Explaining the “community organizer” joke to the outraged Left
One of the best moments of Wednesday’s GOP convention — and there were many — was Rudy Giuliani’s jab at Barack Obama’s days as a “community organizer.” The follow-up from Gov. Sarah Palin was icing on the cake.
On cue, Team Obama and its satellites in the blogosphere reacted with ginned-up outrage. The Obama camp sent not one, but two, missives to its worshipers claiming grave offense and asking for donations to help fight the meanie Republicans. Kos posted an e-mailing likening Obama to the community organizer Jesus and Palin to Pontius Pilate. And the Atlantic suggested it was…RACIST!
My second syndicated column of the week patiently explains the joke the Left doesn’t seem to get. Adding to the punchline: After I filed my column yesterday afternoon, ACORN issued a press release condemning the “condescending attacks” on all the good-hearted community organizers like them.
Laughing out loud.
(**Check this out: Obama’s leftist claptrap on community organizing.**)
Plus: Hey, guess who else was a “community organizer?” And guess who wasn’t so fond of community organizing after all?
One more great satire you must read: Iowahawk.
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Why Obama’s “community organizer” days are a joke
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
Rudy Giuliani had me in stitches during his red-meat keynote address at the GOP convention. I laughed out loud when Giuliani laughed out loud while noting Barack Obama’s deep experience as a “community organizer.” I laughed again when VP nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin cracked: “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.”
Team Obama was not amused. (Neither were the snarky left-wingers on cable TV who are now allergic to sarcasm.) They don’t get why we snicker when Obama dons his Community Organizer cape. Apparently, the jibes rendered Obama’s advisers sleepless. In a crack-of-dawn e-mail to Obama’s followers hours after Giuliani and Palin spoke, campaign manager David Plouffe attempted to gin up faux outrage (and, more importantly, donations) by claiming grave offense on the part of community organizers everywhere. Fumed Plouffe:
“Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack’s experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed. Let’s clarify something for them right now. Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.”
Let me clarify something. Nobody is mocking community organizers in church basements and community centers across the country working to improve their neighbors’ lives. What deserves ridicule is the notion that Barack Obama’s brief stint as a South Side rabble-rouser for tax-subsidized, partisan non-profits qualifies as executive experience you can believe in.
What deserves derision is “community organizing” that relies of a community of homeless people and ex-cons to organize for the purpose of registering dead people and shaking down corporations and using the race card as a bludgeon.
As I’ve reported previously, Obama’s community organizing days revolved around training grievance-mongers from the far left group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The ACORN mob is infamous for its bully tactics (which they dub “direct actions”); Obama supporters have recounted his role in organizing an ambush of a government planning meeting on a landfill project opposed by Chicago minority lobbies.
With benefactors like Obama in office, ACORN has milked nearly four decades of government subsidies to prop up chapters that promote the welfare state, undermine the free market, and perpetuate illegal immigration and voter fraud. Since I last detailed ACORN’s illicit activities in this column in June (see “The ACORN Obama knows,” June 19, 2008), the group continues to garner scrutiny of law enforcement:
Last week, Milwaukee’s top election official announced plans to seek criminal investigations of 37 ACORN employees accused of offering gifts to sign up voters (including pre-paid gas cards and restaurant cards) or falsifying driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers or other information on voter registration cards.
Last month, a New Mexico TV station reported on child rapists, drug offenders, and forgery convicts on ACORN’s payroll. In July, Pennsylvania investigators asked the public for help in locating a fugitive named Luis R. Torres-Serrano, who is accused “of submitting more than 100 fraudulent voter registration forms he collected on behalf of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now to county election officials.” Also in July, a massive, nearly-$1 million embezzlement scheme by top ACORN officials was exposed.
ACORN’s political arm endorsed Obama in February and has ramped up efforts to sign up voters across the country. In the meantime, completely ignored by the mainstream commentariat and clean-election crusaders, the Obama campaign admitted failing to report $800,000 in campaign payments to ACORN. They were disguised as payments to a front group called “Citizen Services, Inc.” for “advance work.”
