TPM: Obama has a problem with “aging white women in battleground states.”

Sexist pig?

Hahahahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! OMG! Whew! {{ wiping away tears }} Wow, I needed a good laugh today, too. That’s hysterically funny.

Via Joseph Cannon, Greg Sargent writes:

In a sign of just how nervous senior Democrats are about Barack Obama’s situation, top Democratic Party operatives are privately urging the party’s major donors to get serious about putting big money into outside groups looking to attack John McCain in key battleground states.

Several senior Democratic strategists unaffiliated with Obama’s campaign convened a private conference call late last week with at least four dozen of the party’s most prolific donors to progressive causes and outside groups — a call designed to instill a sense among donors that things are “pretty damn urgent” right now, one of the organizers of the call tells me.

The call is yet another sign that donors and outside operatives — who had earlier gotten the message from Obama that he doesn’t want such activity — now recognize that Team Obama is privately hoping for such efforts to gear up in earnest.

On the call, Stan Greenberg, who did polling for Bill Clinton in 1992 and now partners with James Carville to run the Dem polling firm Democracy Corps, gave a presentation to the donors that painted a somewhat bleak picture of the struggles Obama is having with aging white women in battleground states.

Oh, man, that is the funniest thing I’ve read in days! Gee, I wonder why a sweet guy like Barack Obama would be having trouble with “aging white women?” Oh, those wacky old women! What on earth is their problem?

It wouldn’t be this, would it?

The time has come, Senator Barack Obama says, for the baby boomers to get over themselves.

In taking the first steps toward a presidential candidacy last week, Mr. Obama, who was born in 1961 and considers himself a member of the post-boomer generation, said Americans hungered for “a different kind of politics,” one that moved beyond the tired ideological battles of the 1960s.

Mr. Obama calculates that Americans of all ages are sick of the feuding boomers and ready to turn to the generation that came of age after Vietnam, after the campus culture wars between freaks and straights, and after young people had given up on what überboomer Hillary Rodham Clinton (who made her own announcement on the Web yesterday) called in a 1969 commencement address a search for “a more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living.”

Or this?

“I think there is no doubt that we represent the kind of change that Senator Clinton can’t deliver on, and part of it is generational,” Mr. Obama told Fox News yesterday about the difference between himself and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. “I mean, Senator Clinton and others, they’ve been fighting some of the same fights since the ’60s, and it makes it very difficult for them to bring the country together to get things done.”

It certainly wouldn’t have anything to do with this:

NEW YORK – Welcome to “Sweetie-gate,” a place paved with eggshells, where terms of endearment turn into political peccadilloes at the drop of a diminutive.

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois found himself in just such a place this week when the Democratic presidential candidate’s use of the term “sweetie” with a female television reporter hit a sour note with people who considered it offensive and sexist….

What Obama said was: “Hold on one second, sweetie. We’ll do a press avail, thanks.” Appearing at a suburban Detroit Chrysler plant, he gave the remark, in an apparently neutral tone of voice on the video, in response to Agar’s shouted question about what he would do to help American autoworkers.

Nah! It couldn’t be. Those “aging white women” couldn’t possibly be that thin skinned, could they? No way. And I’m sure those old biddies wouldn’t be bothered by this either.

Sen. Barack Obama approached first overflow in the parking lot outside
of the Scranton town hall, and immediately went to Denise Mercuri, a
pharmacist from Dunmore who was wearing a Hillary Clinton button. She
held an Obama button in her hand, and he asked what he needed to do to
get her to wear his instead of his rival’s.

“What do I need to do? Do you want me on my knees?” he asked.
He then conceded, keeping with his flirty trend of the day (see earlier
report), “I’ll give you a kiss.”

Of course not. He was just being “flirty.” Like he was this time:

It may be April Fools Day, but Sen. Barack Obama was acting like it was Valentine’s Day. He was in full charm mode while touring the Tama Manufacturing plant, a JC Penny supplier of made-in-the-USA clothing in Allentown.

Obama was especially flirtatious today, winking and grinning at the female workers who were swooning behind their cell phone cameras. Tama President Mark Fogelman told quality inspector Carol Davis not to be nervous when she talked to Obama, even though he was “only the next
president” greeting her. Obama smiled ear to ear as he looked at her work, saying: “These look pretty comfortable, this is all pretty leisure wear.”

After the presidential hopeful walked away, Davis let out a “Whoo!” and fanned herself.

“It got hot in here. He ain’t bad looking either,” she told your pooler.

“I hope he wins,” Davis said, adding she was not registered to vote. “I wish all of them good luck, just bring the troops home is all.” During the 25-minute tour, Obama called a woman “sweetie,” and thanked her in spanish, then told another woman who let him know she is from Thailand, “I love Thai food.”

But Obama lavished compliments on dancewear manufacturer Marisa Cerveris, who gave him a black and pink leotard for Malia and Sasha, explaining she was once in the New York City ballet. “You look like you might be a dancer,” Obama told her, later adding: “You’re big time.”

“You’re gorgeous,” he told Cerveris after glancing at one of her old ballet photos.

And I certainly can’t imagine it would have anything to do with anything Barack Obama said about Hillary Clinton during the primary campaign. Of course not. That was just politics. No one would be troubled by Obama saying during the NH debate that Hillary is “likeable enough.” And remember the time he said “You challenge the status quo and suddenly the claws come out,” and that other time he said “I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she’s feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal.”

Come on, ladies, get a sense of humor, for heavens sake. So Barack said Hillary wouldn’t be where she is except for being married to Bill Clinton. It’s true, right? And when she traveled as first lady, she really did just have tea with the wives of foreign leaders. There’s nothing at all wrong with his pointing that out, right?

Gee, I just can’t imagine why those silly “aging white women in battleground states” would be reluctant to vote for Barack Obama. Can you?

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