Obama digging up dirt on potential opponent Chris Christie By JOSH MARGOLIN Last Updated: 5:40 AM, May 23, 2011 Posted: 2:05 AM, May 23, 2011
President Obama's re-election campaign is trying to dig up dirt in the Garden State.
Despite New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's repeated pronouncements that he will not seek the GOP presidential nomination, Obama operatives are compiling a dossier of what they call "opposition research" -- material that could be used to damage Christie if he changes his mind, The Post has learned.
The Obama campaign is trying to keep its efforts from public view, concerned they would only elevate Christie's already impressive standing within the Republican Party, sources said.
The operatives have chosen not to dispatch their own people to New Jersey, but instead are talking to people there and in New York who know Christie from his time in the governor's office, as a gubernatorial candidate and as US attorney.
Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, did not respond to messages.
Christie has repeatedly -- and colorfully --said he is not running for president in 2012.
"Short of suicide, I don't really know what I'd have to do to convince you people that I'm not running. I'm not running," he's insisted.
You, me and probably half of the american people!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
What else can they do-run on Obama's horrid record? Hopefully, this means Gov Chris Christie is moving towards an announcement. Does he know where his birth certificate is? Elmer Fudd looks good next to Obama.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
He was just on cable news and said he will NOT run for pres or vice pres.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Christie has done a good job in New Jersey .. but if he says he is not running .. then the GOP has to look for someone else.
Mitch Daniels would have been a great candidate, too.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson