Posted on 03/10/2010 2:55:50 PM PST by jazusamo
The Show Me State briefly became the No Show State on Wednesday as some prominent Missouri Democrats decided they'd rather be somewhere else when President Obama came to St. Louis to push his massive health care overhaul plan.
Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the all-but-certain Democratic nominee for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Christopher S. "Kit" Bond, was "already locked in" to meetings in Washington, D.C., on Wall Street financial reforms, said her spokesman Linden Zakula, who downplayed her absence for Mr. Obama's visit.
"Yes, she could have been there, but she feels very strongly about the need for financial regulatory reform," he said. "We've got eight months to go. I'm sure we'll be seeing him out on the campaign trail this fall," her spokesman said.
Rep. Ike Skelton, one of 39 House Democrats who voted against the party's health care overhaul bill in December, also skipped the presidential stop in his home state. Meanwhile, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat and an early supporter of Mr. Obama's during his campaign who is not up for re-election until 2012, accompanied the president aboard Air Force One to the St. Louis event. Mr. Obama also scheduled a fundraising event for Mrs. McCaskill before returning to Washington.
The event could be an early sign of the draw of Mr. Obama's coattails on the campaign trail, and whether the president will be seen as an asset or drawback for his party in what polls suggest will be a difficult midterm battle ahead for Democrats.
The Missouri Republican Party mocked Mrs. Carnahan's absence, saying she should certainly have taken the opportunity to bask in the high-profile visit just eight months before the vote
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He’s becoming radioactive. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Radioactive was the precise word I thought of when reading it. :)
Barry should forget the cost curve and maybe concentrate on bending that popularity curve for a bit. Oh, I guess he is bending it already, down.
Obama is the bitter pill that could wake up this nation and forever drive liberalism, unions and illegals back to the hell holes they came from.
I've shared your thought for some time now. I keep telling myself that "God works in strange ways" (not that He doesn't want Freepers to help out).
His game is not helping business but making government bigger, for his own selfish power grab.
Amen to that, and I’ll wish him luck for that taking place, the sooner the better.
I wonder when the accidents and dead bodies are going to start surfacing.
The Democrats who do not appear with President Obama are all racists.
Looks like the messons are losing their gluons to the Barryon, as the influence of beenhadrons is felt in the reactor of DC politics.
It's probably due to the fact that he has too many unAmericium quarks.
Time to cart him off to Yucca Mountain for safe long term storage.
Very good! :-)
Yucca Mountain would work just fine.
Thanks AGR!
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