
“If you think there’s magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that”
In retrospect that sounds like advice we could have applied to Barack Obama last November, but those are the words of Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I) as applied to Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for the Senate seat in Massachusets left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Kennedy uttered those words after a rally for Martha Coakley, who has been floundering in the polls as the special election approaches next Tuesday January 19th.
Just to show how desperate the Democrats are, President Obama came to the rally to campaign for Coakley despite the fact that if she loses it makes the election a referendum about him, not just a race for a Senate seat.
Kennedy went on to blame George Bush and then said this.
“One thing the Democrats have done wrong? We haven’t kept the focus on this disaster on the Republicans who brought it upon us. We’ve tried too hard to do that right thing, and that’s to fix it, as opposed to spend more of our time and energy pointing the finger at who got us [here] in the first place.”
This is funny because a year after taking office, President Obama still publicly blames George Bush. It used to be that the buck stops with the President. Until Obama was elected, it was considered inappropriate and un-Presidential to blame your predecessor. In actuality, it still is. There is plenty of blame to go around for both parties so people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, and in this case, the White House is a glass house.
Republican Scott Brown is leading in the polls and peaking at just the right time. It would be a delicious catastrophe for the Democrats to lose the Kennedy seat, and yes it would be a referendum on Obama, even if he didn’t come.
Read the rest at Hotline On Call.
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