Obama told the several dozen donors that he was offering them his “view from the Oval Office.” He blamed his failed economic policies on  Americans’ inability to “think clearly” and said the burden is on Democrats “to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling.”

Scooter said:

You can respond in a couple of ways to a trauma like this.  One is to pull back, retrench and respond to your fears by pushing away challenges, looking backwards. Another is to say we can meet these challenges and we are going to move forward. And that’s what this election is about.

Obama was speaking at a suburban Boston fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.He raised an estimated $900,000. His mood was somber, emotional, and, of course, petulant, as he tried to tried to come to grips with the fact that Americans are buying the Hopey-Changey Thingy anymore.

The president also spoke at a rally Saturday afternoon for Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.  However,while there, he turned up the volume:

The biggest mistake we can make right now is to…is out of hurt and confusion, the worst thing we could do is to go back to the very same policies that caused this mess in the first place.

In the first of a series of campaign stops through the two-week homestretch to election day, Scooter’s starting to define his weak closing argument.

He claimed that Nov. 2 is an opportunity for voters to “set the direction” of the country. The economic crisis, he said, “was a once-in-a-lifetime challenge – a once-in-a-generation challenge.”

He actually got that right.  We are going to determine the direction of the country.  It just will not be the direction that he and his socialist sycophants want.

I hoped, like many of you hoped, that we could have both parties put politics aside for the sake of the country. But, he said, Republicans in Washington instead decided to “ride people’s anger and frustration all the way to the ballot box.”

You mean like this, o narcissistic one?

Obama predicted even more partisanship and gridlock in Congress next year.

Ya think, DiNozzo?

Scooter whined at the fundraiser:

I don’t anticipate that getting better next year.  I anticipate that getting worse.

He said he needs Democrats in the Senate “because every bit of progress that we need to make is going be a matter of grinding it out.”

“Grinding” is a word Obama used several times Saturday as he tried to placate Democrats who are upset with his administration and leaders in Congress.

Obama said, in a pleading tone:

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change — inch by inch, day by day.

I understand that sometimes hope may have faded as we’ve grinded out this work over the last several years.  I know it’s hard to keep faith when a family member still hasn’t found a job after months of trying, or another foreclosure sign is hung on the house down the street. And you’re watching TV and all you see are politicians tearing each other down and pundits who treat politics like a sport.

The haughty Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) also spoke at the events, vouching for Obama (now there’s an endorsement) and pushing back against Republicans.

The haughty one, who served in Vietnam, just please ask him,  said at the fundraiser at the home of Ralph de la Torre, the CEO of Caritas Cristi, a Massachusetts-based health care system:

This is a tough year.  Facts, science, truth seem to be significantly absent from what we call our political dialogue. It’s hardly a dialogue. It’s a shouting match, sloganeering.

Dialogue?  Like when you guys used to call President Bush a chimp?

Obama still is bound and determined to shove an energy bill down our throats, regardless of what happens on Nov. 2, but said he needs a Democratic majority in the Senate to do so.  He called Cap and Trade “a piece of unfinished business” that’s going to require some heavy lifting, and he predicted being able to win over as many as seven Republican Senators to support the legislation.

They capitulate and they’re out in 2012 with Obama.  Simple as that.

Scooter complained:

We can’t get 20.  And our ability to actually map out an energy strategy that is good for our future is going to depend on how much help John Kerry has. Probably nothing is going to make as big of a difference in terms of our long-term economic [progress] as us getting this right.

He also said he firmly believes that health care reform – “as painful as it was” – is going to result in a better system.

For whom?

In terms of Americans being scared, Obama said the nation periodically goes through these types of moments throughout history.

The only thing close to this was when the colonists declared their independence from an oppressive regime…It’s happening again!

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling.  Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

At both of his campaign stops Saturday, Obama tried to conjure up a sense of history in Democrats. He insisted that despite the rough times right now, Democrats will years from now recall this period with the same pride people involved in the civil rights movement, Social Security or the space program felt in retrospect.

Except we’re running out of money to fund Social Security, thanks to your efforts to bankrupt America.  Plus, you’ve turned NASA into a Muslim Outreach Program.

During the rally he credited his supporters with making his policies, such as health care and the economic stimulus bill and the wind-down of the war in Iraq, happen, repeatedly using the phrase “because of you.”

Yeah, right.  The phrase is “in spite of you”.

According to Scooter:

So what this election about is not where we are right now. It’s where we want to be two years from now, where we want to be five years from now, where we want to be 10 years from now, where we want to be 20 years from now.

He actually got this right, also, more so than his blinding megalomania will allow him to realize.

Later, at the fundraiser, Obama got teary as he explained how he manages the pressures of being the president:

A lot of people ask me, they say how do you manage this – people hollering at you all the time – and that’s just the Democrats.  Two things keep him going, he said, including letters from Americans whose problems seem to dwarf his own.

The other thing that gets me through is the humor and the resilience and the love people have for their children and the love people have for this country. That makes me confident that we will get through these times and we are going to get where we need to go.

I hope someone gave him a Kleenex.

After all that hubris and intellectual dishonesty, I’m going to leave you with a feel good moment.  I can’t wait until November 2nd.  Can you?