Obama’s not-so-secret weapon
[Posted by Karl]
According to the AP’s Julie Pace, it might just be the Sheriff:
A year from Election Day, Democrats are crafting a campaign strategy for Vice President Joe Biden that targets the big three political battlegrounds: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, states where Biden might be more of an asset to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign than the president himself.
Doug Powers goes right to the Biden Blooper Reel; I’ll simply note that last month, the AP’s Julie Pace was reporting that Michelle Obama might be her husband’s not-so-secret weapon. I don’t mean to pick on Ms. Pace in particular. After all, the Tribune Co. and New York Times were writing similar pieces before the 2010 midterms — and we know how well that turned out. TIME did the Michelle O story in 2010; NBC’s Andrea Mitchell joined Pace for 2011.
The obvious cheap shot would be that Obama’s not-so-secret weapon is the esatblishment media. But it’s not just bias, it’s laziness, as evidenced by all the stories written about Laura Bush as a secret weapon, despite a similar lack of evidence.
It may be more useful to read the Biden spin is light of the larger debate on the left between analysts like William Galston, who thinks Obama’s path to victory still runs through the Rust Belt, and those like Ruy Teixeira, who argues that demographics make Virginia, Colorado and North Carolina more appealing targets for Obama. Alec MacGillis thinks Obama is adopting the latter strategy, but sees it as a false choice. But maybe it just looks like Obama is focusing on the latter group of states because the best Obama can do in the Rust Belt right now is to send Joe Biden.
–Karl
Ding!
Karl (4b361c) — 11/26/2011 @ 10:00 amDumbass.
This is the same guy whose boyfriend Obama supports the far-left islamocommie brotherhood.
Dohbiden (ef98f0) — 11/26/2011 @ 10:32 am“Send in the clowns” is an old circus device to quiet crowd unrest. I doubt that it can be used to quiet voter unrest.
Michael M. Keohane (996c34) — 11/26/2011 @ 10:58 amIn today’s WSJ, Pete DuPont discusses the drop Biden/add Hilary scenario…
AD-RtR/OS! (e7d9c8) — 11/26/2011 @ 11:10 amhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204630904577056462756242968.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h
Good post, Karl. I think Obama is pursuing an all-of-the-above strategy so putting Biden in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida makes sense given the polls. Similarly, Michelle is more popular with voters than her husband is, and thus it’s not a surprise to see her on the cover of Reader’s Digest touting Michelle Obama’s Family Values given its reputation as a mainstream, family-friendly publication. (But the cover photo is generating some interesting comments.)
However, Politico’s Playbook (11/26/11 edition) reports “Democratic officials said Biden will follow in the long-standing tradition of vice presidents playing the role of attack dog” in the next election. Does this mean Obama’s strategy for Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida is to go negative? If so, it sounds like the current thinking is Obama will lose those states.
By the way, on the same day as a report that a NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at 2 military checkpoints, we can rest safe knowing that Obama is concentrating on the tough issues:
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/26/2011 @ 11:14 amComment by DRJ — 11/26/2011 @ 11:14 am
Yes, isn’t it remarkable how much better we get along with Pakistan now that the Cowboy from Texas
(who couldn’t remember, or pronounce, Pervez Musharraf’s name) is gone?
Those “re-set” buttons are really powerful.
AD-RtR/OS! (e7d9c8) — 11/26/2011 @ 11:29 am“Those “re-set” buttons are really powerful.”
AD – Absolutely. Look at how wonderfully they have secured Russia’s cooperation in reining in Iran’s nuclear ambitions!!!!!11ty!!!!!
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/26/2011 @ 11:41 amI personally look forward to Joe Biden spending as much time on the campaign trail as possible. To me the state does not matter. He is like a secret weapon and his effects cannot be misunderestimated.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/26/2011 @ 11:43 amAP, September 16, 2012
JVW (4d72aa) — 11/26/2011 @ 12:17 pm“With under eight weeks remaining in a Presidential election that experts are reporting is too close to call, the Obama campaign has brought out a surprise surrogate to help solidify the vote of African-Americans and other urban progressives in battleground states. A less bombastic, more circumspect Jeremiah Wright has been quietly appearing on behalf of the President in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Detroit this past week. . .”
