate to the disaster convention in North Carolina. But forget it West Virginia voters. Your votes don’t count. That delegate will be stolen from the voters and given to Barack Obama.
This Tuesday in the state Bill Clinton governed for so many years there will be a primary. The election will be stolen. The votes will not matter. The delegates will be gifted to Barack Obama.
But despair not. Barack Obama can steal every delegate in every bar in every state but he won’t win the November elections. We can help expedite that political retirement. Democrat John Wolfe for President:
Schadenfreude alert: Obama could lose the Ark. primary
A credible threat to President Obama in the Arkansas primary? Too good to check. Gotta love the unity!
In a poll of likely voters Obama is only up 7 points over Democratic challenger John Wolfe. A loss in the May 22 Arkansas Democratic primary could glue a big red clown nose right on the president’s smug face:
Why? Because the president would begin to look a little ridiculous. Wolfe will start appearing on talk shows, gain momentum in Texas, and arrive at the Democratic convention parading around with his delegates and generally creating a spectacle that will attract reporters bored to tears by the Obama coronation.
David Limbaugh has it right. Let’s make this thing happen!
Yup, this could spread from Arkansas to Texas because John Wolfe is running in both states. Don’t think for a moment that Obama Dimocrats will respect democracy however. Obama is a North Korean:
Dems Disenfranchise Voters After Polls Show Obama in Close Primary Race
“Is this some kind of North Korea thing?”
After a poll released this week showed President Barack Obama only beating his Democratic primary opponent John Wolfe Jr. by seven points, 45 percent to 38 percent, in Arkansas’s Fourth Congressional District, state Democrats moved to practically disenfranchise Arkansas voters. “[D]elegates Wolfe might claim won’t be recognized at the national convention,” national party officials are telling state Democrats. Wolfe is being accused of not following the party rules.
“They want a coronation,” Wolfe tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD. “They’re conflating [Obama] with the party. Are we supposed to call him ‘Dear Leader’? Is this some kind of North Korea thing?”
Arkansas voters should not bow to Kenyan North Korean Obama. John Wolfe “insists he’s done the due diligence to qualify for delegates and that the state party is making decisions ad hoc to get the results they desire. Where and when have we seen that before? Yup, Rules and By-laws Committee in May of 2008.
Wolfe says Obama Dimocrats are disenfranchising voters. Wolfe says “he’ll take his own party to court”:
“They took my money and put my name on the ballot,” he says. “They’re trying to make people think it’s hopeless to vote against Obama.”
Wolfe is also on the ballot for Texas’s primary on May 29.“
From Hope to Hopeless. But it is not hopeless. Every vote against Obama counts. If Wolfe even comes close to beating Obama… well, as the Rev. says: “KEEP HOPE ALIVE”. Real Hope not Obama false hope.
“Wolfe has been critical of Obama for being tied too closely with Wall Street interests and not pursuing a more forthrightly liberal agenda, like a single-payer health care system that Wolfe (and other Democrats, he says) prefer to Obamacare. And he criticizes the president’s style. “He doesn’t like to be challenged,” he says. “Strong people don’t mind dissent.”
A lawyer from Chattanooga, Wolfe speaks in a Southern drawl, and says Obama and national Democrats don’t want to acknowledge that there are members of the party like him.
“He says ‘Chil-ay’ and “Pah-kee-stahn’,” Wolfe says, emphasizing Obama’s pronunciations of Chile and Pakistan. “I say ‘Chil-ee’ and ‘Pack-a-stan.’ They like a person who talks like them.”
Pack-ee-stan, Tal-ee-ban.
Is this just a dream, a desperate waste of time? No. Obama knows that even the remotest chance of losing anything will not only hurt his fragile ego but it can cost money. If this effort causes Obama Dimocrat voter disenfranchisers to have to spend money, any amount of money and time, the effort is worth it.
We Hillary supporters know plenty of people in Arkansas and a quick phone call won’t hurt, will it? We know people in Texas too. And the people we know are Democrats not the current crop of Obaminations.
President Obama is barely leading an out of state challenger in the May 22 Arkansas Democratic primary, according to a local poll conducted by the respected Hendrix College and Talk Business Research. [snip]
Wolfe’s apparently credible challenge comes just a week after Keith Judd, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, picked up 40 percent of the vote against Obama in the West Virginia primary.”
Yee-haw! A felon in another state with no money and no organization and no publicity almost beats a sitting bowing president of the United States. Can you say Eugene McCarthy? Now John Wolfe:
“If I were the RNC, I’d be pouring money into the Wolfe campaign.A Wolfe victory would actually be A SERIOUS MATTER for the Obama campaign.
Why? Because the president would begin to look a little ridiculous. Wolfe will start appearing on talk shows, gain momentum in Texas, and arrive at the Democratic convention parading around with his delegates and generally creating a spectacle that will attract reporters bored to tears by the Obama coronation.
They’ll do the roll call and someone will say, “The great state of Arkansas casts its votes for John Wolfe.”
One problem for Obama is that Wolfe doesn’t sound like a lunatic. I’m not saying he isn’t a lunatic. Just that he doesn’t sound like one.
Presidents really should not be losing primaries. Lyndon Johnson withdrew in 1968 simply because he didn’t win New Hampshire by as many votes as he was expected to.
Losing Arkansas would help create a sense among voters that something is very wrong. I would expect over the next week an strange infusion of buses and passenger vans into Arkansas to get Obama supporters to the polls.”
Add a Wisconsin victory for Scott Walker in June to a John Wolfe victory this coming Tuesday and later on in Texas and miracles can happen. And if none of this comes to pass Obama still looks like the scrawny fool he is. John Wolfe for President!
No one’s voting for Wolfe, only against Obama, so if the backlash is real then this race just got tighter. In fact, Arkansas Democrats are sufficiently worried that they announced today that Wolfe won’t be awarded delegates no matter how well he does because he hasn’t filed all the necessary paperwork. How happy do you think they were to have to issue that just-in-case statement?
Actually, the best part of this story is the location. Team Mitt’s going to have a lot of fun if The One faces a close call on Bill Clinton’s home turf:
Seeking to attract Democrats and independents who supported the last Democratic president, Romney has taken to lavishing praise at every turn on Clinton’s boom-era ’90s policies while contrasting them unfavorably with President Barack Obama’s old-school, Big Government ways.
The tactic is designed to drive a wedge between the group of Democrats who supported Obama during the epic 2008 primary battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton: the white, working-class voters who hold the key to many swing states, like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
It’s also a simple way for Romneyland to poke a stick in the eye of Team Obama, using one of its most prominent surrogates but a man who has had a complicated personal history with Obama…”
Yup, we hold the key. Now let’s begin to twist it.
Seventeen percent of voters in the district are undecided between Obama and Wolfe and Obama only leads by seven. Yes we can!:
“Seventeen percent are undecided in the district poll.
In an interview with THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Wolfe said the poll results were “unbelievable” and said a defeat for Obama in the Arkansas primary would be “politically cataclysmic.”
“It says the momentum is good,” Wolfe said about the poll. “This is democracy in action.”
Wolfe predicted that the voters would move his way in the final days before the May 22 primary, despite his shoestring campaign budget. “There’s not been a single TV ad. There’s not been a single radio ad,” he said.
Wolfe is also competing against Obama in Texas’s May 29 primary.
Wolfe has criticized Obama for being too close to Wall Street and its interests (for example, Obama’s latest fundraiser with private equity lenders last night in New York City) and seeks to be a more principled Democrat than the 44th president.
Wolfe also said he supports repealing the president’s signature legislation, Obamacare, which he says doesn’t lower health care costs even if the White House claims otherwise.
“I don’t think it’s right in principle to force people to buy from monopolies,” Wolfe said. “The thing about Obamacare is it’s the best thing for the stock prices of insurance companies.” Wolfe added that he supports a single-payer health care system because it will be more cost effective.
Wolfe previously told TWS that he does not support gay marriage, unlike Obama.”
