The Presidential Planner
EmailFrom Sunlen Miller: The President will take a day trip to New England today – with stops in Boston, Massachusetts and Stamford, Connecticut. First stop: the President will be delivering a speech on America’s leadership on energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he will issue a challenge for the nation, to lead the global economy in clean energy. The White House touts that MIT is an institution that has been developing “cutting edge clean energy technology” and while there the President will meet with MIT faculty and students at the research center. “The President will also highlight Recovery Act investments that are creating jobs and making advancements in wind energy,” The White House says. Afterward the President yet again jumps in the 2010 election scrum and will make stops at separate fundraisers for Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, both of whom are up for re-election next year and already are facing challenging opponents. Gov. Patrick, campaigned fiercely for President Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign. Repaying the favor seems to be sorely needed by Patrick who is already trailing opponents in fundraising figures in his re-election. The Democratic Governors Association expects that tonight’s fundraiser will rake in half a million dollars for the Massachusetts Governor. President Obama will also throw his support behind Sen. Chris Dodd’s re-election campaign with appearances in Stamford Connecticut with the Democratic Senator. The two will make an appearance a local small business together. Afterward Mr. Obama will make remarks at a fundraiser at the Stamford Hilton, expected to raise $1 million which will be split between Sen. Chris Dodd’s, D-Conn., re-election campaign, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (D.S.C.C.), and the Connecticut Democratic Party. -Sunlen Miller
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Our President is going to to campaign for the smarmy crook Chris Dodd? I’m shocked. Why oh why is he so comfortable with deep corruption.
Posted by: mesquito | October 23, 2009, 7:17 am 7:17 am
Energy leadership?
Obama is going to allow China to drill for oil in Gulf Coast. He is permitting everyone on Earth to drill in the Gulf- except for US companies, that is.
This is astonishingly stupid. Obama is making us MORE dependent on foreign energy, not less. He is killing this country.
And the Dodd candidacy will a referendum on just how stupid the state of Connecticut is.
Posted by: drjohn | October 23, 2009, 7:17 am 7:17 am
When do you stop campaining and become president and decide something about backing up our troops.
Posted by: earl | October 23, 2009, 7:19 am 7:19 am
I don’t take stock in anything the president does. They keep blaming the Bush admininstration for eveything. Thats getting old. Obama doesn’t know what he is doing, he is in over his head. Him and his administration is ruining this country. He is bring the troops home one day the next sending more over. I think everyone needs to wake up and see that our country is in a lot of trouble with this man in office. The only thing he is good at is acting like a celebrity.
Posted by: Helen Ehrhardt | October 23, 2009, 7:52 am 7:52 am
With Connecticut, Obama has escaped to Oval Office to be half way to visiting all 57 states.
Posted by: DJ | October 23, 2009, 8:18 am 8:18 am
Oh dear, the presidebt has failed to sell out the Boston fundraiser.
As Massachusetts goes….
No that’s not right.
If you have lost Massachusetts…
You are toast.
Posted by: Plumber | October 23, 2009, 8:39 am 8:39 am
Don’t we have, ah, like people dying in Afghanistan and stuff! And, ah like people with no jobs and hungry and stuff. If he campaigned from the Oval Office and spent the savings from Air Force One on food for the poor, ah wouldn’t that like be good and stuff!
Posted by: Bob D | October 23, 2009, 9:34 am 9:34 am
mesquito, I can believe it because Obama’s whole life has been filled with radicalism–his dad left before he really got to know him (if Sr was in fact his dad—there are questions regarding that), his mom kicked him to the curb when she sent him to live with his “white” grandparents, grandpa was a friend of Frank Marshall (who some think in Obama’s real father), this is all he knows!
Posted by: lyineyes1956 | October 23, 2009, 9:58 am 9:58 am
“Don’t we have, ah, like people dying in Afghanistan and stuff!”
Yeah, maybe he should be doing something productive, like clearing brush from some Texas ranch, while troops are dying.
There will always be serious problems. There will always be fund-raisers. And there will always be people that think that they know better than the President what he should be doing with his time.