8. What daley said.
Sucka needs two or three national opponents to manage a cover-of-darkness historical fluke.
gary gulrud (d88477) — 11/26/2011 @ 12:17 pmObama’s plan for the Rust Belt is union bribes and graft.
AZ Bob (6f1e2b) — 11/26/2011 @ 12:25 pmJVW,
I can believe the substance behind your headline might happen … but the AP would never report it.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/26/2011 @ 12:33 pmJoe Biden sparkles if you put him in sunlight is what I heard
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 11/26/2011 @ 12:37 pmWith quotes like “Stand up Chuck” Biden will make it interesting.
sickofrinos (44de53) — 11/26/2011 @ 12:39 pm“Joe Biden sparkles if you put him in sunlight is what I heard”
Mr. Feets – He sparkled so much in the 2008 campaign they had to put a muzzle on him. I hope they leave Joe alone to express himself freely this time around.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/26/2011 @ 12:51 pmBush played ball with the Pakistanis so they played back.
All Obama does is bomb, bomb, bomb.
Who woulda thunk it???
deepelemblues (ea26b9) — 11/26/2011 @ 12:52 pm“All Obama does is bomb, bomb, bomb.”
deepelemblues – He lurvs him those reformers in Syria, though. No humanitarian crisis there like Libya, no sir. Uganda, WTF? Honduras, WTF? Iran, WTF?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/26/2011 @ 12:57 pmSparkle Joe is thinking about running in 2016 so he’s gonna want to put his best foot forward next year Mr. daley
oh dear
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 11/26/2011 @ 1:08 pm3.“Send in the clowns” is an old circus device to quiet crowd unrest. I doubt that it can be used to quiet voter unrest.
Comment by Michael M. Keohane — 11/26/2011 @ 10:58 am
I thought the “send in the clowns” reference was to the practice of using clowns to distract rodeo bulls from thrown (and possibly injured) bull riders.
Have Blue (39630e) — 11/26/2011 @ 1:35 pmStill apropos to this election.
With Sloe-Joe in the arena, there is even more BS to step/slip on than a herd of longhorns could provide.
AD-RtR/OS! (e7d9c8) — 11/26/2011 @ 1:38 pmThose clowns need to be careful where they trod.
I get the feeling Syria will take care of itself – which doesn’t excuse the ~4,000 murdered protesters we could have tried to save.
deepelemblues (ea26b9) — 11/26/2011 @ 1:54 pmJoe Biden masturbates while naked in the shower is what I heard.
Dohbiden (ef98f0) — 11/26/2011 @ 2:35 pmIf there is any secret weapon, it will only be swapping Ol’Hairplugs out for Hillary!That’s the only playus The One really ash left. he cannot run on his record.
Michelle is like nails on a blackboard for everyone not already in the Obama camp.After the Nascar debacle you would think they figured out white working class people despise Mrs. Affirmative Action. But the woman knows how to vacation on everyone else’s dime, which makes her at long last proud of her country.
Bugg (ea1809) — 11/26/2011 @ 2:41 pmIf Joe Biden is a secret weapon then . . .
The hysterically laughing Dana (f68855) — 11/26/2011 @ 3:05 pm[chortle] all I can say is . . .
[chuckles] that I . . .
[guffaws] can’t imagine that . . .
[rolling on the floor laughing my ass off] I’m sorry, but I . . .
[struggling to keep from peeing my pants I’m laughing so hysterically] can’t even finish this thought.
[Almost having a seizure from laughing so hard.]
President Obama won’t dump Joe Biden to replace him with Hillary Clinton, because he knows that, if he did, after January 20, 2013, he’d be a dead man walking.
The dead serious Dana (f68855) — 11/26/2011 @ 3:09 pmObama is going to get creamed in Colorado. This state was a push over for him because of an incompetent GOP that had self-destructed in Senate and Governor primaries, such that the GOP infrastructure let McCain down.
But in 2012, Coloradans are just completely sick of Obama’s poor performance.
SPQR (26be8b) — 11/26/2011 @ 3:12 pmThat’s good news, SPQR.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/26/2011 @ 3:36 pmPeople actually donated money to Biden’s Presidential campaign.
