This is the REAL BASE of President Obama. Not Adam Green, not Hamsher, not Ed Schultz. WE are his base. And we will work our tails off to get him re-elected.

It's a pity no one pays attention to us. It's the big mouths who suck all the oxygen out of the room. Either my way or the highway President Obama! They've been saying this crap since day one. Grow up. President Obama's REAL base do not need these people. Who cares if you vote for him. You're a bunch of mean spirited exploiters. For money and ratings.

President Obama is dealing with a Congress he did not ask for.

We gave it to him. We did. The voters. And non-voters.

You mean 'grassroots' doesnt mean 'Dick Armey' or "Koch' or 'Fox'??

Before I forget- I saw a post from a 'Tommy' on another thread. Said he was putting $5 into the DNC kitty for each time someone on here mean-mouths Mr President. What a great idea! I'm in- anyone else??

Drive by----I'm not sure we can do that $5 thing and not violate the campaign laws---$2,500 for the primary and $2,500 for the general---$5,000 divided by $5 per slur at the President would only be 1,000 times---we get there in a week!

People who donate money to our President will also donate their time, energy, and their vote. He is the only adult living in Washington D.C.

President Obama had large Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress from January 2009, to January 2011, Pat.

Why did the voters decimate those majorities last November, making Democrats the minority party in the House, and leaving them with but a slim majority in the Senate?

Hmmm...

I know the answer...do you?

Ron-

Not over at Firedoglake. It's all over there, Ron.

Steeler Fan has a point DBO, we could use quarters instead...

I'm game!

And this is music to my soul, my heart, and body. Which reminds me I need to send in my check today.

Maybe Five-Dollar Tommy meant to say five CENTS. Even at that, we get there in a week, I guess.....

"Why did the voters decimate those majorities last November, making Democrats the minority party in the House, and leaving them with but a slim majority in the Senate?"

because the primary voters were mostly Repubs- which won't be the case in 2012, and because the campaigns kept using the work 'jobs', which we all now know was the old red herring.

Good to see that America is waking up. Events in California, Wisconsin and the Debt ceiling are pointing to the reality that the Tea Party are radicals, and way out of the mainstream.

Hopefully people will turn out and vote from now on, to keep the TP radicals on a leash.

Mixed Bag - Why did the voters decimate those majorities last November, making Democrats the minority party in the House, and leaving them with but a slim majority in the Senate?

We talked a bit about this the other day from the GOP side, discussing how the Tea Party reaction to Obama drove the news cycle and helped in the Dems loss.

As you bring up firedog lake we can look at it from the other side of the spectrum. Perhaps some confidence was lost in him because some of us felt that Obama was not left leaning enough in his policies. I wondered why he would promise some things in the campaign and we would later find out in the attempts at moderation he would endorse the exact same thing that I disliked in Bush's policies.

Ok we covered reasons from the extreme right Tea Party and considered potential reasons why the left withdrew some support. Now to talk about the rest of the country who don't care a lick about politics. The reason the dems lost in 2010 was because of the poor shape of the economy.

Just my opinion but I would be interested in knowing what you think lost the dems the election.

Mark-

I would largely agree with you that it was the economy, with Obamacare coming in second.

If that's correct, the President has very little time to begin showing positive results with his economic policies.

Recent data on the current state of the economy has been dismal.

His handling of the nation's debt crisis overall, and specifically, the raising of the debt ceiling, shouldn't give much encouragement to his supporters.

Whistling past the graveyard didn't prove effective in last year's midterms, did it?

Whistling past the graveyard didn't prove effective in last year's midterms, did it?

Ah. But that was before the state governors decided to re-energize liberal voters. I think you can probably count on much better liberal turn-out next time.

It's all about turnout.

Why did the voters decimate those majorities last November, making Democrats the minority party in the House, and leaving them with but a slim majority in the Senate?

Mixed Bag:

Because the Democrats acted too much like republicans, that's why. No public option? C'mon.

