Barack Obama Tacitly Acknowledges He is Now a Pariah and the Democrats Are Screwed in 2010


“Barack Obama is now a social pariah and most Democrats and he knows it.”

Here’s a dirty little secret in American politics. A lot of the reporters who cover politics don’t know the first thing about politics. They cannot read the tea leaves. They do not know how. They do not even try.

That is why men like Larry Sabato, Chuck Todd, etc. have become so prominent. It is not hard to figure things out, but a lot of reporters are lazy. They need the story spoon fed to them.

There is a massive story out there right now and the political reporters have totally missed it. Let me spoon feed them and educate everyone in the process.

Barack Obama has become the first major Democrat to admit, though tacitly, the Democrats are screwed in 2010.

All you have to do is look to Missouri.First, let me explain what a “joint fundraising committee” is. This is a committee whereby a political organization can link to a political campaign and the two entities can raise money together, sharing both the expenditures and receipts. The fundraising committee typically benefits the organization more than the candidate, but in every case the organization has a vital role to play in the election of the candidate so it makes sense for the candidate to sign on.

For example, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has a joint fundraising committee with Carly Fiorina. Senator Jim DeMint has a joint fundraising committee with Marco Rubio. It is a mutually beneficial relationship.

One would think the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (“DSCC”) would have a joint fundraising committee with Robin Carnahan, running against Roy Blunt in Missouri. And one would think they would use Barack Obama as the front man for the joint fundraiser.

If one thinks that, one would be wrong.

Today in Missouri, Barack Obama spoke at the fundraiser organized by the joint fundraising committee of the DSCC and sitting United States Senator Claire McCaskill — a woman not up for re-election.

At this event, Robin Carnahan, the 2010 Democratic Senate candidate in Missouri, was no where to be seen.

It goes downhill from there:

The president’s visit is also raising eyebrows because his evening fundraiser is slated to benefit Sen. Claire McCaskill, who doesn’t stand for re-election until 2012.

“We are not aware of another example of the president ignoring a U.S. Senate candidate on the ballot in less than eight months and instead raising money for someone who is not up for re-election until 2012,” noted [a Republican].

Democrats point out that Obama’s fundraising will also benefit the party’s Senate campaign committee, which could be used to aid Carnahan.

“Some of the funds raised should indirectly help Robin in her race,” Zakula said.

But when asked why Obama was raising money for McCaskill rather than Carnahan, Zakula responded, “that’s a question for the White House.” He also could not say whether Obama would campaign with Carnahan this fall.

Note the “could” and the “should.” It’s not sounding too definite for Robin.

Here’s where it gets odd. According to McCaskill’s campaign, a “large” chuck will go to benefit Carnahan’s campaign.

So where is the disconnect? Carnahan does not show up on stage with Barack Obama at his big event and Barack Obama raises money at a McCaskill fundraiser and not a Carnahan fundraiser. To top it all off, the joint fundraising committee is between the DSCC and a senator not even up for re-election?!

If we apply the easiest explanation for all of this, we arrive at the answer.

Obama has campaigned for three statewide candidates in the past four months only to see each one of them go down in flames. At the end of the day, politics is about the survival of the fittest and Barack Obama sees where things are headed.

Obama’s refusal to be seen with Carnahan or to raise money for Carnahan is a sign that Robin Carnahan is toast. Obama does not want to have another victim on the tally sheet. He does not want to get blamed.

Now here is why this is so important.

In Texas, Rick Perry is the longest serving Governor in Texas history. He was just able to beat the popular senator, Kay Bailey Hutchison, by running an entire campaign against Washington.

In Missouri, Robin Carnahan, the state’s Secretary of State, is running against Congressman Roy Blunt, a man who has been in Washington for twelve years and is a Republican — a party everyone including myself points out polls worse than Democrat even in Missouri.

Carnahan should be able to do like Rick Perry and run a race against Washington and against the Republicans. Except she can’t. Her party owns Washington. And because her party owns Washington and Barack Obama owns the party, Robin Carnahan is screwed.

Barack Obama knows it. He’s trying to stay away lest political reporters finally start paying attention like the rest of us and realize Barack Obama is exactly what I said he was — Barack Obama is now a social pariah and most Democrats and he knows it.

So do Democrats really want to pass a health care plan so closely connected with a man who himself tacitly admits those he campaigns for go on to lose?


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Oh, I'm getting popcorn everywhere!

Locked and Loaded (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 6:04PM EST (link)

Man, this is getting good.