Dear. God.
The Dems have given us:
John Kerry
John Edwards
Howard Dean
Joe Biden
Barack Obama
But all the Republicans are dunces…. right NBC?
SteveG (e27d71) — 11/26/2011 @ 4:44 pma secret weapon
ColonelHaiku (1dad58) — 11/26/2011 @ 5:16 pmwill usually explode
not implode like Joe
I think the congress should enact Joe Biden Control.
Dohbiden (ef98f0) — 11/26/2011 @ 5:21 pmThe Dems say sorry, Joe must go
The Limerick Avenger (f68855) — 11/26/2011 @ 5:38 pmOr the election Barack will blow
They’re really sad
That O’s been so bad
But a Repub? Good heavens, no!
Hillary Clinton is wildly popular in PA, OH, & FL. She destroyed Obama in those primaries.
koam @wittier (b266ab) — 11/26/2011 @ 5:45 pmNot only that his campaign earned a 250 K fine from the FEC, not that it matters at all.
narciso (ef1619) — 11/26/2011 @ 5:54 pmJoe Biden will probably say some loony shat about Obama being the antichrist who collabarated with Bush and the bankers to suck his brains out through a bendy straw.
Dohbiden (ef98f0) — 11/26/2011 @ 6:00 pmthere once was a Joe from Delaware
ColonelHaiku (1dad58) — 11/26/2011 @ 6:02 pmwho plagiarized away without a care
a wife fond of black leather
his melon light as a feather
whether he’s in or he’s out, Big Zer0 hasn’t got a prayer
Beside the total economic mess Arab Spring is really turning up skunk cabbage for Urkel. Nowhere he turns is there a glimmer of positive spin for his continued tenure.
Bet he dies on the golf course, victim of a rare clear sky lightning strike.
gary gulrud (d88477) — 11/26/2011 @ 6:09 pmSo is the word Biden synonymous with dumb?
Dohbiden (ef98f0) — 11/26/2011 @ 6:12 pmI’m happy to say
The Limerick Avenger (f68855) — 11/26/2011 @ 6:25 pmI never voted for Joe
Delaware’s dummy
This guy is though, shocker, another musicologist;
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/permafowl/#commentsmore
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narciso (ef1619) — 11/26/2011 @ 6:27 pmWhen I lived in the First State
The Limerick Avenger (f68855) — 11/26/2011 @ 6:27 pmThey told me, Joe is first rate!
We love the big lunk
Forget all that junk
‘Bout his plagin’, that’s all just hate.
DohBiden asked:
Well, dohhh!
The Dana who can see the obvious (f68855) — 11/26/2011 @ 6:28 pmthere once was a VP named Joe
no one you know (3e92e3) — 11/26/2011 @ 6:47 pmwho was — to be nice — a bit slow:
Barack and Rahm picked him
so Joe couldn’t evict him:
Hence “Barack, and Loco, and Doh”
perry or biden
ColonelHaiku (1dad58) — 11/26/2011 @ 6:59 pmeither correct answer to
“least quick on his feet?”
>Obama is going to get creamed in Colorado
NOT so sure- we have a lot of idiots and dopers and tree-huggers and people who have completely lost touch with reality
Jones (2ec172) — 11/26/2011 @ 8:27 pmObama is going to get creamed by Bawney Fwank in colorado and he will like it.
FIFY 😀
Dohbiden (ef98f0) — 11/26/2011 @ 8:31 pmI can tell you right now that in Florida, Biden and the Communist are HATED down here, especially by construction workers who are undergoing the worst times they’ve ever encountered. The schools here are empty, and everyone knows the good times will never come back until Obama the idiot is gone. And even then it won’t happen until we can rid our state of our Congressional delegation: Debbie Wasserman-Schulz and brain-dead Bill Nelson. DWS is the most obnoxious, arrogant, vicious Yid-bitch on planet earth, and Nelson, who always prided himself on being a moderate if not “southern” Democrat, KNEW that Barack Obama was a Marxist even before that demented fool was elected. Sorry, for any Jews I may have offended, but DWS really really really is the PERFECT example of a JAP, and I know some Jews here who admit it and hate her as much as I do.
