Specter of Defeat: Slew of Democrats Invited to Obama Speech in PA Decline Due to Prior Committments to Not Ruining Re-Election Bids
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
Democrats up for re-election this year are fully aware of President Obama’s campaign record, and nowhere is that more apparent than in Pennsylvania, where at least five Democrats have taken the “uh, I can’t make it because I gotta re-arrange my sock drawer” out in response to the invitation to Obama’s speech at Carnegie Mellon this afternoon:
Congressmen Jason Altmire and Tim Murphy have previous engagements. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. and Rep. Mike Doyle are out of town on anniversary trips with their wives. Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato will be campaigning in Philadelphia.
When President Obama and Sen. Arlen Specter land at Pittsburgh International Airport today, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl will receive them by himself.
The rest of the region’s top elected officials declined White House invitations to attend Obama’s speech at Carnegie Mellon University this afternoon, their offices said.
Even Obama’s teleprompter tried to bail but reconsidered after being reminded that it is under contract, and if it didn’t show up, Eric Holder threatened to prosecute TOTUS to the fullest extent of whatever applicable laws the AG hasn’t read yet.
The president is following through on a promise to Democrats (note: Tim Murphy, listed above, is a Republican) that he made in March:
At the same time, Obama intends to lobby wavering House Democrats to vote for a Senate version of the legislation and to support the subsequent reconciliation process, which Republicans have characterized as an unjustified use of majority power. Among the rewards Obama is ready to offer, White House officials said, are election-year visits to competitive congressional districts, where a presidential appearance can bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds.
I guess hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds don’t matter if you think it’s being handed to you by the Grim Reaper.
In other news, President Obama is going to meet with Paul McCartney tonight to see if the former Beatle has any suggestions about how to stop the oil leak in the gulf.
Perhaps the cruelest irony of the horrible Gulf oil spill is that Obama is finally able to live up to the hype and walk on water, but the reason might be his undoing. Then again, maybe not.
Update: Speaking of feeling lonely… There’s somebody in Florida who could use a hug. Oh wait, that was the problem in the first place.
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Typhoid Mary!
In other news, President Obama is going to meet with Paul McCartney tonight to see if the former Beatle has any suggestions about how to stop the oil leak in the gulf.
In case I didn’t make myself clear, Sir Paul is a Poinyoin!
Hmmm, random thoughts….
What, the John Murtha Airport wasn’t opened?
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl to assistant: “Damn, couldn’t you get me a tee time so I don’t have to be at the airport when they arrive?”
Michelle-my belle and the kids are going to get to hear their rendition of Ebony and Ivory.
FIFY
Rogue–McCartney is a canny (not to be confused with ‘intelligent’) showman.
this from someone who shared the stage (and everything else) with Lennon and Harrison.
I think we’re on the same page with regard to Mac.
Spacey -There is no way they can get within three feet of each other, their egos are ginormous!
maybe they’ll get close enough for Macs to share his hair coloring secrets.
Would Obummer endorse Jimmy Johnson or Jeff Gordon to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship?
I have an idea!
Maybe Obummer could invite all of that spilled oil to his speech!
It’ll all run back down into that well and stay there!
This is one of the funniest friggin pieces I’ve ever read.
I have a something for McCartney:
“…The only thing you did was yesterday,
And since you’re gone you’re just another day,
How do you sleep?
Ah how do you sleep at night?…”—How Do You Sleep/John Lennon
I think “FIFY” is rather condescending. Rather than “Fixed” it for you, why not “changed” it for you. I mean, it was perfectly fine the first way.
It’s kind of arrogant to go around “fixing” other people’s posts.
Bang, Bang! Barackwell’s silver hammer
came down upon his head…
Q: When did Paul McCartney write Silly Love Songs?
A: All the frickin time!
This is a great post! Laughed all the way except for thoughts of oil spill and it’s effect on our nation. Hit the nail on the head. Seems even the Dems are seeing the wisdom of the EIB network.
ThunderHawkk,
Duly noted. And now back to the fun…
I guess Eric missed all those “Reading is FUNdamental” PSA’s
From the linked Crist article: “It just became increasingly apparent to me that a segment of the party was drifting so far to the right that it just wasn’t a place where I felt comfortable anymore,” Crist said.
Thank God! RINO’s should no longer feel comfortable in the Republican Party. The people of this country are sick of you and we do not want you. Can we be more clear? You should not feel comoftable because we want you out!
I guess some of those politicians are figuring out that The Won campaigning for you is the political kiss of death.
As long as he doesn’t do a rendition of Taxman he should be fine.
Rumor Central: Paul is dead!
I wonder which side got to The Fence first. If anyone is on campus, could you take a picture?
(CMU E’92)
My my, how things do change-is the luster fading? Oh well as long as you have a left over old hippie hanging on your every word all is not lost. Is Yoko Ono still living on dead beatles?
I never did like the Beatles, Bambi or Democrats so this thread is a ThreeFer-thanks Doug!
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An Armed Society is a polite society.
uh oh. Now you went and did it, AzN.
How about Lennon’s ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’?
(bang-bang/shoot-shoot)
“Made a lightning trip to Vienna,
eating chocolate cake in a bag.
The newspapers said, “She’s gone to his head,
They look just like two gurus in drag”.
Christ you know it ain’t easy,
You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going
They’re going to crucify me.”
If Arlen’s riding Air Force One with O, I wonder whether O is insisting that he ride in the baggage compartment or in an overhead bin. Or maybe the back of the plane–out of O’s eyesight and earshot.
