Demonstrating the sort of political fearlessness that's defined Bambi Obama's presidency to date, the White House surveys the situation in Massachusettes and decides to run away and hide:
Coming off stinging election losses in Virginia and New Jersey -- not to mention Copenhagen, where he failed to win the 2016 Olympics for his hometown of Chicago -- President Obama is staying away from what could become another painful loss.
No doubt hard-pressed Congressional Democrats will draw strength from Bambi's resolute stand, knowing that he has their back and all:
With Mrs. Coakley flagging in the polls and Republican Scott Brown closing fast -- one recent polls puts him 2 points ahead -- Mr. Obama has decided to keep his fingerprints off a race that would be an embarrassment for Democrats should they lose, given that Mr. Obama won the state in 2008 by a 27 point margin.
Well, we can't have Bambi getting embarrassed, now can we?
The obvious? Once again Bambi shows that if it isn't 100% about Glory To Himself, he isn't interested.
Very uplifting.
Evidently these are the sort of leadership skills a Harvard edjamacation gets ya. I'm sorry I missed out.
Update: Now he's going. Evidently somebody in the White House figured out that going down with a fight might look better than hiding under the nearest chair. Probably Michelle.
Now he's going.
Take a look at how Brown deals with internet contributions vs how the Organizer in Chief's campaign did it. Night and day.
http://thebigswedeofthenorthshore.blogspot.com/2010/01/internet-donations-brown-vs-obama.html
Posted by: mark | January 15, 2010 at 02:01 PM
Sunday. You know, while all those worthless drunkass mick and guinea Sox fans are sleeping off their hangovers in their backwards Papist cult houses... oh, and giving Brown a full day to chew on his ass afterwards...
How did we lose to this fool? Can we stop calling Steve Schmidt a campaign strategist now?
Posted by: richard mcenroe | January 15, 2010 at 03:13 PM
Definitely Michelle. The Once™ probably wants to play golf.
Posted by: JeffS | January 15, 2010 at 03:27 PM
Dunno Dennis - isn't it just politics as usual - he turns up if he will be a help and hides if he won't. Usually the local candidate gets the call. You're not running another experiment are you ?
Posted by: Simon | January 15, 2010 at 03:27 PM
No experiment. Just trapped at my computer doing year-end payroll tax reports and year-end closings.
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | January 15, 2010 at 09:12 PM
Michelle? Oh, you mean the one in the family with BALLS!
Posted by: Earl T | January 15, 2010 at 10:15 PM
The sad damned thing about the crop of dorm room revolutionaries we have living in the White House now is that they have reached middle age without ever coming close to understanding the American Communism was always a political management tool. Their party - those white maned elder statesmen / botoxed grandmas - well, they've always just cheek kissed the commies just like they the blacks, illegals, and whatever other identifiable grievance group they could create and farm.
Obama and at least most of his inner circle are true believers though. I just don't think it's possible that they have even imagined what will follow the collapse they are trying to hard to bring about. I guess they never read "The Killing Fields". I'm sure Ayers left out that chapter when he was reading bedtime stories to Obama's kids, too...
JeffS -
"The ONCE"?
You just made my day. I will use that, use it often, and give credit when and wherever I do...
I hope you all have a fine weekend.
Posted by: TmjUtah | January 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Leftists love a loser. It's one of their defining characteristics, and one of the main reasons most (unconsciously, I'm sure) find them un-American.
Posted by: Randy Rager | January 16, 2010 at 12:14 AM
IF the Parachutist-in Chief jumps in, and IF Brown wins, I predict we will have witnessed the official birth of "The O Effect." Currently just a political snark, but one that requires only one gob-smackingly utter defeat to turn it into an immutable physical principle.
See "The Gore Effect."
BTW, you can't actually recover from such damage under any but the most extreme circumstances.
Posted by: Mike C. | January 16, 2010 at 06:13 AM
...dorm room revolutionaries... I should have thought of that myself. Wonderful. I'm going to steal that.
It will be so entertaining if Brown wins on Tuesday.
Posted by: Eric Blair | January 16, 2010 at 05:20 PM
The Once definitely needs to be bandied about as a description.
And I'm with the unpseudonymned Mr. Orwell here. I shall simply shriek with laughter if Brown wins.
Posted by: Tim Worstall | January 17, 2010 at 01:10 PM