Jim Terry, an official from the Consumer Rights League, a watchdog group that monitors ACORN, noted: “ACORN has a long and sordid history of employing convoluted Enron-style accounting to illegally use taxpayer funds for their own political gain. Now it looks like ACORN is using the same type of convoluted accounting scheme for Obama’s political gain.” With a wave of his magic wand, Obama changed his FEC forms to change the “advance work” to “get-out-the-vote” work.
Now, don’t you dare challenge his commitment to following tax and election laws. And don’t you even think of entertaining the possibility that The One exploited a non-profit supposedly focused on helping low-income people for political gain.
He was just “organizing” his “community.” Guffaw.
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Socky wrote:
They do tell the truth when the truth is on their side… so, never.
Between this comment and someone typing “democRAT”, I’m beginning to think every neocon has the brain of a 4-year-old child …
It’s telling that the same areas where liberals whine “there are no jobs for poor people” are being flooded with illegal immigrants who seem to have no trouble finding these non-existent jobs.
Also, Obama is strongly in opposition to two policies that would create tens or hundreds of thousands of new jobs: 1. Expansion of domestic energy production. 2. Reductions in corporate and capital gains taxes.
post your proof. people don’t need ‘community organizers’ to get control of their own life…they just do it duhhhh
As a big city resident, I am very aware of the problems we face. I was merely pointing out your rural elitism — apparently small town life isn’t perfect and virtuous, either — and making the point that if Obama didn’t save the world, neither did Mayor Palin.
(And yes, I realize she hasn’t been Mayor for a few years, but the jist of the article is that there has been a steady growth in meth activity — which began under her tenure.)
looks like the truth hurts you good democRAT.
When omu comments on bemused’s post, is it talking to itself?
Translation: “All my talking points have been devastated. So, I’ll resort to name-calling.”
Exactly. Read my post at #57.
again you have no proof of that. you have no idea when meth labs started in her area, no idea if they were outside her jurisdiction, and in the outlying community…from your paper:
how big is this area? where are the meth labs located at? in the city, not likely, or the outlying areas, outside of her jurisdiction?
you don’t know, but don’t let facts get in the way of your smears…typical lib.
Omu said:
You’re a pathetic liar. Straight up.
That is perfect comparison as is my example such as Alcohol Anonymous.
No, you were trying to blame conservatives for problems in small towns while giving a pass to problems in big cities run by liberals, like Mr. Obama’s “outstanding” mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. (a.k.a. Prisoner F3013456).
Are you seriously trying to say meth did not exist before Palin??? Darth Malkin has a rival!!!!
Bemused said:
Lol. I notice how every able bodied person walks around with an EBT card.
Is that how you slove a problem? hahaha.
(And yes, I realize she hasn’t been Mayor for a few years, but the jist of the article is that there has been a steady growth in meth activity — which began under her tenure.)
This is happening in rural communities everywhere. Big cities don’t want to deal with the drug problem head-on and so it spreads out of the city.
very true. these libs make out like people can’t make it through another day without a ‘community organizer’ there to help you along…cause you’re all dumb and need liberal guidance…right.
they just want power over people’s lives, and it strokes their egos to think people need their ‘guidance’
On September 5th, 2008 at 9:34 am, Omu said:
I am not, I am just unimpressed. (note, I can only answer in the singular, I am not a part of a collective.)
I am not ignoring his legislative experience as a State Senator or U.S. Senator.
You are misquoting. She said “major” piece of legislation, if I’m not mistaken.
Sigh.
“Experience” means nothing unless that experience is in the cause of freedom and individual liberty. By 1941 Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Tojo, and others of like ilk had plenty of “experience.”
Obama’s got plenty of legislative (not executive) experience in service to the collective. Freedom and individuality is his enemy.
I’ll pass.
He had years in Illinois to show his stuff, guess he doesn’t have any. The Chicago Machine is still alive and well, babies of all ages, o to birth, still being killed, schools still a joke in Cook county.
IF HE WANTS TO RUN THE COUNTRY LIKE HE RAN HIS CORNER OF ILLINOIS, THANKS BUT NOOOOOOO THANKS.
“Community Organizer”. What a load of Bandini. I probably influenced and touched more lives as a T-Ball coach when I was a young man.
OMU, Please, after 8 years of insults from liberals, you can shove your fake outrage.
