Posted on 11/28/2011 6:13:32 PM PST by Nachum
The White House dismisses the data, but, according to a study by Brendan Doherty, a U.S. naval academy assistant professor and expert on presidential travel, President Barack Obama has visited swing states “on official business” more times in a shorter span than either George W. Bush or Bill Clinton. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Between Jan. 1 and Nov. 17 of his third year in office, Bill Clinton held 40 events over 24 days in the battlegrounds of his time, according to data compiled by Brendan Doherty, a U.S. Naval Academy assistant professor who is widely viewed among political scientists as an expert on presidential travel. Over that same stretch, George W. Bush held 49 events in 34 days, drawing complaints from Democrats.
Mr. Obama has surpassed his predecessors in both categories; as of Nov. 17, he attended 54 events in 11 battleground states over 42 days. “Obama has certainly ramped up the volume,” said Mr. Doherty, author of a forthcoming book called “The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign.”
To me, numbers are incontrovertible, but, to an Obama staffer, such figures are easily explained away. In 2008, Obama “expanded the political map dramatically.” That is, he captured states like Virginia that were once considered staunchly Republican, effectively converting them into swing states.
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He’s got a billion dollars and he still wants the taxpayers to pay for his campaign trips? What a maggot.
Maybe take all campaigning out of the equation. If you can’t get elected by what you do in office than too bad. We spend 2 billion dollars (total) for what? It should not take this amount of money to run for President or any office for that matter. The American people know the President so why does any President need to campaign? MAYBE start September before the election and that is it.
I don’t need an expert to tell me what I have seen with my own eyes.
What is just as bad is his Old Lady taking trips all over the worlkd on our dime. She won’t even ride with him she has to have her own plane.
Bad enough I have to pay for the CIC HMFIC to travel all over without adding insult to injury watching by watching Old Lard Butt campaign. All on our dime.
Thanks to Obama-flation, he’s now doing this on our DOLLAR, not “our dime”.
Looter-In-Chief.
He’s tryin’ to burn the wings off AF! before we take his keys away.
AF-1, too.
0bami has done a lot of classless and probably illegal things no other president has done.
For the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of our resi-dent pre-sent
Yes, Jake Tapper has been bitching about this twit’s expensive campaign rallies on our dime. Take him away (Obama), please. Far far away . . . back to Kenya?
instead of only soak the rich, Obama also wants to soak all taxpayers for his grand lifestyle.
I trust our Republican House of Representatives is putting together Legislation that will forever put an end to this travesty.
We aren't there yet. So far all we have is a classless President.
When is Jake Tapper or someone going to ask him directly about this? Obama will get soooo mad.
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