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Political Hay
Losing the Battleground
Snooze alarm goes off for Democrats.
Last week National Public Radio (NPR) released its new poll conducted by one of Bill Clinton’s old pollsters, Stanley Greenberg, and Republican colleague, Glen Bolger.
In a June 15 story, NPR political correspondent and Fox News Channel contributor, Mara Liasson, said the new poll is “grim news for Democrats.” In a curious syntactical formulation, she reported that it “shows just how difficult it will be for Democrats to avoid big losses in the House this November.”
How grim is grim? According to Greenberg, “In a year where voters want change and in which Democrats are seen to be in power, this is a tough poll — about as tough as you get.”
“If Massachusetts was the first wake-up call [for Democrats], this is the snooze alarm going off,” said Bolger.
The Greenberg-Bolger poll focused on “battleground” races in 70 House districts that are viewed by most “experts” or pundits as likely to throw out incumbents in the upcoming election. The races also included open seats that are inclined to switch party control.
Sixty of the them are currently held by Democrats, “many of whom won these seats even when voters in the same district preferred Republican John McCain for president in 2008.” Ten seats are held by Republicans in districts that went for Barack Obama.
“In this battleground, voters are choosing Republicans over Democrats 49 to 41 percent,” says Liasson.
One thousand two hundred likely voters were interviewed in total for this poll. Details on the poll can be found here. It is the first of a series to be conducted for NPR.
NPR’s pollsters believe that Democratic House losses “could well exceed 30 seats.”
Bolger pointed out that President Obama’s approval ratings are much lower in these competitive districts than they are nationally: 54 percent of the likely battleground voters disapproved of Obama’s performance; 40 percent approved.
“When you look at history, when the president is below 50 percent nationally, his party tends to lose more than 40 seats,” claims Bolger.
By 57 to 37 percent, voters in the 60 Democratic seats believe that President Obama’s economic policies have produced record deficits while failing to slow job losses, avert a crisis or lay a foundation for future growth.
If party energy or intensity is a key variable to election success, Republicans appear to have a clear advantage. Sixty-two percent of Republicans in Democratic districts describe themselves as very enthusiastic about the upcoming election. Only 37 percent of Democrats in these same districts feel the same way.
In Friday’s Wall Street Journal, Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell, pollsters for Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, respectively, noted June polling results from the Washington Post/ABC News survey that show only 29 percent of Americans inclined to support their House representative in November.
“That’s an even lower percentage than in October 1994 (34%), on the eve of the Republican takeover of Congress when voters swept the Democrats out of power in that chamber after 40 years in the majority,” recalled Schoen and Caddell.
About the Author
G. Tracy Mehan, III served at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the administrations of both Presidents Bush. He is a consultant in Arlington, Virginia, and an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law.
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Carol| 6.21.10 @ 6:51AM
The GOP blew it when they came down hard on Joe Barton. He was right - he just didn't phrase it properly.
Obama shook down BP just like he is shaking down America. So how do the Republicans respond because Obama and Pelosi and Biden and the rest of the phony Democrats act like they are so put off by Barton's truth statement - they threaten Joe Barton.
The Republicans' problem seems to be that they are more worried about what Obama and Pelosi and the rest of the freaky progressives think that what the people do.
serfer62 | 6.21.10 @ 8:00PM
Its the DC crowd, Kommiecrat or GOP, the're isolated from the voters and their desires of govorment.
Consider the horrible candidate selection by the RNC & the RNCC vs Conservatives and the Tea Party People choices...are they still supporting crist & scuzzyflave one wonders?
I'll stand by what the TP selects over what the DC crowd or the Lizard (gingrich) says...
BackToBasics| 6.21.10 @ 10:07PM
Yes, many Republicans in Congress and both Bush's try so hard to be loved by the Democrats. And what they do not seem to understand is that the Democrats loathe what Conservatives and even moderate Republicans stand for. And why try to gain their favor and approval???? Basically many leaders in both parties are "old adolescents." When Democrats don't get their way or are confronted all they can to is start name calling and shouting that those in the middle or right are racists or bigots. But by the same token, Republicans act like "old adolescents" too when they get nervous and fret that they are not loved by the Democrats. Why do Republicans insist on being loved by those who secretly and not so secretly loathe their positions and anything that touches on Christianity?? To many, even most Republican leaders; give it up and don't worry about getting their approval. Just do what you know to be the right thing to do in leadership and that is to promote freedom and responsibility for American citizens first and foremost; not illegals, not H1-B visa engineers and doctors, not CEO's....
