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Home Front: Politix
Obama warns as Americans vote
2010-11-03
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] President Barack B.O. Obama warned that key US elections today "will have an impact for decades to come,"
That's the plan.
as his Democratic allies braced for a rout fuelled by deep voter anger at the sour economy.
Mr. Reporter sir, you forgot 'bitter' ...
His message came as opinion polls showed fired-up Republicans likely to retake the House of Representatives and slice deep into the Democratic Senate majority, though experts predicted the upper chamber would not change hands.

Late today, the White House said President B.O. will hold a presser on Wednesday, a day after the historic midterm election.

The White House said in a statement that Obama will talk to news hounds Wednesday in the White House.

Meanwhile the White House deployed popular First Lady Michelle Obama to Nevada where Senate Majority leader Harry Reid faces a neck-and-neck battle for his seat in the state with the worst US jobless and home foreclosure rates.

"Can we do this? Yes, we can. Yes, we must," the First Lady shouted, reviving the campaign slogan that buoyed her husband into the White House two years ago.

In an 11th-hour plea to voters in the key battleground of Pennsylvania, Barack Obama warned Republicans would bring back the very policies he blamed for the 2008 economic meltdown that has left nearly one in 10 Americans still out of work. "The bottom line is this: We're making progress, we're moving in the right direction," the president said on WDAS-FM radio. "If you haven't voted, take that time to vote.

''It will have an impact for decades to come."

The president, fearing a ballot-box repudiation just two years into his campaign for change, also planned to telephone Democratic volunteers tasked with getting party faithful to the polls, aides said.

The president was notably targeting voters in the critical battlegrounds of Florida, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania -- all key to his 2012 reelection bid -- as well as his birth state of Hawaii, the White House said.

Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden was also campaigning for embattled Democrats, whose fortunes rested on the power of their get-out-the-vote machine to counter Republican energy.

"If the other side is more enthusiastic, we could end up having problems moving this country forward," warned the president, who boasted that Democratic policies had "rescued the economy" from a second Great Depression.
Posted by:Fred

#7  "popular First Lady Michelle Obama

On what planet?

Maybe whatever planet Wookies come from, but not here.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-11-03 15:23  

#6  The Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1) replacement airplane for Pelosi.
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-11-03 15:13  

#5  Awwww ... San Fran Nan will have to climb on her broomstick, the next time she wants to fly back to California.
Don't forget to reimburse the Air Force for stocking all that liquor on your cross-country flights, Nan.
Posted by: Sgt.Mom   2010-11-03 09:16  

#4  The Tea Parties had their influence on the elections. I did not hear any of the smug, smarmy, leftists msm elitists referring to the Tea Party as Teabaggers last night. Fcuk them very much.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-11-03 08:38  

#3  And while your at it tell san fran nan to give the FREAKIN JET BACK!!!!
Posted by: armyguy   2010-11-03 07:40  

#2  ION DAILY TIMES.PK > MYANMAR MINORITY/ETHNIC GROUPS PREPARING FOR WAR AS VOTING IS CANCELLED IN MAJOR AREAS, e.g. Kachins + United WA State Army.

"TESING THE BAMMER" continues.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-11-03 03:32  

#1  See that House? It ain't yours no more. Fwuk you, Bambi and Fwuk your agenda.
Posted by: DarthVader   2010-11-03 00:19  

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