Posted on 08/22/2010 1:27:38 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Dean: If Dems Lose, It's Obama's Fault BY John McCormack August 22, 2010 3:29 PM
Via The Hill, former DNC chairman and Vermont governor Howard Dean ripped into the Obama White House this morning on CNN and said that the Democrats' fate in the midterm elections rests on Obama's shoulders. Asked about Obama's bad poll numbers, Dean said:
I think that we are in tough times in America. We have got an unemployment rate that's over 9 percent. We have got, you know, people who are still making a zillion dollars on Wall Street while the average person thinks that they are doing great, and how come, since they were the ones that screwed up the economy, we're not -- we're where we are. There's a lot of resentment. It's a tough time.
But the key number is whether people still like the president or not, and I think they do. And I think that we are going to be in much better shape than most of the Washington pundits think we are, on the Democratic side. Because the president's out there fighting every day. This election, for better or for worse, depends on how hard the president fights between now and Election Day, and he shows every sign that he's really serious about this.
While Dean praises Obama for showing "every sign" he's going to fight and set the right tone, the former Democratic presidential hopeful seems to be laying the predicate for blaming Obama if the Democrats lose the House.
Obama himself has said that he would save the Democrats from a 1994-style wipeout. "Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me," Obama said, according to Democratic representative Marion Berry. But that was back in January. Dean's comments now are contrary to current spin of Obama's allies that the economy will determine the outcome of the election.
On CNN this morning, Dean went on to attack the Obama White House (but not Obama himself, Dean assures us) for being out of touch:
I think that the people around the president have really misjudged what goes on elsewhere in the country, other than Washington, D.C.
I don't think this is true of the president, but I do think his people, his political people, have got to go out and spend some time outside Washington for a while. The average Democrat is a progressive. And, you know, there are some things that are upsetting about the kind of deals that were made by the president's people on health care.
But I think this is the time to put that stuff behind us. We've got to win this election. And we're going to have -- after the election is over, we'll go back to having our policy fights, but this is about winning. You cannot get anything done unless you have a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House.
Sure sounds like Dean has a bone to pick with Obama. Could it be, as the boss predicted last week, that Dean will primary Obama?
Watch the video of Dean on CNN here:
Even the Dems miss Bush because screaming at him was always fun and satisfying.
Blaming Bush was fun too, for the first year. After a year and a half, though, it’s gotten a bit old. Like a band with just one set of songs or a comedian with one line of jokes. It gets hard to work up enthusiasm when you’ve heard the same line so many times you can recite it yourself.
No kidding!
Zero will not get the Dem Primary in 2012. By then, more than 50% of the States will be requiring the full long form Birth Certificate to be on the ballot for both the Primary and general election. The momentum is building, keep up the pressure.
Dean is sharpening his claws for a primary run for 2012.
Well, I would certainly welcome a Dean nomination...but that’s far too much to hope for.
Not that far off really. She won’t wait till 2012. I think she hangs out while the Palestinian Israeli talks are going on,takes credit for the most meager terms they agree to and resigns on a ‘high’ note.
With that in her back pocket and i have to say i can’t think of anything else she can lay claim to,she will begin her campaign. Call it the spring-summer of 2011. Should Israel attack Iran the talks will fall apart and she will resign regardless and i suspect she will run anyway.
True when I talked to my liberal in laws I blame everything on the “dummy in the white house”, it drives them nuts.
And 0bama, Reid, and Pelosi will blame Howard Dean for badmouthing the messiah.
I must be dreaming, that is two statements that howie has made.
Must be his new set of gloves, the old ones have the blood of the most innocent all over them.
I’d have to agree that they will some how blame on Bush since they haven’t stopped to this point.
What a racist slimebag.
The man-child is at a minimum a Muslim wannabe (or Wahabe):
• His biological father was a Muslim.
http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/?title=Barack_Obama%2C_Sr.&src=abop&qpvt=barack+obama+seniot&q=barack+obama+senior&fwd=1
• Because his biological father was a Muslim the Islam world thinks he is a Muslim.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2010/08/obama_is_a_muslim_18_24_or.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2952/barry-soetoro/
• His stepfather was a Muslim.
http://www.indonesiamatters.com/2952/barry-soetoro/
• As a child Barry was enrolled in school as a Muslim in Jakarta Indonesia. An Indonesian Madrasa.
• Barack Hussein Obama’s first and middle names are Arabic Muslim names.