Melvin| 6.21.10 @ 7:09AM
Carol hit the nail on the head, I was starting to believe that maybe just maybe that the Republican Leadership was growing some stone and seeing the light, but when Reps. John Boehner, Eric Cantor and Mike Pence made a Rahm like ultimatum to Joe Barton I knew right then and there that nothing, and I repeat nothing has changed within the Republican Leadership and their Progressive mindset.
Stupid me for trying to believe again. Boehner, Cantor and Pence need to be purged right along with the other Progressives in the Republican Party. They are not going to change ever.
What they did to Joe Barton who merely said, what the rest of America was thinking anyway, shouldn't have happened to a dog.
Also NRA members should also take a closer looking at the NRA leadership because of their deal with the Devil Pelosi, "when it was becoming known that Democrats had cut a deal exempting the NRA from coverage under the DISCLOSE Act, which is the Nancy Pelosi-Chuck Schumer response to the Citizens United First Amendment decision by the Supreme Court that targets free speech." From Friday's American Thinker.
Curly Smith| 6.21.10 @ 8:26AM
I agree completely. I've got no doubt that November will be a big win for the GOP but I've got zero confidence that it will make a material difference. We've got millions of people who're thinking "wait until November" because they envision sweeping legislative changes with the introduction of a solidly Conservative agenda. But, the GOP hasn't committed to that Conservative agenda; in fact, they haven't said word one about what they intend. They're running a silent "change and hope" campaign in which we'll sweep out the old for the new because we hope that something better will transpire.
Yes, we'll elect some solid new Conservatives but freshman Congress-critters don't chair the important committees or set policy. Nothing happens that the leadership doesn't approve and the leadership isn't courageous, Conservative or imaginative.
By their silence the GOP is setting extraordinarily high expectations. They're allowing the disgruntled public to believe things which are likely not true. They're not just playing with fire, they're playing with a thermo-nuclear device that may well destroy them.
creeper| 6.21.10 @ 11:53AM
Well, this is one former Democrat who worked and voted for McCain but will be absent from the ranks if Republicans try again to stuff their conservative social agenda down our throats. Stick to the economy, Republicans. Stay out of our bedrooms.
Curly Smith| 6.21.10 @ 1:54PM
Your bedroom would have to be enormous to fall under the purview of limited government. I hope you bought after housing prices dropped.
coal carrier| 6.21.10 @ 3:28PM
creeper,
Conservatives don't care about the crap going on in your beroom. What we care about is some career politician with his hand continuously in our private wallets.
RCV| 6.21.10 @ 4:59PM
Right. Then keep your reactionary, anti-choice, anti-gay agenda out of the GOP platform and maybe you'll start attracting some independents.
Vollowitz lives| 6.21.10 @ 11:36PM
Tell us about your gay friendly kids again.
Liberty or Death| 6.21.10 @ 5:07PM
Creeper,
Your bedroom only interferes with my agenda when you:
1. Force our kids to stick condoms on bananas.
2. Force them to watch stupid Global Hot-Air movies.
3. Force them to only learn about Darwin, without even considering an alternative.
4. Force us to revise a centuries-old, spiritual contract, between man and wife, to include Adam and Steve, and Mindy and Misty.
5. Force God-fearing Americans to support the wholesale slaughter of millions of lives, just so irresponsible teens and adults do not have take any responsibility for their own sexual practices.
6. Force us to recognize the rights of Islamic terrorists, while telling Christians to shut-up and put-up basically, EVERYWHERE.
I could go on... but you get the point I hope?
So, who is shoving whose agenda down whose throats here???
Tell ya what, when you level off a bit from telling me how to live my life, I'll pull back a bit from defending my social agenda. Deal?
Didn't think so.
Liberty or Death| 6.21.10 @ 5:19PM
RCV~
Ditto for you buddy.
Independents might as well be liberals. Anybody riding the fence, does not have the stones to stand for anything of substance.
The conservative "agenda" is the American agenda. We are for freedom- that's it.
