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10/20/2014

The Not-So-Great Orator On The Campaign Trail

Filed under: General — Dana @ 7:36 am



[guest post by Dana]

In light of the president’s slipping popularity , especially in key states, many Democrats have avoided appearing with him on the campaign trail.

However, tonight he joined Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown of Maryland and spoke at a rally for Brown. Unfortunately, the Great Orator didn’t have the best of nights:

“You’ve got to vote,” Obama repeated over and over at a rally for Brown in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, near Washington.

…

“There are no excuses. The future is up to us,” Obama said.

The crowd just wasn’t feeling it:

While the 8,000 crowd at the first event gave him an enthusiastic welcome, his repeated urging of them to turn up and vote apparently failed to impress. By the end of his address, around half of the crowd had departed.

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A steady stream of people walked out of the auditorium while he spoke, and at one point a heckler interrupted his remarks to complain about his handling of the immigration issue. The President told the heckler he would be better protesting at members of Congress who he said had blocked all attempts to resolve the crisis.

If you are curious about all the possible reasons to walk out on the president, here you go.

–Dana

14 Responses to “The Not-So-Great Orator On The Campaign Trail”

  1. Hello.

    Dana (e8e331) — 10/20/2014 @ 7:56 am

  2. Could it be that the crowd was so energized by the speech that they decided to start the traditional Democrat election day activity of vote early and vote often two weeks early? With absentee ballots, those 2000 early exits could mail in a few hundred thousand votes by Nov. 4.

    bobathome (5ccbd8) — 10/20/2014 @ 8:39 am

  3. Why not head for the exits? You’ve heard it all before. Nothing to see here, might as well move on. Ultimately the clown act gets stale.

    Skeptical Voter (12e67d) — 10/20/2014 @ 8:41 am

  4. TOTUS took the night off, huh?

    JVW (60ca93) — 10/20/2014 @ 8:51 am

  5. Greetings:

    Judging by that photo, it seems that they still have “colored” sections in Maryland.

    11B40 (844d04) — 10/20/2014 @ 9:07 am

  6. They will still vote for his party, though, I bet.

    Patricia (5fc097) — 10/20/2014 @ 9:33 am

  7. It wasn’t tight. Info below for anyone not keeping up with the illustrious background of the guy running for Maryland governor:

    http://www.redstate.com/2014/03/29/anthony-brown-maryland-obamacare-exchange/

    Oct.19,2014

    Maryland officials reportedly have agreed to delay court action seeking $55 million from the primary contractor for the state’s problematic ObamaCare website.The decision also comes just weeks before Election Day for Democratic nominee for governor Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who was O’Malley’s point man for ObamaCare.
    The decision to delay action also came amid an ongoing inspector general’s probe, which was requested in February by Maryland GOP Rep. Andy Harris.

    “Millions of dollars were wasted because of a lack of oversight by Lieutenant Governor Brown, and now the state must try to recoup some of the money he allowed to be sent to companies who couldn’t deliver,” Harris told The Sun. “The federal investigation should provide critical information about how taxpayer dollars were wasted and whether fraud occurred.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/19/maryland-to-delay-legal-effort-to-recoup-55-million-on-state-failed-obamacare/

    elissa (c2960d) — 10/20/2014 @ 9:43 am

  8. They will still vote for his party, though, I bet.

    Well, the big question is whether or not they will rouse themselves to vote since Dear Leader is not on the ballot. But I’m sure the vote fraud machine in Baltimore is kicking into high gear.

    JVW (60ca93) — 10/20/2014 @ 9:47 am

  9. Racists.

    Edoc118 (8b952d) — 10/20/2014 @ 10:15 am

  10. Obooring.

    gary gulrud (46ca75) — 10/20/2014 @ 1:12 pm

  11. Elissa – it is amazing the number of thing that have been pushed back past election day.

    JD (46826b) — 10/20/2014 @ 1:18 pm

  12. Yes JD, like the magic date for declaring the last folks in Dallas Ebola-free.

    Just a coincidence!

    Patricia (5fc097) — 10/20/2014 @ 2:19 pm

  13. 46 percent? How is that “slipping?” He seems to be gaining.

    DN (395a7b) — 10/20/2014 @ 2:51 pm

  14. Overheard:

    “Effing iPhone PHOTOS??!! I thought they were giving out iPhones!”

    Kevin M (b357ee) — 10/20/2014 @ 5:03 pm


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