President Obama fails to sell out Massachusetts fundraiser

  Today President Obama gave a speech on clean energy at MIT, he followed this appearance with an appearance at a fundraiser for Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick– his good friend whose speech he plagiarized during the campaign.

  President Obama faced lagging ticket sales for this event.

As of last night, liberals who once braved frigid temperatures to behold Obama were shunning tickets to the fund-raiser at the posh Westin Copley Place featuring the president, sources told the Herald. And despite campaign denials, Patrick operatives reportedly were pushing the ducats – between $500 and $6,000 – by e-mail up to the last minute

  Although the article that I linked to does not state it, it has been widely reported on Boston radio that the event failed to sell out. This can probably be partly attributed to discontent and impatience with Massachusetts liberals toward the Obama administration as well the growing unpopularity of the Massachusetts governor.

  The lack of support for Obama in Massachusetts is astonishing coming from one of the most liberal states in the country and could be very telling as to the trouble Obama and the liberals may be facing in the midterm election next year.

  Obama also faced protesters from both sides of the aisle when he arrived at MIT to give his speech.

Among the groups planning to dog Obama during his scheduled afternoon swing through Cambridge and Boston:

Anti-war activists CODEPINK, who are irate with the president for backpedaling on promises to withdraw from Iraq and weighing a surge of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Environmental coalition 350.org – which has soured on Obama’s efforts to curb global warming – plans to protest the MIT address. They’re also taking out a full-page ad in the MIT student paper questioning Obama’s commitment to the green cause.

Gays and lesbians are furious with Obama for forsaking campaign vows to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

  If Massachusetts can be used to gauge the president’s popularity, and considering the politics of that state I feel that it can be, I think that it is safe to assume that this president is in serious trouble. If Massachusetts liberals are so disgusted with Obama that they can not be bothered to attend a fundraiser that he attends, the president has real problems.

  Conservatives were never going to agree with him, but to see liberals protesting the president and shunning a fundraiser that he attended does not bode well for the president. He is losing popularity every day. If President Obama can not fill a fundraising event in one of the most liberal states in the country how will he fare in less liberal states? The bloom is of of Obama’s rose, the people are waking up and taking notice and they do not like what they see.

  Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.