Are You Man Enough for Obama?
Apparently, Rep. Anthony Weiner is not:
Bloomberg's meager five-point win left Democrats pondering what might have been if New York's Democratic donors hadn't turned their back on Thompson, if its politicians had worked for him, and most of all if President Barack Obama had offered anything more than the lamest words of praise.
"Maybe one of those Corzine trips could have been better spent in New York. Who knows?" remarked New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, who weighed his own run for mayor, referring to the White House's devout attention to the New Jersey contest.
"Maybe Anthony Weiner should have manned-up and run against Michael Bloomberg," shot back a White House official, who attributed the night's results across the board to anti-incumbent fervor.
Not very progressive, or helpful, words from our non-progressive President's entourage.
We will make progress- in spite of him, and in spite of his faction within the Democratic Party. But with a President like this, what other idiocies do you think he will be man enough for?
Bloomberg's meager five-point win left Democrats pondering what might have been if New York's Democratic donors hadn't turned their back on Thompson, if its politicians had worked for him, and most of all if President Barack Obama had offered anything more than the lamest words of praise.
"Maybe one of those Corzine trips could have been better spent in New York. Who knows?" remarked New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, who weighed his own run for mayor, referring to the White House's devout attention to the New Jersey contest.
"Maybe Anthony Weiner should have manned-up and run against Michael Bloomberg," shot back a White House official, who attributed the night's results across the board to anti-incumbent fervor.
Not very progressive, or helpful, words from our non-progressive President's entourage.
We will make progress- in spite of him, and in spite of his faction within the Democratic Party. But with a President like this, what other idiocies do you think he will be man enough for?
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"his faction within the Democratic Party."
I should have omitted party reference here. Obama's faction includes such non-Dems as Joe Lieberman and the Mayor himself, who has changed parties so often he is the political equivalent of type AB blood- he will accept any party nomination, provided it gets him positioned prominently enough on the ballot.
(It's too bad O is not the universal acceptor- it could stand for "opportunist." But O might be relevant in another way..)
November 5, 2009 10:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Someone commented on another blog that Bloomberg has been an ally of the White House, and the surrogates use him as an example of bipartisanship, which meme seems to obsess him.
November 5, 2009 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, but some of us have to live here.
Bloomberg and Joe Lieberman are two of a kind. Adding Obama makes three.
November 5, 2009 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not only is Obama's staffer's slur offensive in itself, but it speaks to a fundamental cravenness in Obama's program that convinces me he is not the 'man' (or woman) for the job. he is looking for cover, and that is a bad sign in a leader- an LBJ-like flaw in his character (although to be fair LBJ pushed through reforms any way he could, with the same stubbornness that mired him in southeast Asia, while Obama's equivocations may mean we don't get escalations, just the slow catastrophe of overextended US military and [if we are really lucky] a watering down of Bush's worst practices. But no doubt about it, things will get worse under the present leader.)
November 5, 2009 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink