Despite the stunning losses in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia of candidates for whom Obama personally campaigned, mid-term Congressional and gubernatorial candidates continue to allow (invite?) the president to speak at their rallies.
Unable to re-convince us of his own leadership qualifications in his sickening ongoing personal campaigning, the president continues to campaign, nonetheless -- instead of concentrating his efforts on tending to those issues that are most important to the vast majority of Americans like private sector jobs-creation and a major leadership presence in the BP catastrophe fix, for instance, which could help stem the tide of Americans' ever-decreasing confidence in Obama's ability.
Of course, the trickle-down byproduct of any actual success would do far more to assist incumbent Democrats and wannabes than the administration's current outdated strategy of blaming Bush and Republicans for everything that has gone wrong since their fellow Democrats acquired both the Congressional majority and the white House during the last four years.
They [Republicans] are peddling that same snake oil that they've been peddling now for years, and somehow they think you will have forgotten that it didn't work. Well, we did kick them out because it wasn't working," Obama said in Missouri Thursday during a fundraiser for Democrat Senate hopeful, Robin Carnahan. Can you say one-trick pony?
Obama's overall approval ratings percentages have dipped into the 40's while a higher percentage than that of polled Americans say they dislike his single "legislative" achievement -- health care reform -- enough to be in favor of the repeal of Obamacare ASAP.
Similarly, more than 50% of Americans support the (small d) democratically-passed Arizona illegal immigrant law while the Obama administration has not only brought suit against the Arizona Law but is prepared to push yet another "overhaul" with a Hispanic vote-pandering version of immigration reform.
"Well, I've got my own pollsters. I know it doesn't poll well. But it's the right thing to do for America. And so we go ahead and do it," Obama admitted that his numbers are tanking, during the Missouri fundraiser.
This kind of rhetoric may sound less dictatorial to unabashed lefties than to the rest of us, but it's not exactly the kind of endorsement that a candidate needs his or her potential constituents to hear. It comes out sounding a little too much like "...and if you elect my endorsee you can expect the very same type of rigidity and ideological stubbornness right here in your state (or in the halls of Congress, as the case may be)."
Aside from the aforementioned Blame Factor and Dictatorial Factor, other reasons why opponents of Obama-endorsed candidates love for the president to visit their territories are the It's All About Me Factor and the Ad Lib Factor.
It's All About Me is pretty much self-explanatory as the most narcissistic president of all times attempts to both glorify his endorsee's alignment with his dubious "successes" as well as to take the opportunity to toot his own horn with idiotic sound bites like "...Without the stimulus package the steady progress we’re beginning to see across America would not exist..." while most economists admit that cyclical changes would have occurred even in the absence of $1 trillion+ in would-be stimulus spending.
In the process of making such statements of adjustment, Obama walks back his earlier vow that the stimulus would cap unemployment at about 8% with inanities like "...but without the stimulus it [unemployment] might have climbed to 12%...17%...or even higher..."
The previous quote is not to be confused with the Ad Lib Factor wherein, at times, Obama goes completely off the scripted talking points at a campaign rally to lose both his credibility and that glib, professorial-sounding edge that the teleprompter gives him. "What do they (Republicans) expect me to do...suck up the spill with a straw?" is one of his more divisive, belligerent-sounding adlibs.
The only part of Obama candidate-endorsement visits that should rub the opposition the wrong way is the fact that he is wasting taxpayer dollars to make these trips wherein he often helps raise funds for both the candidates and the Democrat party.
Not that speaking up about this would change things in any way, but if I were an opposing candidate I'd wait until the Obama circus leaves town before going public with my criticism. How often do you get something so valuable for nothing?