Obama is definitely a farce.
Posted on 10/26/2010 9:47:26 AM PDT by Libloather
'Fighting' Obama tells House Dem candidate to 'run scared'
By Sam Youngman - 10/25/10 09:36 PM ET
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- President Obama, working overtime to blunt his party's losses on election day next week, told a Democratic candidate here to "run scared."
Obama also attracted criticism during the trip for not endorsing his party's candidate for governor in Rhode Island. The fundraisers for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) continued a campaign swing that began last week on the West Coast.
Throughout the evening, Obama warned Democrats that it is going to be a "difficult" election year, but he specifically told Providence Mayor David Cicilline, the man running for retiring Rep. Patrick Kennedy's seat to "run scared."
While Obama said he is confident that Democrats will retain Kennedy's seat, he warned Cicilline to keep up the intensity.
"Don't take it for granted," Obama said told a small gathering. "Run scared."
All told, the president raised about $500,000 for the DCCC and Cicilline's campaign, but Obama also angered some Democrats before he even set foot in the state.
The president's decision not to endorse Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio caused some heartburn for the White House ahead of Obama's trip.
Caprio told a Rhode Island radio station that Obama could take his endorsement and "shove it."
White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters on Air Force One that Obama decided to stay out of the race because his "good friend" and former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee is also running.
A number of Democrats were livid that the president declined to endorse the Democratic candidate in what appears to be a close race.
"Would Bill Clinton have ever done this? Never," said one Democratic strategist. "The president may think you don't endorse when it's a friend, but there are a lot of his real Democratic friends who will lose because they backed their friend -- the president.
"The worst part is that they just sent a message to every Democrat in the country that even the president doesn't care enough to support good Democrats like Caprio. It's just unbelievable."
But Burton said Obama made the decision "out of respect for his friend, Lincoln Chafee."
"We’re entering the final week of the election season, and emotions are running pretty high," Burton said. "So I don’t think anybody is surprised to see people feeling particularly strongly about these races."
With just more than a week to go before the elections and polls continuing to show Democrats in peril, Obama is in a "fighting mood," Burton said, and the president is confident his message is getting through.
The president continued to defend his policies and criticize Republican obstruction, and he repeated his attacks on special interest spending funded by unknown donors, calling it a "powerful force."
"If you’re in a competitive House race right now, if you’re in a state like Colorado and you just watch this stuff, I mean, it is just a blizzard of negative ads," Obama said. "And so we’re going to have to do our best to match that, mostly just by telling the truth. But also we’re going to have to have enough money to be able to get that truth out."
You've pretty much hit rock bottom if you base anything on what the impeached *One would do.
“told a Democratic candidate here to “run scared.”
Good advice were I a dem running for office, if I saw this POS coming, I would run like hell.
Yeah.
run scared
Rats.
Yeah.
run scared
Rats.
very scared.
What he is basically saying is that “he” is running scared. People are turning against him and his policys, including Democrats. He is seeing the writing on the wall. He’s through.
I agree he is through getting any further huge new programs through but he is still in place as a huge impediment to any undoing of the mess he put forward. He will be content to rail against the tea party GOP for the next two years and would not be surprised to see him continue on his whirlwind tours about the country. Until people stop showing up, boo him on arrival, and hurl insults his way, he will continue along looking at life through his narcistic vision.
Our punk-president sounds worried...
With his ‘run scared’ comments, is 0bama preparing for November 2nd or October 31st?
With his ‘run scared’ comments, is 0bama preparing for November 2nd or October 31st?
Obama is definitely a farce.
Actually, I think we’re reversing the order on this one. Jimmuh was farce; Obama is - or will be - tragedy, unless we stop him now.
The Commander in Chief talking about “ running scared. “
What a pathetic wimp.
Speaking of which , Barry as Commander in Chief has presided over a record number of US deaths in Afghanistan.
Remember how the media would have the US death toll countdown during the Bush years ??
Now..not a peep.
I think the guy completely decompensated yesterday.
Barry made an incredible number of statements that coming from
a Republican would have the media
calling for the guys in the white coats to bring a straitjacket.
From Republicans being forced to ride in the back of his clown car
to Americans who don’t agree with him are enemies
that must be punished
( we knew he hated America, he just validated it )
to running scared
to he’s actually not a king
to having to get back to the White House ASAP so
he could “ scoop dog poop .”
It's a good thing the economy's on a roll and there's no war to look after, etc, which means he has the excess funds and free time to do this.
Oh, wait.
New Teaparty slogan: It’s NOT the messengers we hate, stupid! It’s their message!
“Run scared.”
But he’s The Won - there’s got to be a good explanation for such a blunder. Can Gibbs/CNN spin it into a positive? At any rate, Biden is feeling pretty smug about now.
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