Barack was the name for Mohammad’s horse. Husein, enough said.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700246419/Barack-Muhammads-horse.html
http://sanooaung.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/will-be-obama-with-us-muslims-as-the-meaning-of-his-name-in-persian-language/
• Obama recited the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer, which includes a vow of fidelity to Islam, in flawless Arabic on a radio program. - Nikolos Kristoff, NYTs, 3-06-07 (***this one is a gottcha moment***)
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3413/pub_detail.asp
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/11679
• On that same program he said he thinks the call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth.”
http://jewagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/obama-muslim-call-to-prayer-one-of-the-prettiest-sounds-on-earth/
http://caosblog.com/archives/7373
• Obama belonged to Rev. Wright’s (a former Muslim) church for twenty years. Many congregants are Muslims.
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/04/07/jeremiah-wright-former-muslim/
http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/03/20/rev-wright-got-his-masters-degree-in-islam-in-west-africa/
http://endtimes.yuku.com/forum/viewtopic/id/289
• Obama’s said that the U.S. is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9959057/Barack_Hussein_Obama_US_one_of_the_largest_Muslim_countries_in_the_world/
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/obama_america_one_of_the_large_1.asp
• Obama holds Muslim celebrations in the WH but canceled the National Day of Prayer.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1724544/obama_cancels_national_day_of_prayer.html?cat=9
http://www.exposeobama.com/
• President Obama’s religious adviser, Eboo Patel, once deemed the United States “the ideal place for the renewal of Islam.”
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/-obama-tells-egyptian-foreign-minister-i-am-a-muslim-stealth-coup-on-the-white-house.html
• Obama does not give gifts on Christmas.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12035.html
• Obama doesn’t celebrate his birthday.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/a-tough-birthday-for-obama/
• Obama falsely attributes Muslim participation in the founding of America.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7041/pub_detail.asp
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7041/pub_detail.asp
• Obama required that the cross be covered when he gave a speech at Notre Dame.
http://blog.acton.org/archives/9843-notre-dame-georgetown-and-president-obama.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/11/opinion/main5006203.shtml
http://dougpowers.com/2009/04/17/obamas-jesus-coverup/
• Christian symbol covered up during Obama’s Georgetown speech
http://myfaithspace.ning.com/profiles/blogs/obama-covers-christ-and-cross
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46667
• Obama’s first major speech in office was a “Muslim outreach” speech in Cairo Egypt.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8083171.stm
• “The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV.
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/bombshell-egyptian-foreign-minister-ahmed-aboul-gheit-says-on-egyptian-tv-%e2%80%9cthe-american-president-told-me-in-confidence-that-he-is-still-a-muslim-%e2%80%9d/
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=166905
• Obama gave strong support to the Cordoba House community center and mosque to be built at the Ground Zero site of Sep. 11, 2001 at a dinner celebrating the day’s end of the first day of Ramadan at the WH.
http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/president-obama-supports-ground-zero-mosque/19593492?ncid=webmail
• Obama tasked NASA with a mission of “Muslim outreach.”
http://technology.newsplurk.com/2010/07/nasa-and-islam.html
• Obama referred to his faith as “my Muslim faith” gaffe in an interview with George Stephanopolous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqIpdBOg6I
• Pushes Islamic freedom of religion but not Jewish or Christian freedoms. Several weeks ago he told Israel NOT to build settlements in East Jerusalem. But OK to build that Mosque at Ground Zero.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7514285/Israel-spits-in-Obamas-eye-by-announcing-new-settlements-in-east-Jerusalem.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/24/barack-obama-israel-settlement-plan
DO NOT HATE ME BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH. THAT WOULD MAKE YOU A HATER.
DEBATE THE FACTS. I KNOW TO BE A KNEE-JERK LIBERAL YOU ALWAYS GO AFTER THE PERSON WITH THE ARUMENT AND NOT THE SUBJECT.
We know one other thing. He is losing the Jewish vote everyday. One term(if that) and done.
With Dean off the Obama Plantation, will he get as much face time with MSM as McCain and Graham?
UH OH. I looks like some of the Democrats are starting to think{oops wrong word for democrats)FEEL that there is something rotten in Denmark er Washington. Or there is something in the wood pile.
I don’t hate you, I think you are fine. If Obama is a muslim, the only problem is that he is lying about it.
Obama drinks beer, eats salami, doesn’t always fast during Ramadan and does other things that Muslims are not supposed to do (Yes, I know about the allowed trickery thing). I think Obama is too much in love with himself to subject himself to a higher power. I think he has a big soft spot for Islam due to being brought up in the religion. But I don’t think Obama is a practicing muslim
I think his ‘Christian faith’ is purely a political device. He is a member of the Church of Obama.
Exactly!
His religion is ecumenical, all religions are equal.
“Yes it will be Bush’s fault, because people will have realized that they miss him.”
Yeah, compared to Obama Bush looks much better. On his own, he sucks. Bush was a disaster. He pushed for amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. He refused to close our borders, knowing that terrorists could use the Southern borders to get in to the country. And he spent like a Democrat.
To top it off, he is a globalist just like his daddy. Traitors!
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