In the news…
1. The unpopular Democrat Governor of North Carolina, who once said that elections should be suspended in order to give Democrats more time to pass legislation, has be forced by the Obama Administration not to run for a second term.
The surprise announcement that Governor Bev Perdue will not run for re-election comes at a time when polls show that her former opponent, Republican Pat McCrory, would easily beat her if the election were held today. This would cause a big problem for the Obama strategy for re-election. In 2008, Obama barely won North Carolina and will need a number of states he carried in the last election if he has any hope of winning. Having an extremely unpopular Democrats governor in the swing state of North Carolina makes that goal much more difficult. As a result, Bev Perdue was asked not to run again for the good of the Democrat Party.
2. From the South to the West and to a extremely popular Republican governor. A day after he called for an end to perpetual political confrontation, President Barack Obama and his deputies publicly snubbed Governor Jan Brewer when she welcomed him at the Phoenix airport. According to the Governor, Obama exited the plane, refused to hear about the “Arizona turn around”, turned cold, and immediately scolded her over comments she made in her book. Brewer’s book is titled “Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border.”
In the book, she described Obama as patronizing during their 2010 meeting when she asked for his help in curbing illegal immigration. His reaction, she wrote, “was though President Obama thought he could lecture me, and I would learn at his knee.”
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard similar stories about Obama and his administration having little respect for the opinions of women. “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President,” by journalist Ron Suskind, Suskind writes that the Obama White House grew so intense during the first two years of the president’s tenure that he was forced to take steps to reassure senior women on his staff that he valued their presence and their input. Those tensions prompted Obama to elevate more women into senior White House positions, recognize them more during staff meetings and increase the female presence in the upper ranks of the reelection campaign.
