Posted on 10/20/2009 9:35:24 AM PDT by Steelfish
October 19, 2009 Obama Made Arlen Specter Big Promises For Switching Parties. Now, Specter Wants Him To Pay Up
Howard Fineman
Barack Obama and Ed Rendell were delighted when they convinced Sen. Arlen Specter to switch parties earlier this year. But now that coup falls into the category of "be careful what you wish for," because the president and the governor of Pennyslvania have a problem on their hands: Arlen Specter.
Here's the problem: Specter is up for re-election next year, and he was promised the full campaign backing of Obama and Rendell--not just in the general election but in the primary next May, if there was one. Well, there is one, and it is shaping up as a fierce one, against Rep. Joe Sestak, who represents the Philly suburbs.
Specter, a notoriously tough and nasty campaigner, will expect his two big backers to support him to the hilt. And Specter, a 79-year-old cancer survivor with enough fortitude for the three of them, has leverage: he's the "60th vote" in the Senate. Read one way, Specter has no choice but to support Obama down the line; read another, Specter has the power, should things get ugly, to snarl the president's legislative agenda
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Deal between two devils.
ROTFLMAO!
Who in their right mind believes a single word from Obama?
That’s the problem with making a deal with the Devil.
You shouldn’t expect Satan to actually hold his end of the bargain. HAHAHA
I hope Obama throws Specter under the bus. Would be a hoot.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first we practice to deceive. Specter the defecter faces down the Chicago gang at high noon.
Of course, what could go wrong? By all means, Obama needs to go to Pennsylvania and campaign like hell for him during both the primary and the general elections.
Specter is a pos traitor. He should go visit Ted Kennedy. LOL
The Spectre is out of there. He is an idiot if he thinks that Obama is going to really support him in the primary.
5:1 on the Chicago mob!!
I was going to read this until I saw it was from Newsweek.
Good luck with that...
Hey Spectre, how about following principle over power eh? Even if those be liberal priciples (or is that an oxy?). You are playing a fools game Arlen, a damn fools game, you will LOSE big in the end.
Even though it comes from Newsweak, I believe this is true.
“FOOLED YOU!” - Dark Helmet
Who knows. He got Bush to do it six years ago.
I’m pretty sure that will happen, and it will be a hoot!
Specter isn’t aware that Obama brazenly lied to John McCain and completely went back on his word? Even if Specter was in a coma at the time, it was all over the news prior to the election. Obama can’t be trusted even a little bit. His word is worthless. Specter is toast, and he deserves to be for being inexcusably stupid.
Arlen ACORN could cheat for you and you still would not make it. You stuck a fork in yourself and are done.
LOL!! Hey Snarlin Arlen....NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT...we don’t.
Of course it would never occur to Spector to do what was right for the country.
Well he was right, his own cowardice and desire for power defeated him...so long arlen
What passes for “fortitude” in Mr. Specter (and I know of his stamina and energy from multiple people who have been close to him at various stages of his life) is really pure egoism and selfishness. That’s not fortitude in my book.
Real fortitude has a equal part of selflessness, in addition to the vital and potent self-sense, and when has that selflessness, rooted in humility, ever been seen in Mr. Specter?
Selflessness is not necessarily making oneself for others through outward actions, for self-introspection and patient studied observation of the world are also selfless.
The list is hugh and series....
They all deserve each other, including Pennsylvania. Like a jar of scorpions.
Arlen, you have him until the health care vote but then BOHICA heh, heh, heh
No you wouldn't. Sestak would give Toomey a tougher fight.
I never had an ounce of respect for this scumbag since he joined with Ted Kennedy to defeat Judge Bork. If the Republican Party had any guts left in it, they would would have kicked him out of the Party a long time ago and long before he made the switch.
“Who in their right mind believes a single word from Obama?”
Oh, the words might’ve been true when 0bama spoke them, but they expired the moment the spittle dried on his blue lips.
“Who in their right mind believes a single word from Obama?”
Or from Spector for that matter.
ROFLMAO!!!! Dems, you wanted him and you got him, and now you’re stuck with him. It’s time to pay up!!!
Specter was a naturally born Dem anyhow.
Besides, if those Barry promises were not put in writing and signed before a national audience, they amount to being like anything else Barry has said and done: a deception or lie.
NO, you don’t. Spector was promised support by Obama, and if (Obama) he does, then Spector will be damaged enought for Toomey to win..! IT’S A WIN-WIN for Conservatives, but we can not be short sighted about this (as MUCH) as getting rid of Spector right away would mean!
The solid gold Stradivarius fiddle Arlen was expecting has turned into a plastic banjo that was spray painted gold with Krylon....
mouth writing checks he can’t cash....
Looks as if the Obama Administration may just implode under the weight of so many broken promises to key supporters....
Hey Specter... “I drink your milkshake”.
Hope Sestak wins. That’ll put Specter in the suicide seat in the Senate all next year.
If you lie down with dogs you get fleas.
Hopefully Spectre will learn the hard way you can’t believe a liar. Deomcrats by any other name are liars.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
My money’s on the Mob as well.
It is. I’ve been hearing this ever since Specter turned traitor. I’m in the Philly area. Heard Specter on FNC and he said we must have the public option. I’ve no respect for the man.
LOl/lol...needed that!
Could be. It would be good Karma for Specter to lose the Dem nomination, but if Sestak is a better candidate, then you are right. I am looking forward to the bumper sticker that says, "Finally, I get to vote against Arlen!".
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