“Hillary 2012? Obama In Serious Danger of Losing Arkansas Primary
After President Obama’s humiliating showing against a West Virginia prison inmate earlier this month, a more serious humiliation could be in making after the May 22 Arkansas primary. [snip]
In West Virginia, a prisoner garnered nearly 42% of the vote against this sitting president. In North Carolina, “no preference” took 20% of the vote away from Obama. In national and many battleground state polls, even when he’s ahead, Obama is stuck in the mid-forties – the worst possible place for an incumbent to be
This is an incumbent in way more trouble than the corrupt media wants to let on. But even though they refuse to report it, the media does know Obama’s in trouble. All you need do is look … at … their … increasing … desperation.
But nothing displays the corrupt media’s desperation more than the fact that this pretty major story is being marginalized and/or ignored in most MSM outlets — even as they find time to do oppo-research on private citizens who support Romney.
And then there’s the desperation of the White House.”
John Wolfe to block, Mr. Trebek. It’s Obama Jeopardy we’re playing.
Obama’s world is crashing in over his gray head. The three great battles leading to the presidential elections of this year are headed the way of Michelle’s fashion sense. Disaster!
In 2008 when Obama lied to every Democratic interest group in order to defeat Hillary Clinton, Obama promised to put on some comfy shoes and join the picket line as president if ever the labor unions faced attack. As if. When the fight came Barack Obama ran.
As we wrote with such precision about the many Wisconsin recalls back in February 2011 “The ending won’t be pretty.” If indeed Scott Walker wins his recall election a few weeks from now Barack Obama will have to spend a great deal of time and money to win what was once supposed to be a solid and easy victory for Obama Dimocrats in November. Failure to win Wisconsin in November means President Romney.
The second big battle is the battle for money. This is the battle that has Barack Obama worried. Barack Obama cannot win if he is outspent and Barack Obama knows this.
Barack Obama first promised to accept public funds for the general election in 2008. John McCain of McCain/Feingold campaign finance legislation made the same promise. John McCain kept his word. Barack Obama outspent McCain by hundreds of millions.
The cheap hustler from Chicago is terrified. Obama has little SuperPac support so he has to order a $25 million dollar expenditure out of his own campaign coffers, money desperately needed for the fall. Meanwhile Romney is fundraising with little spending in the next five months. Worse of all, American Crossroads launches $25 million ad campaign against Obama – and that’s the amount in only one month!
“Obama won all of these states in 2008, but all of them are expected to be battlegrounds in this election. Pennsylvania might be the toughest for Republicans to flip under normal circumstances, but Obama’s war on coal, the HHS mandate, and his flip-flop on gay marriage will hurt him in this blue-collar, Catholic state. Michigan will be almost as difficult for the GOP, but Romney’s personal connection to the state gives him at least a shot at it. North Carolina might be the only gimme, after last week’s gay-marriage faceplant and the fact that Obama couldn’t get 80% of Democrats to vote for him in a primary in which he was unopposed.
It’s interesting to see Wisconsin and Missouri left off of this list. Republicans probably have a better shot in those states, and combined they represent more electoral votes than Michigan, or equal to Pennsylvania. Expect further ad campaigns to focus on those states.
This is, of course, why Democrats are panicking on fundraising. With unions spending money in Wisconsin on a losing cause this summer, they won’t have as much of a backstop on the outside-group front, and it’s only going to get worse.”
Strapped for cash and facing a tidal wave of big-money Republican attack ads, Democratic super PACs are putting an unlikely plan in motion: the Super-O-Rama.
The kitschy name is for a massive fundraising push at the national convention in Charlotte, where Democrats aim to woo elusive big donors with parties featuring live music, open bars and mingling with “senior Democratic policy leaders,” according to a fundraising appeal.
Democrats hope the events will lead to a massive cash infusion for three super PACs that have struggled to pull in the big checks necessary to compete with GOP outside advertising juggernauts like the Karl Rove-conceived Crossroads outfits and the Koch brothers-linked Americans for Prosperity.
But the plan isn’t perfect. The Democratic National Convention is just two months before the general election — too late to spend any money raised there on ads, some Democrats worry. Plus, conventions do not typically lend themselves to the type of one-on-one meetings where mega donors usually sign six- and seven-figure checks.
The Super-O-Rama plan is just one example of a larger overhaul afoot among Democratic super PACs, which have gotten a cool reception from some of the party’s biggest traditional donors.”
As Jon Lovitz would say “Super-O-Rama, yes, that’s the ticket.” Raise money when it is too late to spend it. Interrupt the parties at Bank of America stadium to ask for cash. Maybe Barack Obama will do lap dances in satin short-shorts. Hey, if you’re Gay For Pay you might as well go all the way.
The “O” charged Super-O-Rama name is a knob polisher for the narcissist but not much else:
“A Democratic operative familiar with the Party’s outside groups characterized the convention fundraising push as last ditch, explaining “It would be better for everyone to have money early, so they can protect incumbents and define their opponents. But you can still spend late money on advertising.”
The Democrats’ super PACs have been crushed in the race for early advertising money. The three Super-O-Rama groups had raised a combined $18 million at the end of March, while a super PAC supporting Romney had raised $52 million alone at that point. And that’s to say nothing of the $100 million raised by the two groups that compose Crossroads or the untold millions raised by other GOP-allied groups that don’t disclose their donors but have been flooding the airwaves with tough anti-Obama ads. [snip]
Unity Convention 2012 is organizing Super-O-Rama and will divide the proceeds equally among its three component groups. Its fundraising appeal indicated that it could accept unlimited “individual, labor union, or corporate” contributions, and laid out four sponsorship categories ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. [snip]
A showy super PAC presence at the convention could create tricky optics for Obama and congressional Democrats, who railed against the explosion of outside group spending sparked by a pair of 2010 federal court decisions, including the Supreme Court’s seminal ruling in a case called Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission.”
“Tricky optics?” Big Media thinks they can get away with Obama fundraising lies by using the gulling phrase “tricky optics”. No, Obama promised and his convention planners promised there would be no corporate contributions to his campaign. Now the convention at Bank of America stadium is going to request unlimited funds from corporations and Big Media thinks that’s “tricky optics”? Next we will see Obama’s phrase from his Rezko house scam, “boneheaded” resurrected.
“Mitt Romney has moved out to an eight-point lead over President Obama in North Carolina after the two men were virtually tied a month ago.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Tar Heel State shows the putative Republican nominee earning 51% of the vote to Obama’s 43%. Two percent (2%) like some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.”
Last month Obama was ahead of Romney 46% to 44%. Romney gets the backing of 88% of North Carolina Republicans while Obama only gets 76% of Democrats. Obama’s flaccid North Carolina poll numbers are not a cause for pressing the panic button. But what if the gay marriage platform fight turns ugly. What if…. press the panic button:
“The state’s Democratic Party is mired in a sexual harassment scandal. Voters just approved a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, which conflicts with Obama’s view on the issue. Convention fundraising has been slow, and labor unions tapped to fill the financial gap are angry the convention will be in a city — Charlotte — with no unionized hotels and in a state where compulsory union membership or the payment of dues is prohibited as an employment condition.
North Carolina’s 9.7 percent unemployment rate is above the national average and one of the host city’s top employers –Bank of America (BAC) — has announced job reductions. Obama is scheduled to accept his party’s nomination at Bank of America Stadium in September.
“It’s inconceivable that they would move the convention,” said Don Kettl, dean of the school of public policy at the University of Maryland. “But they may wish that they had placed their chips on another swing state.”
Yup, narcissist Obama thought he could replicate or increase his 0.3% margin of victory even though the past three years have been a disaster. But Obama needs to win North Carolina. Obama has visited North Carolina 11 times to campaign on the tax payer dime. North Carolina is a MUST WIN state for Obama:
“North Carolina is one of about a dozen states that Democratic and Republican strategists say are likely to determine the outcome of the presidential election.
