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Barry is scheduled to speak at the University of Texas at Austin Monday at 2 p.m. You bags have a chance to worship in person.
Bill White is excited.
WASHINGTON – Texas has mainly provided a thorn in Barack Obama's side. The governor taunts him. The senators defy him. He lost the state by nearly 1 million votes in 2008.
When the president lands today to raise campaign cash in Austin and Dallas, even the Democratic nominee for governor will make himself scarce.
Yet many Texas Democrats are thrilled. Some are encouraging Obama to take the party's Bush-bashing theme to a new level, by pressing the case against the former president's policies on his home turf. Others are simply grateful for the rare attention, even though most of the money Obama raises will help out-of-state candidates.
But the political realities for Texas Democrats are stark – in part because backlash against Obama and his policies has fueled Republican energy. Democrats had hoped for years that by 2010, demographic shifts would help them regain a statewide office or reclaim the state House, but both goals remain major challenges.
Then Obama will head to the Four Seasons, to headline a Democratic National Committee luncheon expected to raise $750,000 to $1 million. Tickets start at $5,000 per couple.
The Texas party will get $250,000 of the take – a somewhat unusual arrangement. For years, Texas Democrats have grumbled that national party officials swoop in, woo donors, and leave without doing much in return.
"The president's just using Texas for an ATM machine," said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who heads the Republicans' Senate campaign push nationally. "People need to recognize it for what it is."
Barry is scheduled to speak at the University of Texas at Austin Monday at 2 p.m. You bags have a chance to worship in person.
LOL
The Republican Party of Dallas County is holding a rally in response to the president's visit. The Freedom Rally will begin at 5 p.m. Due to the large expected crowd, the rally was moved to Franklin Stadium off Hillcrest Road
I may stop by there tonight.
have fun jack..
Unprecedented!
Cornyn is such a clown, it's insulting. Texas' collective IQ takes a hit every time he is quoted in the press.
It is what it is. Barry is having a private ATM withdrawl in Dallas after his Austin speech at some lawyers house in Lake Highlands. Then Barry will not come back to Texas probably ever agian.
So he's doing fund-raising. Unprecedented!
Texas is a lost cause..it's the smart thing to do dummy
They look very excited to see each other.
maybe if barry didn't campaign against continuous campaigning...
you are a talking point poster..
Only matched by the lunacy that is Pete Sessions.
how dare he!
impeach him!
Does this rally involve the use of white hoods?
Did he pay for his trip?
The Four Seasons?
He should have to go to Super 8 like the rest of us!
The Telegraph UK is going to have a field day with this one!
.....will someone think of the children?
...hide...yo white women!
Who does this guy think he is, President of the United States?
Every time that prick tries to play mr hard-core free-market evangelist, I think back to the time he emailed me (and thousands of others who were pissed) a letter singing the virtues of the bank bailouts. Cornyn is a disgusting person and one of the biggest hypocrites in Washington, which is saying a lot.
John Cornyn is a parasite.
And to think this dude was Chief justice of the TX Supreme Court.
We are in good hands here in the lone star state, I tell you.
Did anyone else know that we have an all-repug Supreme Court?
Barry hauled in 1.6 million dollars in 6 hours. Nice little withdraw. He also reminded everyone it's Bush's fault and he (barry) has 3 months to campaign: "We have spent the last 20 months governing. They have spent the last 20 months politicking. We can politick for three months. They've forgotten I can politick pretty good."
Yea, Blame Bush! That ship has sailed.
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