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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 26, 2011 36 Comments

Because they have no where to go, and will hold their noses, lean forward, and give the lever a pull (or more likely, push a button). So I discount the ultimate importance of this report that Obama is losing his base: With the 2012 presidential election just...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2011 10 Comments

Charles Gasparino, writing in The NY Post: Obama's crew loves chaos What a crazy thought.  Never crossed my mind....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 14, 2011 28 Comments

Maybe this is why he picked the arbitrary August 2 deadline to increase the debt ceiling.  He doesn't want to miss his August 3 birthday fundraiser by having to spend time at work dealing with the likes of Eric Cantor.  Hey, there are priorities and then there are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 31 Comments

As you know, I'm highly skeptical of polls showing Jews turning against Obama in substantial numbers.  So, in what may be a first, I'll have to agree with the Plum Line guys, Greg Sargent and Adam Serwer, about Jews and Obama. Jews are not going to vote against...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 10 Comments

The Billion Dollar Candidate is counting his dollars like he always does, while telling you how to spend yours.  I don't know about you, but I want these primaries to be over before they've begun, because I feel like we're watching the down card fights, and we're waiting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2011 10 Comments

You will not see that headline.  Instead you will see headlines about Obama's blowout fundraising of $86 million combined for his campaign and the Democratic National Committee.  Of that amount, $47 million was for Obama's campaign. But as The NY Times notes deep down in its article...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 11, 2011 30 Comments

The story about a Rutgers professor confronting Rep. Paul Ryan at a Washington, D.C., restaurant over the cost of wine ordered by people at Ryan's table rightly has been criticized, including by me. But most of the criticism deals with the professor being a busy-body and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 08, 2011 36 Comments

... The only way for Obama to stimulate the enormous private sector job growth needed to ensure Obama's reelection is for Obama to announce he is not running for reelection, which would unleash a wave of investment and economic activity not seen since the Great Depression....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 08, 2011 20 Comments

It's all about the message: Top Obama adviser says unemployment won't be key in 2012 President Obama’s senior political adviser David Plouffe said Wednesday that people won’t vote in 2012 based on the unemployment rate. Well no, of course it will not be about unemployment, considering the numbers...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2011 18 Comments

I still can't put aside Obama's press conference earlier this week. Obama was seething with mockery and disdain for almost everyone other than himself, with Republicans in Congress a focus. To say that the press conference was not presidential is an understatement. Mark Halperin was right,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2011 10 Comments

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,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2011 17 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 02, 2011 2 Comments

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 ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2011 4 Comments

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....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2011 5 Comments

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2011 6 Comments

Well, he keeps saying we need to emulate China.This video has caused a stir:The controversy was not the protest, but that the White House communications team threatened to suspended the reporter who took the videotape, because multimedia coverage of Obama's fundraiser was not permitted. The...

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