Gay Community Protests
Last week’s vote to approve a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage has triggered calls from gay rights activists to move the convention. Some Democrats also want to include same-sex marriage in the party platform that will be approved at the convention, a potentially headline-grabbing debate. [snip]
Association With Bank
There are political downsides for Obama in delivering his acceptance speech in a stadium named after a bank at a time when he’s championing the need for tighter regulations and more robust consumer protections. [snip]
Preparations for the Sept. 4-6 convention come as the Democratic Party in North Carolina is dealing with fallout from a sexual harassment accusation.
Sexual Harassment Allegations
State Democratic Chairman David Parker submitted his resignation over the weekend following complaints about his handling of allegations by an ex-worker against a former party director.”
Amazing isn’t it? In that entire article not a mention is made that the sexual harassment allegations are male on male harassment. Considering (1) the convention will face a potential fight over gay marriage; (2) which Obama now, for pay, endorses personally, (3) but his campaign is fighting against including gay marriage in the platform – isn’t it rather pertinent to inform readers that the sexual harassment is male on male? Isn’t that likely to play out in a state that just rejected gay marriage and civil unions by putting these prohibitions into the state constitution? Way to go Big Media in shilling for Obama.
Let’s not forget Handsome Johnny who endorsed Obama in 2008 is on trial in North Carolina. But, the focus is still money. Money is the big battle:
“Unlike previous conventions, the Democrats are trying to fund this year’s gathering without million-dollar donations from corporations. They’ve pressed labor unions to fill in the fundraising gap as part of an effort to raise $36.6 million.
Money Woes
Convention planners are expecting to receive, at most, $4 million from unions this year, less than half of the $8 million contributed by organized labor in 2008, according to a person familiar with the funding strategy who wasn’t authorized to speak on the record about fundraising. The number could eventually be less than $1 million and the Charlotte host committee, the main vehicle for funding the convention, is still short more than $20 million, the person said. [snip]
Crone, the North Carolina Democratic strategist, said the decision to hold the convention in his state doesn’t look as smart as when it was first announced, given the controversies that have erupted since then.”
How often do we Democrats get to laugh about gang rape? Yes, it’s Friday and we intend to frolic.
This week Barack Obama said what Dick Cheney said years ago and DailyKooks are celebrating. The flood of flowery words don’t mean a damn thing and Obama certainly didn’t open his lips before the North Carolina vote thereby avoiding a beating. But from the DailyKook reaction you would think Barack Obama grew Abe Lincoln’s beard and signed the Emancipation Proclamation for Gay America.
Hooray, Barack emitted more words! What will the DailyKooks say when Barack Obama opposes putting a gay marriage plank into the platform at the Bank of America convention? What will the DailyKooks say when Obama refuses to immediately sign the gay rights Executive Order on his desk? Will the DailyKooks repeat what Jonathan Lewis said? Jonathan said: “This isn’t a broken promise President Obama can blame on Congress.” “He has not been able to provide a single valid reason for why he is now refusing to sign the executive order protecting LGBT workers. It has become increasingly clear that this decision is based on cowardice rather than principled leadership.”
While Barack Obama mouthed words about gay marriage, John Edwards is preparing his wedding dress. John is refitting Elizabeth’s old wedding dress, taking it in to fit his slim hips. Obama endorsed gay marriage, John Edwards will soon be in a gay marriage.The parents of Bruno McMuscles invite you to celebrate the wedding of their misunderstood son Bruno (currently residing in a federal penitentiary) to the renown lawyer and potential Supreme Court Justice and former Senator from North Carolina – the recently widowed John Edwards.
Today the judge in the John Edwards case refused to dismiss the charges against Johnny. John is one step closer to bliss and a long life with Bruno and his assorted friends from Oz. We couldn’t be happier. We wish the couple (and the assorted horny friends) a long life of wedded bliss. It couldn’t happen to a nicer fella.
Speaking of gay marriages, how smart is that Mitt Romney? Lately Mitt has been batting his eyelashes at that rascal Bill Clinton. But Mitt is no fool. Mitt is batting his eyelashes at Bill in order to get to us. Ohh my.
Mitt Romney, knowing a lot of Clinton Democrats are disgusted with Obama and his party of Obaminations, is flirting with us. Color us blushed. Why, we’re not that type of girls Mitt. Or are we. Keep wooing Mitt:
“The reality is that when Bill Clinton ran in ’92, he ran as a new Democrat,” said the aide, citing ticket’s campaign pledge to reform welfare. “That was the famous ad that they ran: Clinton and Gore were going to be different kinds of Democrats.”
He continued: “President Obama has really turned his back on all of that. He hasn’t run as a new Democrat, he’s run as an old Democrat… more spending, more taxation, more regulation.”
Keep talking Mitt. Flirt with us some more. We like:
“While the Obama campaign pushes out its new slogan urging voters to look “forward,” Mitt Romney’s team is feeling reminiscent.
In a press briefing before Romney’s speech in Lansing, MI Tuesday, a senior adviser sought to contrast Obama’s campaign message with that of a Democratic presidential candidate of the past: Bill Clinton. [snip]
In casting Obama as an “old-style Democrat,” the Romney campaign is apparently seeking to undermine the president’s campaign slogan and the message it represents — one of progressive, forward-thinking solutions.
Team Romney’s retort: Look at the past four years.
The aide’s characterization of Obama as being stuck in the past was reaffirmed by Romney’s speech, which sought to draw a contrast with references to Facebook and mobile apps — as well as jabs at what he sees as hollow rhetoric about the future.
“In his campaign kickoff speech last week, he asked us not to think about these last four years,” Romney said, prompting laughter from the audience. “Convenient, but not convincing. Ignoring his record would bind us to repeat it.”
We’re not forgetting anything Mitt. We’re not voting for Barack Obama, no way. More and more people are seeing things the way we see them too. As James Carville gloated, er warned, about:
“Newsflash: Nothing is in the bag. Nothing can be taken for granted. Everybody from the precinct door-knocker, to the Chicago high command, to the White House, to the halls of Congress, to the Senate and House committees, to congressional leadership, here is a simple message: If we don’t get on the offense, reconnect with the American people, talk about how the middle class is in a struggle for its very existence, hold the Republicans accountable and fight like the dickens, we are going to lose.
You can shoot five Bin Ladens, you can save 10,000 banks and 20 car companies, even pass the most sweeping legislation in modern American history; if people don’t think that you are connected to their lives and are fighting for their interests they will vote your tush out of office in a nano-second. For historical reference see Winston Churchill election of 1945 and President George H.W. Bush in 1992…”
Why look so far in the past? Just look at Dick Lugar – out of touch, out of office.
Carville’s “warnings” sound more like gloating don’t they? “Obama is a boob and if the party does not dump Obama it will die from top to bottom” is what Carville seems to be saying. Obama is Jimmie Davis.
“(CNN) — A long time ago a great three-time governor of Louisiana, Earl Long, said about Jimmie Davis, the two-time not very good governor of Louisiana, “You couldn’t wake up Jimmie Davis with an earthquake.”
As I go around the country and see various Democrats and talk to them on the phone, honestly I’m beginning to think that we have become the party of Jimmie Davis.
My message is simple: WTFU. Translated — wake the you-know-what up, there is an earthquake.
You think that Democrats around the country are going to win — as I hear time and time again from people on the street.
Democratic fundraisers, activists, supporters, and even politicians alike have somehow collectively lapsed into the sentiment that the president is going to be reelected and that we have a good shot to take the House back while holding the Senate.
I ask: What are you smoking? What are you drinking? What are you snorting or just what in the hell are you thinking?“
LANSING, Mich. — Mitt Romney has a new hero on the stump and it’s Bill Clinton.
In seeking to drive a wedge between centrist and liberal Democrats, Romney spoke here on Tuesday in glowing terms of the Clinton era’s balanced budgets and rosy economy.
“President Obama chose to apply liberal ideas of the past to a 21st century America,” Romney said. “Liberal policies didn’t work back then, they haven’t worked during these last four years, and they will not work in the future. New Democrats had abandoned those policies, but President Obama resurrected them with the predictable results.”
