UPDATE: Russ Feingold and Obama didn't appear together. Feingold spoke for a few minutes and left the stage. Then, Tom Barrett was up next to introduce Obama. Feingold never was on stage standing with Obama.
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UPDATE: Feingold to join Obama in Madison
In a Tweet to his supporters, U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold said Tuesday that he had finished voting in the U.S. Senate in Washington and would join President Barack Obama today in Madison.
Here is what Feingold wrote: "@russfeingold Great day to be in Wisconsin! I made it! Finished voting and am proud to join President Obama at my alma mater.
Feingold had taken some heat for not being in Madison, though he had said weeks ago that he wouldn't be there because he hasn't missed a vote in the Senate.
Well, well, well.
Feingold will stand with Obama.
I'm sure Ron Johnson is very pleased.
Feingold and Obama together -- That will be a very rare sight indeed, almost as rare as Obama being seen going to church.
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Russ Feingold is doing it again. He's skipping the opportunity to appear with Obama when he visits Wisconsin.
Obama's rally in Madison today has been hyped nationally for days. The rally was announced to the public weeks ago. It's supposed to mark the official reigniting of the Obama campaign spark of 2008.
In spite of this Obama rally being touted as a major national event, Feingold is a no-show again.
Once more, Feingold reveals his talent as an escape artist. He's the Houdini of Wisconsin politicians.
As Patrick McIlheran points out, "This is the measure of Obama's fall: Even senators who define the Democrats' leftward edge act like he's got cooties."
According to DNC Chairman Timothy Kaine, Feingold's disappearing act isn't a slight.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold isn’t slighting President Barack Obama by skipping Tuesday’s rally on the University of Wisconsin campus, according to national Democratic Party Chairman Timothy Kaine.
In an interview on CBS’s “The Early Show,” Kaine said candidates “make their own decisions about these things.” Kaine said Feingold understands that Obama can energize the party’s base.
The president’s rating in public opinion polls has fallen in recent months, and some candidates have been reluctant to appear with him.
During a rally on Tuesday afternoon in Madison, Obama is appealing particularly to college-aged youth to become active in midterm elections that are only a few weeks away.
“We just need to make them aware of the importance of these elections,” said Obama.
At the time of Houdini Feingold's Labor Day escape from Obama, Feingold claimed he wasn't slighting Obama.
When President Barack Obama visits Milwaukee on Labor Day to talk to working families and members of dozens of labor unions, one prominent politician won't be there.
A Labor Day schedule put out by the staff of U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) indicates that, while Feingold will be in Milwaukee earlier in the day for a Milwaukee Laborfest Pre-Parade on Monday morning, he will not be in town when Obama is expected to arrive.
...When Obama was in Menomonee Falls and Milwaukee last month, Feingold did greet the president in Milwaukee and stayed with him the entire day.
"I will stand with the president of the United States anywhere, anytime, no hesitation. I'm proud of what this president has tried to do," Feingold told the Journal Sentinel in an interview last month prior to Obama's visit.
The fact is when Feingold was willing to literally stand with Obama he didn't consider his opponent, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson, to be a threat.
Now with Johnson holding a strong lead in the polls, Houdini Feingold performs another great escape.
It's clear that Feingold views Obama as election poison. Wisconsinites have experienced plenty of economic change since Obama took office - all bad.
Obama, community organizer, understands politics. He knows the tricks. I'm sure he doesn't feel slighted by Feingold's avoidance. He understands cooties. Obama knows how the game is played.
The voters know how the game is played, too.
If Leftist Feingold truly had the courage of his Leftist convictions, he would be standing with Leftist Obama in Leftist Madison later today instead of hiding.
Feingold's escape act isn't fooling anyone.
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