Anna Molly-

Janice Hahn just won Jane Harman's old Congressional seat by 9 pts...in a California district where Democrats have an 18 pt registration edge.

If you're counting on a re-energized liberal base in November 2012, I'm not sure what energy level will be able to overcome the Democrats' stewardship of the economy and job creation.

Democrats' stewardship of the economy

Mixed Bag:

I like the Democrat's stewardship of the economy. I work for Chrysler.

I'm not sure what energy level will be able to overcome the Democrats' stewardship of the economy and job creation.

Too easy. The outrage caused by Republicans' lack of stewardship of ANYTHING.

Last I heard, stewardship means to preserve. Republicans have stood for nothing but tearing things down.

WE are the world. We are the world that elected Barack Obama and we will do it again. Hamsher and Green are slime. Did anyone see the commercial Adam Green made to go after Obama before the midterms? Check it out. Oddly enough, the president looks darker than he does in reality. Not only that but he is placed him in a dark evil background. Adam Green is evil.

You big government socialists will be in the crapper with the rest of us! Your president has obviously never had a real job and the only jobs he has "created" are in the bloated, out-of-control federal government. When the current Ponzi scheme blows up- probably after the entitlement addicts re-elect this clueless wonder- your retirement money will be gone... Along with mine! Your kids will be so proud of your legacy as they try to rebuild the country. Better climb out of that liberal haze and look for someone who has some real world experience to run the country.

John_Galt how were your retirement investments doing in 2007 and 2008 and where are they now? I believe the stock market is doing pretty good now, The Dow is back to where it was before 2007-8, and everyone knows that wall street and CEO's of big business are the only ones seeing an increase in their wages.

Sorry Andie. My retirement investments were tied to my construction business. So, I don't have to worry about them anymore! I wasn't part of the protected class, like the unions and government workers. My retirement date will be concurrent with the drawing of my last breath! In part due to absolutely clueless liberal acolytes like Dorothy who are supporting our Country's descsent into oblivion.

I thought I would repost this just to show how bad it has gotten for the Democrat party in the way of fundraising.

Letter to Senator Patty Murray, Chair Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Senator Patty Murray, Chair
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Dear Senator Murray:

For many months now, your colleagues in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee leadership have engaged in a series of disparagements and ad hominem attacks about us, apparently as part of a concerted political and fundraising strategy. Just recently, Senator Reid wrote in a DSCC fundraising letter that Republicans are trying to "force through their extreme agenda faster than you can say 'Koch Brothers.'"

So you can imagine my chagrin when I got a letter from you on June 17 asking us to make five-figure contributions to the DSCC. You followed that up with a voicemail* indicating that, if we contributed heavily enough, we would garner an invitation to join you and other Democratic leaders at a retreat in Kiawah Island this September.

I'm hoping you can help me understand the intent of your request because it's hard not to conclude that DSCC politics have become so cynical that you actually expect people whom you routinely denounce to give DSCC money.

It is troubling that private citizens taking part in the discourse have become the targets of White House and DSCC fundraising missives, and we would certainly encourage you to rethink that approach. Ultimately, I expect voters will see through that and will weigh the issues on the merits alone. But in the meantime, if you could provide me some insight on what exactly you are asking of us and why, I would be most grateful.

Sincerely,
Philip Ellender
President, Government & Public Affairs
Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC

Translation:

Please DONATE!

It's going to take every penny we can lay our hands on to frame the 2012 election as "a choice" and not "a referendum" on the miserable results of the Obama Administration's economic policies....when American voters know better, and proved it last November.

So...

HELP!

Please...!

This letter from Koch is a joke. Koch's involvement in GOP fundraising in legendary. This letter rings of hypocrisy and is disingenuous. Philip is probably fat and white, and certain rich.

Tax the rich!! Feed the Poor!

@Dave is So Cal

I can assure you that this letter is not a joke. Look it up yourself; you will find that is absolutely genuine.