Anti-choice is absurd. We are ANTI-DEATH. So if your definition of "choice" means the right of a woman to KILL her baby, sign me up for the anti-choice. Pathetic dude. Your word games won't work here my friend.
And nobody is anti-gay. Your life is your life, just don't ask me to accept it under one of the tenants of my faith.
Real Liberty Now| 6.22.10 @ 9:15AM
L.O.D.
Your bedroom only interferes with my agenda when you:
1. Force curriculum on kids meant to keep them in the dark about sexually transmitted disease and preventing teenage pregnancy
2. Force them to pray in school. Ever heard of the separation of church and state?
4. Omit significant chunks of historical truth
5. Force me to pay taxes for wars I do not agee with
6. For me to pay taxes for your child to be in school!
I could go on ... but hopefully you get the point.
Tell ya what, when you level off a bit from telling me how to live my life, I'll pull back a bit from defending my social agenda. Deal?
Didn't think so.
JP| 6.21.10 @ 1:20PM
Apologizing to the CEO of a firm that has dumped hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf wasn't a smart move. Especially when one considers the damage that the oil will do to states from Louisiana to Florida.
A much smarter move would have to brought up the point in session, but without the apology. There was also some behind the scenes politiking going on. From what I've heard, Barton isn't very popular within the GOP caucus. Boehnner may be using this incident to remove him from the committee.
Liberty or Death| 6.21.10 @ 5:59PM
I agree JP.
I think there are better ways Barton could have communicated. He could have directly attacked the Democrats, and administration, for their ridiculous witching of BP in the heat of this crisis. He was correct in referring to this act by the left, as a "shakedown." BP is complying with the law, but that isn't good enough. The liberals want heads, as do most Americans (who aren't exactly thinking about the law right now). It is exactly the same reaction most Alaskans had toward Exxon, but the law prevailed, and in the end, they paid dearly. But for some, even THAT was not good enough... and it never will be.
BP is by no means deserving of any apologies, but they have not been dodging the question of culpability either.
The administration and the Democrats are simply interested in besmirching the name of another Big Oil company. They do not care about the Gulf one iota.
Republicans had to come out against Barton, because of how he said what he said, but the substance of what he said was true.
The "committee" culture in Washington has no business grilling a private CEO, especially since there's already an investigation proceeding. What possible good comes from some melon head (Wax-head/Stupid-ak) yelling at the head of the company? Nothing. It is simply a PR stunt, so the Democrats can look like they are concerned-- while still golfing and flying their carbon-emitting jets all over the world, all the while, demanding I shut off my heat and drive a smaller automobile!
Leave it to the law; give the governors of those states every possible resource available (including allowing foreign aid to help), and get your @$$ the hell out of the way. Maybe take a SERIOUS look at the economy... That is what the Democrats should do.
Liberty or Death| 6.21.10 @ 6:34PM
And to add to what I said...
When Americans (the CEOs of the federal government) start getting angry at our "company's" actions, regarding all the grievances it HAS committed against us, only then will we improve and move on to be the land of greatness our father's fathers sought for us.
Ask yourselves... How can a corrupt bunch of cronies lecture anyone about what is right and just?
The laser light needs to be focused on everyone of these, so-called, representatives, for the dark places in their lives before anything else. Everyone of them responsible for the economic collapse, to the government take over of private business, to the fleecing of America's healthcare system, needs to be brought up criminally- at the very least, thrown out of office forever.
jaded voter| 6.22.10 @ 9:36AM
Melvin,
you truly are a melvin. bp has unleashed a massive oil spill fouling much of the gulf coast and likely to spread much further and you believe the American people are worried about joe barton and the 'rough' treatment of bp. bp must pay to restore [to the fullest extent possible] the gulf environment and people's livelihoods. the only concern should be is to see that the $20 billion fund is used wisely ----- pay for legitimate projects & claims and make sure it is not absorbed in legal fees. in fact legal fees should be capped @ 1% and perhaps far less.
East Texas Rancher| 6.21.10 @ 7:30AM
Just when you think that Republicans were growing cojones, then you find they run screaming away from the one man who spoke up. I never believed that this party could ever do the right thing, even if they were in control. It is because they have all breathed the rarified air of D.C. Beltway, and it has stripped them of their senses.
