- “Let me tell you, the White House, when they look down the front lawn the last person they want to see coming is me,” warned Democrat Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado during a debate.
- Sen. Mark Begich, the Democratic incumbent from Alaska, at least admitted to voting for Obama, but quickly added in a newspaper interview that his vote was “irrelevant” because, “The president’s not relevant. He’s gone in two years.” But he didn’t stop there, promising the Washington Post, “I’ll be a thorn in his [posterior],” adding, “There’s times when I’m a total thorn, you know, and he doesn’t appreciate it.” Going even further, the senator insisted he “took on Obama” to fight for oil drilling in Alaska and would “bang him (the president) over the head a few times” on the need to drill.
- Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas paused during his debate before making his closing statement to make sure everyone knew, “I voted against every budget that President Obama has offered.”
- Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu made a point of emphasizing during her debate, “I do not agree with President Obama on his energy policies,” later adding, “I haven’t agreed with President Obama on everything.” She also damned the president with faint praise, giving his job performance a “6-to-7″ out of 10.
- When asked on MSNBC last week if she thought the president had “shown strong leadership,” Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina hedged a bit before conceding, “Certainly there are issues I think on … um, no.”
- Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., in his debate, singled out the president’s response to the Ebola crisis for criticism, saying, “I think the administration should have acted quicker.”
- Kentucky Democratic hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes refused to say during an interview whether she even voted for Obama in 2012, then doubled-down on distancing herself from the president during her debate, calling it her “constitutional right” to stay mum.
- Ultra-leftist Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota found occasion to distance himself from the president when he wrote a letter to Obama in September saying he “was troubled by the president’s recent suggestion that the administration has not yet developed a comprehensive strategy to address the growing threat of ISIL’s activities in Syria.”
- During her debate in New Hampshire, Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was asked if she approved of Obama’s job performance, “Yes or no?” The incumbent evoked a wave of laughter from the audience when she responded instead, “In some things I approve and in some things I don’t approve.”
- And even the one Democrat running for the Senate who has invited the president to appear with him on the campaign trail is still keeping an arm’s length from Obama, as Gary Peters less-than-enthusiastically observed, “The president will come to Michigan to campaign, and I’m going to stand next to the president.” Peters also conceded in an interview he had areas of disagreement with Obama.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/democrats-whip-out-surprise-strategy-to-win/
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