The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign.
Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book.
Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office.
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Doherty, who has compiled statistics about presidential travel and fundraising going back to President Jimmy Carter in 1977, found that Obama had held 104 fundraisers by March 6th this year, compared to 94 held by Presidents Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Snr, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush combined.
Since then, Obama has held another 20 fundraisers, bringing his total to 124. Carter held four re-election fundraisers in the 1980 campaign, Reagan zero in 1984, Bush Snr 19 in 1992, Clinton 14 in 1996 and Bush Jnr 57 in 2004.
h/t Maz2
What did anyone expect when they voted for an Affirmative Action community activist, a president?
So he is good for something.
Umm… Yeah. This is the U.S. It’s always in campaign mode. Nothing special here with respect to Obama. If the politicians of all stripes focused on doing work rather than the next election to oust Obama and obstructing his attempts to govern, well, probably then everyone could do more work.
But whatever… I’m sure the next president will visit even more places because the Democrats or whomever will be even more hell bent on getting re-elected so they can call themselves President.
So it goes…
At least in our system, most of the time, we get a majority government that can do as it pleases, the opposition be damned and then we voters get to toss the whole lot of the idiots to the curb when its done. In the U.S., there seems to only be two choices. The fact of this false dichotomy is totally artifical, but so it goes…
ET nailed this a long time ago when she wrote that this clown is always in campaign mode. That’s all he does as it stokes his ego as a narcissist. Its all about ME!
The man has been campaigning ever since he got into office. My God, he harly has time for anything else – photo-ops, public speaking engagements weekly, TV appearances with Opra and any talk show host who’ll have him, and of course touring the globe and vacations take up the rest of the time – no wonder he hasn’t had time to be president yet.
“Nothing special here with respect to Obama.”
Ummm, yeah, look at the numbers. Which do you find more difficult, simple arithmetic or reality?
He is the best thing going – for Romney. What’s Obam’s new slogan? Hope and Change – I sure hope you forget how bad I am, now let’s change the subject quick? Four dollar gas – twice as good as two dollar gas?
Don’t underestimate Obama’s tactics of misinforming and manipulating. He moved into them, as his sole method of interaction with others, as a boy; he’s an expert at both.
Obama lives, totally and completely, in a virtual world, a world of words, of his own authorship. What he says is all that is real. Obama is unable to interact with reality because it is Other and has its own agenda. Obama can’t handle Others who are ‘alive’ and equal and have their own agenda. Either he controls you, or you don’t exist. Simple.
If he can’t control you then you cease to exist for him. He can’t control Congress since 2010 and he totally and utterly ignores it.
For example, Congress voted to freeze funds to Palestine. This last Friday, Obama unfroze those funds. Just because he did. Congress is irrelevant.
There’s a new campaign video of Obama out; he’s defining the US economy as vibrant and booming, and, it’s all due to Him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1WbQe-wVK9E
Don’t underestimate the ability of Obama to misinform and manipulate the electorate. The GOP are realists, they acknowledge reality and talk about it, but, Obama’s Dreams no matter what they are about, are mesmerizing to many.
From the comments via Drudge,
http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/obama-borrows-new-campaign-slogan-from-msnbc
“Forward, the OBAMA Brigade!”
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the Ocupied knew
Some one had blunder’d.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the LEFT.
Disparity to right of them,
China to left of them,
Jihad in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the the United States.
Flash’d all their Golf Clubs bare”
What is impressive is he had the time do go to all of those fundraisers after the vacations and golf. It’s not easy to fit all that in and I guess it’s too much to ask that he do the job he was elected to do. After all, something has to give. May we all be thankful the yanks have a president who knows how to prioritize.
WH Correspondents dinner Apr.28 2012
http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/obama-i-was-born-in-hawaii-wink-wink/
Obama says:
“My name is Barack Obama. My mother was born in Kansas. My father was born in Kenya. And I was born, of course,” the sitting president said with a mischievous, knowing wink, “in Hawaii.”
his father must be US citizen at Barry’s time of birth to be eligible.
Rent Seeker-in-Chief. COTUS Campaigner of the United States. RSOTUS Rent-seeker of the Uhited States.