That a little bit of a stretch Bemused.
The Obama team has no ground to complain about calling him the community organizer, because as i recall that was his most popular reference in the Primary debates. He started almost every answer with,” my time as a community organizer”. So if that is what gives him his credentials, then the Republicans are right to call him that.
Sorry. Quotes didn’t take in my last post.
This is happening in rural communities everywhere. Big cities don’t want to deal with the drug problem head-on and so it spreads out of the city.
Since he ran virtually unopposed, I would have expected 100%!
You do remember, it was his campaign that forced the unsealing of his opponents nasty divorce records, forcing his opponent to drop-out. Just as he did to get elected to the State Senate, by opposing the nominating petitions of his opponents.
Guess if you are unable to win the position on merit, it is best to personally attack your opponent.
Re #107,
My mother-in-law, who lives in Alaska, tells me that there are probably 50,000 – 75,000 people who live somewhere in the rural outskirts of Anchorage and its neighboring communities. Truth is, no one knows for sure because these people live, hermit-like, in places the Census Bureau has never bothered to heavily canvass.
That sounds to me like what we’re talking about with respect to meth labs. Or to look at it another way, think about all those moonshiners who lived in the woods around Sheriff Andy Taylor’s Mayberry.
I grow weary of smacking down all of these smears based on 6 degrees of separation that the left tries. Palin was mayor Wasilla, therefore everything that has ever happened in Wasilla, or will ever happen in Wasilla is her fault. I of course will now waste valuable time linking to articles where she lobbied for more money to expand and improve a rehab center in the town, how the rate of arrests rose because she asked the state police to give more attention to the problem in her area and how the drug manufactuers were relocating from nearby Anchorage, 40 miles away, to the outer communities to avoid the police.
But of course none of that matters.
One would think that with the liberal MSM solidly in Obambi’s corner, that he would have a 20-30 point lead. That FACT that this race is a dead heat shows how patheticly weak their ticket is.
No, I’m pretty sure I know what I was doing (in this case, anyway). Try not to make stuff up.
No. I’m suggesting that she was unable to stop its spread.
Oh, please. Talk about dodging responsibility. Meth is in rural areas because those country boys like meth.
No where does it say in this article that “Wasilla High School is a drop out factory”
In fact the words High, School, drop, and factory do not even appear in the article.
No where in this article does it say anything about Wasilla being the “Meth Capitol of Alaska”, it says that the Mat-Su area is the Meth Capital of Alaska
Now I know the hyperventilating left expects a lot more out of conservatives than they do out of liberals but the Mat-Su area, better known as the Matanuska-Susitna Valley is larger than the state of West Virginia; 24,000 square miles and has a population of 80,000. That’s quite a large responsibility for a Mayor of a town of 9,000, don’t you think?
I’m guessing geography and reading are not liberal requirements.
Watching these libs try to defend Obama is like watching the band play on the night of the “Titanic.”
Well that certianly doesn’t make her any different from mayors country wide.
Country boys, huh? Your elitism is showing.
Seriously though. Meth started and continues in the cities. The reason it’s so big in rural areas is because it’s easier for them to make. Rather than driving miles to the city to get coke or heroin, they can easily make meth anywhere. That’s why it’s so big in the country. Where did they get it from? Big cities that do nothing to stop the drug problem.
Wow. step away for a few minutes and a topic discussing Obama’s experience turns into allegations Gov. Palin is responsible for Alaska’s drug problem!
So, I guess that makes GWB responsible for USA’s drug problem and if Obama is elected we will no longer have a drug problem.
/sarc
PKAmmoTroop said:
Nice take down. Thank you.
Meth is in rural areas because Anhydrous ammonia is one of the key ingredients in producing meth. It is readily available in rural areas as farmers use this chemical as fertilizer. It is not available in cities nor is it allowed to be stored in urban areas, therefore it’s much harder to produce in urban areas.
I’m guessing chemistry is not a liberal requirement either.
from that article you can’t tell if the problem is in an area of her jurisdiction or not.
but the libs don’t let accuracy, or truth, stand in the way of their agenda.
