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Subscribe to RSSThe Washington Post writes, “President Obama and top White House aides are waging a behind-the-scenes push to win over skeptical big-dollar donors — whose early money is needed to help fund a dramatic summertime expansion of his battleground-state machinery. Campaign officials are working to broaden Obama’s network of ‘bundlers,’ the well-connected rainmakers tasked with soliciting big checks from wealthy donors, while seeking to preserve the aura of a grass-roots movement by luring back the kind of small Internet donations that helped shatter fundraising records four years ago.”
The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin: “The conventional wisdom … is that Wall Street has turned its back on Mr. Obama out of frustration with his so-called antibusiness rhetoric and ‘fat cat’ comments about bankers. But Wall Street’s absence may be more about optics — the way things appear— than reality. Behind the scenes, it seems that many bankers are not running away from the president as quickly as some might suspect.”
Romney continues to bracket Obama’s trips outside the White House. The top story in the Des Moines Register: “As Obama heads to Iowa, Romney criticizes him on jobs.” (There’s where your presidential campaign stands in a nutshell.)
Nathan Gonzales writes in Roll Call: “With his trip to Davenport, Iowa, on Tuesday, President Barack Obama returns to a media market that he shunned in the 2008 presidential contest. Even though Iowa is traditionally a swing state, the Obama campaign refused to air television ads in the general election in the Quad Cities because of the exorbitant cost, according to a campaign source.”
“President Obama formally entered debt talks Monday with a pair of Oval Office meetings with Senate leaders, hoping that face-to-face talks could set the stage for detailed negotiations seeking more than $2 trillion in federal savings in exchange for continued Treasury borrowing to finance government operations,” the Washington Post says. “While no immediate breakthroughs were reported, the talks were meant to signal Obama’s increased personal involvement in the issue after the dissolution last week of a group led by Vice President Biden and congressional leadership deputies.”
“Let's make a deal – not,” the New York Post writes. “President Obama did not make much of a splash yesterday when he finally dived headfirst into stalled negotiations to cut federal spending and raise the debt limit.”
“First lady Michelle Obama will visit Vermont for a series of events after she stops in Boston on Thursday for a fund-raiser at the Chestnut Hill home of Democratic activists Elaine and Gerald Schuster,” the Boston Globe writes.
“A federal judge yesterday temporarily blocked parts of Georgia’s strict new law targeting illegal immigration from taking effect, including a provision that authorizes police to check the immigration status of suspects without proper identification and to detain illegal immigrants,” AP writes.
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From the you just can't make this stuff up fikes:
Connect the dots folks!
Life is always grand in ConservatiVille - Land of the Greedy & Home of the afraid!
fikes:
Correction: should read FILES...
Feisty,
Can YOU connect the dots...Obama 2008 contributions
Goldman Sachs campaign contribution $994,795 bailout $25,000,000,000
CitiGourp contribution $701,290 bailout $25,000,000,000
JP Morgan & Chase $695,132 bailout $25,000,000,000
Morgan Stanley contribution $514,881 bailout $10,000,000,000
General electric contribution $499,130 CEO named "jobs Czar" while still employed at GE, HUGE conflict of interest, this appointment is TREASON!
I am not saying the Republicans are any better either.
I'm saying you need to take off your "political party hat" and get in touch with reality. Vote with your brain not your "party".
If you are pro-Obama you shouldn't throw fund raising stones....someone may throw back boulders.
This article say's it all. The conventional wisdom is that Wall st has turned it's back on this president, but it may be more optics than reality. Behind the scenes it seems that many bankers are not running away from this president as quickly as some might suspect. Goldman Sachs was candidate Obama's single largest contributor $994.795.00
The numbers are in: states with Republican governors who slashed spending saw the greates jobs loss. States with Democratic governors who took a more measured approach saw fewer losses. And it wasn't just public worker jobs that Democrats saved. Statistics showed that the private sector took a hit when state spending was drastically cut.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/06/27/255010/chart-states-cut-most-spending-jobs/
Well that pretty much sums Obama's top priority up in a nutshell.
Lisa,
Why on earth would banks run away from Obama, he took all our money and gave it to them and they didn't even have to do any paperwork, they didn't even have to collect the money from us, the government did it all for them.
96ws6, I agree with your above post, I was being sarcastic about the way Sorkin was trying to spin.
Lisa,
Gotcha, I am a sarcastic wise guy too and could not resist adding my own sarcasm to yours, we are on the same page. ;)
My 4th of July Message for Freedom
People often get mad with me. They call me names like racist which I am not, but I continue to tell the truth. Very few voices, other than maybe
Glenn Beck, will stand up for our America. If our people are going to take back the White House, we need to inspire white people to get out and vote. It makes no difference whether we lie, or bend the truth in our favor, we want to win. We want Obama to be a one term president. The constitution does not say a colored guy can't be president. We just can not get used to being pushed around by a guy that does not represent the American tradition. The Tea Party is not a racist group. We love everybody. We are conservative christians who hate liberals and liberal ideas. We love God and our flag.