Obama needs four more years to finish the job. Whatever he does and says is totally irrelevant to reality and either a lie or a distraction. The institutional left can smell the impending death of America and can’t wait to finish it off and will do anything to cover or defend his lies and obfuscation. Sadly, a large component of the institutional left and mushy mindless middle believes what Obama says which is for the most part contradiction in terms.
The Republicans, personified by Romney, are still tripping over themselves to get the message out that Obama is a “nice guy” but merely in error in his naive economic and cultural worldview. Their spin doctors just can’t bring themselves to call Obama what he clearly is, a common liar, looter and thug.
Not so good at doing a job but great at campaigning. So that’s what he does. More fun than actually working.
He’s the rock star president. Why wouldn’t he be on tour?
I believe many folks are missing the point. Obama will campaign, and probably get elected, by that 50% of the US population which doesn’t pay taxes. All those folks who prefer welfare to working, green stamps to trade for drugs, etc. etc. Between that pack of fools and the unions he should make a pretty fair showing.
If the Republicans had any guts they’d go after him in a big way for this. Not just skirt the issue.
But, they won’t. And……… well you know how tis ends.
US politicians are followers of the four Ps:
Power,Party, Personal Gain and…Pussy.
what U people miss, is that if Ozero actually tried to do his job, rather than campaign, he would have done a lot more damage. Be thankfull for small mercies, and get out the vote to unseat this destructive fool!!!!
It’s not your performance that counts, its what people think of your performance.
Something very postmodern about that.
Those of you who suggest that the correct GOP tactic ought to be to tell the truth about Obama, defining him as a liar, manipulator, focused only on power, contemptuous of people etc…are in my view totally and completely wrong.
There are many in America, who defines themselves, and I repeat, themselves, by their support for Obama. They define themselves as ‘compassionate, non-racist, progressive, modern, enlightened and on and on’ by their support for Obama. These include the academics, professionals, the public service.
These are the people who selfdefine themselves as ‘compassionate’ in their constant ‘care for the poor and downtrodden’ – who must exist and who must also exist reasonably far from their homes.
To confront them and their self-definition would be disastrous.
There are many in America who consider Obama as the Father Nurturer, the source of their food stamps, welfare, no taxes etc. Obama has been increasing this sector of the population.
There are many in America who have been divided, in very deliberate actions by Obama, into closed adversarial groups. Notice how he defines these divisions all as ‘acts of war’ and Himself as the saviour. The class war, the war against women, the war against illegals, against blacks. Obama has been at the front, taking in publicity, and fomenting anger, in every instance.
The GOP, faced with such a masterly manipulator cannot set up a campaign countering these lies with the truth. It can’t be done in six months. Therefore, the only tactic is to allow these manipulative tales to exist as ‘clouds’ that can dissolve because attention is not given to them. Don’t act as if they were real, as if they were valid.
Then, campaign on the real issues. The economy, jobs, gas and energy, illegals, education, tax reform, etc. Don’t move into the sensational, into the personal.
And, campaign on American pride in themselves. Not in self-definition of being for Obama because it shows you aren’t a racist, but in American individual pride.
It’s not an easy campaign. But if the GOP start to peel away the rhetoric around Obama, they’ll be faced with a horde of people who live within that rhetoric…and the GOP focus on the real issues will be lost.
“Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office.”
Hey! Piece of cake when the economy’s booming and there are no hots items on the foreign policy front.
ET
If you honestly think that the US level of reason is such that truth must succumb to spin in order to finesse a victory for Romney then it’s pretty much time to dispense with democracy and re-ignite the flames of liberty with revolution. Given the impending US insolvency, that may be the least violent outcome.
Any “democracy” dependent on those who “define themselves as ‘compassionate, non-racist, progressive, modern, enlightened and on and on’ by their support for Obama” is not a democracy but well on the road to dictatorship of the pathologically irrational in total financial ruin.
Should conservatives also have to apologize for their existence?
Mauser:
his father must be US citizen at Barry’s time of birth to be eligible.
No, he doesn’t. I’m no fan of Barry, but there’s no point tossing around accusations based on false premises. It just makes one look stupid.
John Chittick- people don’t always use reason; they also use emotion.
