Meet Obama's primary challenger

[cali]

By DAN HIRSCHHORN | 1/18/11 3:00 PM EST

An outspoken anti-abortion activist says he wants to unseat President Barack Obama next year — and he wants to do it via the nearly impossible path of a Democratic primary challenge.

Randall Terry, who founded the group Operation Rescue and has been arrested numerous times for his aggressive approach to opposing abortion rights, plans to announce a primary challenge against Obama on Thursday outside the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

Besting a sitting Democratic president from far off his right flank is exceedingly unlikely. In an interview with POLITICO, Terry was blunt about being an underdog and said his main goals are to bloody up Obama politically and draw more attention to the abortion fight.

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Making clear the kind of rhetoric he intends to employ, Terry lambasted “child-killing” and referred to the current administration as “Obama’s socialist plantation. He’s the master, we’re the slave labor force.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47760.html#ixzz1BTJMsWDg

[Fumesucker]

1. I can feel the Joementum all the way from here.. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

5. Oh yes, it is sure to make Republicons randy

As if they were not randy enuf to begin with...

[inna]

2. incredible. yet more pressure on Obama to move further to the right.

it's as if the left is not even represented in this country. :wtf:

[cali]

3. I don't see this as having any influence on Obama....

or anything else.

[inna]

6. nm

[customerserviceguy]

9. This is just some clown trying to get his fifteen minutes back

He's pretty much dropped out of the news, and this is a desperate cry for attention.

[Fumesucker]

4. Not pressure so much as camouflage or maybe just cover..

Obama requires no pressure to move to the right but camouflage is always welcome.

[Richard Steele]

7. Yup.Cover for Obama's 'narrow loss' to Palin in 2012.

They have to do SOMETHING to make it appear plausible;
maybe this is it.

[PVnRT]

10. This guy is a no-name crank that will be lucky to get on ballots in 10 states

[NorthCarolina]

11. He doesn't need to even move for that to happen.

He might wiggle a bit though.

[Uben]

8. I may have to challenge Obama myself

I know I'll have the complete support of DU, and I'm willing to spend tens of dollars of my own money. My motto will be "Change you can count" because of how much I'm willing to spend to get this thing.

[H2O Man]

12. A used car salesman

from the Binghamton, NY area. I've known of this ass clown since he was a teenager.

[RegieRocker]

13. Ho hum. Yes, let us help fuel stupidity. Throw another log on there.

[SidDithers]

14. Finally the "primary Obama!" DU'ers have someone to rally around...nt

Sid

[dionysus]

15. we have been saved! if not, they got larouche as a back-up...

[Donnachaidh]

16. perhaps that was what he was discussing with Boner right after the last elections?

He did meet with Cap'n Tang. That's why I'm stunned to see him announce he's a Democrat.