Romney continued: “President Clinton, remember, he said the era of big government was over. President Obama brought it back with a vengeance. Government at all levels now consumes about 38 percent of the economy, and if Obamacare is installed, that will rise to about half of the economy.”
Furthermore, Romney sought to paint Obama as a welfare president. It was not a far cry from ex-presidential rival Newt Gingrich dubbing Obama a “food stamp president,” and the former House speaker’s work with Clinton to balance the budget in the ’90s also resonated during Romney’s speech.
“President Clinton made efforts to reform welfare as we know it,” Romney said. “But President Obama is trying tirelessly to expand the welfare state, with more promises of more programs, more benefits, more spending.” [snip]
A senior Romney aide told reporters before the speech at a community college here that that invoking Clintonism was devised as a trick to drive a wedge between centrist and liberal Democrats, though with Clinton appearing front-and-center in Obama’s campaign advertisements — not to mention his wife, Hillary, serving as Obama’s secretary of state — the results of such a strategy remain to be seen.
Like Romney, the aide spoke glowingly of President Clinton.”
Recently the evidence has been piling up about this sometimes public, sometimes secret war between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton/Bill Clinton. Sometimes we track the latest developments in our comments section:
“JtJames, thanks for that article. Anyone who thinks Hillary or Bill Clinton don’t remember 2008 should read it. Anytime Bill or Hillary say something nice about Barack Obama that article should be reread. “There are three leading political parties in America.” Guess which one we belong to?”
The article which should be read every time Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton say something nice about Boob Obama was published in the Huff n’ Puff Post:
“The Democratic congressman thought his credentials were in order. He was popular, from a prominent district and the ranking member of a key committee. Most important, he had not endorsed Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential race. So through an intermediary, he asked Bill Clinton to headline a fundraiser. The answer: no.
The go-between reminded the former president that the congressman had remained neutral in the race between Obama and Hillary Clinton.
“Yeah, but neutral was the same as endorsing Barack,” the former president said, according to the intermediary, who declined to be named because of continuing friendships with both men. “The answer is still no.”
“The answer is still no.”
The article tracks exactly with what we know. The article tracks exactly with Bill Clinton’s “payback” tour this year and every year since 2007 – reward your friends, punish your enemies. The article tracks exactly with the Al Sharpton complaint that most of those who attack Barack Obama or have negative things to say are Hillary Clinton supporters. The article tracks exactly with Hillary Clinton donors not donating or donating “polite” amounts. The article tracks exactly with Hillary Clinton donors saying “the answer is still no” to Obama’s Superpac.
While Bruno is splashing on the aftershave in anticipation of handsome Johnny nuptials and Romney is making googoo eyes at Bill, Bill is busy giving the skunk eye to Barack. It’s Amateur Hour says Bill.
“Bill Clinton thought so little of President Obama — mocking him as an “amateur” — that he pressed his wife last summer to quit her job as secretary of state and challenge him in the primaries, a new book claims,
“The country needs you!” the former president told Hillary Clinton, urging her to run this year, according to accounts of the conversation included in Edward Klein’s new biography of Obama.
The title of Klein’s explosive, unauthorized bio of Obama, “The Amateur” (Regnery Publishing), was taken directly from Bill Clinton’s bombshell criticism of the president, the author said.
“Barack Obama,” Bill Clinton said, according to book excerpts, “is an amateur.”
The withering criticism is incredible, given the fact that Bill Clinton is actively campaigning for Obama’s re-election.
But according to the book, Bill Clinton unloaded on Obama and pressed Hillary to run against her boss during a gathering in the ex-president’s home office in Chappaqua last August that included longtime friends, Klein said.
“The economy’s a mess, it’s dead flat. America has lost its Triple-A rating . . . You know better than Obama does,” Bill said.
Bill Clinton insisted he had “no relationship” with Obama and had been consulted more frequently by his presidential successor, George W. Bush.
Obama, Bill Clinton said, “doesn’t know how to be president” and is “incompetent.”
“Edward Klein is a seven-time New York Times bestselling non-fiction author. He is also the former foreign editor of Newsweek and former editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine. Klein frequently contributes to Vanity Fair and Parade, and currently lives in New York, New York.”
But whether the author is wholly creating a fiction or relating the absolute truth, it cannot be argued that Bill Clinton’s arguments in The Amateurring clear as a bell:
““Why risk everything now?” a skeptical Hillary told her husband, emphasizing that she wanted to leave a legacy as secretary of state.
“Because,” Bill replied, his voice rising, “the country needs you!”
“The country needs us!” added Bill. [snip]
She said she had the option of running again in 2016.
But Bill wouldn’t let go.
“I know you’re young enough!” Bill said, his voice booming. “That’s not what I’m worried about. I’m worried that I’m not young enough.”
“I’m the highest-ranking member in Obama’s Cabinet. I eat breakfast with the guy every Thursday morning. What about loyalty, Bill? What about loyalty?” she responded.
“Loyalty is a joke,’’ Bill shot back. “Loyalty doesn’t exist in politics.”
Bill’s verbal battle with Hillary over the presidency, if anything, intensified when daughter Chelsea showed up with her husband, Marc Mezvinsky.
“You deserve to be president,” Chelsea said.
Bill was clearly pleased that Chelsea was on his side and vowed to have allies commission polls on a Hillary-Obama matchup.
“What are you trying to do — force my hand?” Hillary said.
“I want everyone to know how strong you poll,” Bill said.
Hillary said, “Go ahead and knock yourself out.”
Yes there were polls and yes everyone will appropriately attack the book. But no one can dispute the accuracy of the assessments. If you want loyalty in Washington, get a dog. “Did this really happen? Easy to believe, at any rate.” We do however doubt, as we have for years, that Hillary would run a primary against Obama. Let federal convicts do that.
It’s a dangerous day for Barack Obama. As we wrote yesterday, Obama’s many lies and gay bashing adventures over the years, threatened to catch up with him as must win North Carolina went to the polls. Electorally Obama found himself in a smoking frying pan. Today’s down low switch hitting ploy on gay marriage will have grave electoral consequences. But the great danger for Obama is that other groups will now learn from certain gay people and certain gay groups.
Enter Jonathan Lewis. In June of 2009 we advised women, Jews, and gays to “wake up”. We noted that the organizations supposedly established to fight for these groups were more interested in defending Barack Obama than in their mission statements. We recently noted this pro Obama hypocrisy was also evident in the actions of environmental groups and labor unions - they’re more interested in protecting/helping Barack Obama than in their own constituents. Jonathan Lewis and a few gay leaders were the only ones that fought for the gay community and today their strategy threatens a meltdown of the Obama campaign. If other constituent groups learn from Jonathan and demand Obama act on their issues Obama will be caught between today’s Obama and the other Obamas from yesteryear and Obama “present” votes of convenience.
Who is Jonathan Lewis and why is he so important? Well for one thing Jonathan is the son of Peter Lewis and Peter Lewis is a very wealthy man. Peter Lewis (of “Flo” and Progressive Insurance) along with George Soros has been one of the rivers of money for the democratic left. This campaign season Peter Lewis has not been contributing money to help the Obama cause. Lewis’s money distributor Michael Vachon, has been dripping disdain on Obama’s pleas for Superpac money. Peter’s gay activist son Jonathan has been a thorn on Barack Obama’s side:
A key activist called Obama a “coward” and plans to execute a “We Can’t Wait” campaign to draw attention to the issue.
Jonathan Lewis, the son of billionaire Peter Lewis, told The Washington Post that he plans to spend $100,000 to fund the “We Can’t Wait” campaign.
“This isn’t a broken promise President Obama can blame on Congress,” Lewis said. “He has not been able to provide a single valid reason for why he is now refusing to sign the executive order protecting LGBT workers. It has become increasingly clear that this decision is based on cowardice rather than principled leadership.”