“If he campaigned from the Oval Office and spent the savings from Air Force One on food for the poor, ah wouldn’t that like be good and stuff!”
And you should donate the money you pay for Internet access to the poor. Wouldn’t that be a better use for the money?
Posted by: OB-Wan222 | October 23, 2009, 10:04 am 10:04 am
The socialist dictator Oabama is trying to sensor the news media that reports the truth and tells the complete story not just a few sentences of what they want you to hear. Maybe this should have happend the past 8 years to abc, cbs, cnn, gibbins, frankin and the lot.
Posted by: Jim Rod | October 23, 2009, 10:11 am 10:11 am
One thing is certain: the prez won’t be out there campaigning for Creigh Deeds.
“Two weeks out from Virginia’s election, the prospects for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds look so bad that the White House has bugged out early from Deeds’ side. The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration has become worried about how a Republican will make them look, and have begun leaking criticisms of the campaign. ”
A true Profile in Courage.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 23, 2009, 10:21 am 10:21 am
What is this strange little man doing now?
Perhaps he should get his crayons out and copy this down … “I am not a king” … and then repeat it over and over again until it’s your time to go his to Chicago.
Posted by: John Q Public | October 23, 2009, 10:36 am 10:36 am
Obama is campaigning for Chris Dodd. What does that tell ya?
Posted by: LongT | October 23, 2009, 10:42 am 10:42 am
One term, one time for ALL elected officials. It is the only way we will ever get representation. All elected officials start running for office the day they take the oath to serve. The only representation we get costs us money and liberties because of the power these legislators hunger for. Why else would so much be spent to gain a seat for which a tiny fraction of the investment is earned in salary? Strict election finance laws and term limitation is the only way we will get patriots into office to represent us in government positions. The list of elected officials that abuse their elected positions is long and involves both parties. These bodies are supposed to police themselves and refuse to do so. I am not talking about sleeping with some affiliate but rather accepting some kind of gratuity above their salary for a favorable position on some issue. It is the power these elected officials amass that allow them to bastardize the Constitution and ruin all that has made the United States what its people have built.
Posted by: pbaz | October 23, 2009, 11:16 am 11:16 am
Dodd who with Barney Franks were the great supporters of no regulation for Fannie and Freddie bringing on the Dodd/Franks recession? Dodd who was exonerated by the ethic committee of Countrywide fraud after reviewing 18000 pages of evidence- the same group that couldn;t read a 1000 page stimulus bill? Dodd who championed the credit card legislation and gave them a year to hike the rates? Dodd who left out of the the TARP bill a clause about no bonueses for bailed out banks? Dodd who was a great acceptor of finance industry campaign funds while overseeing the industry and is doing the same thing with healthcare? Dodd who together with the other Dems controlled COngress for 2 years and watched the subprime crisis happen and did nothing to prevent it? Dodd who remained chairman while under ethic violations investigation? What does this say about Obama?
Posted by: jschmidt | October 23, 2009, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm
Dodd, who ran for the Presidential Primary, and moved his whole family to Iowa including enrolling his kids in school there, abandoning his responsibilities to CT,and received 1/2 of 1% of the Iowa Caucus?
Posted by: jschmidt | October 23, 2009, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm
After wholeheartedly endorsing Creigh Deeds for Governor of Virginia–and then seeing Deeds poll numbers plummet–Obama has quickly tossed him under the bus. The DNC has sent out their minions to distance Dear Leader from Deeds, before he implodes, in order to protect Obama.
—Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a weak candidate who ran a poor campaign that failed to fully embrace President Obama until days before the election.
Senior administration officials have expressed frustration with how Democrat R. Creigh Deeds has handled his campaign for governor, refusing early offers of strategic advice and failing to reach out to several key constituencies that helped Obama win Virginia in 2008, they say.—
Too late, Slick Barry. Virginia has been a blue state for the last two cycles, at least on a national level. Obama won the state by 230,000 votes in 2008, about seven points, and Virginia has two Democrats in the Senate. If Deeds loses Virginia in a landslide, where many Beltway insiders live, that says quite a bit about the prospects of Barack Obama around the rest of the country.