Folks like Limbaugh knew Barton had it right, then they sounded retreat and he fell into lock step apologizing all over. Republicans should have said about Barton, yes, Joe and I raise you one more, they are Chicago thugs shaking down companies for money to buy votes in November (or to rig machines).
We need new blood in D.C. and then to only give them one chance to get it right.
East Texas Rancher
ShortNSweet| 6.21.10 @ 1:32PM
Amen East Texas Rancher!
HotPat| 6.21.10 @ 1:35PM
Is that you Bev?
Ret. Marine| 6.21.10 @ 7:54AM
Believing the Republicans have a chance because they are not Democrats is like saying I have a chance to date and marry the beauty Queen because I am as ugly as the day is long. What BS.
Republicans are less likely to see the same ole' same ole' this upcoming election because they have been there far too long, and We the People realize they are the same as the Democrats but with one execption, they will lead us down the same road only slower in it's manner. The pollsters may have some of this report correct but, all in all they are wrong in it's conclussion, there will be a sweeping change to this Congress because We the People are about as pissed off as we care to be. The change needed will be the goal for all of us, in the D and R side of the spectrum because they have simply left us with no other choice but to fire them all.
tonypal| 6.21.10 @ 8:31AM
While the republicans have a way to go before the public embraces them, this idea that republicans and democrats are the same is assinine. The last 17 months should have made that clear by now.
Just take one example, Obamacare. As inept as republicans are prone to be, can you imagine in your wildest dreams a republican controlled Congress putting forth a national health care plan with an individual mandate? I don't think so.
There are countless other examples of the differences between the parties. Yes, when it comes to spending, we're usually talking differences of degrees. But there is no comparison as to the ultimate goals of the two parties. The GOP had become lazy and stale. Pres. Bush, as much as I liked the guy, failed when it came to holding the line on Congressional spending. Our job is to make sure that the right kinds of republicans are elected to office. If not, we'll get more of the same, setting the stage for the next Pelosi-like creep to become Speaker.
Ken (Old Texican)| 6.21.10 @ 8:48AM
OKOK! (smile)
The Repubs felt they HAD to give Barton a public bop on the head. (And a handshake in private.)
A very close friend retired recently as the VP Marketing of one of the major oil companies. He told me that 80% of his efforts ...and staff were devoted to keeping energy illiterate congress critters from inadvertently cutting off oil/gas supplies to Americans.
That's right....."inadvertently".
Very few people understand the economics of oil production and the companies that engage in it.
Of course the oil companies have to earn a profit. They utilize enormous sums of "working capital". (Capitalism see.) The reason for much of the "third world" is that the capital is squandered by the government elites, or stuck in a Swiss account, instead of "capitalizing" productive enterprise in those countries.
US "capital" is thus utilized to develop and market their resources, and the profits come right back here because those governments can skim enough cash for our efforts to be delighted.
Am I ringing any bells with anybody yet?
Folks, OUR government is acting like a third-world government these days....with the same demonstrable results if they can't be made to stop.
Sarah Palin's most impressive feat in Alaska was to find a "balance" between the needs of "capital formation through productivity", and...the "dividends" on that capital being fairly distributed to the "risker/investors" (in her case, the citizens of Alaska....much like a landowner down here in Texas gets "dividends" on a producing well on hisproperty.
Back to my thesis sentence here: Folks, most States are NOT net oil/gas exporters. The Republicans need those States' voters to understand that the Repubs are on the side of the citizens there too.
Kapice?
JP| 6.21.10 @ 1:26PM
Since the time of FDR large firms prefer the heavy hand of government to that of the free markets. The large regulation load that Congress slaps on this nation inhibit competition -especially from below. BP was no different. It thought it had the system rigged. It marketed itself as a Green Energy firm as well as being an early backer of Cap and Trade. One lesson from this for other companies, watch who you get in bed with. The Beltway can and does turn on anyone who gets in its way. Bill Gates learnt this the hard way. Before the now infamous court case involving the Internet Explorer, Microsoft had 0 Beltway lobbiest on retainer. Afterwards, they employ hundreds.
Occam's Tool| 6.21.10 @ 8:16PM
You know, Ken, sometimes I think we need to dumb it down a bit for independents.
You see, folks, here are three things Republicans, as retarded as they can be, will not do:
1) Apologize for America and lower our defenses against terrorists.
