Posted on 11/01/2009 2:23:50 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Obama, with Gov. Jon Corzine at the Susquehanna Bank Center in downtown Camden, rallied a crowd of 5,500 to turn out to reelected the Democratic governor on Tuesday in a race with Republican Chris Christie that polls show is neck-and-neck, and where turnout is expected to be key.
"I know these are challenging times. Jon knows these are challenging times," POTUS said. "This is why he got into public service. He didn't do it for a pay check. He did it because he knew we can do better."
Obama, who spoke for 24 minutes, called Corzine, who stood next to him on stage, an "honorable man at the helm in this state, during one of the most difficult periods of its history." Corzine, who introduced Obama, spoke for just eight minutes.
"Make no mistake, elections matter," Corzine said.
He leveled repeated attacks against Christie, cracking that the former prosecutor would "kick some of our kids out of preschool. He thinks it's babysitting."
Obama called on the audience to vote, and to make sure others do.
"You're going to need to get cousin Pookie off the couch, and say, 'Pookie, it's time to go vote,' " POTUS said. "You've all got a cousin Pookie, you know who I'm talking about."
Next stop for the Democratic pair, a rally in Newark later today.
Cousin Pookie banged the wookie while the rookie campaigned in Skookie.
Angela Dillard, a political scientist at the University of Michigan, has no Pookies in the family, but remembers a few from the old neighborhood.
She wrote that she was a bit troubled by Obamas name-dropping given its class implication, which doesnt sit well to my ears coming from someone with a relatively privileged background. Some Bill Cosby-ish undertones, perhaps, and interesting in the context of a celebration of what was such a black working-class movement in Selma.
Obama is proving that he is a racist. One of these guys is "Pookie".
Sorry, somehow I cut this off from my previous post;
No, I think this is just a poor rip off of a Bill Cosby routine.
Good call...I still never heard of it before, though...and I guess some of the black leaders don’t like it too much...
“Stand Up,” Pookie!
Ebonics in the White House...who’d ‘a’ thunk it?
My first thought when I read this was Pookie + Camden= Pookie the crack head in the movie New Jack City.
LOL.
OMG. That doesn't sound very presidential. Imagine any other president playing to a stereotype and using that term like this one is doing.
Probaby at least 5 times, too! Good ole Pookie—will solve the election problems. No vote shortage due to the POOKIES.
amazing how this crowd keeps growing...in an earlier story posted on FR from the AP the crowd was only 3500...50% more people in just a few hours...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376030/posts
then again they lied in the other direction about the 912 protest so it doesn’t surprise...
However, on Tuesday, Mr. & Mrs. pookie18 will be voting for Christie...
“My first thought when I read this was Pookie + Camden= Pookie the crack head in the movie New Jack City.”
Could be...but I will NOT get all wee wee’d up over it...not out of the question, though, given his “familiarity” with crack ;^)
Ah, so you’re the person he’s talking about. :-) Well, then I agree with Obama: Let’s make sure Pookie gets out to vote. ;-)
Calling Cousin Pookie ...
I hope for the best but any anything but a rural southern or western county you need a 10% lead to overcome the 'Cousin Pookies'.
A crowd of 5500 is all The One and Corslime could draw?
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