 

I learned a lot from this.

conservos (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 6:06PM EST (link)

Thanks for posting this, Erick.

A lot of us are being shown the bit pieces, but it’s awesome when the dots are connected and we’re talked to like intelligent people.

“Social pariah.”

Awesome.

One party, one vote.

Work from within.

 

Total 5's Erick

fpete13527 (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 6:10PM EST (link)

I am a total novice at understanding politics, however even I can see that Obama equals disaster for anyone or anything coming near him.

Every formal political person or thing that Obama touches or speaks about elicits total negative results for that person or group…. in all cases.
And what has Obama been most involved in politically???…to the tune of what 40 speeches or so?……..the.health care bill.

If the Dems stay adament about forcing unwanted socialized med… they may end up out of the WH and congressional majority for not only 10 years, but maybe more like 30 or 40 years….or longer. Excellent.

 

Prediction:

Viet71 (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 6:15PM EST (link)

Obama is a dead duck after the November elections.

When the big question will become, who will the Republicans run for POTUS in 2012?

To be a winner, the Republican candidate must win Indies — 20 percent of the voters.

Scott Brown proved such a candidate can win.

I can’t say what I feel and think here.

I will say, I hope the Republicans field a winning candidate.

I hope they field a winning CONSERVATIVE candidate . . .

RoscoeP Wednesday, March 10th at 6:37PM EST (link)

NOT like Scott Brown who might as well be another McCain. Fly over country is not like Massachewsets. Fly over country is 40% conservative and looking for leadership and is not looking for compromise.

RoscoeP- I believe the jury is still out on Scott Brown

Scope (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 8:06PM EST (link)

I am not ready to tag him as another McCain. McCain is an obvious “Progressive” Republican, who, as we all know, has done alot of damage to our country with his past “maverickness.” McCain’s best friends sit on the other side of the aisle, and, rather than reach his hand out for compromise, he forges ahead with progressive policies, with little to no gain for the Republican agenda. He gives up everything Republican, because the lefties don’t compromise.

Scott Brown, not my favorite by any means, so far has voted on one spending bill, that I am aware of. He is against Obamacare (which is why he won in Mass). Anyone who wasn’t aware that Brown would occasionally disappoint, wasn’t paying close attention. He’s not great but, he is better than Coakley.

Scott Brown will NEVER be the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, period. He was right for Mass. He is not right for the rest of the country.

If I have understood Viet at all in his posts, it will take a principled person, who has the American people and the countries best interest as his platform. One that wants to revive the American dream. That person, like Reagan, can bring Independents and Democrats into his/her camp, not by compromising, but, rather by articulating why their ideas would be attractive, uplifting, and promising to all Americans. As Reagan said, there are some that you just have to let them go their way. He meant the Progressives, whether they were D’s or R’s.

Yeah, but he was just out campaigning for McCain

The_Rebel (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 10:46PM EST (link)

I guess he has his priorities.

 

Brown didn't win because he was against Obamacare.

mbecker908 (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 10:52PM EST (link)

Brown won because he happens to be a very good candidate who had the good fortune to face the worst Senate candidate in 100 years.

If the Dems had nominated somebody other than Coakley, Brown would be an unknown afterthought.

True, as Joe Kennedy has recently lamented.

The_Rebel (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 11:06PM EST (link)
 

2012

bs61 Thursday, March 11th at 12:40AM EST (link)

What do you think about Allen West?

 
 
 

I'll say it:

Pi Over Three (Diary) Thursday, March 11th at 11:39AM EST (link)

If we nominate Palin, Obama will win an a Reganesque landslide.

I drive a car powered by hydrogen – C8H18 to be exact.

Nah

Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, March 11th at 11:43AM EST (link)

They have many of the same weaknesses.

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“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder

Right now if Obama keeps it up

Richard Mullins (Diary) Thursday, March 11th at 11:46AM EST (link)

anyone might be able to beat him. I don’t see any problems there.

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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.

Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.

 
 
 
 

My my, this is most excellent writing.

redneck_hippie (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 6:19PM EST (link)

Two term presidents do not become toxic during their first 2 years, and especially not in their first year. Supporting evidence to the social pariah theory is that the bribes have lost their potency to attract HC votes. Who believes promises of future appointments from a guy who could be sacked in his next election.


