OK this one really creeped me out....
Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) asked Obama to implore Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) against challenging New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary next year.
Israel was poised to announce his candidacy until the president intervened with a Friday afternoon phone call in an effort to clear the field for Gillibrand, a source told FOX News, calling the move "messy."
"This is a tough, heartfelt decision for me. I have received encouragement to pursue this fight from all corners of our great state," Israel said in a statement.
The senators solicited Obama's assistance to help Gillibrand avoid a competitive primary in 2010."
Sorry but the President involving himself in state congressional races really freaks me out. Put that together with his meddling into private businesses, health care and $2.6 billion of our tax dollars for studying drunk Chinese hookers and $400,000 studying gay drunks in Buenos Aries and I am extremely uncomfortable.