Tax Fairly!! Lead a charitably life!

Dave is So Cal said: Tax the rich!! Feed the Poor!

What are you Dave, Freekin Robin Hood? Your statement makes no sense what so ever! The rich ARE taxed. The poor get SNAP. Ever heard of it?

To me, the telling numbers are a 1.9% economic growth rate (and falling), and a 9.2% unemployment rate (and rising).

President Obama's going to need a lot of money to overcome those numbers.

So, c'mon...

Give, give, GIVE!

Give, give, GIVE!

LoL Game on. As long as you do the same. Even playing field and all that ... ;-)

I heard today that Obama's election goals are to raise $1 Billion. What does he need with all that money? He's on track to get shellacked anyway with his lunacy of late.

Yesterday he said he couldn't guarantee social security payments will go out on Aug 3rd. Well, the truth be told, social security is presumably funded already. I guess someone must have told him this over night because he then came out today and said the federal government wouldn't be able to afford the postage to send the checks out.

Ummmm... has anyone told the president that most of the so called checks arrive as electronic fund transfers and never enter the mail system at all.

Does anyone see a pattern here, or is it just me?

You mean President Obama is using a scare tactic?

Imagine that. A politician using a scare tactic to score political points.

Not since death panels have I heard anything so outrageous.

Not since 'they' followed us home, have I heard anything so outrageous, I might add.

They still have not found the calculator.

If you divide $86 million by 552,000- you get $156- not $69.

If you divide Obama's share of the take, $47 million, (three million LESS than Bush in the second quarter of 2003), you get $85, not $69.

That you could actually print this missive from Messina, without even doing that much fact checking is ridiculous.

And I'm not buying over 200,000 new donors, either. If he could pull the "average" out of his ear, he could pull anything out of it.

Scare tactics by a politician are used all the time... but.. he's the sitting president. Isn't it a little beneath the office to tell the public one thing.. have it debunked... then cover his reasoning and have that debunked again? The next thing he'll be saying is he doesn't have the money to buy the pens to sign the checks.

Hey Mr. Obama... Here's 5 bucks to buy some pens...

the man is just plain smarmy...

NJNBNJ, this was expalined in another post earlier today. But you chose to ignore that because it didn't fit with your whining. I see you are still ignoring it.

Why don't you calculate how much per head has been donated to each of the Republican candidates?

Brianb:

Scare tactics by a politician are used all the time... but.. he's the sitting president. Isn't it a little beneath the office to tell the public one thing.. have it debunked... then cover his reasoning and have that debunked again?

Are we talking about President Obama or are we talking about President Bush, Al Qaeda, September 11, Osama bin Laden, weapons of mass destruction, smoking guns, mushroom clouds, aluminum tubes, yellow cake, genocide, and the oppression of women, just to name a few of the 50 or so reasons -- and a few of the scare words -- that Bush and his minions used to justify his invasion of Iraq?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gUzD1Ud4Lk

Just checking.

It's 550,000 individual donors, but because some of these folks donated more than once, that's how you get to $69 per donation.

Makes sense Mr. Murray,...thanks.

Thanks for the clarification, Mark. I can attest to making more than one donation during this period; I'm sure others did, too.

I watched the video sent out by the Obama campaign---the numbers are a synopsis of the report they will file with the FEC this week (they said it was 15000 page long!). I would expect that an accountant reviewed the numbers and calculations and we can rely on their accuracy---I would not expect any candidate to file false reports.

OOOOOOO! That reminds me. I gotta get my donation in the mail to the Wisconsin Democratic Party, and another one in the mail to Barack Obama next pay period.

Poor little NoJo gets called out again. What's that about a dozen times now that you have been corrected.

You would think by now she would know better... lol

John, Tucson, AZ

just like the new 260,000 donors, we'll be glade to give him so he can continue to fail you and your fellow teapublicants.

Meanwhile, Romney was in LONDON, UK, recently, looking for donations to his campaign.

