Posted on 09/18/2010 6:10:29 AM PDT by La Lydia
President Barack Obama is doing his best to turn Representative John Boehner, the House minority leader, into Public Enemy Number One. If Republicans win back the House of Representatives in November, as polls indicate, he will replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. In a recent speech, Mr Obama mentioned Mr Boehner by name nine times. A fundraising email sent out from BarackObama.com this week stated that corporate interests and lobbyists have put all their chips on one man: Congressman John Boehner.
Democrats have started a BeatBoehner.com website that claims he spent $1 million on "luxury hotels, exclusive golf resorts and gourmet dining for himself and his fat-cat contributors". Yet Mr Boehner's life story is the type of classic up-by-the-bootstraps tale of the American Dream that can put a tear in a voter's eye. As his story becomes better known, the Democrats could even be drawing favourable attention upon him. Right now, most Americans have never heard of Mr Boehner, and fewer still can pronounce his name, which rhymes with Rayner. The alleged elitist country club Republican is an Ohio Congressman who grew up in near poverty...
Mr Boehner, 61, is the second of 12 who grew up in a German-Irish family in Reading, Ohio, just outside Cincinnati. All but two of them still live within a few miles of each other. Two are unemployed and most of the others have blue-collar jobs. The future Congressman started work as a janitor and took seven years to get his degree the first in the family to do so because he had several jobs to pay his way. He joined a plastics and packaging company, rising to president before entering local politics by being elected to the town board....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Nice class warfare shot.
Boehner wouldn’t be my first choice for Speaker but, why the cheap attack? The “purity” test some are applying on FR is right out of the liberal playbook. Give it a rest already.
And he smokes, too!
;)
Are you from Ohio?
I know! 0 can go after him ‘cause he plays to much golf!
Nice writeup on Boehner.
“Put all their chips on one man”.
Just exactly how much money did NObama gfet in campaign donations from the oil companies? Wall Street? Banking industry??
The biggest pig at the trough sure likes to belittle any of the other pigs.
I am already planning a celebration for the day when NObama & his CZARS & tax-cheating Sec of Treasury & others are gone—really GONE.
Hard to take seriously a person who’s last name is Flake!! :) :)
he spent $1 million on “luxury hotels, exclusive golf resorts and gourmet dining for himself and his fat-cat contributors”
This comment from a person who went on vacation in a $50,000 per day compound for 10 days & had the audacity to fly the family dog-BO- to New England on a separate jet than Air Force One? A separate jet plane for the dog & the man who was handling the dog. !!!!!
Media sure hasn’t let that little gen slip out, have they???
I saw a clip of Clinton on Fox last night (on Hannity's show, I think) in which he was very angry and nasty, attacking Bush over 9/11. He does that sometimes but usually he's trying to be liked. Obama, on the other hand, seems to be in the nasty mode all the time.
The best part is how the dims broadcast so clearly, the person they are most afraid of. (I know, bad grammar.)
If I had the time I would compile a list of the dim daily talking points, those obvious days when all the lib talkers use exactly the same attack words as they were given by the WH machine.
It is getting to be quite a hoot, out here in flyover country where they apparently feel we are extremely stupid.
I’m smart enough to know what day to go to the polls to vote as many of them out as I possibly can!
LOL, sounds like the childhood of many of us. Can't even imagine one bathroom and 12 kids!
I have a whole new respect for this man.
Hes young, smart, charismatic, knowledgeable about history and a real small government fiscal conservative..
Right, and the guy is PRO illegal immigration, has sneered at the people of Arizona as bigots, is McCains best buddy! Are you kidding? If the republicans let that many anywhere near a leadership position they will lose their base entirely.
No, I just drank tea.
No, I just drank tea.
Flake would be worse than Boehner exponetially. He is a pro-illegal immigration puppet and he knows little about anything.
No, I am from Arizona, a child of the West and proud of it.
Once again, we have to get REAL news from a UK newspaper...
I didn’t know ANY of that about Boehner. Pretty interesting, and improves my opinion of him greatly.
Still though... it’s getting LATE in September?
WHERE IS OUR NEW CONTRACT WITH AMERICA??
they promised.... and, we’re TIRED of politicians who don’t keep their promises.
I really can’t understand it actually. How can these outlets continue to publish? Are there really that many people eager and willing to spend $2/day (the NYT newstands price I saw last week) to be filled with this dreck? Are that many advertisers really that willing to be associated with anti-Americanism and, for that matter, inhumanity?
What makes it work??
The curious thing is the absence of a countervailing force--why aren't there any conservative-leaning big city papers or large-circulation magazines? Only the Wall Street Journal editorial page (not the news columns) has a large circulation and is conservative, but much of the public would never think of reading it.
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