Posted by: The Neverending Campaign | October 23, 2009, 12:28 pm 12:28 pm
David Atig:
During the prior jobless recovery (or productivity-cushioned recession), inflation was relatively low. That would suggest that my inflation bet may be wrong. On the other hand, during the prior episode the government was not issuing trillions of dollars of new debt. Ultimately, I think that all this debt will produce a lot of inflation, with very little net gain in employment relative to what would have taken place without it.”
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 23, 2009, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
Obama attending 20 Fundraisers while Afghanistan Burns – Wonderful! Change has come to the Whitehouse, right along with political Greed and self-aggrandizement!
Posted by: Snadra | October 23, 2009, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
Deeds hit by Obama mudslide
Posted by: John Q Public | October 23, 2009, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm
jschmidt — Good summary on Dodd — If he was a Republican the article would have noted the “scandle-ridden” history — but, alas, he is a Dem, so no mention!!!!
Posted by: MidwestValues | October 23, 2009, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm
sandra —- yeah, I read 23 fund raisers in the first 10 months!! — A new record!! — Four to five times what Bush and Clinton did!! — I think Obama only knows how to CAMPAIGN!! — He definitely is not a leader!!
Posted by: MidwestValues | October 23, 2009, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
What bothers me about Obama and that crew he surrounded himself with is that they approach everything like children.
1. Everyone should have health care, who could argue with that? The problem is they don’t know how to fix it, other than killing the tax payer. For that case the Republicans don’t know either.
The problem is they ALL don’t what to upset the money people like the AMA, Unions, and other clicks which has put us in this spot.
2. Close the jail in Cuba – nice idea but again a child like statement – when? how? you see the process no thinking.
3. Get rid of don’t ask don’t tell? Ok it takes a signature from Obama todate no signature? He ran his mouth for a year about this to the gays who gave him millions?
Obama has never done anything in his life – he is little more than a shoe shine and a hair cut and not much more. I admit he has a way about him but we are finding out its all fluff no substance.
We are in trouble – when I say Obama include pelosi, reid, franks, dodd, shummer, and the assorted creeps he has in the white house. I for one had hoped he would bring the change we needed but what he gave us was worst than what we had. I find it hard to believe anyone could be worst than Carter – Obama so far will go down in history as most likely the worst president we have had this century, he thank pelosi and and the left
Posted by: a citizen | October 23, 2009, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
Just love that Airforce One.
Posted by: Lizzie | October 23, 2009, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
Obama, You Lie!
Obama in September:
“One more misunderstanding I want to clear up — under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.”
October:
—House Democrats will likely NOT ALLOW A VOTE on an amendment that would STRIP ABORTION FUNDING from HR 3200, the legislation that will meld the three health care “reform” bills into one. Although a coalition of pro-life Democrats is hoping for a vote, it appears none is forthcoming.—
And no, the Hyde Amendment will not prevent ObamaCare money from funding abortions. It only applies to Medicaid, not other federal medical funding.
Posted by: Obamatopia | October 23, 2009, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
drjohn , you got that wrong we are paying Brazil to drill.
Posted by: Lizzie | October 23, 2009, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm
I think I found the right group…What else can we blame Obama for? I think he rescued a child from a burning building last week; that must stand for something.
Posted by: Joe | October 23, 2009, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm
Does anyone else think Orwell was a prophet that just had the year wrong?
I find it incredible that as a once fiercely independent people we now find our position to be continually trying to defend ourselves against an encroaching government.
Are democrats not the freedom loving people they once were, has this control thingy captured their souls?
Posted by: Ed Taylor | October 23, 2009, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm
He’s got enough time for this, and no time to think of the troops?
Posted by: jonny | October 23, 2009, 9:14 pm 9:14 pm
How much of the tax payers money has Preident Obama burned up going to Democratic fund raisers or Deocratic re-election campaign? Airforce One is not cheap to operate!
Posted by: Jack59 | October 24, 2009, 8:18 am 8:18 am