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McCaskill won't be in Missouri Tuesday for President Obama's visit
The Hill ^ | October 3, 2011

Posted on 10/03/2011 12:13:20 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) won't join President Obama when he visits St. Louis on Tuesday, prompting claims by Republicans that she is avoiding an appearance with the president, whose poll numbers are underwater in Missouri.

An aide to McCaskill told The Hill that though she had hoped to be there, competing events scheduled for the senator and likely votes in Senate on Tuesday precluded her from returning to Missouri. The aide added that McCaskill hopes the timing will work out better in the future.

But Missouri Republicans have pointed to a more cynical reason for the first-term senator to stay in Washington: McCaskill's GOP opponents already have their video cameras fired up to capture footage of her appearing chummy with Obama. That footage will inevitably end up in campaign ads tying her to the president, in hopes that his reelection struggles might complicate her own.

McCaskill, a fiscally conservative Democrat who took her seat from a Republican in 2006 by a slim margin, is considered one of the most vulnerable senators up for reelection in 2012.

She was an early supporter of Obama during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. Yet her chances for reelection hinge on her ability to distance herself from Obama and portray herself as an independent voice for Missouri who is willing to buck the national Democratic party.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
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Air Claire is destined to crash and burn in '12. Tethered herself to the Hopey Changey balloon, and now Barry has turned into an anchor.
1 posted on 10/03/2011 12:13:27 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

“that McCaskill hopes the timing will work out better in the future”

Ya. After he’s removed from office.


2 posted on 10/03/2011 12:18:40 PM PDT by donhunt (Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
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To: Second Amendment First

You know why rats have tails? Helps them keep their balance as they flee sinking ships.


3 posted on 10/03/2011 12:21:39 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Second Amendment First

She’s getting the hell out of Dodge? ahhhaaaaaaaaaaa ha ha..she is toast anyway


4 posted on 10/03/2011 12:23:41 PM PDT by katiedidit1
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To: Second Amendment First

She’s getting the hell out of Dodge? ahhhaaaaaaaaaaa ha ha..she is toast anyway


5 posted on 10/03/2011 12:23:59 PM PDT by katiedidit1
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To: Second Amendment First

Fiscally conservative, yet voted for Obamacare?????


6 posted on 10/03/2011 12:30:17 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (My opinion doesn't really matter until March 13th anyway.)
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To: Second Amendment First
McCaskill, a fiscally conservative Democrat

HA HAha HA HA HA HAha HA HAha HA HA HA HA HA HAha HA HA HA HAha HA HAha HA HA HA HA HA HAha HA HA HA HAha HA HAha HA HA HA HA HA HAha HA HA HA HAha HA HAha HA HA HA HA ...

Excuse while I compose myself... McCaskill voted for HA HAha HA HA HA HAha HA HAha HA HA HA HA HA HAha HA HA HA HAha HA HAha HA HA HA HA HA HAha HA HA HA HAh

I'm sorry HA HAha HA HA, let me try to post my comment later....

7 posted on 10/03/2011 12:32:59 PM PDT by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: Sybeck1

yeah, my head about popped off when I read the words McCaskill and fiscal conservative in the same sentence. She is officially sprinting backwards now!


8 posted on 10/03/2011 12:33:22 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: Second Amendment First
Claire can answer a question for fifteen minutes and never answer it.
9 posted on 10/03/2011 12:34:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: Second Amendment First

I expect there is already an ample supply of videos and photos of Claire and Barack together.


10 posted on 10/03/2011 12:46:56 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Second Amendment First
Claire Mccaskill

Claire... we see through your BS! YOU ARE OBAMA - YOU LOVE OBAMA - YOU DO WHATEVER YOUR LORD AND MASTER TELLS YOU TO DO!

11 posted on 10/03/2011 12:55:32 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: Second Amendment First

gosh, i wonda why?

/s


12 posted on 10/03/2011 12:56:32 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: Second Amendment First
I don't understand how Democratic Senators can keep voting in lock step with Harry Reid.

Bill Nelson evidently is the only one seeing the hand writing on the wall.

Maybe Claire is going up to the Carnahan’s place in NW Missouri to check out how that stimulus money is working n their windmill farm!

Wonder what kind of benefits the hubby is getting for their nursing homes from Obamacare.

14 posted on 10/03/2011 1:15:41 PM PDT by not2worry (A credible message needs a credible messenger because charisma without character is catastrophe. M)
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To: katiedidit1

SHe’s a CHICKENSHIT coward. Always was, and a cheat too.

She’s toast in the next election. Voters will send her to the home for Democrat losers. Got a rocking chair for her.

Loser!!


15 posted on 10/03/2011 6:45:06 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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