{"id":5556,"date":"2010-06-03T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2010-06-03T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T22:23:13","slug":"president-obama-has-the-reverse-midas-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5556\/president-obama-has-the-reverse-midas-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Has the Reverse Midas Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, President Barack Obama is 0-for-everything when it comes to getting directly involved in any campaign other than his own.\u00a0 In a three month span, he helped lose Democratic campaigns for governor in Virginia and New Jersey, and the special election for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it looks like he picked losers in two Democratic <em>primaries<\/em>.\u00a0 Just when it seemed like the Joe Sestak pay-not-to-play offer couldn\u2019t get weirder, the challenger in Colorado\u2019s contested primary confirms that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/news\/ap\/politics\/2010\/Jun\/03\/white_house_faces_more_questions_over_dealmaking.html \" target=\"_blank\">he too was approached about dropping out<\/a>.\u00a0 For those keeping score, Sestak beat Arlen Specter and Andrew Romanoff currently leads 60%-40% over the appointed incumbent Michael Bennet.\u00a0 Whatever happened to the will of the people?<\/p>\n<p>But what should we expect from a chief executive whose only \u201cwin\u201d so far in office is a scandalously passed health care industry takeover that may go down as the most corrupt bargain ever brokered between a president and Congress.\u00a0 The lesson here is that this president is as hapless at electoral horse trading as he is with legislative deal making.<\/p>\n<p>How much longer \u2018til 2012?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, President Barack Obama is 0-for-everything when it comes to getting directly involved in any campaign other than his own.\u00a0 In a three month span, he helped lose Democratic campaigns for governor in Virginia and New Jersey, and the special election for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat. Now, it looks like he picked losers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1347,30,143,1064,1308,1085,38],"class_list":["post-5556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-andrew-romanoff","tag-arlen-specter","tag-barack-obama","tag-colorado","tag-joe-sestak","tag-pennsylvania","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5559,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}