Category Archives: President
Take One for the Team
Politico reported last week that Bill Clinton tried to get Florida Democrat Kendrick Meek out of the US Senate race. The idea was for Meek to drop out and endorse former Republican Charlie Crist. Crist dropped out of the Republican primary when it was apparent he would lose and is now running as an independent. In exchange for getting Meek out of the race Crist would agree to caucus with the Democrats – if he wins – thus, saving a scarce donkey senate seat.
The plot fizzled when Meek refused to strap on the suicide belt. No hard feelings, I guess. The Daily Caller says Clinton is stumping for Meek today. Meek tells CNN it was Crist who approached him, not Clinton. The St. Petersburg Times has a complete story here.
Post Punishment President
The president appealed to Latinos this week to double down on his presidency and extract revenge from their enemies.
Snub It
Our prickly president has added Frank Caprio, the Democrat running for governor of Rhode Island, to his snub list. Caprio’s opponent is Independent Lincoln Chafee, a serial snubber of his own former party – the Republicans. One such snub was Chafee’s endorsement of Obama in ’08. The President returned the favor on Monday by refusing to endorse Caprio. Hurt and humiliated, Caprio blurted that Obama can “take his endorsement and really shove it“.
Fear not, the unrequited candidate is already on the rebound. Politico reports this morning that Bill Clinton has swooped in with smooth and soothing words of endorsement. Caprio will now be making the rounds with the president the Donkey Party really loves.
Take This Job and Shovel It
Peter Baker caught the prez in a reflective mood in yesterday’s NYT Magazine piece titled “The Education of a President”. Here’s an excerpt.
Obama Identified what he called ‘Tactical Lessons’ from his presidency. He let himself look too much like ‘the same old TAX-AND-SPEND LIBERAL Democrat’. HE REALIZED TOO LATE that ‘there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects’ when it comes to PUBLIC WORKS.
The Best You Can Do
Obama is ignoring David Ignatius‘ advice to take credit for saving the economy and run with it. In his column, Ignatius calls the voters “willfully stupid” – possibly not a winning campaign slogan. So instead, the president is taking Joe McCarthy’s advice to make a wild accusation and then demand that the accused prove his innocence. The accusation being that the Chamber of Commerce is selling out the country to foreign corporate interests. The New York Times debunked this but that didn’t stop David Axelrod from telling Bob Schieffer, on Face the Nation, that we don’t know that the Chamber is not taking foreign money until they prove it. Shieffer’s response, “…is that the best you can do?”
P.S. While Ignatius thinks the people are “willfully stupid”, Victor Davis Hanson says they’re being “played for fools”.
