If this was Chicago, John Wolfe would find a surprising number of building inspectors thoroughly checking the quite obviously faulty wiring in his law offices this morning. Most cars parked near his door would display parking citations on their windshields. And the city sanitation crews swinging by that building might accidentally overlook the overflowing bins out back.
That's because John Wolfe has just severely embarrassed Barack Obama, a proud product of the Chicago Democrat machine that's run the Windy City for about eight decades now.
Obama's former White House chief of staff and campaign finance chair is the mayor there now and his dutiful precinct captains don't need instructions to know how to treat political troublemakers like Wolfe.
Fortunately for Wolfe, he's in Tennessee. He's a perennial political candidate and, just as often, a loser. But he's also a disgruntled Obama supporter who says, "I think the president campaigned one way and then governed another."
A thought that has occurred to several millions of Americans in these past 1,219 days since Obama grandly ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility that's still running strong, among numerous unfulfilled vows.
While Obama's team tries to make Bain the bane of Mitt Romney's existence, Wolfe is quietly going around to various states and tapping into an apparently widespread unhappiness with the Real Good Talker. Perhaps not surprising since Obama's job approval is back under 50% now, traditionally an ominous sign for incumbents.
Wolfe entered several state Democratic primaries against the realistically unchallenged White House incumbent. In Louisiana, Wolfe won three parishes.
But he did way better than that Tuesday in Arkansas. With no money and a campaign based entirely on individual phone calls and word-of-mouth, Wolfe captured 40% of the Democratic primary votes against a sitting president.
Not bad for a nobody.
In Kentucky's Tuesday primary, 41.2% of Democrats registered their unhappiness by showing up and voting for Uncommitted, the only alternative to Obama.
You may remember two weeks ago Keith Judd of West Virginia earned a few minutes of fame by capturing 41% of the West Virginia Democratic primary vote, even though he's a convicted felon serving 17 years in a penitentiary in Texas. The media wanted to move on from that story quickly.
We'll see how they react this time. West Virginia was once a loyal Democrat stronghold. But Obama's ongoing effort to bury the coal mining business has helped turn away voters. Arkansas is no longer a reliable Dem spot either, having opted for the Republican presidential candidate since homeboy Bill Clinton's reelection. And preferring former first lady Hillary Clinton to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's disciple.
source: A Tennessee lawyer embarrasses the White House Democrat by Andrew Malcolm - Investors.com