McCartney is so dumb, he couldn’t protect his fortune from an obvious golddigger. His own children tried to warn him, but like a 19 year old in love, he wouldn’t listen.
There’s a story in the Band on the Run box set about him driving in the bush in Nigeria and held up by bandits. He and Linda and a gang of banditos all alone in the wilderness. They were robbed and let go. The police told him they weren’t killed because black people don’t think white people can tell them apart. It could have been much, much worse.
Why some people look to rock stars and movie actors for political acumen is beyond me. Dumber than the rock stars I suppose, but still get to vote.
Typhoid
MaryBarry!Slightly OT, but relevant to the Beatle portion of this thread:
Maybe they could use a ‘Yellow Submarine’ to find out what the pipeline undersea is doing.
The fact of the matter is that Crist is doing very well in the polls. Just when you think he is going to be blown out, he bounces right back. His decision to go “Independent” (i.e. DIABLO — Democrat In All But Label Only, e.g. Joe Leiberman) has proved effective. He may well win, or at least in a close election, steal it. Meanwhile, the one black congressman who voted against ObamaCare has been tossed out by his district. In short, a lot of people think November is going to be a slam dunk for the Right. I am unpersuaded.
Oh, please. A case of nerves for being three feet away from “The One.” I’ll be back….I have to go throw up now.
A malignant narcissist is better at spreading pestilence than success. Bho’s got the reverse Midas touch. He’s unleashed a political plague.
As always, when the Dems point their fingers, figure they are talking about themselves. Case in point, Sarah Palins inexperience. The lamestream media should have been focusing on Obama’s lack of experience and now, as we’re finding out after a lot of damage to the country, that he’s also incompetent. Incapable of even “learning on the job”.
So, whenever a Dem decides to critcize or blame the right, just figure they are talking about themselves. They are only projecting their short-comings onto the target of their scorn.
Sounds like Barry should turn in the lapel flag pin for a biohazard warning label.
Will ‘Bungalow Bill’ Clinton be there?
I think “Back in the USSR” would put them both at ease.
That’s after Michael Jackson bought the rights to all the songs McCartney wrote.
He couldn’t protect what was left from the goldigger… Heh…
Well if Sir Paul doesn’t have a suggestion then James Cameron does. He is, after all, an expert in undersea filming and robotics.
McCartney could help.
Barry: we’re so sorry, uncle Beatle,
But we haven’t done a bloody thing all day.
We’re so sorry, uncle Beatle,
But the oil rig’s on the boil
And we’re so eas’ly called away.”
Sir Paul: Hands across the water, heads across the sky,
Admiral Barry notified me,
He had to blame BP or he couldn’t get off free.
I had another look and i had a cup of tea and a butter pie.
Paul: Why don’t we do it in the road?
OT, but actually they all are. And it isn’t a pipeline. It is an oil well.
If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.
Well, except for Obummer and his cabinet.
I LMAO through this whole post, Doug. Great job!
Now somewhere in the black mining hills of Dakota
There lived a young boy named Baracky Raccoon
And one day his woman ran off with another guy
Hit young Baracky in the eye Baracky didn’t like that
He said I’m gonna get that boy
So one day he walked into town
Booked himself a room in the local saloon.
Baracky Raccoon checked into his room
Only to find Gideon’s bible
Baracky had come equipped with a gun
To shoot off the legs of his rival
His rival it seems had broken his dreams
By stealing the girl of his fancy.
Her name was Magil and she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Nancy.
Now she and her man who called himself Dan
Were in the next room at the hoedown
Baracky burst in and grinning a grin
He said Danny boy this is a showdown
But Daniel was hot-he drew first and shot
And Baracky collapsed in the corner.
The doctor came in stinking of gin
And proceeded to lie on the table
He said Baracky you met your match
And Baracky said, Doc it’s only a scratch
And I’ll be better I’ll be better doc as soon as I am able.
Now Baracky Raccoon he fell back in his room
Only to find Gideon’s bible
Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt
To help with good Baracky’s revival.
A few thoughts on the relationships between four individuals:
Arlen Specter vs. Bill Clinton:
First, Specter, like McCain in 2000 (with his “Agents of Intolerance” speech), showed that he was hostile to, not a friend of, Christian conservatives.
Second, Specter insulted Clinton as “incompetent”. If you think Clinton ever forgot or forgave that insult from Specter, think again.
Bill Clinton & Joe Sestak have a long track record together, and according to one report (follow the link further below), Clinton had Sestak over to his house, to gameplan for Sestak’s general election race against Specter, on the very day that Specter announced he would be switching parties.
Bill Clinton & Barack Obama – I think it is safe to say that we witnessed a civil war within the Democrat Party during the 2008 Presidential primary, and that the Clintons and their camp deeply despise Obama and his camp. I think Hillary was offered the Secretary of State position in return for not challenging Obama at the Convention (was that, too, a violation of the law?), and Hillary only agreed to that after she realized whe would lose a floor fight. Obama’s keeping his enemy close, but the Clintons are still the enemy of Obama, and still trying to see his power destroyed without simultaneously destroying their own power.
Arlen Specter & Barack Obama – Obama had a lot to gain by having Specter “come out of the closet” and finally shed his Republican facade/costume. Specter gave Obama votes and PR spin that Obama desperately needed for his agenda. It’s fair to assume that it wasn’t just Harry Reid promising Specter things… Reid promised Specter would keep his seniority. Promise not kept. Obama likely promised that Specter would not have a primary challenger.
Joe Sestak & Barack Obama – Now, this get’s really interesting, because you can’t look at it in isolation… you must look at the relationships between all four men. A blog called “The Minority Report” asks:
Doug, that’s absolutely classic!