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The Decline and Fall of Barack Obama

indyjohn Thursday, March 11th at 9:17AM EST (link)

One year ago Barack Obama was the Golden Child. His minions believed that his mere presence in the White House would cause all of the world’s problems to disappear. They honestly believed that he possessed some kind of mystical power. It’s quite ironic, really. The left ridicules Christians who believe that certain preachers have the power to heal the sick and infirm. The MSM does everything in its power to destroy the credibility of televangelists. Yet here they were, grovelling at the feet of the most outrageously fraudulent televangelist of them all.
The left thought that it was getting a New Age Bodhisattva. What they got instead was another Jimmy Swaggart.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke

 
 

It's about time

chbroussard (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 6:21PM EST (link)

……….that Mr. Obama and the Democrats get screwed. After all, the rest of the country has been getting screwed for the last 14 months and we’re just a little tired of it.

 

Runs both ways

Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 6:21PM EST (link)

Not only does Obama not want to be associated with Carnahan if she’s gonna lose, but Carnahan doesn’t want any part of Obama, whose presence will harm her. That’s why it benefits both of them for him to raise money for her while pretending he’s doing something else.

“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill

I am willing to bet most democrats up for reelection will win an Olympic race if only The Precedent will show up.

antisocial (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 7:21PM EST (link)

.

Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
—————————–
What is to be done?
——————————
No. You can’t – Moe Lane
——————————
The Emperor has no clothes!!!

 

That was actually my suspicion about why she bailed on this event. [nt]

Bill S (Diary) Thursday, March 11th at 12:05AM EST (link)

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

 

that's what I was thinking too

bk (Diary) Thursday, March 11th at 5:45AM EST (link)

“Obama’s refusal to be seen with Carnahan”
should perhaps be
“Carnahan’s refusal to be seen with Obama”

 
 

I won't believe it until...

dirkbelig Wednesday, March 10th at 6:30PM EST (link)

…the Treason Media stops parroting the shibboleth that “while Obama’s policies are meeting growing opposition from voters, he remains personally very well-liked.”

Unpack that blather and here’s what we’re expected to believe: Voters are thinking, “Obama is spending too much, trying to nationalize the private sector for his union cronies, has made America less safe by slapping our allies and bowing to our enemies, and has been an unmitigated disaster for our country, but boy is he cool and smooth and articulate and wise and I love him so much as a M-A-N.”

Puh-leeze.

“This would be a great job if it weren’t for the ****ing customers.” – Randal Graves, “Clerks”

Nice word usage

tomswifty Thursday, March 11th at 12:08PM EST (link)

I always like seeing “shibboleth” being used. The etymology of the word makes it worth using.

To add another: “No more jiggery pokery with my health care!”

"My dog died last week"

civil truth (Diary) Thursday, March 11th at 12:28PM EST (link)

…said Tom gravely.

Wow, I don’t think I’ve heard anyone use the term “Tom Swifty” since about 30-40 years ago when they were the rage and suddenly dropped from sight like a pet rock.

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

http://www.gmsplace.com/

There's room for one more,"

tomswifty Thursday, March 11th at 12:35PM EST (link)

…Tom admitted

I collect the books, mostly to read, as a hobby :) They are so bad they’re good !

 
 
 
 

He's an okay guy...is just a lie.

benson1 Wednesday, March 10th at 7:03PM EST (link)

His personal approval numbers probably won’t fall that much more because no one wants to be accused of being racist but in the privacy of the voting booth the people who say he’s an okay guy are going to kick him to the curb so hard he’ll bounce down the White House steps and out into the street. Look at the disapproval numbers of his policies and you’ll see what people really think of him and his merry band of commie thugs.

Kicking to the curb is more realistic

dajeeps (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 7:32PM EST (link)

But I rather like the idea of tar and feathers for each and every one of those arrogant slobs who prefer toilet paper with the Constitution printed on it. It would be much more gratifying than allowing them to leave with dignity intact only to go on to million dollar book deals and speech circuits.

…”I would quarrel with both parties and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.”
–John Adams

I prefer the metaphor...

soljerblue Thursday, March 11th at 12:59PM EST (link)

of Obamao being thrown under the same bus where he’s pitched so many others, such as his white grandmother. Tar and feathers first, however.

 
 
 

One reason McCain won Missouri ...

frankieb (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 7:07PM EST (link)

… was because Senator Luann Ridgeway introduced a bill that said voters couldn’t just go into the booth and punch a number to vote a straight-party ticket. That helped cut down some on the vote fraud, I’m sure. I wish Luann Ridgeway was running instead of Roy Blunt. She’s a smart, staunch conservative with an intelligent sense of humor. But I’ll vote for Blunt if he’s the candidate.

