Hill Democrats miffed at Obama

[Wretched Excess]

ruh, roh.  there's trouble in paradise.

Hill Democrats miffed at Obama

After a brief bout of Obamamania, some Capitol Hill Democrats have begun to complain privately that Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is insular, uncooperative and inattentive to their hopes for a broad Democratic victory in November.

“They think they know what’s right and everyone else is wrong on everything,” groused one senior Senate Democratic aide. “They are kind of insufferable at this point.”

Among the grievances described by Democratic leadership insiders:

• Until a mailing that went out in the past few days, Obama had done little fundraising for Democratic candidates since signing off on e-mailed fundraising appeals for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee immediately after securing the Democratic nomination.

• Obama has sometimes appeared in members’ districts with no advance notice to lawmakers, resulting in lost opportunities for those Democrats to score points by appearing alongside their party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

• The Obama campaign has not, until very recently, coordinated a daily message with congressional Democrats, leaving Democratic members in the lurch when they’re asked to comment on the constant back and forth between Obama and John McCain — as they were when Obama said earlier this month that he would “continue to refine” his Iraq policies after meeting with commanders on the ground there.

• Coordination between the Obama campaign and the House and Senate leadership is so weak that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) — who will chair the Democrats’ convention in August — didn’t know of Obama’s decision to move his final-night acceptance speech from the Pepsi Center to Invesco Field until the campaign announced it on a conference call with reporters.

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[Lord Undies]

Obama Hussein comes off as being very self-centered and self-focused.  The existing rank of corrupt and equally self-centered individuals who make up the mouth of congress have nothing to offer Obama Hussein.  In fact, they are bringing him down.  I cannot see Obama Hussein spending a lot of his personality capital aiding the creepy crawlies in congress who have nothing but deposits of ill-will in their public passbooks. 

[Wretched Excess]

Obama Hussein comes off as being very self-centered and self-focused.  The existing rank of corrupt and equally self-centered individuals who make up the mouth of congress have nothing to offer Obama Hussein.  In fact, they are bringing him down.  I cannot see Obama Hussein spending a lot of his personality capital aiding the creepy crawlies in congress who have nothing but deposits of ill-will in their public passbooks. 

I have $1 that says that hillary is stirring at least part of this up.

[Jim]

Obama Hussein comes off as being very self-centered and self-focused.  The existing rank of corrupt and equally self-centered individuals who make up the mouth of congress have nothing to offer Obama Hussein.  In fact, they are bringing him down.  I cannot see Obama Hussein spending a lot of his personality capital aiding the creepy crawlies in congress who have nothing but deposits of ill-will in their public passbooks. 

I have $1 that says that hillary is stirring at least part of this up.

One ego vs 500+ ones.  "Partisan politics" is not the only reason the opposition gives the White House a hard time.

[DixieBelle]

Fast Eddie needs to learn that the D.C. machine will eat you and spit you out a LOT faster than the Chicago machine.

[Wretched Excess]

Fast Eddie needs to learn that the D.C. machine will eat you and spit you out a LOT faster than the Chicago machine.

have you finished that new yorker article yet?  I'm not completely through it myself (I want to read it front to back,
and the sucker is longer than the amount of free time that I have at in one setting this week  ), but it's fascinating
as it relates to the "chicago machine", and the forces that are arrayed to oppose it.

[DixieBelle]

I got it bookmarked. I want to read it in one sitting. I started reading it and then had to attend to real life. #%@&!*&(%!