2) Raise taxes.
3) Make it harder for businesses to operate.
Democrats (esp. Obama) will do all those things, indeed, have PROMISED or HAVE done both those things. These three things are matters of life and death for our economy and our defense.
That's it, and that's all.
Louis Jenkins| 6.21.10 @ 8:57AM
It is time to wake up if you haven't already. Yes, we will get more of Pelosi like creepiness if we don't. The Republicans are casting about like men in a daze not doing nor acting.
The Republicans made a gross error when getting on Joe Barton. There is indeed, no "new" blood in these tired, uninspired Republicans. Far better to have supported him, or a least kept their mouths shut.
southernsue| 6.21.10 @ 9:08AM
i will vote republican this fall. i refuse to vote demonrat. republicans, warts and all. the republicans that speak out will have their say once we are a majority again. we have some pretty good people in our party, don't let the press and demonrat party mislead you.
GKPAL| 6.21.10 @ 9:20AM
No! both parties are NOT the same! How can any one compare the stinging democrats with the republicans in congress today? Yes we republicans made our share of mistakes (No child left behind and Prescription drugs come to mind) but they don't come close to the systematic destruction of our country, we have witnessed in the last 18 months by Hussein, Pelosi and Reid.
This trio doubled the national debt, took over the US automakers, caused the real unemployment to shoot at almost 20%, kill the economic engine of the country ie. the private sector, slammed thru this monstrosity, called health care reform, tripled the deficit and now they are considering taking over the Internet and pushing thru cap and tax. Now, I challenge you to name one republican who voted for any of this BS. So, don't be quick to say they are all the same. They are NOT.
The most liberal Republican is still better than the most conservative democrat. Do the Blue Dogs come in mind anyone?
Quartermaster| 6.21.10 @ 6:11PM
So, you're saying, a guy that wants to drive off the cliff at 60mph is better than one that wants to drive over the same cliff at 80mph?
Hate to tell you, but the Reps have been the party that consolidated the regime that produced the mess we have now. Some Reps are different, but there haven't been enough of them to matter much. If there had been, McConnel, McCain, Hatch, and others of their ilk would not be in Congress today. The Tea Party has them scared to death. More so than the Dimocrats. The District of Corruption has worked in a bipartisan fashion for the last 80 years. Both parties are to blame for the mess and both need to be taken out and hung.
JmsA| 6.21.10 @ 9:29AM
That's right, GKPAL, they're not the same as the commiecrats, but the Republicans do need new leadership.
Ret. Marine| 6.21.10 @ 10:43AM
aah, a man who actually got what I was saying. Thank you.
Stephen Zierak| 6.21.10 @ 11:30AM
I am disappointed in Pence, but why should anyone be surprised at Boehner and Cantor? After all, they voted for the TARP monstrosity in the end. If the stupid party does re-take the House, we had better hope for a wholesale change in the leadership there.
Michael L. Hauschild| 6.21.10 @ 5:50PM
Stephen,
Pence has been present for the worst decade in American history of Constitutional decline. Pardon my scepticism, but if you look closely at his "immigration stance' you will find that he, as most do not understand "illegal" and believe that they as legislators "know best.". There will be a bloodbath come November. Those hanging by their heels in the public squares, like Mussolini, will be the true democrats and the Republicans that have acted like (or with) the democrats. Your take on the “Republican” leadership is insightful; they will be clamoring for attention, climbing over each other’s shoulders to reach for the carousel’s brass ring of presidential nomination, shoving each other out of the way for a place at the debate podium. The country will once again be damned in their rush to power and influence. The closer we get to a Presidential election the more prioritized becomes the Oval Office occupancy and the less attention will be paid to overturn the progressive agenda. Reform will constitute “campaign promises” and not legislation. Action will once again assume verbosity, “Elect me, I will take care of it when I get to my newer, higher, more powerful office.” I have heard it all, and seen it twice. Until there is a constitutional amendment to streamline the process of removal from office by a representatives constituents the merry go around to hell will continue. I am fully aware we are a constitutional Republic, but our “representatives” must represent; we do not send them to Washington to join a mutual admiration society of good old boys establishing lifelong incumbency by perpetuating self-imposed rules that only they live under.
