Obama Campaign to Pelosi: Shut Up
Team Obama has sent Speaker Pelosi a stern warning. According to this American Spectator article, Team Barry has told Speaker Pelosi to shut up:
The Obama campaign has asked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to shut her mouth, but in as nice a way as they possibly can. That isn’t to say they aren’t mad about her recent activities.
“It’s like ‘Thanks, madam speaker, you’ve done quite enough. Please move along,’” says one Obama adviser. “She got us stuck on three different issues that we wanted no part of. She’s no master strategist, no matter what she may believe. You may see more of her, but if her mouth is open, what comes out won’t be anything that our campaign wants anything to do with.”
According to several House Democrat leadership staffers, Pelosi grew increasingly angry several months ago that she was not being given a strategic role in directing the Democrat convention or being actively sought out by the Obama campaign for advice. “She made a point that she was queen of the far left, which was the group that really helped Obama get to where he was,” says Democrat leadership staffer, adding, “She didn’t call herself a queen, but you get the point, and so did the Obama people.”
In other words, Team Barry is pissed that Queen Pelosi dares defy them. They’re also worried that Pelosi’s statements will cost them with Catholics, which is an important part of Pennsylvania’s blue collar vote. If Pelosi costs Obama Pennsylvania, this election is over. It isn’t clear that Pelosi’s statements will cost Sen. Obama any battleground states but they can’t ignore the situation.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
August 27th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Obama’s stand on abortion and his stance in the Illinois legislature in support of Partial birth abortion gurantees he’s going no where, with orthodox Catholics, anyway.