Books … the most exotic, least expensive vacation: www.DelphiBooks.us

www.DaughterOfTheGreatDepression.blogspot.com

Claire McCaskill goes in so many directions, it’s amazing she hasn’t drawn and quartered herself. www.TruthAboutClaire.com

 

Russ Carnahan is in trouble too

dalewarren Wednesday, March 10th at 8:35PM EST (link)

Neither Robin Carnahan nor Russ Carnahan were seen glad-handing with the President, a point Russ Carnahan’s opponent Ed Martin harped on rather gleefully on twitter.

Robin has been trying to tack hard to the right as a DC outsider, all the while her elected brother Russ is voting for every pork-laden, liberal spending bill Pelosi tells him to.

Russ’s strategy seems to be to hide.

Check out Russ Carnahan’s opponent Ed Martin: http://edmartinforcongress.com/

 

Obama should threaten to campaign for Republicans to get his way. nt

Common_Cents (Diary) Wednesday, March 10th at 8:51PM EST (link)

Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from, behind, the Back Nine.
Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.

 

Robin is Running...

badbilly Wednesday, March 10th at 11:14PM EST (link)

as fast as she can from Obama and ACORN. Robin Carnahan has “Major TIes” with the Missouri version of ACORN, but her website has been scrubbed of any ties. She is also not doing any press availabilities where any member of the press can ask any question. She has so tightly controlled her message that even some state democratic leaders are questioning her strategy.

 

RedState is hopeless, and then some.

Dave Thursday, March 11th at 2:50AM EST (link)

No one here truly ‘gets it.’

America, as it was founded, will not survive three more years of Obama in the Oval Office.

And I don’t give a rat’s ass how many republican fannies you put in place next November. It isn’t going to matter. Not one iota.

Pull your heads out of your asses, people, or plan to watch Obama’s coup come off virtually unopposed.

-Dave

Our elected representatives have failed us.

hhmm ok, and besides politically opposing

kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, March 11th at 3:10AM EST (link)

and organizing the conservative movement, which we are doing, what precisely is your plan of action?

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

Plan?

rivahmitch Thursday, March 11th at 9:47AM EST (link)

Buy ammo and gasoline and wait. It you’ve got it (anything) they will come;-)

 

Kyle8, We have been organizing 'conservative movements' for decades

Dave Tuesday, March 23rd at 10:22PM EST (link)

Yet Comrade Obama is still in power, and unless something extraordinary happens, he will be there until at least January of 2013.

By then, this nation will be toast.

It may be already.

Time to start thinking outside the box, or prepare to watch your country die.

It’s just that simple.

-Dave

Our elected representatives have failed us.

 
 

Dave is right!

mosander Thursday, March 11th at 6:10AM EST (link)

I get it from day 2. Go to AmericanGrandJury.org. They have been trying to get things into court, but no one so far has done too much. There is a trial in May. Turns out Obama never went to Columbia University, from which he has a degree. He was in Pakistan, apparently, and not with a US Passport. What was he doing there, I wonder! Tune in to the results of that trial.

 
 

Your posts always renew my hope, Erick

houstoneagle (Diary) Thursday, March 11th at 4:37AM EST (link)

Thanks for calling out that story.

The Democrats are in delusion about their peril to some extent. I will excerpt below a letter I wrote to Howard Fineman, copying Chris Matthews and Scott Rasmussen:

Dear Mr. Fineman,

I was watching Hardball on which you appeared and explained that President Obama still has 40% of the American public strongly behind him. I have some good news and some bad news. As of this morning’s Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll, the good news for you is that there are actually 44% of the American public who support Obama. The bad news for you is that only 22% strongly approve of Obama. A majority of Americans disapprove of Obama at this time.

Thank you for letting me take this opportunity to share with you some important information. I continue to watch Hardball regularly, and appreciate your perspective and commentary. The fact that I am a solid conservative does not detract from that appreciation. I have taken the liberty of copying Chris Matthews, as well (via contact form on msnbc.com)

Sincerely,

“We preach the conservative gospel of individual liberty and choice and point out the only choice the Democrats want you to have is whether or not to kill a baby.”–Erick Erickson, D-Day 2010

 

Be very careful!

mosander Thursday, March 11th at 6:05AM EST (link)

Regardless of his unpopularity, I got a message about how Obama plans to steal elections. Amnesty, incarcerated felons voting, “funny” voting machine “glitches”, registering illegal aliens, subversive Secretary of State Project, controlling the electoral college. See the article in Whistleblower magazine. I notice in Va during the last elections, it was only the large metropolitan areas that voted for Obama. The rural areas did not. That could be from a number of reasons. Then, of course, there is always that false-flag reason for martial law to stop things.

