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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Quote of the Day: President O’Arrogance Edition – PLUS: Beau Biden won’t run for DE Senate seat
Via Ben Smith:
Rep. Marion Berry’s parting shot, published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [no link, subscription only] offers a warning to moderate Democrats and border state moderates — warning of a midterm bloodbath comparable to the 54-seat D-to-R swing in 1994.
But the jaw-dropper is Berry’s claim that President Obama personally dismissed any comparison between Democrats now and under Bill Clinton 16 years ago — by saying his personal popularity would bail everybody out.
The retiring Berry, who doesn’t say when the remarks were made, now scoffs at Obama’s 50-or-below approval rating:
Writes ADG reporter Jane Fullerton:
Berry recounted meetings with White House officials, reminiscent of some during the Clinton days, where he and others urged them not to force Blue Dogs “off into that swamp” of supporting bills that would be unpopular with voters back home.
“I’ve been doing that with this White House, and they just don’t seem to give it any credibility at all,” Berry said. “They just kept telling us how good it was going to be. The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, ‘Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.’ We’re going to see how much difference that makes now.”
Um, might wanna tell that to Democrats in MA, VA, and NJ, Mr. President. For what it’s worth, anyway.
On top of the news of the latest Democrat House retirement comes the annoucement from DE AG Beau Biden that he will not run for his father’s former Senate seat:
Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden announced Monday that he will not run for the Senate in 2010, a development which puts the GOP in a commanding position to claim the seat once held by his father, Vice President Joe Biden.
“I have a duty to fulfill as attorney general — and the immediate need to focus on a case of great consequence. And that is what I must do,” Beau Biden said in a statement. “Therefore I cannot and will not run for the United States Senate in 2010. I will run for reelection as attorney general.”
Biden’s decision dealt a serious blow to Democratic hopes of retaining the seat and puts the party at a decided disadvantage against Republican Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), the popular former governor and veteran congressman who has comfortably won reelection since first winning his House seat in 1992.
As I wrote before, this seat – which 538 now gives the GOP a good chance to win, as does the Cook Political Report – isn’t one for conservatives to get too excited about, considering Castle’s left-leaning record. However, saying that, it is – as the NRCC’s Jon Thompson suggested on Twitter today – something to cheer about to think that the GOP, after winning “Kennedy’s seat,” has a real shot this year at also taking the seats formerly held by Biden and Obama.
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My day keeps getting better and better! I would rather see Castle in the “Biden seat” than Beau Biden. Even if their voting record would be similar in the Senate.
Get the popcorn out!
I’ve said before obama was even inaugurated that he will be the most unpopular president this country has EVER had….
Watch the Dems throw him under the bus as they recognize that he is destroying the democratic party. OK, so not all will throw him under the bus for that, but the further left faction will throw him under the bus for not being enough of a radical…
He is just not going to win. And… the difference between him and Clinton is that Clinton was all about image. While obama is about image too, (he does have a sizy ego) his stumbling block is that he is SUCH an ideologue.
I don’t think he CAN move center.
He will try to look like it,(more lies) but it is just going to be lip service…
I’ll take my popcorn with some rich butter and sea salt, thank you very much!
This shall be fun to watch….
Those rascals in the Democratic party are scheming to try to get “anything” passed to give a fake victory to Obama.
Watch for promised future changes to get “anything” passed through reconciliation, and then a mass exodus of Democrats from congress in November.
Well, yeah…you’d feel confident too, if you lived on planet Narcissus like the Dalai Bama.
If Obama thinks he won’t get “thrown under the bus” by his fellow Democrats because he’s so “popular” he need look only back to the 2006 Congressional elections when the Republicans threw George Bush under their bus … and Bush was ahead of Obama, in popularity, at this point in his second term more than Obama is now in his first term.
I will predict that by September when the Congressional elections are in full swing that virtually none of the Democrats up for re-election will want to either be seen with Obama or have him endorse them. At this stage its starting to look like Obama will become a one-term President … unless he can produce something of substance for a change … like capture Osama bin Laden or invent a car that uses only water for fuel.
I’m still amazed at someone who has accomplished so little has soared so high, yet still thinks so much of himself. Bill Clinton had actually been the AG and Governor of a STATE before he ran for President. Obama never finished a term in the US Senate. His magical “ME” moment is over,except in his own mind.
Yeah, MA could only turn Republican with Obama at the wheel. Clinton – for all his faults – at least had experience. He also knew a warning sign when he saw it.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Obama is amazingly thick for someone with no substance. I know a guy like Obama: full of himself, thinks he can do no wrong and everyone loves him, blissfully unaware that people loathe him, and in need of an ass-kicking. (Though in Obama’s case, he deserves an ass-kicking just at the polls.)
It’s really becoming clear to me that the biggest issue we have are all the buses out there.
No bus -can’t get thrown under one.
Sign the”Ban The Buses Petition” here:
www. nancy .porklosi.com/save-my-derriere.html
(I’m having more fun than I deserve…lol…)