Oldefarte| 6.21.10 @ 2:21PM
Voters are fed up with BOTH PARTIES' POLITICIANS, period! If any politician, either now holding office or elected in November, does not DO THE PEOPLES' BUSINESS [and quit kissing the backsides of Pilosi, Reid, Hoyer, Boehner, McConnell,etc], they be [in Barry's wording] KICKED IN THEIR ASSES!!!!!
Oldefarte| 6.21.10 @ 2:25PM
PS, THE PEOPLES' BUSINESS involves slashing governmental SPENDING [ie laying off governmental employees, eliminating redundant governmental agencies/programs, foreign aid, farm subsidies, wasteful/unnecessary military hardware,etc]. In essence, they had better simply DO THEIR JOBS, and stop being inefficient COMMUNITY ORGANIZER-TYPES!!!!!
martin j smith| 6.21.10 @ 4:02PM
This is what Republicans should be doing:
Adds with Obama playing golf,bowling, partying and scenes from the Gulf and segments of Bobby Jindal speaking out.
RCV| 6.21.10 @ 5:48PM
And this is what Democrats should be doing:
Ads with Barton apologizing to BP and Republicans in Congress blocking efforts to raise BP's liability limits, with scenes from the Gulf.
Vollowitz lives| 6.21.10 @ 11:39PM
You go girl.
Oldefarte| 6.22.10 @ 11:32AM
Joe Barton was correct in his statements, and WAS NOT APOLOGIZING TO BP [but was bemoaning the intrusion of government into private business]. A $20billion fund administered by a LAWYER partisaned to the CHICAGO WAY goons running our government will easily be diverted into paying for social welfare organizations efforts [ie Acorn, Rainbow Push, 'Affordable Housing',etc] and NOT spent upon Gulf states damages. It's nothing more than a Mafiaso SLUSH FUND or bribe money paid to the gansters running our government. If the intent was honorable, then a PRIVATE entity should have been designated as administrator of same, not the government [whose success stories include the Post Office, the Dept of Ed. ,etc]!!!!!!!!
Caped Crusader| 6.21.10 @ 4:20PM
I agree with The Republican leadership that we should be very careful not to offend any liberals or we might lose both of our black voters and thereby lose the election. CAUTION! CAUTION! friends that is the best course, see where it has gotten us. And never mind all others, heck who needs the 60% who disagree with the lib establishments. Just see how all the newspapers are flourishing and the libnews is so good it now must be concentrated into smaller and fewer pages.
Cow Rie| 6.21.10 @ 9:37PM
Will it be too late when Nov 2010 Elections occur? The US Treasury has already been raped and pillaged. The Bureaucratic monster of the US government and parasitic SEIUs will not be stopped. Obama-Care will soon begin to euthanize us with high taxes. Oh, and the Third Intifada War against the Zionists might be under way - with the tacit approval of Dear Golfing Leader Hussein Obama. November 2010 may be too late.
Yosemeti Sam| 6.22.10 @ 1:34AM
" ... The game is afoot."
Indeed!
Democrats will be smitten hip and thigh in November.
Republicans would do well to beg the question of voters - ya want more of what ya got from the Constitutional despoilers in Congress who've elevated the art of taxpayer theft to Medusan heights?
In counter to the Babel from democrats that it was - all for the children and their future at the paneled expense of seniors.
Nicholas| 6.23.10 @ 1:04AM
Government-Approved Illegals !
Speaking of illegals, the government hasn't built the fence high enough to keep out the un-American criminals who want to take away our freedoms.
Yes, the government hasn't built the White House fence high enough to keep out the un-American criminals who somehow got into the White House and who are now working hard to take away the religious, social, and economic freedoms of true American patriots!
Here are two slogans that Obama would rather not think about: "Unborn babies should have the right to keep and bear arms - and legs and ears and eyes, etc.!" and "Unborn babies should have the same right to be born alive that abortionists had!"
If Obama should ever happen to Google "Dangerous Radicals of the Religious Right," do you think he would feel guilty merely walking in the hallowed halls of that House where true Americans walked?
Is it safe to assume that Mecca Wafers are Obama's favorite candy? And is barack-coli a vegetable or a disease?
(Neither Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi nor any other DemocRAT approved of this message! BTW, for more info on Obama in Washingdumb, Google "Obama Supports Public Depravity" and "Obama Avoids Bible Verses.")