Another one bites the dust..
You know when a powerful Democrat like this in a liberal blue state calls it quits, that a political tsunami of epic proportions is brewing.
This is big and offers a great opportunity for a GOP pick up. Obey was not facing a walk in the park this time around.
Wasn’t Obey a character in “Star Wars”??
A 2nd Tier Race that may need to be watched.
Filing deadline is July and primary is Sept. 14, so there’s plenty of time for a Dem free for all.
Wisconsin ping
Can't blame this on Bush!
Is it merely that he recognizes that the odds were against him in the coming election campaign? Is it that he is getting on in age? Or could it be, could it conceivably be, that the heart has gone out of him because he realizes he is on the wrong side of right and wrong?
All these years Obey has been an apologetic and pitiless liberal bent on imposing his will on the American people. But I bet he believes he always acted in the best interests of the people and that he was on the side of the good guys. I bet he always believed he was in the right but the Republicans and conservatives were on the wrong side. Doubtless, Obey confirmed his self-righteousness with the conviction that the Democrats were right on the issue of race and the conservatives were wrong. In other words, no conservative or Republican was worthy of respect because they are racists. No matter how absurd, no matter how far departed from common sense became the policy of his party, Obey held in faith to the belief that he was right on race and the other side was wrong and this faith no doubt sustained him.
Could it be that this construct is breaking down of its own weight? After all, the country put a black man in the Oval Office. But Obey has seen that man shamelessly play the race card to mask a series of lies and flagrant missteps in the management of the country's affairs. Obey has seen, but does he recognize, that President Obama has imposed on America, with Obey's connivance, a stimulus package that has not worked and a health-care reform that cannot work? Does nobody understand that he and Obama have left America very much worse than they found it? Has the heart left the man for the fight in which he must tell the world what he knows is simply not true.
Is the grasp of power no longer worth the lie? Is the game no longer worth the candle? Has Obey begun in his declining years to worry more about his eternal soul and less about the accoutrements of power? Has he just grown tired of the whole charade?
Or will he merely slither into retirement as benighted in his 70s as he was in his 30s? Is the sum total of his whole life and career that he has learned nothing apart from the mechanics of power? Will he go to his grave believing the whole liberal lie while denying the evidence of his eyes?
Obey had a long career. He leaves behind his state in complete ruin.