Posted on 02/29/2012 7:49:41 PM PST by Sick of Lefties
We know that the President is a formidable fundraiser, the best ever. "President Obama says a campaign is like an investment."
Solyndra honcho and Obama bundler, George Kaiser certainly wouldn't dispute that. Neither could Warren Buffet, George Soros or Jeff Immelt.
[quote] [H]aving raked in $750 million in 2008 and potentially on track to surpass that amount in 2012. His campaign and the Democratic Party raised $224 million in 2011 alone, more than the Republican field combined.
In a flagging economy, it may be hard to fathom not only where that money is coming from but also what it could buy if it were diverted elsewhere. [end quote]
Who says that the Republicans are the party of the big wigs, the 1%? Somebody not in the know, evidently.
I've got a guess as to where all that unfathomable "money is coming from": beneficiaries of 2009's near-trillion dollar stimulus, and four-year recipients of big government largesse.
As I say, it's just a guess. Given the general lack of media interest in the identities and interconnectedness of Democratic donors, not having gotten any of the loot myself, and having been saddled with higher debt and taxes to pay for the giveaways, I'm in no position to know.
It occurred to me that if the President wanted to be both frugal and green friendly, he could recycle his 2008 campaign posters and use them again with slight modifications. Let me suggest a modest change in slogans from "Yes We Can" to "Yes You Will!"
That would nicely fit his second term platform, which is to hang onto the legislative and regulatory impositions he foisted onto a howling and resistant public in his first two years in office. It would be much more convenient to keep ramrodding away from a power position than it would be to fight a rear guard action with only the judicial branch of government and the media--the traditional Democratic Party bulwarks--to fend off the savages.
Did anyone see why bill maher donated a million bucks to obama?
yeah he’s a genius.
considering the disasterous "investments" the Obama administration has made lately, perhaps that was not the wisest phrase to choose???
It is kind of sickening that with the potential great democratization of information that the Internet has brought (thank you Al Gore) a whole lot of the body politic still waits to be spoon fed on their teevees rather than digging around for their political information. Notwithstanding all the complaints about Google being biased, even Google suffices to bring up most of what conservative politicians are claiming on their own part. If the body politic actually cared enough to do that, advertisement blitzes (and the money making them possible) would mean far less to the outcome of political races.
I couldn’t agree more with you. I don’t watch TV generally. But, when I’m subjected to it as in a Belle Tire or hospital waiting room, I’m infuriated by what is being spoon fed the public. We are a nation of cud chewers.
Young boys especially should steer clear before they are infantilized into driveling idiocy.
Thanks.
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