 

0bama

gahanson Thursday, March 11th at 6:13AM EST (link)

Your reference to Rick Perry was incomplete, at best. Kay Bailey Hutchison was endorsed by the entire Bush machine, pappa Bush, mama Bush, Jeb Bush, Cheney, Rove, Hughes, etc. She was also endorsed by Dick Armey, and most of the inside the beltway gop. Less than one year ago, Hutchison was leading Perry by 20 points. Perry’s only big name endorsement was Sarah Palin. It was only after Palin’s endorsement that he started closing the gap. Palin made one campaign stop for him, drawing over 8,000 on Super Bowl Sunday. When Perry was asked about the Bush machine’s endorsement of Hutchison, Perry said he’d rather have Palin’s endorsement.

The entire Bush machine went down in flames, as Perry won by a landslide in a 3 way race. So, reading the tealeaves, you could say that Perry, with a huge assist from Palin, destroyed the Bush machine. The Bushes thought that they’d be more than enough to get Hutchison as governor, and push Jeb to the nomination in 2012. Now, Jeb’s chances are that of a perverbial snowball in hell.

Thanks for the most informative analysis

mdd1956 Thursday, March 11th at 8:17AM EST (link)

I have read in a while.

On both Obama’s and Sarah’s effectiveness as campaigners for this cycle.

 
 

@clairecmc

wingnut71 Thursday, March 11th at 7:39AM EST (link)

sigh

I noticed in your post category Claire’s name was incorrectly spelled. As a citizen of Missouri…let’s make sure this pops up if she searches her name.

Oh, what Pelosi is doing now is nothing new to us. We’ve seen it for two years now. We call it “Claire-ification – the process of telling citizens that the words you used yesterday don’t fall under the standard definition and were taken out of context anyway and what you actually meant to say was…”

 

Erick , you are right........

xstriperguide (Diary) Thursday, March 11th at 7:43AM EST (link)

Barak Hussien is becoming increasingly poisonous to any campaign he associates himself with. One could expect no less from a want -to-be communist.

I think the general population or those who take at least a passing interest in what is going on in this country , are slowly understanding the statist agenda. They have known for quite some time that something has been going amiss in this country i.e participation trophies in our recreation department sports , the liberal agenda in our school systems , the biased lame stream media and the list goes on.

As a former employee of a major truck manufacturer in Virginia , I happen to know alot of UAW members , typical Dem. supporters at the behest of their leadership. Even these guys are starting to WAKE UP and see the Obama agenda for what it is. Just the other day I had a member ask me if I had anymore of the FREELOADER NATION and OBAMA-NOMICS “The change I have left after paying you bill.” bumper stickers that I proudly display on my truck. I asked if the union bosses would be happy seeing them displayed at the plant? His responce was “Who cares what they think?” I gave him a handfull to pass out to his freinds.

The election of these fools currently in power has been a blessing in disguise. They show their true socialist , wacked out ideaology veiws every day , for all to see. Hopefully we can change much of the damage they have done to this country after they are slaughtered in the coming elections.

There are alot of sick vote wasters walking around

 

Hi, I'm Jimmy, and I can't come to the phone right now...leave a message..BEEP!

ramjr Thursday, March 11th at 12:10PM EST (link)

Wow! Even Jimmy Carter is insulted Obama has considered himself the same! That should tell us a lot, after how hard Carter tried to associate himself to Obama earlier on. WOOPSY!

 

Scott Brown and Socialized Medicine

llou25 Thursday, March 11th at 3:57PM EST (link)

Have consrevatives who are happy with the Scott Brown victory taken a good look at his record in Massachusetts? As a state senator there, he supported and voted for the state controlled health plan that citizens of Massachusetts have had since it’s inception in 2006. Health insurance is mandatory there. This leads me to wonder how he will vote on a national health care package, and why. Just food for thought.

 

McCaskill will regret campaigning with Obama come 2012.

Xasteius (Diary) Thursday, March 11th at 4:05PM EST (link)

And I’ll be more than happy to drag out these photo-op pictures for all the MO voters to see to faciliate the end of removing that….woman (for lack of a better word) from office.

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.