Jonathan Lewis has been even more scornful of Obama on gay marriage. Why does a gay billionaire’s son hold so much influence? Obama needs money desperately. The big donor community is close knit and everyone knows Peter and Michael and by extension Jonathan. Between black votes and gay money Barack Obama went with the green.
After last night the Obama campaign figured the cops were banging on the door. In North Carolina Obama had distributed a press release against the anti gay marriage Amendment One but otherwise kept quiet. After the vote Obama noted the huge margins for Amendment One as well as the numbers for him. In a state Obama won in 2008 by 0.3% Obama last night lost 20% of his own party!
Before last night’s vote it was almost impossible for Obama to win “must win” North Carolina. After last night even the Obama campaign understands that “must win” North Carolina has gone south for Obama.
Republicans/conservatives believe that Obama has been a secret gay marriage supporter all along. They are wrong. To this day Barack Obama has never participated in a gay pride march and in 2008 when gay bashing was needed to win South Carolina – gay bashing it was. But Republican/conservative HotAir does get some things right in “Noted gay-marriage supporter finally drops cynical charade“:
“Note the fine print, though: The president stressed that this is a personal position, and that he still supports the concept of states deciding the issue on their own. But he said he’s confident that more Americans will grow comfortable with gays and lesbians getting married, citing his own daughters’ comfort with the concept.
I don’t believe that for a moment either but that’s going to be his new compromise. Instead of “I support gay rights but oppose gay marriage” it’s now “I support gay marriage but oppose federal intervention.” Even so, if/when the Supreme Court finds a right to same-sex marriage in the Equal Protection Clause, rest assured that the statement from the White House that day will be nothing but celebratory. This position too is a charade.
2. Excite the activist base: The LGBT community is not only a major part of the Democratic base but they also comprise some of the most politicalyl active people in the party. [snip]
3. Excite the donor base: One in six Obama’s 2012 campaign bundlers are gay, according to research conducted by the Post’s Dan Eggen and T.W. Farnam. Couple that fact with the news earlier this week that George Soros, one of the most prominent Democratic major donors in the country, was directing his contributions to grassroots groups rather than the super PAC expected to fund TV ads supporting Obama and it’s clear that the president badly needs a heavy investment from Hollywood and Silicon Valley. And those two communities are heavily in favor of gay marriage. (Don’t forget: Obama is headed to Hollywood tonight for a fundraiser at the house of actor George Clooney.)
4. Rally young people: [snip]
5. A principled stand: [snip]
Short version: its gay money and white liberals. If Jonathan Lewis contributes to the Obama superpac Barack will be happy and think it was all worth while. But it’s not all show me the money:
“And now, the minuses.
1. Not a slam dunk: [snip]
2. The black community: If the LGBT vote is a pillar of Obama’s base, the African American vote is an even bigger pillar. (In a recent Post poll in Virginia, Obama was beating former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 97 percent to one percent among black voters.) And, African Americans have consistently been one of the groups most resistant to gay marriage. In that year’s worth of Post-ABC polling, just 42 percent said they support legalization while 55 percent oppose it. Yes, it’s unlikely that black voters leave Obama in droves over the issue. But it’s easier to see this decision taking some of the passion for him out of this community.
3. Virginia/North Carolina: President Obama won both states in 2008 and his campaign is targeting both again in 2012. (The Democratic National Convention this summer will be held in Charlotte.) While both states have changed demographically and politically over the past decade (or so), large portions of both states remain culturally quite conservative and might balk at Obama’s support for same-sex marriage. (Amendment One, which makes the only legal union in the state as between a man and a woman, passed with 60 percent of the vote on Tuesday in North Carolina.)
But as much gay money as flows into Obama’s pockets Barack still has to be worried. Imagine what will happen if the environmentalists stop making excuses for Obama and demand he do something on their issues. Imagine what will happen if the labor unions stop making excuses for Obama and demand he do something on their issues (such as the Keystone Pipeline which environmentalists oppose). Imagine what will happen if on issue after issue, demographic after demographic, interest group after interest group the protection of Obama ceases and instead action before the election is demanded. Imagine if the jobless demand jobs!
Today’s danger for Obama is that a few gay donors threatened Obama and Obama fell to his knees. If others start doing the same the campaign of bamboozle and lies will have to begin to produce change you can believe in. Suppose all groups demand Obama do what he says? Disaster!
There is a primary in Indiana tonight. Long time incumbent Republican senator Richard Lugar will probably lose. Tonight’s Lugargeddon is more proof of the powerful draught served by the Tea Party and the evaporated mist known as Occupy Wall Street.
When/if Richard Lugar gets booted out of office it will be for not listening to the ones that brung him. The decades living in Washington, D.C. distanced Lugar from Indiana and Lugar began to think he was in Washington to do as he desired without listening to the great unwashed.
Our republican form of government requires elected officials to use their discretion, experience, wisdom, and personal judgment in casting votes. But those votes have to be explained. Those votes have to take into consideration the popular will. The votes our representatives cast are votes on behalf of the people filtered though that elected official. But in the end the elected official must at the very least listen to and consider the wishes of the governed. Lugar tonight will learn that lesson.
In North Carolina, a must win state for Barack Obama, there is an anti gay marriage ballot issue, Amendment One, that will likely win. This Amendment One issue puts Obama in a bind.
Many African-Americans are opposed to gay marriage and Obama needs a turnout of blacks bigger than 2008 if he is to have a chance of winning. That is one of the reasons which explains Obama bailing out of a North Carolina visit.
Contrary to what many Republicans/conservatives believe Barack Obama is an anti gay bigot. So are many African-Americans. But a lot of white liberals mouth support for gay marriage and gay rights and Barack Obama needs to fool them again as well.
Honest gay activists are withholding campaign contributions from Barack Obama until he keeps some of his broken promises to the gay community and Barack Obama desperately needs that gay money. But, a lot of swing states such as North Carolina and Ohio are against gay marriage. Obama is caught between the oceans of lies. Remember this from two days after the 2008 elections?:
Proposition 2 in California passed on Tuesday. Proposition 2 benefited farm animals. Proposition 2 protects pregnant pigs, calves and hens as well as any animal in an enclosed area. California farm animals have their rights enhanced in Barack World. California Gay-Americans are sent to the Obama slaughter house.
Proposition 8, with big help from Obama supporters passed in California. Many of those Obama supporters that supported Proposition 8 were African-Americans who voted for Proposition 8 by 70%. Obama said nary a word against proposition 8. Obama’s voice was employed by supporters of Proposition 8 in robocalls to win support for Proposition 8. The Obama South Carolina gay-bashing tour echoed in California.
Many African-American Obama supporters who wept and gloried in the end of racism in America turned on Gay-Americans. [Some wonderful African-Americans fought against Proposition 8 with the same strength that some African-Americans supported Hillary.] Obama said nary a word against the bigotry.
The Obama gay baiting of 2008 is catching up with him in 2012.
In Wisconsin the Republican governor Scott Walker will officially know who his opponent will be. In early June both candidates will face off in a general recall/reelection fight. If Scott Walker wins the last of the many recent recall elections in Wisconsin the Obama campaign will have a coronary. Say goodbye to 10 electoral votes that were in the “safe” category for Obama.
Tonight might not be exciting, but it sets the table for the main events to come.
The good news? The economy is so bad even the “con artists are giving up” on their various scams. All except the top flim-flam con man that is. He’s moving FORWARD with his scams.
Wanna know what else is difficult? Keeping track of Obama scams, flim-flams, lies, distractions, stunts, bamboozlements, race-baitings, fake wars, real wars, past broken promises, present broken promises, future broken promises, panders, evasions, tricks, trades, calculated tantrums, calculated sneers, calculated snubs, manipulations, gimmicks, not to mention the golfing, vacations, policy fiascoes, personal obnoxiousness, and the sleeveless partner, is really really difficult. But you have got to keep focused. You can’t cover all the above. You can only prioritize and try to track the trends and overviews of all the above. It’s what we try to do. It’s what we advise Mitt Romney to do.