Haha! I live in ‘rural’ Missouri, and I can tell you, that methamphetemine is produced in rural areas because it’s easier to hide the process house. It smells very badly and there might not be neighbors for miles. Also, there is access to farm fertilizer, etc.
Then they go to the city to sell it.
Want to see the first cousin of ACORN?
Just got tipped to this by Glen Beck. Bemused lib, I cannot wait to see you support this.
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=305420655186700
In fact the only source I could find for wasilla being the meth capital of alaska were liberal blogs. I smell another liberal lie.
sarc_on/
Plouffe? How do you pronounce that…seems like a French name, no? Does it sound like POOF with a L in front of it? Oh, the humanity!
sarc_off/
I live an hour outside Baltimore. That’s where all the drugs in our small town come from.
But, we have drifted off-topic. We were supposed to be talking about Obama’s his mad community organizing skillz that made the South Side of Chicago the Urban Utopia it is today.
I notice even Reverend Wright packed up and moved to a gated, upper-income community just as soon as he could. Great commitment to helping the poor.
eep; PKAmmo beat me to it…
Well, I am a rural elitist, though.
EMO and BEMUSEDLIB: Can you cite any article that is not a liberal blog that says wasillia is the meth capital of alaska?
::bows::
Thank you. Coming from you that’s a true compliment. (Michelle like you!)
Great work there. Urban Utopia. Love it.
::rural high 5!::
Half my life was spent on the frozen prairies of North Dakota, and in one week I’m shaking off this Hillary worshiping eastern blue state for good, it’s back to the prairies for me.
If there were no demand, there would be no meth. We city kids apparently think things go better with coke — though drugs of all persuasions are to be found pretty much everywhere. We can also speculate on the oxy vs. heroin red state/blue state divide.
At any rate, the original intent, now long forgotten, was to point out that, while Obama did not clean up the South Side all by himself, he waged an energetic battle and had some success. That he did not perfect the world is analgous to the fact that Mayor Palin did not turn Wasilla into Paradise-on-the-Tundra.
Or, more succinctly, community organizing is valuable — if not “executive” — experience.
When you find a tape of Palin when she was mayor in a hotel room with a hooker (or gigolo) smoking crack (or meth) and we 4 year old republicans elect her…then we will talk!
Rainbows. Doves. Gold falls from the sky.
Good for you! I am chomping at the bit to get off the East Coast. I’m looking at Indiana or Tennessee. And for the last couple of weeks, Alaska has been looking pretty good.
Err. bullets?
Do you have an article not produced by a lefty blog that says wasillia is the meth capital of alaska?
You mean THIS kind of “community organizing?”
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=305420655186700
Flyoverman,
After reading that article I am at a loss for words. I’m mean, I already knew that the Obamas were dangerous this solidfies those feelings. This man (and I use the term lightly) must not become our next President.
Which is exactly what Obama and his minions are doing now to Palin.
Still waiting for Michelle O to denounce the vicious personal attacks against Palin. Staying silent on the issue just makes her look as bad as the rest.
Flyoverman #136–
Excellent article.
The Obamas discourage work in the private sector. “Don’t go into corporate America,” Michelle has exhorted youth. “Work for the community. Be social workers.” Shun the “money culture,” Barack added. “Individual salvation depends on collective salvation.”
Just when will the Obamas realize it is from the work of private sector is the source of the money they so freely aim to take and redistribute?
Without the private sector, there will be no money to take!
The Obamas are an example as to why a college degree is less important than common sense.
please post your proof that in the city of wasilla, under palin’s jurisdiction, there was meth production…your article is very imprecise about the actual location of these meth labs. i’ve noticed you’ve ignored this issue, why is that?
Yeah, but Palin never presented herself as the Messiah, either. She never promised that the oceans would recede, and the Earth would heal if she were elected.
As Glen Beck just pointed out 67 negative articles on Sarah Palin in THREE DAYS by the NY Times.
Public Allies has been around since 1992. NOTHING ANYWHERE in the MSM about it.
Yes scary. It is classically how communists organize. Yes, Bemused Lib, I am calling him a communst. Deal with it.
Riiiiiight. Just like Michelle O shunned her $300K+ salary.
Wonder who knows more about meth…Palin or Obama?
The Juneau daily newspaper work for you?
