Posted on 10/23/2009 12:56:28 AM PDT by raccoonradio
President Obama blows into the bluest state tomorrow facing a cold shoulder from once true-blue admirers, as gay rights activists, anti-war protesters and vexed environmentalists vow to picket a fund-raiser he’s headlining for Gov. Deval Patrick - a marquee event that hasn’t even sold out.
As of last night, liberals who once braved frigid temperatures to behold Obama were shunning tickets to the fund-raiser at the posh Westin Copley Place featuring the president, sources told the Herald. And despite campaign denials, Patrick operatives reportedly were pushing the ducats - between $500 and $6,000 - by e-mail up to the last minute.
“He’s reaching the point in his presidency where not only has the honeymoon ended, but the fighting has begun,” said Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia presidential scholar.
Among the groups planning to dog Obama during his scheduled afternoon swing through Cambridge and Boston:
Anti-war activists CODEPINK, who are irate with the president for backpedaling on promises to withdraw from Iraq and weighing a surge of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
“It’s disturbing and very upsetting,” said Sarah Roche-Mahdi, the group’s Greater Boston coordinator.
Donning bright-pink wigs and hats, these anti-war women said they’ll shadow Obama from MIT, where he’s slated to give a speech on the environment, to the swank Westin Copley fund-raiser.
Environmental coalition 350.org - which has soured on Obama’s efforts to curb global warming - plans to protest the MIT address. They’re also taking out a full-page ad in the MIT student paper questioning Obama’s commitment to the green cause.
Gays and lesbians are furious with Obama for forsaking campaign vows to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
About 150 members of gay marriage advocate Join the Impact-MA plan to converge on the Hub hotel to give the commander in chief an earful.
“I voted for him because of his speeches and rhetoric and his promises,” said Paul Sousa, the group’s co-founder. “I thought he’d act on those promises.”
Meanwhile, several unions - peeved with Patrick for threatening their jobs and angry with Obama for wavering on health care reforms - backed off protest plans, sources told the Herald.
As some grousing liberals were plotting their protests, tickets were moving slowly for the posh private hotel gathering where Obama is slated to shake hands and pose for photos at $6,000 a pop.
Add it all up, and liberal ire with Obama is close to the boiling point, said Princeton University political scientist Julian Zelizer.
“Clearly they’re in his corner, but they’re not as happy as they once were,” Zelizer said. “Frustration could accelerate and descend into something worse.”
He He He
You did? And somebody put you in charge of a group? Bwahahahahahahaaaa!
LOL.
What's this about? Are union workers unhappy with their current health care plans????
MMMMM MMMMMM MMMMMMM !!!
Yes, we can !!!
Keep it up, obamaroid, you gonna get all all wee-wee’d on by your own kind.
These freaks should be in sackcloth and ashes for what the rest of us must now endure; the scary thing is that as disturbing as the Naked Emperor has been for just one year, to these creatures it is not enough...
But, he aint ti’red. He’s just getting started...
Ahem....
"The state is awash with cynicism... But the cynical aren't smart, they're just pretending to be."
Excellent link! He is from Michigan?????
“It’s disturbing and very upsetting,” said Sarah Roche-Mahdi, the group’s Greater Boston coordinator.”
Speaking of disturbing and upsetting, what an ideological trainwreck this one is. Hypenated French-Islamic surname, attendee of Islamic literature conferences, author of a peculiar work of fiction detailing the life of a girl raised as a boy in medieval times, apparent antisemite, regional leader for CodePink in Boston.
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2009/10/sticking-it-to-the-jews-in-brookline-mar/
So, Obama’s offended crypto-transgenderist, pro-Islamic, Jew-hating academic feminists. He’s about to scrape through the bottom of the barrel, here. Who, well ... what, is there left to offend?
“I voted for him because of his speeches and rhetoric and his promises,” said Paul Sousa, the group’s co-founder. “I thought he’d act on those promises.”Y'know Mr. Souza? I could'a told ya' all his jabber-jabber was a bunch of crap -- just like a used-car salesman's jabber -- but you would have whined and complained that I was raaaaaciiiist!
Hyphenated french-islam surname, AND a traditional Jewish first name.
... organizing “pro-Palestinian” protest marches through Jewish neighborhoods on the Sabbath, intentionally.
Come on, liberals. Let’s sing about it. And a-one, and a-two......
Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
Trying to forget my feelings of love.
Teardrops rolling down on my face,
Trying to forget my feelings of love.
Feelings, for all my life I’ll feel it.
I wish I’ve never met you, girl;
You’ll never come again.
Feelings, WOOOOO feelings,
WOOOOO, feel you again in my arms.
Oh please....the UNION THUGS will buy the tickets.
WOW Rep. Rogers of Michigan could be someone to watch!! He sounds a LOT better than Eric Cantor who everyone is pushing.
Millions upon millions of Americans were smart enough to see through Obama's sugar-coated lies, but not you, Paul. It really sucks to be you, huh...
Ironic that Obama is not liberal enough for the far left, but his agenda is so far left from mainstream America that he may doom liberal Democrats from being elected or re=elected to Congress.
Really, its revealing just how shallow liberals are. She actually believed a politician! LOL!!!!
Bay State Liberals = Rich White Folk
Obama will never really belong to the club. He simply exists to make them feel good about themselves.
Especially this politician. Barely any record and no accomplishments in it. I take more care picking out vegetables than people like this take examining a presidential candidate.
He has no plans of his own at all! No plan for Afghanistan. None for health care. None for the economy. Everything he does is pick uber-liberals to come up with and promote ideas that he claims as his own.
He's the definition of “empty suit”!!!
Point taken. Still union support of “health care reform” makes no sense except to the extent that they support anything a RAT does. But this claim that “several unions” were going to protest that Obama was not pushing it hard enough just sounds bogus.
Which unions? And why should we believe that they were “going to” protest but “backed off” that plan? It could be government unions that were told to protest, because lately private sector unions have been picking their battles a little more wisely and not jumping up to protest every time you turn around.
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