It’s easier said than done. But as he has thus far mostly done, it is what Mittens Willard Romney should continue to do. Avoid distractions Mitt!
The way this election cycle is going to proceed is that groups outside the campaign have promised to tackle a lot of the issues Obama wants to distract with as well as the advertising which directly attacks Barack Obama in a most negative way. The Romney campaign proper will be able to stay positive and stay focused on the most important issues. By that we mean the economy.
Now we can hear the howls from the phony Obama campaign and well meaning deluded people who are properly concerned with the state of campaign financing. But really, it is time to grow up on campaign financing. Does anyone in the Democratic Left really think that either party is not beholden to the wealthy (”stinkin’ rich” to the Occupy Wall Street dupes)?
“Interior designer Bryan Huffman told the courtroom that Rachel “Bunny” Mellon was unhappy that Edwards tried hiding his relationship with Rielle Hunter using some of the $725,000 that Mellon had funneled to him during the 2008 presidential campaign, The Associated Press reported.
“She thought maybe you should probably pay for your girlfriend yourself,” Huffman testified.
Many in the courtroom laughed — and Edwards even smiled, according to the AP.
Mellon also gave $6.4 million to organizations tied to Edwards’ presidential run, and after he dropped out of the race in January 2008, aide Andrew Young requested an additional $40 to $50 million for Edwards’ poverty foundation, Huffman testified.
“[Mellon] was rather apoplectic at the size of the figure they requested. She was really upset,” Huffman said. “She said, ‘I cannot believe that the senator really wanted me for my money all along.’”
Did you notice? That was all before Citizens United. Millions upon millions for handsome Johnny as he roared about helping the poor – while Flukeing Reille whom we assume could not afford the contraception. It’s a War On Women!
Hey, did you notice? We just got distracted. We were talking about Romney not getting distracted and then we darn well got distracted talking about pretty boy Edwards. He sure is pretty isn’t he? Darn, we almost got distracted again talking about his flaxen waxen hair. Then we got distracted by the War on Women and the silver fox.
Romney knows these outside the campaign groups are going to mostly stick to the issues Obama wants to distract with while he himself sticks to the economy. That’s not to say that Romney might occasionally take some pokes at some of Obama’s most obvious distractions and gimmicks. That’s not to say that the outside groups might not tackle some of the more awkward Obama economic claims and ridiculous slogans such as Forward – for Obama “Forward” means continually going backward:
“Looks like Barack Obama’s new campaign slogan will be incredibly popular … with his opponents. American Crossroads launched a new ad yesterday titled “Backward,”explaining that economic progress has moved in that direction rather than forward for the last three years. More people end up on food stamps, more people drop out of the work force, and the only thing moving forward is … well, watch the clip:”
Romney is going to have to restrict himself to the economy while other Obama schemes are addressed by Romney ally organizations.
“It becomes increasingly impossible to question the notion that Barack Obama is purposefully destructive. [snip]
Consider: The more the economy deteriorates the more Barack Obama profits politically. Americans forced in desperation from even bothering to look for jobs leads to a drop in the unemployment rate and Barack Obama smirks a clown smile and goes on yet another vacation. [snip]
It’s government by willful, purposeful, destruction of America for personal political profit – but it won’t work to save this corrupt clown from Chicago.
On each of these issues Barack Obama pretends to vote “present” or both “yes” and “no” in the HOPE that Americans are as stupid as he thinks they are. After all, Barack reasons, they did elect him so they really are stupid.
But reality, like justice, has its own wheel which grinds slowly but inexorably. On each issue Obama’s chickens are coming home – ready to poop.”
Romney has to tie up some other chickens to the roof of his car and have them poop directly on Obama’s head. One of those chickens has to be Ted Turner. Mr. CNN has now joined George Soros and Jimmy Carter in stating that Romney won’t be such a frightening president. Turner thinks Romney “would probably make a good president.”
We’re much more doubtful about Mittens than Ted, George and Jimmy. We do know that Barack Obama has got to go. From that basic fact, we won’t get distracted.
Tonight Barack Obama will stage yet another expensive campaign publicity stunt. This time the campaign publicity stunt is not on the basketball court or a late night TV show. The campaign publicity stunt tonight comes from Afghanistan, paid for by the American taxpayers.
Tonight’s Obama campaign publicity stunt will be one of many more and is the product of many more earlier campaign publicity stunts. But these publicity stunts are not really going to matter. That’s because Mitt Romney knows IT’S THE ECONOMY.
Mitt Romney is focused on what the American people want: real, not phony, not pie in the sky, not promised, but genuine economic recovery. That’s why the manner and substance of Mitt Romney’s reply to Obama’s attempts to take credit for Seal Team Six’s courage was so spot on. Romney almost ignored the issue, declared c’mon even Jimmy Carter would have given the order to take out Bin Laden in similar circumstances, and continued to talk about the economy.
“Why the presidential election could be over at 8:30 a.m., October 26
This may be as good as it gets. Sputter-speed growth of around 2% and a moribund labor market. As the above chart suggests, the recovery is losing momentum. Here’s Goldman economist Jan Hatzius:
Goldman Sachs is turning increasingly bearish on the U.S. economy, expecting the nation to have added only 125,000 new jobs in April, as the effects of a warm winter, which buoyed employment late last year, wear off.
The forecast is far lower than the Reuters estimate of 170,000, and the average 177,250 jobs created every month from December to March. According to a report by the bank’s Chief U.S. Economist Jan Hatzius, the jobs report will be a further sign of a weakening economy, where inventory accumulation has accelerated and final demand growth remains sluggish.
“Real income growth remains soft, partly because of higher energy prices, wealth effects are not yet particularly positive, consumer confidence remains modest, and again some of the recent strength in retail sales probably reflects weather effects,” Hatzius said.
“Wait, the second half will be “more difficult” than the first? We might be lucky to have 2% growth in the first half. The econ team at Citigroup seems equally as sober: “The 1Q GDP data, a month of rising jobless claims, and likely back-to-back moderate gains in non-farm employment should dampen remaining optimism that 2013 would be the year of decisive growth acceleration in the U.S. Why should any other quarter in 2012 be markedly better than 1Q?”
And given the reluctance of big banks to make U.S. recession calls, I have to think that plenty of these folks are worrying we might get a negative quarter at some point this year. Imagine the political shock wave if, say, the third quarter dipped even a smidgen. To use President Obama’s favorite analogy, the U.S. economy would be back in the ditch. And that report would be released by the Commerce Department on Oct. 26, just 11 days before the election.”
Stick to the economy Mitt Romney. Let Obama continue to waste taxpayer dollars on campaign publicity stunts. Soon the bill will come due and Barack Obama will have to pay.
Harry Truman. This year was supposed to be the year Barack Obama switched persona, again. No longer the great and wise Abraham Lincoln (and extravagantly gaudy Mary Todd’s spouse), Barack Obama was to refashion himself into give ‘em Hell Harry Truman (Michelle presumably sewing the sleeves back on her frocks to assume the role of modest Bess). Barack Obama was to abandon his celebrity sports friends in order to troll the streets of the nation at taxpayer expense damning the “do nothing Congress” and demanding “fairness”.
The fly in the ointment, the flaw in that notion, is that Harry Truman campaigned for popular New Deal programs. Obama has only Obaminations hated by the oppressed populace to offer. How to campaign against a “do nothing Congress” when the American people would have the Congress “do nothing” rather than legislate hated diktats?
But on “fairness” Obama was to be the head Occupy Wall Streeter occupying the White House (even though his coronation would be held at Bank of America stadium). Obamas were to parade like subsidized Colombian street walkers, on the taxpayer dime, shouting “FAIRNESS” while fist-bumping the unemployed peeps.
Michelle grudgingly agreed to her temporary supporting role. Usually dressed in garish outfits more appropriate to a drag queen remake of Queen of Outer Space (”I hate zat qveen“) Michelle Obama is now frequently the homespun “folksy” girl (”It could all come down to those few thousand folks we need to help to get to the polls…”). Michelle won’t give up those free vacations without a fight even if she has to lose her glue-on nails in the struggle.
