NYC Letter: The Big Difference

Day 370 of CHOPE

If Republicans want to campaign against what we've done by standing up for the status quo and for insurance companies over American families and businesses, that is a fight I want to have. (Applause.)

... And that's why I'll be out there waging a great campaign from one end of the country to the other, telling Americans with insurance or without what they stand to gain -- (applause)...

Mr. Obama,
threatening Republicans with himself
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE
HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS RETREAT
WASHINGTON January 14, 2009 (White House)

Mr. Obama hasn't had to wait til November for his big fight (and this). [Pause.] Sometimes the hype isn't enough.

RED HOT!
Midterm Master Of Disaster
[Picture source: Daily Mail/White House]

BERRY: OBAMA SAID "BIG DIFFERENCE"
BETWEEN '10 AND '94 IS "ME"

January 25, 2010 (Politico) - Rep. Marion Berry's parting shot, published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [no link, subscription only] offers a warning to moderate Democrats and border state moderates — warning of a midterm bloodbath comparable to the 54-seat D-to-R swing in 1994.

But the jaw-dropper is Berry's claim that President Obama personally dismissed any comparison between Democrats now and under Bill Clinton 16 years ago — by saying his personal popularity would bail everybody out.

The retiring Berry, who doesn't say when the remarks were made, now scoffs at Obama's 50-or-below approval rating:

Writes ADG reporter Jane Fullerton:

Berry recounted meetings with White House officials, reminiscent of some during the Clinton days, where he and others urged them not to force Blue Dogs “off into that swamp” of supporting bills that would be unpopular with voters back home. Mr. Berry:

I’ve been doing that with this White House, and they just don’t seem to give it any credibility at all. They just kept telling us how good it was going to be. The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, "Well, the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me."

We’re going to see how much difference that makes now.

... I began to preach last January that we had already seen this movie and we didn’t want to see it again because we know how it comes out,

We have seen that movie, too, Mr. Berry!

THE BLACK KNIGHT
"I'm Invincible!"
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CHOPE.

Making the big difference.