Getting Into It

Getting Into It

by digby

Well I guess we know now whether the White House is going to weigh in on the primaries this year:

President Barack Obama has cut his first ad in support of Sen. Blanche Lincoln's re-election campaign, urging Arkansans to back the incumbent Senator for her work on two policy topics that have become focal points of her primary campaign.

In a personally-narrated radio spot, Obama paints Lincoln as a populist crusader who is "leading the fight to hold Wall Street accountable and make sure that Arkansas taxpayers are never again asked to bail out Wall Street bankers."

"On health care," Obama adds, "Blanche took on big insurance companies by voting to end discrimination against Arkansans with preexisting conditions and fought for tax credits that will help thousands of local small businesses provide insurance to their employees."


Yeah, she was a real stalwart on health care reform. She didn't even vote for the reconciliation package.

I'm guessing there was a deal for this and maybe that makes sense. But it's this kind of thing that makes people cynical about politics. Primaries are the province of the grassroots, not the establishment. Certainly the leadership should show a little respect and let them unfold. There's little enough real democracy in our system as it is.


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