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030805/sta_20050308002.shtml
Hey! that’s my (ex) Mayor you’re talking about. We have moved passed the Barry years (and she wasn’t a hooker, she was a mistress, get it straight!), now we have an energetic young Democratic reformer in place and he’s doing a bang-up job. You might even like him, even though he’s a young African American whom everybody said didn’t have enough experience to be Mayor and he ran on the theme of “change.” His dad’s a small business owner — I buy my kids running shoes from his store. He grew up around the corner from my house — it’s almost as though a big city shares many of the same benifits (and failings) of a small town!
Common ground?
Nah….
The Obamas are the epitome of elitist.
ROFL – how true.
Two days ago I googled “Palin sucks” and got 1850 hits. Today, 7,680.
Two flippin days!!!
hey bemusedwacko, from your article:
again, how big is this area, and what part of it is under her jurisdiction??
He’s actually 95% White and Arab.
Ok BemusedLib, we will concede the point that Obama knows more about the process of making meth and more about ‘getting rid’ of meth.
Obama wasn’t a community organizer, he was a political organizer.
This “meth thing” is utter nonsense. Meth is a MAJOR, MAJOR problem in my state and the Governor is a liberal Democrat. No one, not even me, blames the Governor. He’s doing the best job he can. We ALL support his efforts, win or lose.
No politician I have ever seen is soft on meth. Pick another issue.
I love living back in Missouri–I spent 12 long years in Virginia. Trapped between DC & Richmond when Marion Barry could do no wrong nor do no good.
Besides, I’m a flat-lander; I love the plains. Here I can see the tornado coming from far away…
FAIL: The article states that Mat-Su, an area of 24,000 sq. miles, is the meth capital of Alaska. I knew liberals were bad at geography, but you know the difference between a small town and a 24,000 sq. mile region, right?
But you welcomed her as though she was. Not Messiah, actually, but Messarah I believe, is the correct term. And besides, we never called him the Messiah. You did.
Ooooh, you’re so rugged and plain-spoken…you could just melt a girl’s heart.
And I’m calling you a paranoid moron.
I sure hope he turns out to be a wonderful leader because you sure could use one instead of worshipping these losers ya’ll keep hyping up.
since bemusedwackos can’t answer:
thats like blaming the mayor of richmond for all the problems of virginia.
typical liberal smearjob bemusedwacko.
I hate Marxist-influenced policies when they come from white people. Why is it only racist when I don’t want those policies. from a black man?
actually is Saracuda!
No. I greeted her as a successful woman with great policies, a record of success (opposing corruption and creating private sector jobs), a good family, and solid American values.
Obama has exactly one of those five things.
As a registered Democrat, I receive all of the mass emails from the Democrat Party. Unfortunately, the Dem Party is not the party it was in my youth so I haven’t voted for a Dem nominee in years.
Here’s the latest as it pertains to this subject of community organizers:
Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people?
With the nation watching, the Republicans mocked, dismissed, and actually laughed out loud at Americans who engage in community service and organizing.
Our convention was different. We gave the stage to everyday Americans who hunger for change and stepped up to make phone calls, knock on doors, and raise money in small amounts in their communities.
You may have missed it, but we also showed the country a video with the faces and voices of those organizers, volunteers, and donors from every corner of the country.
Watch the video and make a donation of $5 or more now to show that in this election, ordinary people will make their voices heard.
https://donate.barackobama.com/changevideo
What you didn’t hear from the Republicans at their convention is a single new idea about how to make the healthcare system work, get our economy moving for the middle class, or improve education.
Just attacks — on me, and on you.
But what the McCain attack squad doesn’t understand is that people like you — who devote part of their busy lives to organizing and building their communities — have the power to change this country.
With your help, that’s exactly what we’re going to do.
Thank you,
Barack
BemusedLib; Drugs are everywhere. You have your wine and I my Cognac. We all seek altered states. The problems The liberal method and the conservative method have the same goals. Obama choices to use political activities to help which weakens the individuals responsibilities and opens doors to corruption.. Conservatives prefer to encourage the family and local self help groups that build a persons self reliance and decentralize power.
