LWW
05-18-2010, 10:00 AM
...screwing over those who helped him.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">President Barack Obama says he loves Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) — just not quite enough to hazard an 11th-hour political trip to Pennsylvania for an ally of convenience increasingly viewed as unlikely to win.
Just last year, the White House was crowing about Specter’s conversion to the Democratic Party, and <span style='font-size: 17pt'>Obama pledged, “He will have my full support. . .”</span> ...
In close to a dozen contests, Obama’s intervention hasn’t paid dividends — whether in picking winners in a party squabble like Pennsylvania, recruiting candidates for targeted seats, or on the stump in the final days of close contests in Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey.
Some candidates don’t want Obama. Others, like Specter, want him — but are deemed too shaky to risk Obama’s direct involvement. ...
Specter’s campaign tried to woo Obama to the city as late as last week. But the White House politely rebuffed them several times, saying the president simply couldn’t carve out the time for a 45-minute flight north, according to people familiar with the situation. ...
<span style='font-size: 17pt'>Vice President Joe Biden, a close friend of Specter’s who helped engineer the Pennsylvanian's switch, will be in Philadelphia Monday night for a commencement address but had no plans to appear with his former colleague.</span>
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37369.html#ixzz0oIUGLnVh </div></div>
The regime has deemed him obsolete.
LWW
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">President Barack Obama says he loves Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) — just not quite enough to hazard an 11th-hour political trip to Pennsylvania for an ally of convenience increasingly viewed as unlikely to win.
Just last year, the White House was crowing about Specter’s conversion to the Democratic Party, and <span style='font-size: 17pt'>Obama pledged, “He will have my full support. . .”</span> ...
In close to a dozen contests, Obama’s intervention hasn’t paid dividends — whether in picking winners in a party squabble like Pennsylvania, recruiting candidates for targeted seats, or on the stump in the final days of close contests in Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey.
Some candidates don’t want Obama. Others, like Specter, want him — but are deemed too shaky to risk Obama’s direct involvement. ...
Specter’s campaign tried to woo Obama to the city as late as last week. But the White House politely rebuffed them several times, saying the president simply couldn’t carve out the time for a 45-minute flight north, according to people familiar with the situation. ...
<span style='font-size: 17pt'>Vice President Joe Biden, a close friend of Specter’s who helped engineer the Pennsylvanian's switch, will be in Philadelphia Monday night for a commencement address but had no plans to appear with his former colleague.</span>
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37369.html#ixzz0oIUGLnVh </div></div>
The regime has deemed him obsolete.
LWW