This from a guy whose party has been exposed as utter frauds with regards to the deficit preferring to blame the President and do nothing rather than roll up their sleeves and get the $4 billion deficit reduction passed. They also showed that when the going gets tough, they punt. They also could care less about the deficit which is probably why it is no coincidence that the last President to actually balance the budget was a Democrat and the last Republican President to come within $50B of balancing the budget was Gerald Ford.

Also, as Amy points out, why is Weathervane Willard seeking campaign contributions from foreigners? Are foreigners going to own him the same way Islamic radicals own Grover Norquist and, by extension, the Republican Party?

To hell with GOPers. They can spew whatever routine garbage left in their toothless mouth, we careless. They opened the door of cans of worms and they'll surely be swallowed by it. November 2011 is still fresh in our memories. We will grab this green baby anywhere we deem fit.

"He is more concern about raising money..."

No- I haven't seen him out pan-handling for dough. Belive me, John- we are doing this ALL ON OUR OWN!

(sorry it makes you mad, though....)

I would not expect less from the Campaigner-in-Chief. He is more concern about raising money (and he is going to need a lot to explain away his failures) than he is leading this country.

And you are absolutely sure that Barack Obama is the first President ever to use the office as a campaign platform,...right John in Arizona?

He and the DNC are asking, but very nicely. I contributed each week last month and this month so far, as I did all of '08.

As a regular contributor, I received a lovely commemorative birthday card from the president's campaign organization and picture tee shirt of him with a copy of his birth certificate on the back. The card is a montage of family pictures which included his mother and grandparents.

Make that 260,001 new doners; although he got my vote in 08 I donated at the local level. This time his campaign is getting it all.

Anna,

I don't think they were outraged because Obama refused public campaign finance. I think people got so pissed off because Obama went back on his word. He made a promise. and he pledged to accept public financing and to work with the Republican nominee to ensure that they both operated within those limits.

Personally, I think they should all be publically financed. It would end all this nonsense.

With that said, no way the President holds up those 70 million checks that go out on August 3. Those are the people that are sending him the $20 at a time and now they will feel like they owe it to him, since it was him and him alone, that made sure they got heir money.

One thing we can always agree on Anna Molly. We need public campaign finanacing.

The stench from the money grubbing on both sides is worse than ever.

Anna Molly

“LoL The GOP is accepting money from lobbyists and PACs? “

Let’s not be so judgmental AM. Here are just 2 PACS raising money for the Democrats. It’s not just the GOP.

The contributors to House Majority PAC, the new Democratic Super PAC, reads like a Glenn Beck fever dream. The list includes George Soros, a hedge fund billionaire and long-time backer of political efforts to elect Democrats, and a collection of unions, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

The contributions were revealed in a Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing that was required after the group spent money on the special election in New York's 26th congressional district. House Majority PAC spent $487,372 to help elect now-Rep. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) in a heavily Republican district.

Unions made up the bulk of the money going to the House Majority PAC with $300,000 in contributions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/soros-unions-give-to-new-dem-super-pac_n_884021.html

Former Democratic Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold stepped up his attacks on party colleagues who accept unlimited and undisclosed outside money. He called out Priorities USA Action, a pro-White House group created in April by two former administration officials as part of a strategy to raise $100 million toward Obama's election campaign.

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/politico/article/Feingold-slams-Dem-super-PACs-1428270.php#ixzz1S0SUgShI

thetotas:

I don't think they were outraged because Obama refused public campaign finance. I think people got so pissed off because Obama went back on his word.

Oh, pish. Republicans were only miffed because McCain couldn't raise enough private money to front Obama, and I can already hear them whining again this year as Obama once again proves to be a master fundraiser.

kirby:

One thing we can always agree on Anna Molly.

I suspect there's more than one, kirby, although as far as politics goes, this may be the most important one.

Ira:

Let’s not be so judgmental AM. Here are just 2 PACS raising money for the Democrats. It’s not just the GOP.