Selective editing, my sensitive friend. I was merely trying to draw as many parallels between Fenty and Obama as possible and also named his experience, his themes, his age etc. I apologized if you inferred an accusation of racism, I merely meant to portray him as Obama Jr.
Wrong, as usual. I’ve met both his parents, you know.
This meme is a farce by this stage. It’s actually quite comical that a bunch of theocrats who are supporting a man who has 7 houses and a multi-million dollar fortune are calling a guy who was once a community organiser and owns one home and is not worth even one million dollars is an elitist. THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE SAYING!
Does an Ivy League education somehow make a person an elitist by default?
Or is it just that, because you know McCain could never, ever win on policy, you’re just going to attack Obama using farcical memes like claiming he’s an elitist that associates with terrorists?
Methinks it’s the latter.
I know it’s a common theme to my posts, but you theocrats need to grow up!
I might add that I am voting and supporting McCain/Palin all the way to the White House!
“committed“—more like “certifiable”
I got a call from a friend in a suburb of Detroit this morning. Thanks to the brilliant liberal leadership of that city and state, (Obama called Detroit’s mayor “outstanding”*) people are buying up foreclosed houses in his neighborhood at a fraction of their value and renting them out. His kids have been assaulted twice in a public park. One kid had his bicycle stolen. And gangs are trying to recruit them. He is this close to just abandoning his home and renting a place in a smaller town Outside the Detroit Metro area.
*And none of our trolls want to talk about the kind of mayor Obama considers “outstanding.”
I’ve had to prove my U.S. citizenship for employment purposes, but I’ve never had to prove my U.S. citizenship for voting purposes.
Why is that?
I mean, really…why is that?
How do we protect the sanctity of our elections?
I believe fraud in Republican primaries led to McCain becoming our nominee.
How are we going to keep the November elections pure?
“Community organizer” = bearer of free stuff and advice on how to beat the system.
On another blog, a McCain supporter said this: Here is a question for all Obama supporters.
Obama Supporters: List 3 accomplishments (i.e., something he actually did NOT what he said) that would qualify him to run for President.
Here is the answer he/she received and this Obama supporter was not making a joke:
1. He will be the first black for president 2. He has class 3. He is intelligent and shows respect to others
you know if anyone deserves those houses its mccain after all those years being tortured, wouldn’t you agree?
at least he didn’t have to go to some mafioso to get his house.
Maybe because you have nothing beyond your talking points but namecalling.
Yes, McCain has several houses, and he is an elitist. I would expect Obama to own several homes by the time he is 72 as well. Perhaps one of his daughters will live in one, as is the case with McCain. Perhaps an elderly and infirm relative will live in one, as is McCain.
What makes Obama and McCain elitists is that they both think they’re much better than regular folk.
So, elitism aside, McCain and moreso his running mate, support policies that will give more people a chance at prosperity, and multiple home ownership if they choose to own them. Obama-Biden support policies that limit freedom and economic opportunity.
It’s curious that opening five homes never hurt Al Gore or John Jerry. And then there is John Edwards hideous “largest home east of the Mississippi” monstrosity, where he cleared acres of forest to create a private soccer field for his children.
An executive like a mayor works with a budget, Assigns people to run administrative positions, Deals and works with legistaltive or municipalities on reforms and laws.
A community organizer is really nothing more than a glorified pickup basketball game couch. He simply tells people when to show up for a pickup game.
your messiah cannot really state what he wants to do, socialize medicine, raise taxes, ultimately socialize the entire country, so he has to lie.
and yes he does associate with a terrorist. whats farcical about it?
this from an immature whiny liberal nazi who wants to impose his atheistic socialism upon the rest of us.
I, too, support proof of identity to vote.
I am not sure it was fraud which resulted in McCain obtaining the nomination, but suspect it was the ability of left-leaning independents being able to vote in states that allow them to vote in either primary.
I believe they (left- leaning Independents) were seeking the weakest of the Republican pool.
Now, they are all wondering why their candidate is not doing better, or even worse, did not receive the Democrat nomination.
Obama “I know more than that mayor of Wasilly”
You know, a guy who’s in a dead-heat despite a massive fund-raising advantage and the full-throated support of the American media establishment… probably shouldn’t be bragging on running his campaign as evidence of executive experience.