Remember, the German people voted in a certain person on the basis of emotion, on the basis that the economy was bad, that people were out of work and that would deal with these issues. They voted him in even as he spoke against the wealthy, against various groups. They didn’t know that he too had complete contempt for Congress and would, as soon as he came to power, dissolve the congress and assume executive power. Sound familiar?
Who says that conservatives should apologize for their existence? I’m saying that Obama is not someone to ignore because he’s been, in all areas of governance, a failure. He is a master manipulator and pathological liar. People don’t have the information, the data base at hand, to rebut his lies, his charm, his tactics.
KevinB- yes, you are right. All that is legally required to be eligible for president, according to the Constitution, is that the individual be born in the US. Parentage is not relevant.
“People don’t have the information, the data base at hand, to rebut his lies…”
Ah, but they do ET – if only in one aspect: the price of a gallon of gas.
Which, unless the Repubs. blow the campaign again, will be front-and-center in the TV air war.
KevinB / ET >
Obamba’s birth certificate is fake, if that doesn’t seem to pose a problem for American’s or anyone else, they may as well shut it down, or let it burn.
Here is Sheriff Joe Arpaio Press Conference from March 31 2012 detailing his Sheriffs office and independent legal third party investigations into Obamba’s forged credentials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uICO4l5PRcs
If you’re dismissing these findings out of hand along with the Liberal MSM, you are part of the problem.
Knight 99 I can well believe that Obama’s birth certificate is fake. I believe it, but there is no way that I can prove it.
I believe Arpaio but I’m only one person and have no data base; all I have is my willingness to believe Arpaio. All I have are my suspicions because Obama won’t release his college transcripts which might reveal him as a foreign student.
This isn’t enough to unseat him, much as many of us would like it to get rid of him this way. He has to be unseated via an election and all I’m saying is that the Obama Gang could out-propaganda the Third Reich any day.
124 fundraisers? Wow that must really cut into the golfing, vacationing, backyard hoops, WH parties, dates with Moochelle, excursions to pickup illicit drugs, playing mr soccer Mom. Good thing he doesn’t have to worry about running a country or he’d be completely overwhelmed!
Higher unemployment, more food stamp recipients, more illegal immigrants, more voter fraud = more obummer voters. Things are going swimmingly, why not spend the time collecting moe money?
ET >
“I believe it, but there is no way that I can prove it.”
I understand, and that was my point. Sheriff Arpaio has lead a professional team of investigators, using his office and government facilities to PROVE that Obamba’s birth certificate and other documents provided by the Whitehouse for public consumption are fake.
This has been efficiently hidden from the American public by the MSM. I see allot of trolls on SDA still telling people to shut up a “Birth Certificate” has been provided, but they don’t matter. What is frustrating to see is conservative bloggers and MSM commentators simply accept the lie when top police investigative teams have found the forgeries and are desperately trying to get some public attention about them.
This is about law & order and a fraudulent unknown person sitting in the office of the “most powerful man on the planet” as they say. Not a small issue to readily dismiss, there should be outrage and there is not.
ET:
Born in America and be at least 35 years old I believe.
ET, MND, K99:
Really, would you just google the definition of an American citizen?
Here, let me help:
If you are born abroad to one United States citizen and one foreign citizen, you may be considered a U.S. citizen if you meet the following requirements:
One of your parents was a U.S. citizen when you were born.
The parent who is a U.S. citizen has lived at least five years in the U.S. before you were born.
The parent who is a U.S. citizen must have lived in the U.S. for at least two years of these five years after his/her fourteenth birthday.
Therefore, his father’s ancestry is immaterial. I have never heard anyone dispute that his mother was an American, or that she lived in the US for at least five years. Therefore, even if Bambam was born in Kenya, he is still considered a US citizen.
There are many things to crucify this idiot over; his citizenship regardless of his father’s citizenry, or Bambam’s place of birth, is not one of them.
‘He is the best thing going – for Romney. What’s Obam’s new slogan? Hope and Change’
posted by MarkD at 11:15
So what is Mit Romneys slogan going to be “Flip and Flop with me”! Ron Paul is the only Hope in the pipe right now, IMO. Dr. Paul’s Change (Gold or Silver) is real hope for the American citizens; nobody else running gives a damn about the citizens outside of voting season.
Romney has the same pals as the ‘present’ President. And the same agenda.
