Obama, Party Of One

The president does almost no fundraising for Senate or House candidates and hasn't transferred money to other party election committees. His numerous campaign offices rarely coordinate with local candidates or display signs for anyone but Mr. Obama.

At rallies, Mr. Obama seldom urges supporters to volunteer — or even vote — for other Democrats running for office. Sometimes, he mentions other politicians in the room without noting that they are seeking re-election. He rarely shares the stage with other candidates.

"He's ultimately there to communicate where he wants to bring the country and the differences he has with Mitt Romney. He's not out there campaigning all around the country for other candidates," a senior Obama campaign official said. "It's not that he doesn't want them to get elected, but it's a campaign event to elect him."

"We really do believe a high tide raises all boats," said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina. "If we win, history teaches us Democrats will win, as well." Asked why the president doesn't usually mention other candidates in his remarks, Mr. Messina said there is only so much time at the start of a speech for preliminary thoughts. In any case, he said, the president can't simply bless a candidate and assume that will help; candidates have to build their own relationships with volunteers and voters.

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The Obama(-only) campaign - POLITICO.com

it's all about the ONE

(and todd akin, of course)

obama is very grasping with his money, his refusal to share any of it with capitol hill is unprecedented

he blames congress, runs against congress, which can't be real helpful to the reelect efforts of the mccaskills and stabenows

he doesn't acknowledge em at rallies (he says he doesn't have time), presumably many of them prefer not being named

the most notable example of the president's parsimony was his refusal to pony up a penny for poor tom barrett

you who post so much, who talk so much, who opine so much and so emptily, who link so little, DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO MR BARRETT IS

LOL!

nothing underscores more clearly the spurious president's desperate dependence on the uninformed

Daily Kos: DNC refusing to send money to defeat Scott Walker

he promised to put on his walking shoes

2007: Barack Obama promised to "walk on that picket line" if workers are denied the right to bargain - YouTube

disappointed?

the miserable mayor of milwaukee might've been better off without him

but the money, well, even barack hussein obama's dollars are green

obama is by far the most isolated, insular, insecure president the oval office has ever had put its feet up on its desk

even his staff---if you're not valerie jarrett or dave the ax or rahm the ram or plouffe the guy who took 100K to speak for iranian business interests or gibbs who asks you to drug test yourself if you're professional leftist and whining...

that is, if you're not on the inside of this secretive little cabal, you are icily OUT

Obama, party of one - Glenn Thrush and Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

he just doesn't want people looking over his shoulder, he's like a school teacher with an adult observer in the room

he shuns the political pros, the careerists, who have been there for presidents for eternity, instead favoring above em those very few trusted, his "tight inner circle," almost all of whom go back to the good old days in chicago

are you following the headlines outta chicago, by the way---the bloodshed, the inaction, the graft (madigan and the seiu), the cartels, the strike...

hillary clinton, for example, is so independent, so distant, she almost feels as if she's in a different party

bottom line---barack obama's stubborn insistence on obamacare, cap and trade, dodd frank and an almost roman ruthlessness at the epa and doj cost his party 68 house seats, 6 senators, 10 gubs and the most state legislative bodies in history

those are real people, professional democrats, these are real careers

ended

these are real supporters, idealist and sincere---heartbroken

but he doesn't care, on he goes, leading the fewer and fewer who travel with him to plummet down the cliff too

like the media, they see where it's going, they begin to recall their independence

two weeks ago, all within a 7 day span, jake tapper suddenly declared that the media had "tipped the scales" for obama in 08, mark halperin observed that he and his were too "susceptible to doing what he wants," chuck todd opined that the media have spent too much time on tax returns and not enough on the economy, ny mag declared that the bias coming out of hollywood was "pervasive if not total," the public editor for the nyt admitted that the pages of the paper "bleed" with "for lack of a better word, progressivism," that certain social issues such as global warming, gay marriage and occupy were covered more as "causes than stories"

(all links have been posted on the bias in the media page of this forum)

these are the senior white house correspondent at abc, the senior political analyst at time, nbc's chief white house correspondent, and their equally high placed friends talking

just yesterday, david gregory on mtp, stephy stephanopoulos on this week, candy on cnn and chris wallace (son of sixty minutes mike) on fns grilled with followup after followup white house surrogates on the critical question of "better off"

the headlines ubiquitous across the mainstream press formed consensus---the admin can't answer

this white house is now so lonely it can't find strong people to go on these shows to take on a growingly independent press---yesterday it was plouffe and the ax and the ram emanuel from bullet ridden, big shoudered chicago

more power to em, of course

that's enough for now

let's talk again soon

The Prof said:

like the media, they see where it's going, they begin to recall their independence

two weeks ago, all within a 7 day span, jake tapper suddenly declared that the media had "tipped the scales" for obama in 08, mark halperin observed that he and his were too "susceptible to doing what he wants," chuck todd opined that the media have spent too much time on tax returns and not enough on the economy, ny mag declared that the bias coming out of hollywood was "pervasive if not total," the public editor for the nyt admitted that the pages of the paper "bleed" with "for lack of a better word, progressivism," that certain social issues such as global warming, gay marriage and occupy were covered more as "causes than stories"

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An astute observation. I look forward to hearing what, if anything, the Dem party spokespersons will volunteer about the "Good Old Days Of Obama" in, say, a year or so.