Dude, where's my magic? (Obama in Mass.)

American Thinker ^ | October 24, 2009 | Thomas Lifson

[jazusamo]

Last night in Boston, President Obama faced a half-empty hotel ballroom at a fundraiser for his pal, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who is unpopular and facing a difficult re-election campaign. Instead of confidence, he actually expressed doubt:

"There really should be no doubt that this guy gets a second term. But let's be honest. This is going to be a tough race ... "

Jules Crittenden has a hilarious blog post on the dismal portents for Obama and Patrick, titled "Maybe we can't," delving into the event and the press reaction. A sample:

Boston Globe helpfully plays down and buries five long graphs down but can't quite ignore Obama's low draw:

Sweeping into town for the fund-raiser and to deliver a speech on clean energy at MIT, Obama said Patrick deserves credit for implementing near-universal health care, investing in education, and making the alternative energy and biotech industries a priority. If voters fail to recognize this hard work in next year's state election, the president said, it will not bode well for the United States.

I'm sorry. It's about lowering expectations and claiming dire consequences for the very nation itself if the agenda doesn't get pushed. Maybe what he means is, 2010 losses won't bode well for US ... as in "we" ... in 2012. Because, he suggests, it will effectively render him a lame duck.

Otherwise, Obama said, other political leaders will say "then maybe I shouldn't, as a member of Congress or as a senator, take some chances and take some tough stands in pursuit of that same vision.''

Damn, for an early first-term mandate holder, he's not sounding very confident. But facing addressing all those empty chairs in blue Mass must have been disheartening.

Read the whole thing.

[jazusamo]

Boston Herald. Geez. I’m sure Deval is glad to have the $600,000 grand, but maybe Barry should have done him a favor and stayed in D.C. To avoid the Bush-like embarrassment of low turnout and protestors. And we aren’t even a year into the first term yet.

LOL!

[jazusamo]

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[goldstategop]

A President who can't bring out the crowds in a Democratic stronghold is forgettable, indeed.

Heh

[Frantzie]

Protestors in Boston?? Deval Patrick is not liked even in MA.

[knarf]

Dude ... we’re still waiting for our muffler !

[goldstategop]

Its racism to protest against two African American grandees! After all, America won't reach the Promised Land without them!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[MAexile]

Obama said Patrick deserves credit for implementing near-universal health care, investing in education, and making the alternative energy and biotech industries a priority. If voters fail to recognize this hard work in next year's state election, the president said, it will not bode well for the United States.

Really? Seems to me the only thing Patrick has done is try and get casino gambling, and whine about it when the general court says no.

Oh yeah, and jack the sales tax.

[Charles Martel]

Dude ... we’re still waiting for our muffler !

Expectations re-calibration commencing...

[Think free or die]

"Last night in Boston, President Obama faced a half-empty hotel ballroom at a fundraiser for his pal,"

Did someone forget to pay the "rent-a-mob" guys?

[PA-RIVER]

He used to draw such big crowds in Kenya. Maybe he could fund raise there?

[LostInBayport]

This low-turnout story could be a situation comedy.

[jazusamo]

Heh Heh Heh

They must have had other things to do, Friday is probably poker night.

[Kansas58]

Maybe ACORN was told to avoid the cameras?

[Mamzelle]

So he can’t draw the crowds...

[hoosiermama]

Looks like without ACORN things have slowed down a bit. AWE!

[sportutegrl]

Obama said Patrick deserves credit for implementing near-universal health care . . .

Something I have seen over and over again is the habit of blaming later Demoncrat administrations for the actions of an earlier Republican one. It was Romney that foisted Romneycare on Mass. It was Nixon who lowered the national speed limit to 55 mph, not Carter. It was George the Elder who gave us NAFTA, not Clinton. And, it was George Bush the Younger who foisted TARP and the auto bailouts on the U.S., but this will probably be blamed on Obama. (Ha Ha)

[Clemenza]

It was Reagan who put NAFTA in motion. He originally wanted a North American free trade zone, but could only get Canada to agree, as then Mexican president Miguel de la Madrid didn’t think such an agreement would be politically feasible at the time.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"So he can’t draw the crowds..."

Perhaps he could aspire to this:

[STARWISE]

Aren't we so speshulll?

[jazusamo]

LOL! They make such a cute couple.