Ron Barber BALKS At Supporting Obama! Pass The Popcorn!
by Don on May. 25, 2012, under UncategorizedSurely, you’ve all heard by now about Ron Barber’s open statement of support for President Obama during Wednesday’s CD8 debate?
Oh, you haven’t? Well, there’s a good reason for that. Ron Barber REFUSED to affirm his support for Obama in public, when asked!
Kelly asked Barber to declare who he’ll vote for in November for president, and Barber — although a Democrat with an incumbent president of his party — refused, saying he’s focused on his own campaign.
Now THAT’s a ringing endorsement of a sitting US president. (Emphasis above added).
It was such a simple answer. One word: “Obama.” And yet…
Barber quickly clarified. (Meanwhile, we are searching YouTube for Barber’s “hostage” video, a la Newark Mayor Cory Booker. [See below for details])
Unfortunately for Ron Barber and the Democrats, the horse had long since left the barn. And, many noticed.
- The Poltico politics website. (You’ve seen this link already.)
- Chuck Todd of MSNBC: “Folks this AZ 08 House special for Gabby Giffords’ seat is close. Dem nominee won’t say how he’ll vote for POTUS.”
Meanwhile, we Republicans get to sit down, munch on some popcorn and watch the blockbuster movie “Damage Control!”
We get to watch it, again and again and again. (You can, too!)
We get to speculate about what’s in Ron Barber’s “hostage” video. (Is he blinking Morse code distress signals with his eyes? Is his family with Jeff Rogers [Pima County Democratic Party chair] at an “undisclosed location” for, um, “safekeeping?”)
We get to read bloggers speculate about what it all means, like Moe Lane, writer extraordinare at the “Redstate” blog:
anybody who still seriously thinks that the Obama campaign has a shot at winning Arizona should consider that the people who actually have to run in Arizona apparently have a different opinion. If Ron Barber doesn’t dare bring up Barack Obama’s name in a special election in June, what are the odds that people are going to give that name a better reception in November?
Emphasis added—more popcorn! We need something to drink, too? OK—how about a Diet Schadenfreude? Super-sized!
(The backstory on Cory Booker. This past Sunday, on “Meet The Press”, Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, a Democrat, criticized Democratic Party attacks on private capital firms. With lightning speed, Booker issued a YouTube video clarifying his remarks. This led to widespread speculation that the White House and Democratic Party pressured Booker to get back in line with the party’s talking points. Booker’s YouTube video is now derided as being a “hostage video”—i.e., a video made by someone who’s under some form of duress.)
