[workerbee]

You know it’s bad when BamBam is getting advice on how to be president from..... Walter Mondale?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Walter Mundane left government and went to work for a Minneapolis law firm. He never did anything and rarely came to the office but the firm was glad to have his name on their letterhead.

[GonzoGOP]

Dems are in total disarray and turning on each other. Just in time for the mid-terms they are in a state of complete panic.

The timing is not a coincidence. It is like a football team where the quarterback is an arrogant jerk. Nobody cares as long as you are winning. But drop a few games in a row and it will be a race to call for his head. Obama's "I Won" strategy was never about making friends, it was about bullying enemies. Well he now faces the prospect of having no power to bully anyone and at the same time having no friends. And those he was bossing around are venting the anger and frustration that they dared not say when he was at the peak of his power.

[mountn man]

As the polls turned against his administration, Mr. Mondale recalled that Mr. Carter "began to lose confidence in his ability to move the public."

This is the difference between Jimmah and Barry. Barry hasn't lost confidence in HIS ability to move the public.He's lost confidence in the publics ability to follow him.

[Vigilanteman]

For all Mondale's far left political positions, I have to confess that, personally, I like the guy. He's genuine and sincere (albeit sincerely wrong), a quality which is rare among liberal Democrats.

I remember his last debate with Reagan when his face telegraphed, for all the country to see, that he knew he was going to lose and lose big. It was the question on age which Reagan answered by saying he had no plans to make his opponent's youth and inexperience an issue. Most liberal Democrats are masters at the art of lying. Mondale never even tried.

Years later, I met him when he was Clinton's Ambassador to Japan. Again, he charmed me as being a genuinely nice guy.

Then there was the final election he lost as the stand-in for Paul Wellstone. No bitterness, just a crack about making history as the first guy to lose elections in all 50 states.

Obummer would be wise to take advice from Mondale. Everyone I know who interacted with Mondale came away genuinely liking the guy, even if they disagreed with his politics. But BamBam is such an ideologue and megalomaniac that he won't.