Two More Democrat Hopefuls Run Like Hell From Obama …Update: With Video
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, May 24, 2012, 9:18 AM
Two more Democrats refused to endorse Democrat President Barack Obama this week. Ron Barber, who is running against Jesse Kelly in Arizona, would not answer Kelly when asked if he would support Obama in November.
Democrat Ronald Barber runs from protesters. (Gila Courier)
The Politico reported:
National Democrats are upbeat about former North Dakota Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp’s prospects as a Senate candidate. And on the House level, Dems are optimistic that former Gabrielle Giffords aide Ron Barber will keep Giffords’s open seat in Democratic hands.
And both candidates are keeping their distance these days from President Obama.
Here’s what Heitkamp had to say about Obama this week:
Heidi Heitkamp, a former North Dakota attorney general seeking to replace the retiring Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), told the AP that Obama has “failed in the one test America had for him, which was to unite the country.”
“I think he needed to be more hands-on… I don’t think he’s done enough to think broadly and come up with solutions that would engage both sides in a reasonable dialogue,” she added.
And here’s how Barber handled the top-of-the-ticket question in a candidate debate:
When it was his turn to ask his rival a question, [Republican Jesse] 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.
Kelly used that demurral as an opportunity to say Barber won’t even admit that he supports Obama and “Obamacare,” a law that Kelly described as terrible.
“My biggest fear is Mr. Obama’s job-killing policies,” Kelly said.
Barber later retorted that his biggest fear is Kelly’s “extreme policies.”
UPDATE: Here’s Ron Barber dodging the question who he will vote for in November.
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Militant Conservative commented:
Obama has reverse coat-tails.
Association with Obama is political suicide.
TEAnami getting bigger. Bwahahahaha
Powder is dry
Patty commented:
It all boils down to Constituents, themselves and their political careers. PERIOD.
But I must say, they must be living under a rock because those hard time and the big bubble, just hasn’t gotten any better since Jan. 20, 2009. Day one. Puts his foot into mandating and regulating our Health care.
One of his biggest mistakes. Then the chit hits the fan.
Facauwee Tribe commented:
Gee, ya think talking about unifying one day, and then demonizing your political opponents the next, isn’t considered reasonable dialogue? RACIST!!!
progressoverpeace commented:
That was the only thing the dems expected of the Dog-Eating Retard? LOL. That bar isn’t low. It’s underground. Maybe there’s a picture of Barky trying to maneuver his umbrella under it?
These dems are all so pathetic it hurts. You just can’t have a decent nation with too many idiots like this in it. It’s not just that they are idiots but that they demand that they should dictate everyone else’s thoughts and behavior to be in sync with their own self-hating stupidity.
regularguy commented:
Barber wants to hide under the cloak as a “moderate” just like his former boss Gabby Giffords. Truth is, Barber and Giffords both supported and worked to make Obamacare happen. Barber is Giffords’ choice, and Barber is no moderate. He’ll toe the liberal party line just as Giffords did. Time to make sure liberals lose their seats for making poor choices in supporting those at the rotten top.
crackermike commented:
Individual candidates don’t matter in the General Elections, only in the Primaries. The General Election is all about choosing either candidates picked by Socialists, or Capitalists. Anyone in the Dem Party either is, or is controlled by the Socialists.
Blue Hen commented:
Hi. My name is barber. Yes, like the profession, except that I’m a democrat so I don’t perform a useful service like a barber does. I want your vote. I want it so bad that I’ll alk about policies. Polices of my opponent. Well….actually their intended policies. You wanna talk about actual policies? From my party? No. Let’s concentrate on the person I’m replacing and who annointed, I mean, decided to have me succeed her. You want to talk about her policies? What in Hell is wrong with you people? Just vote. For me!
Dave-O commented:
Kelly needs to ask Barber if he is elected in November, whether he will vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House when the new Congress convenes in January.
Heitkamp should be asked, over and over, whether she will vote for Harry Reid as President of the Senate if she is elected.
DMartyr commented:
Barber later retorted that his biggest fear is Kelly’s “extreme policies.”
L’esprit de l’escalier!
Lol, didn’t Seinfeld do an entire episode with George and a late comeback?
Chris W. commented:
All these stories about Democrats jumping off the S.S. Obama.
I’m running out of popcorn.
dunce commented:
North Dakota is booming because of the fracture method of hydrocarbon extraction so the dim wit democrat is unaware that most of the rest of the nation is suffering from obamas economic and other policies that are job killers yet she puts herself forward to lead our nation. She should have three Ds after her name for dumb, delusional, democrat.
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