We hate gays and homosexuals. We hate muderers and those who support same sex marriage. We don't want people of the coloreds teaching our children in schools. We are uncomfortable with race mixing; God made us different so that we could appreciate the varieties of creation. We all should be with our kind and our kind alone. Yet, we must love everybody. We would welcome anybody to our rallies, as long as they are respectful and think as we do; holding our christian conservative values and hopes for our future as a great nation.
If we are going to win in 2012, we must turn out the white vote. All people of the coloreds are going to get behind Obama; except for the few idiots we cause to think as we do. We need to get out the white vote and convince minorities that our vision of America is best for them as well. This is the winning strategy. Michele Bachmann is the candidate who is willing to go for the white vote. Reagan tried and it worked. Old man Bush's boy "W" tried and it worked. When we come out in strong numbers we will win. We always do.
This is the proven way that we will take our country back. This country was founded on christian principals. When the communist- socialist leaning liberals took over they worked feverishly to give it to the devil. The Republicans party took a stand in the late 70's that we would become the party of God. We were the ones who would put prayer back into the schools. We would end court ordered bussing, affirmative action, and the evil practice of mandating quotas. We were going to end welfare. We were going to end trade unions and their leftist ideas. We were going to stop the practice of entering a mother's womb to ruthlessly mangle and murder her unborn citizen of this great land; who was too young and too unformed to retain legal services to plead their case in a court of law. We were going to stop people like Madeline Murray O'Hare who without regards to our wishes spread her atheist lies that poisoned our children in schools, and on college and university campuses. We were going to end the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Education, which only exist to tell students how evil the white man is. We would represent the Moral Majority that had been silenced by the democrats. We were going to build a conservative court that would look out for our social traditions. We lost our way. The Tea Party is giving us a way to come home to our christian roots.
Like the democrats, we let the devil come into our party. Whoremongers like Governors Schwartzenegger and Fred Sandford, gay congressmen like pedophile Mark Foley and the famed airport Senator Larry Craig were some of the demons that got in. John Ensign was a product of the devil who made the GOP look bad. They were liberal infiltrators on a mission to destroy what we had built. Even our Evangelical leader Ted Haggard permitted men to use him as if he were a woman in heat while he blew his mind out on meth. These people were the vilest of sinners who made our party look like cesspool hillbillies and trailer park rednecks. They neither loved our great nation or flag. I told you, I will tell the truth. As a Christian conservative, I hate these men as much as I do liberals and democrats. They like John McCain, who sides with Obama at times when he should be opposing Obama’s every thought, is a turn coat that gave the election away to the liberal dictator that stole the 2008 election.
We were the party of Reagan and Goldwater. We were the party that Evangelicals flocked to because our party stood for God and country. We loved our military and our flag. Our people made the world a better place. We fought back communism and won. We took down the Iron Curtain. We stopped the Cold War. We spread the christian message and caused people to believe. We went into Africa and clothed the naked natives; who for centuries had walked around not knowing the shame they depicted in pornographic literature like National Geographic.
We allowed communist like Martin Luther King to confuse us by the tactics of race baiting showing the world how evil we were. They were breaking the laws of those days. Every time a colored guy is beaten by an officer, people attack the officer for racial profiling; never asking what the criminal did to deserve such a beating. Sure, we made some mistakes, but they were innocent. Should our people be held liable for being human? We just had to grow and the people of the coloreds had to understand our ways. This what the scholars call assimilation. This is why Sen. Rand Pau our proud Tea Party hero won. America is tire of our people always being the fault of America’s ills. This is what Paul stood for when he promised to get rid of the civil rights laws. We all should have civil rights not just the people of the coloreds. Christians are not evil people. We love everybody, even the Mexicans from whatever country they come. Whether they are from Cuba,Spain, or Brazille we love the Mexican people. We love Mexican food; especially Tex-Mex. We just want them to speak our language and not take our jobs. We will help them if they stay in their own countries. This is the American spirit.
Like the dream of the great socialist bully Martin Luther King, we too have a dream for America. With our vision everyone will eventually win. We want everyone to be happy and content. We want to end the deficit and not pass debt on to future generations. We want a pay as you go budget and government. We want people to work and produce a comfortable wage for living. Everybody can’t be rich though. Who would work for others if everyone were rich? We want people to appreciate our conservative christian values. Is that too much for America? Michelle Bachmann doesn't think so. She is working everyday to bring the Tea Party message to America. In 2012 we will take the keys back to the White House and never again will we live under a minority regime. This great republic is ruled by the majority and we will win. This is what the lamestream media will never tell you. Happy Birthday and God bless America.
Willie,
Are you paid to post things that make the Tea party look bad/racist? If not, you should do them a favor and stay off the internet. No one needs that kind of "help".