I kid you not:
As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama's rally on behalf of AG Martha Coakley (D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley's now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person -- George W. Bush.
"People are upset because there's so many problems," Rosemary Kverek, 70, a retired Charleston schoolteacher said as tonight's rally wrapped up. "But the problems came from the previous administration. So we're blaming poor Obama, who's working 36 hours a day ... to solve these problems that he inherited."
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), speaking with a gaggle of reporters after the event, said that while state Sen. Scott Brown (R) offers voters a quick fix, in reality, the problems created by "George Bush and his cronies" are not so easily solved.
"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, like Scott Brown," Kennedy said. "If you don't, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole ... then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president's in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that."
(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as "Marcia," not "Martha.")
More Kennedy: "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."
They can't get their own candidate's name right but they sure know how to blame Bush.
Sheez.
Crossposted(*).
Comments (17)
And Cheney! Don't forget Ch... (Below threshold)1. Posted by bobdog | January 17, 2010 10:09 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
And Cheney! Don't forget Cheney!
1. Posted by bobdog | January 17, 2010 10:09 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on January 17, 2010 22:09
2. Posted by davidt | January 17, 2010 10:26 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
And Rove!
2. Posted by davidt | January 17, 2010 10:26 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on January 17, 2010 22:26
3. Posted by 914 | January 17, 2010 10:42 PM | Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
Have'nt these selfsame libs ran the whole cabal in Taxaaschusetts for years? Geez Kennedy, get a grip and go sleep it off in Daddys booze cellar.
3. Posted by 914 | January 17, 2010 10:42 PM |
Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 17, 2010 22:42
4. Posted by Murgatroyd | January 17, 2010 10:50 PM | Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Did you notice all the good things the Democrats had to say about their own candidate, "Marcia" Coakley? Their entire campaign boils down to "Brown bad, Bush EVIL!"
Meanwhile, I don't suppose any of the brave, unbiased, inquisitive reporters at the event asked Obama what he thought of the official Democratic Party flyer from a few days ago:
1,736 WOMEN WERE RAPED IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 2008.
SCOTT BROWN WANTS HOSPITALS TO TURN THEM ALL AWAY.
Yeah, I didn't think they would.
4. Posted by Murgatroyd | January 17, 2010 10:50 PM |
Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Posted on January 17, 2010 22:50
5. Posted by Sir Toby Belch | January 17, 2010 11:11 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Interesting that a political giant like Patrick
was out there to bash Bush and Republicans.
Who drove him there? He couldn't possibly have
a driver's license, could he?
5. Posted by Sir Toby Belch | January 17, 2010 11:11 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on January 17, 2010 23:11
6. Posted by 914 | January 17, 2010 11:23 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Lets be honest here dems ( I know that's a stretch ), when You and Coakley lose it's cause Obama suck's as President..Nothing more, nothing less.
6. Posted by 914 | January 17, 2010 11:23 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on January 17, 2010 23:23
7. Posted by Sir Toby Belch | January 17, 2010 11:26 PM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Over 1000 women were raped in Massachusetts
in 2008. I thought Ted, Dodd and Clinton
were somewhat busy with other concerns during
the time-line.
7. Posted by Sir Toby Belch | January 17, 2010 11:26 PM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on January 17, 2010 23:26
8. Posted by Michael | January 17, 2010 11:29 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Dems entire lives are lived in denial. It is never their fault it's America's fault.
8. Posted by Michael | January 17, 2010 11:29 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on January 17, 2010 23:29
9. Posted by Justrand | January 17, 2010 11:44 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
my garage door opener broke yesterday...I sent the bill to Bush!
If this works out I'm sending the bill to repair my side-yard gate to Cheney!
I'll report back with the results.
Oh Marcia!
9. Posted by Justrand | January 17, 2010 11:44 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on January 17, 2010 23:44
10. Posted by Trump | January 18, 2010 12:00 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
I heartily endorse a mega does of "blame Bush" (and Cheney and Palin!) as the strategy in the midterms.
PLEASE do it democrats.
PLEASE.
10. Posted by Trump | January 18, 2010 12:00 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on January 18, 2010 00:00
11. Posted by KeithK | January 18, 2010 1:43 AM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
"We're blaming poor Obama." Someone fetch a Waaaaambulance.
11. Posted by KeithK | January 18, 2010 1:43 AM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on January 18, 2010 01:43
12. Posted by Eric | January 18, 2010 7:23 AM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
This recession started in December 2007, 11 months after the Democrats took over the House and Senate.
So whose fault is it really?
12. Posted by Eric | January 18, 2010 7:23 AM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on January 18, 2010 07:23
13. Posted by jbinnout | January 18, 2010 10:05 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Attention Rep Kennedy...."Bush took 8 years to put us in this hole....we have a lot of digging to do"
What's the first rule of holes? Oh, yeah. Stop digging!!!!
moron
13. Posted by jbinnout | January 18, 2010 10:05 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on January 18, 2010 10:05
14. Posted by GarandFan | January 18, 2010 10:56 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Did anyone really expect "Patches" Kennedy to say something intelligent?
Where oh were are the resident trolls to correct our inappropriate thinking? Their silence and absence is deafening.
14. Posted by GarandFan | January 18, 2010 10:56 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on January 18, 2010 10:56
15. Posted by Stan25 | January 18, 2010 1:10 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Yep a bunch of libs with their noses out of joint. They are seeing their world collapse before their very eyes and they are lashing out blindly at anything that moves. They remind me of a rattlesnake while shedding their skin, they will blindly lash out at anything that moves in their vicinity.
15. Posted by Stan25 | January 18, 2010 1:10 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on January 18, 2010 13:10
16. Posted by Jay Guevara | January 18, 2010 3:42 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
But...but...Palin! Limbaugh! Beck!
16. Posted by Jay Guevara | January 18, 2010 3:42 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on January 18, 2010 15:42
17. Posted by LiberalNitemare | January 18, 2010 6:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Every vote for Brown kills a polar bear cub!
17. Posted by LiberalNitemare | January 18, 2010 6:49 PM |
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Posted on January 18, 2010 18:49