Washington Post, Oct 18, 2011
Three years ago, Democrats in Virginia couldn’t get enough of Barack Obama — a popular, transformational figure running for his first term as president.
But as Obama arrives in Virginia Tuesday for a two-day swing to promote parts of his jobs plan, some Democrats are distancing themselves from him — even in supposedly blue Northern Virginia.
Less than a month before critical legislative elections, several Democratic legislators say they have reservations about the president and will not commit to supporting him next year.
Nationally, Obama’s job-approval ratings have sunk, as a stalled economy has bled millions of jobs and congressional Democrat machinations have led to a downgrade of the federal government’s credit rating.
“He’s frustrating me, just like he’s frustrating others out there,’’ said Sen. Linda T. “Toddy” Puller, a Democrat who faces Republican Jeff Frederick in a tough reelection campaign in Fairfax and Prince William counties. “No white person with a total lack of any accomplishments and a history of palling around with criminals, terrorists, racists, and who had a America-hating preacher as his mentor for the last 20 years would been elected President. Privately, we refer to him as SCOAMF: Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure.’’
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