As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama's rally on behalf of AG Martha Coakley(D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley's now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person -- George W. Bush.Yeah, they're just heaping all the blame on "poor Obama", even though he's somehow managing to pull 36-hour days in an effort to clean up Bush's mess. Well, that's gratitude for you!
"People are upset because there's so many problems," Rosemary Kverek, 70, a retired Charleston schoolteacher said as tonight's rally wrapped up. "But the problems came from the previous administration. So we're blaming poor Obama, who's working 36 hours a day ... to solve these problems that he inherited."
Yes, Bush made his share of poor choices, but how long before the new president starts to take a little responsibility for his own bad ideas? (I'd say we shouldn't hold our breath.)
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), speaking with a gaggle of reporters after the event, said that while state Sen. Scott Brown (R) offers voters a quick fix, in reality, the problems created by "George Bush and his cronies" are not so easily solved.Yeah (again)! What have the Dems done wrong? Nothing-- except for caring too much! And trying to do the right thing! They really are the martyrs of the world, aren't they? The idea that they haven't spent enough time "pointing the finger" is. . . laughable doesn't begin to cover it.
"If you think there's magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown," Kennedy said. "If you don't, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole ... then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president's in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that."
(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as "Marcia," not "Martha.")
More Kennedy: "One thing the Democrats have done wrong? We haven't kept the focus on this disaster on the Republicans who brought it upon us. We've tried too hard to do that right thing, and that's to fix it, as opposed to spend more of our time and energy pointing the finger at who got us [here] in the first place."
P.S. Isn't it sad that Kennedy couldn't even get Martha Cloakley's name right? I mean, really?! You want people to vote for her presumably because you know her so well-- know she's the right one for the job-- and yet you can't even remember the woman's first name?