I never said anything about other democrats, Ira. But the Koch brothers, Karl Rove, and other conservative groups outspent the liberal PACs by SOME in Wisconsin during the recent Supreme Court race.

So that don't impress me much.

Unions made up the bulk of the money going to the House Majority PAC with $300,000 in contributions.

And that wouldn't be why Republicans are trying so hard to destroy the unions, would it, Ira?

and that the GOP campaigns are accepting money from lobbyists and PACs (which the Obama campaign isn't doing).

UH-OH MARK MURRAY!!!

Ira Lapin just caught you in a big fat lie!!!....George Soros, SEIU, AFSCME

I know you'll try to spin it as such...The Democrats are taking money from PAC's, but the president's campaign fund is not, right?....

Um, hello ... American ... Ira was talking about democrats in general, not the Obama campaign.

Care to reconsider your charge, or are you itching to get creative with your name once again?

Anna, IOKIYAAR

(It's OK if you are a Republican)

@AnnaMolly

NO

Spin, Spin, Spin......lol

I'm not sure what it is with the liberals on this site and my name.....I keep thinking it must be some kind of collective paranoia, but whatever it is, it's really funny!

You're so cute, American. I love your name. Hold that thought. Or change it. Whatever you prefer. LoL

By the way @Ira Lapin

Thank you for being honest about both parties campaign funding even if you don't support Israel.

Anna Molly..

Nice deflection but no answer given.

Your point is a distinction without a difference.

All PAC money eventually goes into the Obama campaign pot.

Any comment on:

Former Democratic Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold stepped up his attacks on party colleagues who accept unlimited and undisclosed outside money. He called out Priorities USA Action, a pro-White House group created in April by two former administration officials as part of a strategy to raise $100 million toward Obama's election campaign.

As a casual observer of this whole "he doesn't support Israel thing". I wonder what one has to do for American!!!!!!!!!!!! to acknowledge that Ira's viewpoint about the Israel/Palestinian conflict is pretty even handed.

Anna,

Obama is a master fundraiser?

Obama campaign is the FIRST and ONLY presidential campaign to turn off online address verification when raising money online.

The Obama campaign also chooses to not to use free or cheap tools that allow them to screen foreign IP address and foreign credit cards.

Finally, unlike the Clinton and McCain campaigns, the Obama campaign refuses to disclose their donor list.

Don't be too sure. The issues you're seeing now may not, in fact, be the election issues. Expect some new issues -- primarily wedge issues -- to emerge as the election draws closer. This is no new phenomenon. Republicans successfully used wedge issues in 2004 when they did not want to talk about the war.

No one wants to be seen as the Grinch who Stole Christmas from Grandma. So that problem will no doubt be resolved, and soon. But other issues, such as abortion, gay rights, guns, and immigration, are all likely to bubble up again. If the economy doesn't improve, the only way to distinguish one party from the other will be the shiny objects that one side or the other elects to wave.

Special interest money will play a very big part in applying the shine.

Fancy That

I also don't like the idea of unrestricted and anonymous PAC money.

To my point: Seems the attitude on FR is that the GOP is the evil group getting all these secret, large money contributions from people determined to rule the US. That's just not true and my intent in posting what I did is to show that there are some very evil Democrats out there doing the exact same thing.

Nice talking to you.

Obama's campaign donors = Union dues and welfare checks.

Fancy, Just an observation... But blaming someone else be it CEO's, Banks, Politicians, Wall Street for your lot in life sounds a little whiney to me. Obama's anti-business rhetoric seems to perpetuate the "victim mentality", insuring millions will do nothing to help them selves......

But blaming someone else be it CEO's, Banks, Politicians, Wall Street for your lot in life

Oh, Oh, Oh,....I've heard this one. We'll all become owners of our own companies, and pick ourselves up by our own bootstraps like you noble, hard-working, smarter republicans. Right?