Knight 99 is correct about the birth certificate -it is fake, and anyone with a rudimentary understanding of computer programming can grasp that just by perusing the findings of Sheriff Arpanio and his team.
“Natural Citizenship” was a requirement to block Englishmen from becoming President. The English were putting captured American seamen in jail as traitors after the Revolution in 1789; saying that Americans were technically Englishmen (they were born Englishmen). Americans did not want a person that could qualify as an English traitor as their President.
The ‘present’ President would be an English citizen via his Dad because Kenya was a British colony at the time of the formers birth. Just another disqualification!
Some sources say Repubs don’t want to pound on the Birth thing because Mit’s Dad was a Mexican, not an American. Mit’s grandad moved to Mexico when Mormons in America outlawed multiple wives; Mit’s Dad moved back to America but he was born in Mexico.
Msm just keeps spinning, spinning – must be tough to keep up on the ‘lie(s) of the day’!
KevinB at April 30, 2012 6:20 PM
Agreed!
At this point it doesn’t matter if he’s an “official” US citizen or not – the guy has been in office for 3 1/2 years. That ship has sailed, people, time to move on.
Obama’s policies and record are what needs to be focused on relentlessly from now until the election. All the GOP has to do to stay on message and pound away at the state of the US economy, chronic unemployment, rising costs of energy and food, etc. Americans know that we’re not better off now than we were four years ago – if we don’t blow it, that’s all that will matter on election day.
KevinB >
Honestly I could care less about the technicalities of what constitutes a US citizen. I want to know what Obamba is hiding.
1. He has spent 2 million dollars to suppress all of his personal documents including academic records.
2. He has released a forged Birth Certificate
3. He has released a forged Selective Service Registration Card
4. He has been found in possession of an illegitimate Social Security number.
It’s not about where he was born; it’s about who this guy really is, and discovering what he hiding!
Watch video midway down, it explains my position perfectly
http://www.wnd.com/2011/08/332041/
mnd- the US Constitution, Article II, Section 1, says that the president must be a ‘natural born citizen’ (ie, born in the US), be 35 years old, and been for 14 years a resident within the US.
Only the president has to be a ‘natural born citizen’, ie, born in the US.
A senator has to be 30 years old, and been 9 years a citizen. The House requires you to be 25 and 7 years a citizen.
ET:
says that the president must be a ‘natural born citizen’ (ie, born in the US)
No, wrong again. “Natural born” in this context is meant to differentiate between people who were born with the right of US citizenship, and people who have become US citizens through naturalization (e.g. Ahhnold, Alex Trebel, Neil Young).
Recent example: one J. McCain was born in the Panama Canal zone, which does not defer US citizenship upon one automatically (just ask the millions of Panamanians). However, because both his parents were American, and met the qualifications I noted earlier, McCain is considered a “natural born” US citizen.
I shall write no more on this topic. I also no longer care about his hidden Haaavahhd transcripts, or his reputed bathhouse jaunts in Chicago.
He’s done an absolutely horrible, disgusting, and reprehensible job as putative POTUS. Let’s defeat the SOB on his record, and not these side issues.
KevinB – I know the definition of a US citizen, so calm down.
What I was responding to was Mauser’s suggestion that one’s parents also have to be American citizens. This is not, legally, the case. All that matters is that you, the one wanting to be president, should be born in the US. Period.
The other issue is the question of whether or not Obama was actually born in the US (Hawaii). There’s a lot of debate about this, and my suspicions about this are based on the fact that he won’t release his college records – and that it took so long, several years, before he would release even his birth certificate. I mean – what’s there to hide?
ET:
says that the president must be a ‘natural born citizen’ (ie, born in the US)
No, wrong again. “Natural born” in this context is meant to differentiate between people who were born with the right of US citizenship, and people who have become US citizens through naturalization (e.g. Ahhnold, Alex Trebel, Neil Young).
Recent example: one J. McCain was born in the Panama Canal zone, which does not defer US citizenship upon one automatically (just ask the millions of Panamanians). However, because both his parents were American, and met the qualifications I noted earlier, McCain is considered a “natural born” US citizen.
I shall write no more on this topic. I also no longer care about his hidden Haaavahhd transcripts, or his reputed bathhouse jaunts in Chicago.