Barack bowed to sacrifice as well. Slumming into dive bars to hang with the homies Barack suffered yogurt showers and foul breaths. The unfairness of it all – having to campaign again instead of just a shout of acclamation ‘midst Grecian columns. To Barack that is the real “unfairness”. But Barack still agreed to talk about the unfairness suffered by those other than himself. And that was to be the campaign theme. That was to be the message. But an odd thing happened….
“Just as the Clinton campaign (whose manager James Carville famously coined the phrase ‘it’s the economy, stupid’) resisted President George H.W. Bush’s attempts to make the 1992 election about the then Arkansas governor’s character, Team Romney will try keep the focus on Obama and his record.
In this respect they will be helped by the cult of personality that surrounds Obama, and in large part on which his 2008 campaign was based. And Obama’s well-developed self-regard (he was quoted this week as telling the Democratic National Committee chair: “It’s not about you, it’s about me) could also play into Romney’s hands. [snip]
But there were other areas where Romney made clear he would fight for every inch of ground. He was determined not to allow Obama to own the concept of “fairness”.
It could be that last night Mitt Romney announced his campaign theme and it is to be about fairness. A New Fair Deal:
“He said: “This America is fundamentally fair. We will stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice; we will stop the unfairness of politicians giving taxpayer money to their friends’ businesses; we will stop the unfairness of requiring union workers to contribute to politicians not of their choosing; we will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and benefits than the taxpayers they serve; and we will stop the unfairness of one generation passing larger and larger debts on to the next.”
Romney told his story. A dad that “sold paint from the trunk of his car” and later became the governor of that state. A young Mitt Romney “helping start a business that grew from 10 people to hundreds of people.” But it was the subject of “fairness” that resonated. In a country enraged about bank bailouts, insurance company bailouts and mandates to the citizenry to bail out the insurance companies by becoming serf customers, it is a powerful message.
To the urban poor, Latinos, Blacks, the White working class, the idea of school choice will be the way Romney intends to reach out. To socially conservative Latinos and Blacks this might be a way of prying them loose from Obama Dimocrat tentacles if not actually getting them to push the electoral ballot button for Romney. To Latinos concerned about immigration reform the Romney message will be economic opportunity. To all hard workers and those paying their own way, their own mortgages, it’s the Romney New Fair Deal.
Romney’s New Fair Deal is the mirror image of arguments Harry Truman made when he argued for the Fair Deal list of programs. Romney won’t necessarily be proposing new programs. Romney will seek to restore “fairness”. You know, if you work, you advance type fairness. You know, don’t bail out Wall Street and kill Main Street fairness.
After the second world war Americans needed a direction and help for returning soldiers. Truman proposed a 21 point domestic program (and the G.I. Bill of Rights) building on Roosevelt’s New Deal. Republicans opposed Truman. The Republican congressional majorities campaigned on the slogan “Had enough?” Truman won that battle.
Such is the corruption and incompetence of Barack Obama that – Mitt Romney will be able to run on both a New Fair Deal as well as the outrage expressed by “Had enough?”
As the American economy slows down yet again (durable goods orders drop 4.2% in March) Mitt Romney has a strong case to make against Barack Obama. Americans indeed have had enough. Americans indeed want fairness restored.
Mitt Romney already has an abundance of slogans to run on - “Obama Isn’t Working”, “Obama Made It Worse”, and “Had Enough?”. But if Mitt Romney needs a positive message, a campaign theme that weaves all the slogans together, all the messages into one, “Mitt Romney’s Fair Deal” is the ticket.
“After 43 primaries and caucuses, many long days and not a few long nights, I can say with confidence – and gratitude – that you have given me a great honor and solemn responsibility. And, together, we will win on November 6th! [snip]
Four years ago Barack Obama dazzled us in front of Greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. But after we came down to earth, after the celebration and parades, what do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama?
Is it easier to make ends meet? Is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one? Have you saved what you needed for retirement? Are you making more in your job? Do you have a better chance to get a better job? Do you pay less at the pump?
If the answer were “yes” to those questions, then President Obama would be running for re-election based on his achievements…and rightly so. But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions, distractions, and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and in a different time. But not here and not now. It’s still about the economy …and we’re not stupid.”
Said before the flood, said better:
There are no celestial choirs singing tonight except on Youtube. This is the end.
Angels and ministers of grace defend us. Lord have mercy.
We prefer the déclassé “Obama Ain’t Working.” But “Obama Isn’t Working” will do just fine. It’s a sister slogan to “Obama made it worse.”
“Campaigns for president always have one of two themes: “it’s time for a change” or “stay the course.” The incumbent power will always be the “stay the course” purveyors, even if “adjustments” or “tweaks/changes” garnish the formula. The out of power challenger will always run a campaign based on the “it’s time for a change” theme.”
As we wrote back then, this year’s battle of the slogans will be “Obama made it worse” versus Obama’s “it would have been worse.”
Ronald Reagan has the most famous and effective iteration of “THE” slogan:
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Mr. Reagan asked, dwelling on Mr. Carter’s economic and foreign policy failures. Voters decided that they weren’t, and Mr. Reagan became the 40th president.”
Back in June 2007 we discussed why campaign messages should be a few words, both positive and negative simultaneously, and we provided several examples (”The New Deal”, “The New Frontier”, “Nixon’s The One”, “I Like Ike”, “Morning In America”, “Putting People First”) of earlier successful slogans.
Barack Obama’s 2008 slogan was a sharp attack on Hillary Clinton as well as a web of lies designed to delude the ranks about Obama’s abilities. “Change you can believe in” turned into neither change for the better nor change that could be believed. But it did the trick.
Mitt Romney’s latest appearances have been decorated with a sign that proclaims “Obama Isn’t Working.” Obama Isn’t Working does at least two things.
First, Obama Isn’t Working is a reminder of the endless celebrity style vacations, the golfing, the sports fixations, the basketball games, the publicity stunts, the ceaseless river of words at venue after venue paid by the taxpayer, the flights paid for by the taxpayer, the parties, the celebrity get togethers, the wife trips, the wife vacations, the games, the talk show appearances, the sport show appearances, the children shows appearances, the awards shows appearances, the gala appearances, and of course the many campaign fundraisers tucked into the many fundraisers and fundraisers. Obama Isn’t Working, Obama is raising money for himself. Obama is hanging out with celebrities. Obama is on TV. Obama is at a sports game. Obama is busy avoiding work. Obama is vacationing. Obama is at a publicity stunt.
Second, Obama Isn’t Working is a warning and a bill come due. Imagine, a gorgeous pair of shoes, or a vroom vroom car, or that massive manse on the hill, or that app loaded super new smart phone, or those orchestra seat tickets, or that new super fast computer, or that huge 3d flat screen, or that perfect piece of jewelry, or that wonderful vacation, or that second honeymoon. But… you cannot afford it. You might want it but you can’t afford it. In the same way, you might like Obama, you might be happy you voted for him in 2008 but you still don’t have a job. You can’t afford Barack Obama. Even if you like him, even if you think you want him reelected, even if you think he’ll do a better job next time – you realize you can’t afford the lummox. Obama ain’t working. Obama isn’t working.
Obama Isn’t Working - you can’t afford the never there recovery. Obama Isn’t Working – you can’t afford the high unemployment rates. Obama Isn’t Working – you can’t afford the economic desperation. Hate him or like him – Obama Isn’t Working.
“Obama Isn’t Working” is working as a slogan. The proof “Obama Isn’t Working” is working is the yelps of “RACISM!”
“Obama Isn’t Working” is working so well it is a website. “Obama Isn’t Working” is a video:
If you notice that Obama is not working, that Obama is in way over his head, that Barack Obama does not have a clue about what he is supposed to do - that’s somehow racist. Black people are so delicate and weak and they are all exactly the same that one black person cannot be accused of being a boob. That’s racist.