DV (045cef) — 11/26/2011 @ 11:11 pmUrkel has so crapped the bed not even Bite Me will sleep in it. No way Hill wants this cycle’s fight.
Europe is coming apart by March, China is looking at 30% unemployment in its Enterprise Sector abutting Hong Kong and a 50% drop in residential valuations in 2012.
Gas will follow the dollar in higher valuation as exports vanish.
We are certain to have much worse news from the Middle East if new fronts. Egypt and Syria are bound for civil war. Turkey is financial toast, Iran hotting up and then there’s the Pakis.
Holder is an open sewer stinking up DC. The NLRB is nasty. Urkel will be running against Congress.
2012, Annus Horriblis for ibn Dunham. May he meet a just end.
gary gulrud (d88477) — 11/27/2011 @ 1:44 amI though we did know who shot the sheriff but we still don’t know who shot the deputy.
Pat Patterson (adef21) — 11/27/2011 @ 2:35 amOther curious insights into reality;
http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/25/brooks-germanys-merkel-has-a-bigger-influence-on-2012-election-than-obama/
narciso (ef1619) — 11/27/2011 @ 6:10 am48. Brooks is a half-wit:
“Look at what’s happening in the world. President Obama did a very significant shift in Asia, getting the U.S. much more involved in becoming a rival to China. That’s not going away,” Brooks said. “Second thing, Tahrir Square in Egypt — the Middle East is not going away. The Iranians — we just had another report showing the Iranian nuclear program is still going on. The Middle East — believe me, you can’t escape it.”
Cancelling the Polish-Czech treaty got us nothing with Russia-they’re in the Iranian/Syrian pocket as the last shreds of Soviet ‘influence’.
Egypt is weeks from all out civil war. And what do you suppose China’s resort will be with deflation, unemployment and civil strife? Look out in the Spratlys.
gary gulrud (d88477) — 11/27/2011 @ 6:46 amBrooks was the kind who fell for the same kind of schemes, as Simon Pegg, across the pond;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066720/David-Camerons-green-guru-Steve-Hilton-reveals-doubts-global-warming.html
narciso (ef1619) — 11/27/2011 @ 6:57 amColonel: Rick Perry sure isn’t much of a debater, I’ll give you that. Barack Obama, on the other hand, was a top-notch debater. But, of the two, which one has actually been able to do his job?
The Dana who can see the obvious (f68855) — 11/27/2011 @ 7:02 amJoe Biden is doin’ his job
The Limerick Avenger (f68855) — 11/27/2011 @ 7:07 amProtectin’ Barack from the mob
Can’t be impeached though
‘Cause then we’d have Joe
Who’s just as dumb as a door knob
perry serves Texas
ColonelHaiku (1dad58) — 11/27/2011 @ 8:00 amobama has done a job
on America
The Peeps must retire
ColonelHaiku (1dad58) — 11/27/2011 @ 8:03 amMcCain to live like hobbit
in Arizona
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NOT so sure- we have a lot of idiots and dopers and tree-huggers and people who have completely lost touch with reality
That is a case of “stuck on stupid” disease, which infects a fairly large percentage of the populace. Its symptoms are widely seen in urban America, inner-city America, blue-state America, in nations like Venezuela/Argentina/France/Greece/Mexico. So at any given time, in any given election, a case of lunacy likely will break out in the voting booth.
The very fact President “Goddamn America” — a person with one of the, if not THE, most disreputable backgrounds to ever get into the White House — managed to win in 2008 in the first place shows how severe the “stuck on stupid” contagion (aka lazy leftism) has become throughout the US.
Mark (411533) — 11/27/2011 @ 8:47 amPresident Pinocchio Mengistu Halle is destroying our jobs.
DohBiden (ef98f0) — 11/27/2011 @ 8:58 amHonestly they should put jobs on the endangered species list.
DohBiden (ef98f0) — 11/27/2011 @ 9:17 amI always thought that Obama’s “secret weapon” was the gullibility of the American people. But perhaps that’s just me.
Icy (4acfcb) — 11/27/2011 @ 9:18 amThe only reason Obama picked Biden in 2008 was because Biden supposedly remedied a foreign policy gravitas deficit. (Hard to believe in hindsight, and it was hard for many of us to believe at the time, but there you have it.)
