American Glob

As Obama loses independents, his leftist rhetoric must go up to stir enthusiasm from his base. That’s a big problem, says Dick Morris:

Barak Obama faces about the same problem that confronted Bill Clinton in 1994 when he lost control of Congress. In both cases, the Democratic presidents had alienated moderate and conservative voters and found themselves increasingly isolated with a political base of liberals and minorities. In each instance, the president worried that off-year election turnout among their base would be attenuated both because it always is in non-presidential years and because their policy failings had reduced the enthusiasm they found among their base voters. And both men found themselves forced to escalate their rhetoric and move their ideological positions to the left in order to try to drum up the kind of turnout they needed to keep power in Congress.

Clinton failed and Obama will too.

This is essentially what he said in an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor on Wednesday night. Skip ahead to the 5 minute mark for the relevant discussion.

The anointed one…

If you want to read an article by Dick Morris which explains Obama’s lame response to the oil spill, CLICK HERE.

The official story: Bill Clinton did it and there’s nothing to see here.

Bullshit.

First, Byron York of the Washington Examiner points out that Joe Sestak was ineligible for the position Clinton supposedly offered to him…

In a little-noticed passage Friday, the New York Times reported that Rep. Joe Sestak was not eligible for a place on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the job he was reportedly offered by former President Bill Clinton.

As a sitting member of Congress, Sestak was not eligible for the job.  And since the White House intended for Sestak to remain in his House seat, he would not have been eligible for the board after this November’s elections, provided he was re-elected to the House.

Even the liberal Associated Press isn’t buying it…

So much for changing how Washington works.

Crimping his carefully crafted outsider image and undercutting a centerpiece of his 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama got caught playing the usual politics — dangling a job offer for a political favor in the hunt for power.

His lawyer admitted as much in a Friday report. It detailed how Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, sent former President Bill Clinton on a mission: try to persuade Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., to abandon his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., by offering an executive branch post. Sestak said no, stayed in the race and beat the incumbent.

“I can assure the public that nothing improper took place,” Obama had told reporters at the White House on Thursday.

True or not, Obama has a political problem.

Finally, former Clinton advisor Dick Morris appeared on the Sean Hannity show Friday 5/28/10 night to discuss the issue. Bottom line? Not buying it.

I’ve been watching news programs all weekend and other than the BP Oil disaster, one story keeps coming up; Joe Sestak.

It seems the White House strategy to dump a story on a Friday night before the weekend, a strategy they’ve used before, isn’t working this time.

I think Mark Steyn is a GREAT guest host for Sean Hannity, BTW.

In this video from August of 2008, Dick Morris is interviewed backstage at The O’Reilly Factor and explains how and when he switched from Democrat to Republican.

In this video, Dick Morris goes out of his way to praise Leon Panetta. He also goes out of his way to hand out the phone number for Nancy Pelosi’s office in Washington DC. It’s (202)-224-3121. “Just ask for Pelosi.”

We have made fun of Panetta on this blog but we are more than happy to give gredit where it’s due. Panetta deserves praise for putting America’s national security ahead of partisanship.

MORE: For more on Pelosi and Panetta, check out this great post at The ConservativeXpress.

He makes a pretty damn good case…

“On April 2nd 2009, the Declaration of Independence signed on July 4th 1776, was effectively repealed.”

So sayeth Dick Morris:

“Every major spot in Illinois state government is now held by a Democrat. One party government, by either party, breeds the kind of arrogant corruption and self-seeking of which Blagojevich has become the poster child.”

The Fleecing of Illinois.

Do I think the president elect has some corrupt tie to Blago? No.

Do I think he’s shown himself incapable of knowing who NOT to hang out with? Yes.