“The majority on this call maxed out to my campaign last time. I really need you to do the same this time,” the president said in a highly unusual (and presumably legal) fundraising pitch from Air Force One on his way back to Washington from Colorado Springs, where he’d been assessing the terrible damage caused by uncontained wildfires. A special phone on the government aircraft is dedicated to political calls that are paid for by the campaign.
“I’m asking you to meet or exceed what you did in 2008,” the presidential pitchman continued, speaking to donors who were invited to dial in based on their contributions during the last election. “Because we’re going to have to deal with these super PACs in a serious way. And if we don’t, frankly I think the political [scene] is going to be changed permanently. Because the special interests that are financing my opponent’s campaign are just going to consolidate themselves. They’re gonna run Congress and the White House.”
The president’s 18-minute pleading—a recording of which was provided to The Daily Beast by an Obama contributor—hardly sounded like a man doing a victory lap after Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare, as the Affordable Care Act has come to be known. Or, for that matter, like a candidate who has been beating his Republican opponent in recent polls of key battleground states.
Rather, Obama sounded like a dog-tired idealist forced to grapple painfully with hard reality. “In 2008 everything was new and exciting about our campaign,” Obama said. “And now I’m the incumbent president. I’ve got gray hair. People have seen disappointment because folks had a vision of change happening immediately. And it turns out change is hard, especially when you’ve got an obstructionist Republican Congress.”
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If you want to experience true whining, crying, and rhetoric-spewing, sign your email address up to recieve emails from the democrat party. Debbie Wasswerman Shultz’s nsme is frequently used…and they are trying to portray obama as dirt poor, no campaign money…while the super-human money machine Romney and his evil rich cohorts steal and buy the election, with their billions. its truely. stomach turning, but gives you a good insight of what is being fed to the Obamanaut Sheeple.
rommey is probaly funding his own campaign out of the taxes he didnt pay his fair share of, or the profits he made when he closed down that company he started. of course the rich want him to win, if he wins he will be able to give his rich friends that many more tax cuts and make the poor pay for it. a person as rich as romney should not be allowed to run for president, one because he will buy the election, and another is you dont put a fox in a hens house. he will just stack the laws in the favor of the rich.
i forgot, the only reason obama sold america a bill of goods is that he didnt fully realize the damage the bush administration did while in office, another rich republican with his own special interest in mind. you caint undo in a couple years what sombody screwed up in 12. its going to take years and a lot of hard work to undo what bush, arepublican screwed up.