He’s done an absolutely horrible, disgusting, and reprehensible job as putative POTUS. Let’s defeat the SOB on his record, and not these side issues.
Knight99 – by focusing on the minutiae you help Obama’s chances. “See, they’re getting all legal on me. Just like they did on Clinton. That’s because they don’t have anything solid that can match how cool I am. Vote Obama and you, too can be cool for another 4 years.” I’ve always thought that the best approach regarding the birth certificate wasn’t whether he was legal to run for the office in the first place, it’s how blatantly (and early) it made a liar out of the “most ethical and transparent regime in history” line that the Dems tried to sell the world.
ET:
I know the definition of a US citizen, so calm down.
First, I’m quite calm. Second, you clearly don’t.
All that matters is that you, the one wanting to be president, should be born in the US. Period.
Absolutely incorrect. I had a longer post on this that is currently stuck in the filter. However, I’ll say John McCain was NOT born in the US, and he had every right to be President.
C_Miner >
Fixed – By ignoring the minutiae you help Obama’s chances.
Actually I don’t focus on one small thing; I try to expand on more than the direction set forth by the Obamba campaign.
You are absolutely correct about exposing the lack of transparency, as was KevinB statement that “there are many things to crucify this idiot over”. That should not deter reasonable people from observing that there are some serious issues with this guy’s credibility and the lengths he goes to hide some very deep personal information. Information that should be prideful and forthcoming for public review, doesn’t everyone agree with ET’s assessment of narcissism?
We need to ask why, this is not Joe the Plumber fixing the kitchen sink after all.
There is also serious credibility in a congressional investigation over this with potential impeachment hearings. Pursuing such does not help his campaign out, especially since he has proven that he has something to hide.
Again this is not about proving citizenship, a so called “birther” issue. It is about falsifying documents and a cover-up at some level in his government upwards to himself.
Its will be a gutless election, where they re-vote Obama destroyer in or there wont be an election. Just like in Alberta they will vote in known crooks. After two of them almost destroyed the Province. My contempt knows no bounds. My sadness for a people gone down, pulled by their own lusts, instead of minds. Its not about whose best for the Nation or future, but what stake can they keep in the new social hierarchy with its social, political dole till they die , than don’t care anymore.
kevinb- yes, I know about McCain; his parents are US citizens; therefore he is a US citizen AND in a US naval station.
Obama’s desperation is not just transparent, it’s pathetic. His ego wouldn’t survive a catastrophic failure, hence the ridiculous campaigning which has been going on even after taking office. If I were Romney, I’d make Obama’s incessant campaigning an issue.
‘Again this is not about proving citizenship, a so called “birther” issue. It is about falsifying documents and a cover-up at some level in his government upwards to himself.’
Posted by: Knight 99 at April 30, 2012 9:14 PM
Right you are Knight 99. The man has committed fraud and identity theft (SS insurance no. and no draft registration), he is a criminal and would be in jail if he were you or I.
Further the person that created that on line birth certificate is guilty of falsifying legal documents. Why has that Visual Basic hack not been found and prosecuted?
Sorry Joe
“124 fundraisers? Wow that must really cut into the golfing, vacationing, backyard hoops, WH parties, dates with Moochelle, excursions to pickup illicit drugs, playing mr soccer Mom. Good thing he doesn’t have to worry about running a country or he’d be completely overwhelmed!
That argument doesn’t align with the facts
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-20093801.html
And really “Moochelle”, Isn’t that a bit sophomoric?
No gray Moochelle is not simply being sophomoric. She is a mooch that has fallen into the roll of first lady. She then decides to hector people on healthy diet which she willfully ignores. She takes expensive vacations in foreign lands and shows up at her hosts palace wearing Walmart chic.
BTW what facts are you referring to? The fact that Obambam plays a lot of golf? The fact that Obambam plays a lot of hoops in the back yard? The fact that Obambam takes a lot of vacations? The fact that Obambam has been know to take limo out for a run to the seedier side of town while claiming to be attending his daughter’s soccer game? The fact that Obambam is not running the country because he is too busy entertaining himself? As others so aptly pointed out the reason he does so much campaign fund raising is because it brings immediate attention to him. He is addicted to speaking to adoring fans because it makes him feel all good and powerful and important and above reproach.