The CEO's and Wall Street types orchestrate ALEC, the conservative organization which started a coordinated campaign of anti working class legislation in a dozen different state legislatures simultaneously. Or did you think this was happening by accident in Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Maine, Indiana, Idaho, Missouri,...etc...?

The uprisings you are witnessing in those states (and others) means people are sick of being "victimized". Revolution is in the air.

The people you shill for on this board are pulling your levers too. You think by prostituting yourself to their moneyed interests that they will one day notice you and share their money with you?

Good luck with that.

All Progressives want is a fair chance at a job BEFORE it is off-shored, a fair chance to prosper in a growing middle class. We don't want repub parasites suppressing our wages to grow their own. We don't want them destroying our Unions and the civilization we worked so hard to build.

We aren't fighting for special circumstances, just equal ones.

You would be better off making that donation to a charity or food bank that does real work.

". . . America is behind the Reps."

Yeah, that's why so many donated to the DNC and President Obama. That's why the GOP/TP Inc. just lost in the California special election. That's why the GOP/TP Inc. fake Democrats lost in Wisconsin.

Yep, sounds like America is really out there behind the Republican/TP Inc. party to me.

You're right, you don't need entitlements, just spelling and grammar lessons.

Matthew,

California is not a good example.

thetotas, is New York a better example, the seat that has been in republican hands almost completely for what was it 150 years?

No it doesnt.

"Grassroots", my foot. Try "astroturf".

Obama and the Democrats are the Party of Government, and get huge contributions from big corporations looking for favors, sleazy trial lawyers, and of course their bosses, the leeching crooked public employee unions.

You mean like the Koch brothers, the Federalist Society or The US Chamber of Congress, or maybe the Americans for Tax Reform? Oh wait . . . those are the 'big corporations giving huge donations looking for favors, sleazy lawyers, and of course the bosses, the leeching crooked business lobby' who give to the Republican/TP Inc. party.

Bob-1887910, you are an idiot. I was going to refrain from saying this because it sounds like an attack, but then I realized it was just a simple statement of fact.

What about the FEC 2008 audit? No mention on that here?

Obama campaign is the FIRST and ONLY presidential campaign to turn off online address verification when raising money online.

The Obama campaign also chooses to not to use free or cheap tools that allow them to screen foreign IP address and foreign credit cards.

So? What does that have to do with this report, thetotas? How does that dispute anything I have said about who donates to the Republican/TP Inc.party? Your lame attempt at deflection failed miserably and contributes nothing to the conversation. You are also an idiot who just can't stand it that your chosen narrative is wrong.

Bob-<numbers>, thetotas, stupid and hateful is no way to go through life. I know neither of you care, but you are both going on ignore because of your useless, inane comments that contribute nothing to the conversation except hate, negativity and lies.

Bye-bye, fools. (Once a again, not a personal attack, just simply a statement of fact.)

Thanks, GOPisextinct.

What Bob-1887910 doesn't realize is that he has already been 'trickled on', but it wasn't rain, there was a reason it was slightly yellow . . .

I doubt they'd even give him a tray of drinks, he might be tempted to try and talk to them and they don't even want to hear what he has to say. He'll be relegated to the scullery or working in the yard where he won't be seen or heard.

Personally, I just put him on ignore, it's like shutting up one of those annoying little yappy dogs that just won't be quiet. Normally I do not believe in using the ignore function because I want to know what lies and misinformation the right is saying to try and counter it, but him and a few others aren't saying anything worth noteing. Everything they say is just inane negativity and hateful pronouncements that even a 4th grader would recognize as worthless expenditure of air and words. They aren't worth the time it takes to read their tripe.

You can count me in Tommy!

CHA-CHING!

Just sent you a friend request - so I can keep track of ya!

Do we have a deal?

Yeah, but with two provisos:

1. the remark must be negative concerning the republican party and/or any right wing factions.

2. I'll do it for free.

Anytime - Tommy! ;o)

Something tells me this could be very profitable for President Obama...