The many 2008 Hillary Clinton supporters that happened to be black were accused of being racist even though they themselves were black and blacks can’t be racist don’t you know. But if blacks cannot be racists against whites or other races the exception was made for blacks being racists against blacks if they supported Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama.
The race-baiting to protect Obama – who is not working, is all the Barack Obama campaign has left. The alleged “likeability” issue (the one that supposes Barack Obama is more likeable than Mitt Romney even as that argument is made right after a bruising Republican primary) fails when one remembers that the reptilian Richard Nixon was elected twice.
Born into slavery as one of the youngest of thirteen children of James and Elizabeth in Ulster County, New York, in 1797, Sojourner Truth’s given name was Isabella Baumfree. As almost all of her brothers and sisters had been sold to other slave owners, some of her earliest memories were of her parents’ stories of the cruel loss of their other children. [snip]
In 1843, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth – her name for a traveling preacher, one who speaks the truth – and left New York. She traveled throughout New England, where she met and worked with abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass. Her life story, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, written with the help of friend Olive Gilbert, was published in 1850.
While traveling and speaking in states across the country, Sojourner Truth met many women abolitionists and noticed that although women could be part of the leadership in the abolitionist movement, they could neither vote nor hold public office. It was this realization that led Sojourner to become an outspoken supporter of women’s rights.
In 1851, she addressed the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, delivering her famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” The applause she received that day has been described as “deafening.” From that time on, she became known as a leading advocate for the rights of women. She became one of the nineteenth century’s most eloquent voices for the cause of anti-slavery and women’s rights.
Because we want to share our ideas and experiences, our common goals, and nonpartisan solutions to the challenges that we face - and there are no limits to what we can achieve when we do.
And because we want to keep working for a better future for every child, from every family – a world in which no limits is not just our goal, but a reality!
NoLimits.org will "keep you up to date with news about issues on which Hillary took a lead and we know you care so much about," group President Ann Lewis said in an e-mail to as many as 2 million people culled from the Clinton campaign database.
Because No Limits is a registered nonprofit, "it cannot do anything political. It has to be nonpartisan," said Lewis, a longtime senior adviser to Clinton.
In Clinton's job as secretary of state for President Obama, her political dealings are highly restricted.
For example, she shut down her political action committee.
Some, like Democratic consultant and former Bill Clinton aide Chris Lehane, dismiss talk that the group could be a springboard for Clinton to try again for the White House in, say, 2016.
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," Lehane said. "I think this is just [a] group of folks who developed relationships in an intense [electoral] environment and want to stay together."
But the University of Virginia's Larry Sabato countered: "Whenever a group like this says it's not a political organization, you just know it is."
"Maybe [this] is Hillary's answer to Obama's new 'change' group that controls his golden mailing list. Maybe it's a way for Secretary of State Clinton to mobilize backing for her objectives at the State Department," he said. "And maybe [it's] a standby committee of supporters in case Hillary decides to get back into elective politics."
Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf said NoLimits.org is "one way to make sure that she - and/or the former President - still have political leverage."
Hillary World-Wide January 26, 2009
Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton Meets Afghan Women Lawyers. Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton met today at the State Department with fourteen prominent Afghan women judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. These jurists were in Washington to participate in a training program arranged by the Department’s Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan. Secretary Clinton told them: "Your American friends greatly admire your bravery and courage. It is your work in the tough environment of Afghanistan for women lawyers that will bring real reform and the rule of law to the Afghan people. As President Obama made clear yesterday in his first foreign policy announcement, we are committed to supporting your efforts to bring security and stability to your country."
Panic!!!! The Three Great Battles To Come
Obama’s world is crashing in over his gray head. The three great battles leading to the presidential elections of this year are headed the way of Michelle’s fashion sense. Disaster!
The first great battle is Wisconsin. This is total war. It’s a war the craven are losing and deserve to lose.
In 2008 when Obama lied to every Democratic interest group in order to defeat Hillary Clinton, Obama promised to put on some comfy shoes and join the picket line as president if ever the labor unions faced attack. As if. When the fight came Barack Obama ran.
But Barack Obama cannot outrun the hounds of defeat biting at his scrawny ass. New Wisconsin poll: Walker by six among likely voters, Romney tied with Obama at 46. Even the DailyKooks polls show Walker winning.
As we wrote with such precision about the many Wisconsin recalls back in February 2011 “The ending won’t be pretty.” If indeed Scott Walker wins his recall election a few weeks from now Barack Obama will have to spend a great deal of time and money to win what was once supposed to be a solid and easy victory for Obama Dimocrats in November. Failure to win Wisconsin in November means President Romney.
The second big battle is the battle for money. This is the battle that has Barack Obama worried. Barack Obama cannot win if he is outspent and Barack Obama knows this.
Barack Obama first promised to accept public funds for the general election in 2008. John McCain of McCain/Feingold campaign finance legislation made the same promise. John McCain kept his word. Barack Obama outspent McCain by hundreds of millions.
Now it is Barack Obama about to lose out on dollars. It’s why Obama, like a cheap hustler on the strip, went Gay For Pay.
The cheap hustler from Chicago is terrified. Obama has little SuperPac support so he has to order a $25 million dollar expenditure out of his own campaign coffers, money desperately needed for the fall. Meanwhile Romney is fundraising with little spending in the next five months. Worse of all, American Crossroads launches $25 million ad campaign against Obama – and that’s the amount in only one month!
Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia are the ten states that will see that ad on their television screens. More ad campaigns are sure to follow:
Yup, Obama has money woes. Obama/DNC fundraising drops $10 million from March to April. Yup, the rate of dollars flowing in is slowing not increasing. What’s the Barack Obama answer? Super-O-Rama!
As Jon Lovitz would say “Super-O-Rama, yes, that’s the ticket.” Raise money when it is too late to spend it. Interrupt the parties at Bank of America stadium to ask for cash. Maybe Barack Obama will do lap dances in satin short-shorts. Hey, if you’re Gay For Pay you might as well go all the way.
The “O” charged Super-O-Rama name is a knob polisher for the narcissist but not much else:
“Tricky optics?” Big Media thinks they can get away with Obama fundraising lies by using the gulling phrase “tricky optics”. No, Obama promised and his convention planners promised there would be no corporate contributions to his campaign. Now the convention at Bank of America stadium is going to request unlimited funds from corporations and Big Media thinks that’s “tricky optics”? Next we will see Obama’s phrase from his Rezko house scam, “boneheaded” resurrected.
“Boneheaded” leads us to the third big battle: North Carolina. Romney is now ahead in must win for Obama North Carolina:
Last month Obama was ahead of Romney 46% to 44%. Romney gets the backing of 88% of North Carolina Republicans while Obama only gets 76% of Democrats. Obama’s flaccid North Carolina poll numbers are not a cause for pressing the panic button. But what if the gay marriage platform fight turns ugly. What if…. press the panic button:
Yup, narcissist Obama thought he could replicate or increase his 0.3% margin of victory even though the past three years have been a disaster. But Obama needs to win North Carolina. Obama has visited North Carolina 11 times to campaign on the tax payer dime. North Carolina is a MUST WIN state for Obama:
Amazing isn’t it? In that entire article not a mention is made that the sexual harassment allegations are male on male harassment. Considering (1) the convention will face a potential fight over gay marriage; (2) which Obama now, for pay, endorses personally, (3) but his campaign is fighting against including gay marriage in the platform – isn’t it rather pertinent to inform readers that the sexual harassment is male on male? Isn’t that likely to play out in a state that just rejected gay marriage and civil unions by putting these prohibitions into the state constitution? Way to go Big Media in shilling for Obama.
Let’s not forget Handsome Johnny who endorsed Obama in 2008 is on trial in North Carolina. But, the focus is still money. Money is the big battle:
That story was published before the Super-O-Rama corporate donation scheme was uncovered. It is time for the Hopium addled to panic.
Yup it’s panic time. The outcome of these three battles will determine the outcome in November. And we’re not going to discuss Pennsylvania… yet.