The Coming DNC Disaster

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Michelle Malkin

There aren't Greek columns tall or wide enough to camouflage Barack Obama's impending North Carolina catastrophe. In September, the campaigner-in-chief will travel to Charlotte for his party's presidential nominating convention. For once, the incurable jetsetter may wish he had stayed home.

Obama's stage managers envision a triumphant, unifying coronation reminiscent of their 2008 DNC production in Denver. But the southern swing state is turning into a Democratic disaster zone.

Start with the North Carolina Democratic Party. At the state party convention last week, Obama for America was AWOL. The glaring absence of high-level national Obama surrogates was noted "as odd," according to the Charlotte News and Observer. There's good reason to steer clear. The party is embroiled in a sordid sex scandal that won't go away.

Earlier this year, former party communications staffer Adriadn Ortega, 26, accused former NCDP executive director Jay Parmley of repeated sexual harassment and physical groping. Documents leaked to the conservative Daily Caller news site revealed a hush-hush financial settlement involving the two men. Ortega was fired; Parmley resigned; state Democrats went into panic mode.

"If this hits the media, the Democratic Party, our candidates and our credibility are doomed in this election," a local candidate complained to NCDP chairman David Parker. A defiant Parker resisted statewide calls (including a desperate request from outgoing Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue) to resign. Ortega filed a defamation suit against Parker and the NCDP last week. The White House, which has trumpeted its stand against workplace harassment, has been mute on the story.

Other Democrats are boycotting North Carolina to avoid an entirely different taint: the scandal-plagued president himself. By TheDaily.com's count, at least seven Democratic officials will skip Obama-palooza: New York Democratic Reps. Bill Owens and Kathy Hochul; Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Mark Critz; three endangered Democratic politicians from West Virginia, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, Sen. Joe Manchin, and Rep. Nick Rahall; and Utah Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson.

The Democratic boycotters have dinged Obama on everything from his election-year illegal alien amnesty power grab to his failed jobs programs to his destructive war on coal. While "Forward!" may be the official Obama campaign slogan, "Back Away!" is quickly becoming the dissenting Democrats' rallying cry.

Moderate Democrats aren't the only ones refusing to put on the party hats and sing "Kumbaya." North Carolina is riling Obama's left flank, too. And national media outlets are noticing. In a piece on the DNC "going awry," Bloomberg News reported:

"Voters just approved a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, which conflicts with Obama's view on the issue. Convention fundraising has been slow, and labor unions tapped to fill the financial gap are angry the convention will be in a city -- Charlotte -- with no unionized hotels and in a state where compulsory union membership or the payment of dues is prohibited as an employment condition."

Thousands of anarchists, socialists and professional agitators also plan on protesting in Charlotte. After giving Mr. Hollow Hope and Change a first-term pass, self-declared progressives can't ignore Team Obama's in-your-face decision to deliver his presidential nomination acceptance speech at bailed-out Bank of America Stadium. As I've reported previously:

--The financially troubled bank snagged a middle-of-the-night, taxpayer-funded $45 billion banking bailout in 2008 and an estimated $931 billion in secret federal emergency loans.

--In 2008, B of A's political action committee gave its biggest contributions to Obama totaling $421,000.

--After purchasing junk mortgage company Countrywide, BofA agreed to pay $50 million in restitution payments for Countrywide subprime loan fraudster and Democratic fat cat Angelo Mozilo and one of his underlings.

Disgruntled leftists. Disgruntled centrists. Disgruntled unions. Disgruntled corporate donors. Sexual harassment scandal. Fundraising woes. And to top it all off: unrepentant class-warfare hypocrisy packaged as "The People's Convention" and brought to you by Bank of America. The DNC promises to be a public relations nightmare for Obama's optics geniuses. Too bad he can't send his autopen instead.

http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2012/06/22/the_coming_dnc_disaster/page/full/

[Guest]

RICHARD

thank you for posting this article

dgrimm60

My pleasure dgrimm.

[Jeannieb43]

Well, North Carolina may be naive enough to have bought the Republican Party's propaganda against Obama, but California has not. Barack Obama is the most intelligent president our country has had. Just because the stonewalling Republicans in the Congress made it their goal to defeat him doesn't mean they're right. Obama is a good president. He deserves another term.

And if Romney gets into the White House, he'll appoint another radical rightwing justice to the Supreme Court -- and our religious freedoms will come to an end.

[Guest]

Wow! Talk about hook line and sinker...you must live in a bubble. A very liberal bubble, with no outside sources able to get in.

Just keep repeating that I guess. I don't think there is anything I could say that would help.

[bonnie]

Wow! Talk about hook line and sinker...you must live in a bubble. A very liberal bubble, with no outside sources able to get in.

Just keep repeating that I guess. I don't think there is anything I could say that would help.

It really depends on how you define intelligent.There may be something to "he is the most cunning president our country has ever had"

How many presidents have we had that have not taken responsibility for anything,blaming everyone else,unable to get the cooperation from a democratic (stonewalling)congress and senate for the first two years,uses most of the policies he condemned from previous administration to declare success,and wants your wedding/anniversary gifts to help him continue.

Most don't define that as intelligent but something else

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[bonnie]

We are not to be concerned about a man with the power of the presidency does a power grab over amnesty and the DOMA act

after saying things like this.When did this become a legal act by a president?

Where does it say a president says I don't like this law(DOMA) so let's ignore it.

Quote:

With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations [of immigrants brought here illegally as children] through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed.”

President Obama, March 28, 2011

‎"And I think there’s been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It’s just not true."

Makes you wonder if he has Multiple Personality Disorder

[Guest]

Most don't define that as intelligent but something else

How true...something else.

[Guest]

[OzarkWoman]

Barack Obama is the most intelligent president our country has had.