Posted on 10/25/2009 10:22:26 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A year ago, Barack Obama and Joe Biden were in the home stretch of a pulsating White House race, belting out speeches to pumped up crowds and days away from crushing Republican John McCain.
The Democratic duo, now president and vice president, are back on the stump again, but the euphoric crowds have thinned and the electrifying crusade for change seems somewhat sullied by the inevitable compromises of governing.
Taking time out from multiple crises, Obama has reeled off a string of appearances, polishing his own political skills in some of the few races scheduled a year before much more important 2010 mid-term Congressional polls.
Stumping for lagging Democratic gubernatorial candidates, and filling party coffers at big money fund-raisers, Obama is also trying to reassure members of his Democratic support base, as critical moments loom for his agenda.
Like many presidents, freed for a few hours from the burden of power, Obama appears liberated on the campaign trail, firing off sarcastic attacks on Republicans ...
Last week, at a Democratic fund-raiser in New York, he lambasted foes who mocked his failure to win the 2016 Olympics for his home-town Chicago.
"I mean, who's against the Olympics? -- what's up with that? -- You know? That's a sad thing, isn?t it?"
...
He could do with a shot of political adrenaline himself: his mid 50s approval rating in recent polls is holding steady, but is well below the soaring heights of the early days of his administration.
On a recent trip to California Obama slammed Republicans ...
"I'm busy ... with our mop cleaning up somebody else?s mess -- we don?t want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way ... you're not mopping fast enough, that's a socialist mop," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Obama trying to save the rats? LOL. The rats are sinking because of obama.
US President Barack Obama addresses a fund-raiser in Stamford, Connecticut. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have made a string of appearances at big money fund-raisers to give their support to Democratic gubernatorial candidates. (AFP/File/Jewel Samad)
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Help????? He has done enough already they are a bunch of Fools ,Traitors and Thieves cast in his own image. ,
Millions and Millions of our hard earned tax monies to play games and enjoy running around trying to boost ego. What a trip.
The king albatross on the campain trail eh? Good Luck with all that.
0bama was in Boston at Patrick fund raiser which was $6000 a plate and half full but for 0bama and Patrick the show still went on. The economy and it goes without saying, George Bush was blamed on the low turnout for the Governor of Massachusetts, little mini me, in his little mini high voice kicking it off with “Are you fired up?”
LOL! Hussein saving the Dems is like putting a kamikaze pilot in chearge of the Democrat Party troop transport plane filled with Dems in Congress.
The DNC “plane” is going down in flames.
Yeah, RINO’S too ... coming to Florida to campaign for Crist, right? Oh, I forgot, Charlie is trying to position himself as the conservative in the race.
Reuters
Unfortunately the RNC is the copilot...
...the incredible shrinking Obama.
polishing cow patties
More lies.
Obama will be in Norfolk Tuesday at the Ted Constant Center at ODU.
The only thing I’m hearing are rants as everyone knows the area will be shutdown for his holiness.
Crash and burn!
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