As mentioned yesterday, Obama not only is running a cheesy $5 raffle fundraising stunt, he also is pushing donors hard to contribute something, even if it’s only $5, before the June 30 fundraising period closes.
Whether to pad the dollar amounts or the numbers of donors, or both, the frenzy at this...
A reader forwarded me this e-mail received from Obama’s fundraising operation, titled “They’re Wrong,” which suggests that Obama is anticipating weak fundraising numbers. The full e-mail is in the image below (click to enlarge), but here is the key portion (emphasis mine):
We’re closing the books on...
And you can too for only $5 and a prayer. You might be a winner!
What an embarrassment.
on his reelection, including 18 fundraisers between April 4 and May 23, plus 4 more in June.
At this rate, his golf game surely is going to suffer. When will he get his priorities straight?
It’s time for … vacation!
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Marc Ambinder serves as the Obama campaign messenger of the day, with an uncritical account of what Team Obama supposedly believes as to the Republican field.
You will not be surprised to find that Team Obama was most
concerned with a candidate who is not running:
Gov. Mitch Daniels is a lot of...
From
some guy who knew Obama best, circa March 2008:
Transparency and accountability matter greatly to him; they are a defining feature of his proposals….Expect transparency to be a central theme in any Obama administration, as a check on government and the private sector alike….
He seeks universal coverage not through unenforceable...
I missed the introductory video (below) shown just before Obama’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night, because the cable networks did not cut in until he began to speak.
The video was called to my attention by
Ben Smith’s column, in which Smith made the following
observations (emphasis mine):
Perhaps the...
Well, he keeps saying we need to emulate China.
This video has caused a stir:
The controversy was not the protest,...
The age of Obama is the age of envy and jealousy couched as fairness.
As I have documented many times, Obama’s political strategy during and after the 2008 campaign has been to appeal to envy and jealousy directed towards the Top 2% or 5%, depending upon the speech. Just recently, Obama mocked the...
Via Prof. Bainbridge:
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I’ve had a chance to read Obama’s budget speech, and have seen clips on television.
I was right in my anticipation that Obama would play the blame Bush game, and that he would demonize the “Top 2%,” and he did. With gusto.
But even I could not have expected the coarse tone...
Alexander Burns at Politico argues that Wisconsin in 2011 is a template for what will happen nationally in 2012, a split electorate with a narrow margin of victory:
Wisconsin’s contested Supreme Court race has set in motion a drama that’s by now almost painfully familiar. It goes something like this: A hard-fought...
I just don’t know how to make it stop.
Update: On the other hand, maybe this is not a bad thing. Keep spending to advertise on this blog, you’ll really change some minds. More showing up:<...
If ever there were a Freudian slip, it is in this article at the L.A. Times announcing the start of Obama’s 2012 election campaign:
At the close of the article, the LA Times made sure...
Obama announced via Twitter that his grassroots campaign will start today, on the eve of his nationwide tour of big money donors so that he can become...
