Sunday, April 17, 2011

Obama WILL have a primary challenge...

Why make such a bold, odd, statement you say? Well mainly its because its Sunday night and I'm trying to think of anything I missed in the news this week and I rememebered this dailybeast.com article I saw a few days ago. Here are some excerpts...

As President Obama headed to Chicago Thursday afternoon to kick off the first official fundraiser of his re-election campaign, he left behind a sizable collection of dispirited Democrats. They were not relishing the chance to vote on a budget-cutting bill that had been forged without their input and that most found repugnant.
The compromise that Obama struck last week with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to keep the federal government running contained steep cuts to some of the party’s most cherished programs—nutrition for poor women and children, long-stalled transportation projects, funding for community health centers—as well as language barring the District of Columbia from using its own tax dollars to finance abortions.


Oh it gets better, apparently the Latino community is disillusioned with him as well :)
In 2008, for example, Obama promised Latino groups that he would pass comprehensive reform within a year of taking office. But he made no serious push to do so when the Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Latinos are further incensed over the fact that his administration is deporting a record number of illegal immigrants, more than under George W. Bush.
In protest, Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez launched a cross-country tour, complete with a stop in Chicago on Saturday, to urge the administration to make its enforcement more compassionate. “I have made no secret of the fact that I think the president can do more to keep families together and that the focus of changes this year needs to be administrative and procedural because legislation is very unlikely,” Gutierrez said Thursday.


Ok here are my odds for who will run against Obama in the 2012 democratic primary

Bernie Sanders 3:2 (odds on favorite for me)
Hillary Clinton 4:1
Russ Feingold 15:1
Joe Sestak 25:1

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