It makes me upset that Democratic candidate are running from President Obama

[3rdwaydem]

I'm pulling my hair out. President Obama has a strong record of accomplishments any Democrat should be proud to stand by.

I read this option piece from the New York Times below:



From The New York Times:

The Democratic Panic

In hopes of preserving control of the United States Senate, Democratic candidates are keeping their distance from President Obama’s best policies, but that’s a risk.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/opinion/alison-lundergan-grimes-kay-hagan-and-other-candidates-avoid-obama.html

[JI7]

1. t roll

[gratuitous]

2. And not the only one n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Testify, brother!

What's wrong with the Lumpenproletariat that they don't realize how great Obama's trickle-down strategy will be for them one day?

Amazing.

Regards,

TWM

[DanTex]

17. You realize these people are running away from Obama to the right, not the left...

[Cali_Democrat]

20. They're running to Obama's right. They aren't going left, genius.

Alison Grimes accuses McConnell of providing amnesty and taxpayer benefits to "illegal aliens"

The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org is demanding that Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes take down an ad that uses the term “illegal aliens.”

“This latest TV ad from Alison Lundergan Grimes is deeply upsetting. Grimes seems to be forgetting that we are a nation of immigrants that has continually strived to honor all the hard-working people who aspire to the American Dream,” Ilya Sheyman, MoveOn.org’s executive director, said in a statement Tuesday.

“It’s deeply troubling that Grimes would stoop this low in order to try to defeat [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell, and she needs to take this offensive advertisement off the air immediately.”
Grimes’s ad accuses her Republican opponent, McConnell, of voting to provide “amnesty and taxpayer-funded benefits to three million illegal aliens, the largest legalization program in U.S. history,” and cites a Washington Post article.

Grimes appears at the end of the ad to approve the message and says, “I’ve never supported amnesty or benefits for illegal immigrants, and I never will.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/220744-moveon-demands-grimes-take-down-offensive-immigration-ad

[pansypoo53219]

4. TEEVEE GNEWZ has made obama a tar baby. or to make the sheeple perceive him as bad.

[3rdwaydem]

9. Sad but true

[FSogol]

5. Don't worry about it. These are local and state elections, not national ones.

If they don't see the benefit of have Obama around, that's their problem. Bet Obama, Michelle, and Biden spend a lot of time the next few weeks on the campaign trail anyway.

Time to start ignoring the voices that say we will lose, are losing, or are panicking.

[3rdwaydem]

8. Good advice!

[Bobbie Jo]

6. Concern noted

again.

[AtomicKitten]

7. The proof will be in the pudding.

The election will be the final arbiter of this political strategy. In the case of McConnell vs. Grimes, it is clear people in Kentucky like Kynect, that Kynect is Obamacare/ACA, that McConnell is proposing eliminating it (well, except for the website) and that Grimes is too chickenshit to connect the dots and argue on its behalf. Bill Clinton is advising her and this is the same tired political philosophy of the DLC, the Third Way, the Blue Dogs, or whatever permutation applies.

[sendero]

10. These peoples'...

.... entire motivation is to get elected. If they are running away from Obama there is a simple reason.

His poll numbers suck. And why is that? Well, that is left as an exercise for the reader.

[3rdwaydem]

11. Obama has been smeared. At best unappreciated

He pulled this country back from the brink of economic collapse and spearhead the Affordable Care Act.

History will be far kinder to him.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

12. Distancing himself from Bill Clinton worked out real well for Al Gore, didn't it?

It's a big part of the reason we had to endure 8 years of the Cheney/Rove presidency. These people need a clue.

[kelliekat44]

13. The NRA defeated Al Gore...W.VA and TN. The guns were out and he lost both states. And we ALL got

what THEY deserved.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

15. If the Dems are already poised to lose no matter what

then fucking lose with dignity!

Sick of this shit!!!!

[3rdwaydem]

18. Thank you for pointing that out. You're so right.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. His poll numbers suck thanks to the Corporate Media

and people like you who refuse to stand by all the good things he's done despite some bad decisions. Oh, I get it! He's not 100% pure so he sucks! Riiiight! So you'd rather the ReThugs take over; that'll be good! That'll show em, right?

Tired of this shit!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

14. They can't be seen cozying up with the knee-grow Kenyan, you know!

Many of us black folk are sick of the Democratic party taking us for granted. Haven't learned shit from Al Gore!

[3rdwaydem]

19. Thank you for bringing that point up.

President Obama will go down in history as one of our better Presidents ever.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

21. You know I agree with you 100%!!

And sadly so many people here won't admit that even when it comes to Grimes in KY, she can't admit she voted for Obama and we all know damn well why. These folk around here pretending like she's on some noble cause to save the Senate for the Democrats are full of it. BULLSHIT! It has always been about this man's race! That's the only thing these ReThugs have to fall back on. And if the Democrats are honest and better than those assholes they'd admit the truth and remember what happened during the 2008 Democratic primaries when many white Democrats openly admitted that they couldn't vote for a black man.