Biden has no constituency that could credibly threaten to abandon Obama if Obama pulls the rip-cord on Biden’s golden parachute in 2012. What, you think Delaware’s three electoral votes are in play? No, there is no downside to appointing Biden as “Senior Super-Coordinating Advisor-at-Large to the Leader of the Free World and the Savior of America,” with a promise that he can still attend cabinet meetings, yada yada yada.
Obama actually will try very hard to argue that he’s the better choice than the GOP nominee on foreign policy. He will claim successes in killing bin Laden and getting peace with honor in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. He will claim to have deterred Iran from getting the bomb. He will point out that, like Bush-43, he’s kept the terrorists from pulling off another major attack on American soil (knock wood). And he’ll paint the GOP nominee as a Goldwater-style extremist eager to get into a ground war and resulting occupation in Iran.
As much as Obama will hate doing it, making Hillary the new Veep will (from their point of view) firewall Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wisconsin, and maybe allow them to try to compete in Virginia, Nevada, and North Carolina.
Beldar (65378a) — 11/27/2011 @ 9:19 amthe Dems have lock on
ColonelHaiku (1dad58) — 11/27/2011 @ 9:20 amthe Stuck on Stupid Syndrome
public school brainwash
Joe Biden has the IQ of a pipe of chemicals.
DohBiden (ef98f0) — 11/27/2011 @ 9:43 amAhhhhhhhhhhhh yes according to the left pro-lifers are responsible for teen pregnancies. Why not blame the horny teens.
Sorry for the Off Topic.
DohBiden (ef98f0) — 11/27/2011 @ 9:55 ama song for the De-Evolution…
http://youtu.be/uqoH4rvXxpU
ColonelHaiku (1dad58) — 11/27/2011 @ 10:05 amMaybe:
AP, September 16, 2012
“With under eight weeks remaining in a Presidential election that experts are reporting is too close to call, the Obama campaign has brought out a surprise surrogate to help solidify the vote of African-Americans and other urban progressives in battleground states. A less bombastic, more circumspect
Jeremiah WrightAl Sharpton has been quietly appearing on behalf of the President in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Detroit this past week. . .”Comment by JVW — 11/26/2011 @ 12:17 pm
Sammy Finkelman (2d0c86) — 11/27/2011 @ 10:38 amAm i banned?
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DohBiden (ef98f0) — 11/27/2011 @ 1:58 pmMy comments didn’t show up because I was on internet explorer.
Anyways Obama will not win.
Dohbiden (ef98f0) — 11/27/2011 @ 2:08 pmOhio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, states where Biden might be more of an asset to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign than the president himself.
“The crowd is booing Curly, send out Moe”
Kaisersoze (298188) — 11/27/2011 @ 5:12 pmObama has good deep knowledge about administration.
Termination letters
Termination Letters (3eb4e8) — 11/28/2011 @ 1:55 am… and we get a President that just had to make America “more like Europe” just in time for the “Apocalypse.”
#OccupyAnthonyWeinersShorts (d1c681) — 11/28/2011 @ 4:24 amhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/will-demographic-shifts-save-obama-in-2012/2011/11/26/gIQAn8h7yN_story.html?hpid=z2&tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost
narciso (ef1619) — 11/28/2011 @ 4:49 amWe have three weapons;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/cleantech-_b_1112793.html
narciso (ef1619) — 11/28/2011 @ 5:24 amSurprisingly, the Post got the story wrong;
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/46971#comment-413150
narciso (ef1619) — 11/28/2011 @ 6:21 amEdsall is trying to understand why this is so, they
told us years ago;
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition/
narciso (ef1619) — 11/28/2011 @ 6:40 amElderly Queen with speech impediment abdicating.
Barney doesn’t have the legs to run from Urkel.
gary gulrud (d88477) — 11/28/2011 @ 7:04 amFT op-ed says Europe has 10 days before collapse. Euro in free fall, buh bye US exports.
Urkel doesn’t give a rip. Anymore, ever? His seecret.
gary gulrud (d88477) — 11/28/2011 @ 7:13 am