Pat Sajak @patsajak 15m15 minutes ago
Great Halloween prank: Dress as President & go to Dem candidates' offices and say you're there to campaign for them!
I make my own ads.
Posted on 10/21/2014 9:12:17 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The White House is shrugging off President Obama’s latest remarks tying Democratic candidates to his record, saying Obama was only trying to help motivate black voters to come to the polls.
Obama, in a Monday interview on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s radio show, said Democrats under fire on the campaign trail “vote with me” and “have supported my agenda in Congress.”
The comments were surprising given the efforts Democratic candidates, particularly in red states like Arkansas, Alaska and Louisiana, have made to distance themselves from the unpopular president.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Obama was just trying to make the point to Sharpton that his listeners should transfer their support for Obama to other Democratic candidates.
“The point the president made is, he’s looking for partners in Congress who are supportive of minimum wage, supportive of laws than ensure women get equal pay for equal work … these are the kind of policies Democrats in Congress have stepped up to the plate to support,” Earnest said.
“They don’t support them because the president supports them, they support them because they’re the right thing to do, and the president is pleased to have partners in Congress who are willing to work with him to make progress on those issues,” he said.
Obama’s comments on Sharpton’s show represent the second time in recent weeks that he’s tied Democratic candidates to his policies, something his former political adviser David Axelrod labeled a mistake.
Obama told Sharpton it was difficult for some red-state Democrats to appear with him “because the Republicans will use that to try to fan Republican turnout.”
“The bottom line is though, these are all folks who vote with me, they have supported my agenda in Congress, they are on the right side of minimum wage, they are on the right side of fair pay, they are on the right side of rebuilding our infrastructure, they’re on the right side of early childhood education,” Obama continued.
Republicans immediately pounced on the remark, saying it reinforced their contention that Democratic candidates in states like Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Kentucky and Alaska would simply enable the president’s agenda.
The GOP needs to gain six seats in the midterm elections in two weeks to take over the Senate.
The White House has undertaken a concerted effort to drive minority voters to the polls, with the president sitting for interviews with Sharpton along with radio hosts Steve Harvey, Rickey Smiley, Russ Parr and Yolanda Adams.
The president and first lady have also taped at least a dozen robocalls and radio ads that can air for Democratic candidates in urban areas without providing Republican candidates a visual of the president embracing their opponent, which could be used for attack ads.
Democratic strategists say that turning out minority voters in cities like New Orleans, Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., will be crucial to any hopes for the party of retaining the Senate. In a memo obtained by The New York Times over the weekend, a former pollster for the president predicted “crushing Democratic losses across the country,” if Democrats did not do more to turn out the black vote.
“African-American surge voters came out in force in 2008 and 2012, but they are not well positioned to do so again in 2014,” wrote pollster Cornell Belcher in the memo. “In fact, over half aren’t even sure when the midterm elections are taking place.”
Earnest echoed that point on MSNBC.
“Democrats in a lot of these states are going to be counting on Hispanics, African-Americans, young people, young women in particular to turn out in the midterm elections — the president has gotten them to turn out in 2008 and 2012,” Earnest said.
Thus, even his minions are denying his selfspoke truth. One wonders exactly who the real Judas will be.
Wouldn’t that crack the plaster?
English Translation: "Obama was just pandering to his audience. Everyone knows not to listen to anything he says."
“.....Obama went on to say that his feelings weren’t hurt by Democrats who were reluctant to campaign with him.
“These are folks who are strong allies and supporters of me, and I tell them, I said, ‘You know what, you do what you need to do to win. I will be responsible for making sure our voters turn out.’ ”...
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/221344-obama-dem-candidates-fleeing-him-are-strong-allies
“Do whatever you need to do to win”
WOW
What ever it takes!
I hope the ads are being made as I type.
Arkansas
Bill Hemmer on FoxNews this morning mentioned that a poll (he did not identify further) yesterday showed Cotton (R) up 8 points over Pryor (D).
Just a week or so ago, it appeared that Pryor was gaining ground.
From the article:
“The White House has undertaken a concerted effort to drive minority voters to the polls...”
Ferguson. Voter ID. Holdren and Obama constantly play the race card.
Are they using whips?
GOP candidate in Cook County, IL discovers voting machine casts his vote for [Opponent]
Imagine the shock wave if the vote was accurate in Chicago?
Or, was this a petty, vindictive attack on his own party for some perceived slight? Is it possible that Obama actually knew what he was doing, he has done it twice, now. Earlier he said that even though he wasn't on the ballot, his policies were.
The UPSIDE is that we are on the DOWNSIDE of the WORST FRIGGIN’ excuse for LEADERSHIP in America I’ve seen in 50 years of voting.
It is difficult work to get 105% of the votes on any election day.
:)
Even those like Castro and Chavez didn’t get that kind of landslide at the polls.
Another idea is to get an army of people in Obama masks to quietly follow democrat candidates around.
Democrats in senate and congress backed Obama 100% it’s time for them to pay the price.
The election should be called the clean up act.
I wonder if Barry speaks Jive to Sharton’s radio audience?
What I’m most worried about is if in spite of our beliefs
and a majority vote, the democrats just declare themselves
the winners. What will we do? What can we do?
Discord is a tool of the left, they thrive on it.
I have never, in 70 years seen this country so confounded.
Wasn’t he quoted the other day, while speaking to a group of donors (a fundraiser, natch), on the subject of Ebola, his administrations latest self-inflicted wound, that the main stream media is responsible ?
It’s often hard to tell satire from reality with pResident Joker. And this may have been the same meeting where even the choir was getting up and leaving as soon as Barry started spinning his TOTUS tales.(?)
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