E-mail updates
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe to RSSCHICAGO, Ill. -- Secret Service agents, bomb-sniffing dogs and police cordons usually mean a high-level politician or dignitary is nearby.
For the residents of a certain Kenwood enclave, it also means the neighbors are back in town. That was the scene Sunday evening on a certain stretch of Greenwood Avenue here as President Obama hosted some of his closest, $40,000 check-wielding friends for the first-ever fundraiser at his home.
Yuri Gripas / AFP - Getty Images
President Barack Obama walks through the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago on Sunday.
Standing in a corner of the front yard of his classic Georgian-style brick home, the president greeted around 75 supporters sprawled out on his manicured green lawn, the lushness of which the president commented on.
“I have to say, the lawn hasn’t looked this good in a while. But I figured, but at least Michelle figured, that if everyone was coming over we ought to neaten up a little bit,” he said.
Speaking from a small stage that was surrounded with a small hedge, the president made light of the fact that he was once again asking his deep-pocketed donors to pony up.
“Being friends with a politician is a little bit like having a child perpetually in college because every so often you’ve got to write a big check. The good news is I’m about to graduate,” he joked as the crowd laughed.
But the comic asides did contain a serious undertone – that Obama is locked in a brutal spending war with his Republican rival Mitt Romney, and is currently being outspent.
Paul Ryan welcomed home with massive rally in Wisconsin
He cautioned his guests that the next three months of the campaign were not going to be easy, referring to, as he has frequently in recent appearances, the Olympics to make a campaign analogy.
“I just want to remind you this is not going to be a race like Usain Bolt where we’re like 40 yards ahead and we can just start jogging 10 feet before the finish line,” Obama said, name-dropping the famed Jamaican sprinter. “We’re going to have to run through the tape.”
After the quick stop at his own home, the president went back to once again being a guest as he attended two more fundraisers, both at homes in his neighborhood but none that could be called the Family Home of the United States.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP
The president's fourth year at the White House in pictures — follow along as it happens.
Leave a Comment:
when it's all said an done obama and his feeble co-harts biden,pelosi, axelrod, holder, ried, sharpton, and the left sided media will be infamously remembered not as just nut cases but on the wrong side of right. obama and his Chicago thug style of politics has embarrassed not only every decent citizen in the United States but other countries who look to the United States for leadership and moral conduct. Yeah, I put a lot of blame on Bush & company for inflicting some bad policies and behavior but obama & his administration have really taken a step into the sewer of dirty politics.
Where is Romneys tax returns? What a failure Romney is
I have never seen a first lady that went on late night TV before. She is an embarassment to the office. Have some dignity for pete's sake.
Get on the Romney Ryan Express
Train leaving Debtville and heading for Prosperity
LOL Romney sucks
Despite what NBC has to say the Chicago venue was only half full. sign of thing to come Mr. President, enjoy your last few months in office, you and Bush can play lots of golf and have some beers.
Weird it looks fuller than a Romney venue
FULLER??? lmao
Fuller. It is how you describe Romney venue. The more bogus nonsense about his tax returns we get the more we know he is full of it. LMAO
HEY EVERYONE....
A quick True or False test about Ryan's proposed changes to Medicare... Its not what Obama has told you it is:
(True or False) - Both Democrats and Republicans UNIVERSALLY agree that Medicare in its present form is unsustainable
TRUE - By 2017 ten thousand Americans per day will be retiring... In this day of polarized partizanship, THIS IS THE ONE ISSUE THAT BOTH PARTIES AGREE WITH!
(True or False) - Rich people get free Medicare today -
TRUE- Everyone today, over the age of 65 ,recieves free Medicare benefits REGARDLESS OF INCOME!
(True or False) - The Ryan Budget takes Medicare Benefits away from current Medicare recipients or requires current Medicare recipients to contribute to the costs of their Medicare policy:
FALSE - All current Medicare recipients and Americans 55 and older are grandfathered into the current Medicare program FOR LIFE so nobody is throwing Grandma under a bus.
(True or False) - The Ryan Budget allows the wealthy to recieve free Medicare benefits-
FALSE-The Ryan Plan proposes that in TEN YEARS that new Medicare applicants undergo a "means test" that will evaluate the income and assets and require those that can afford to contribute to their Medicare costs, to contribute! The wealthy will no longer get a free ride on Medicare.... For those that cannot afford to contribute, they will be issued vouchers to offset or cover the costs of their Medicare plans...
WE CAN EITHER SAVE MEDICARE OR DESTROY IT BY DOING NOTHING TO REPAIR IT! THIS SEEMS TO BE A PRACTICAL SOLUTION TO ME... WHAT DO YOU THINK???
Think it sucks. Breaking Medicare does not fix it. Obama 2012!!!!
The President's 2013 Budget is built around the idea that our country does best when everyone gets a fair shot, does their fair share, and plays by the same rules.
Have to love it when the libs get scared and start to break out the lemming talking points...
President Obama hosts a Fundraiser in Chicago,
The Repug press will knock on anything. How is that welfare for the rich working for us the last 10 years? Seems it is not.
Romney and Trump will fund raise with old Cheney. What a failure Romney is. Everything he touches turns to ash
Yeah the million dollar obama bus, paid for by taxpayers and built in Canada is much representative of America right?
Your post, you ideologies and your slander is so pathetic!
The major reason for doing their thing in Virginia is because they couldn't get a navy ship into Utah . So use the USS Wisconsin, Which is named after the State and Bank of Ryan and both show up on it and now they can claim Military service which is practical for draft dodging politicians.Next they will ask for a Navy Campaign Ribbon. Hooray now they can try to dodge draft dodging issue.
What branch of the military did obama serve in? I can't seem to find it any where?
So obama held a fund raiser at the house that Tony Rezko built. There is a shock! However, the Windy City has always been known for graft, corruption and organized crime.
Congressman Paul Ryan is best known as the author of a budget so radical The New York Times called it "the most extreme budget plan passed by a House of Congress in modern times." With Mitt Romney's support, Ryan would end Medicare as we know it and slash the investments we need to keep our economy growing -- all while cutting taxes for those at the very top.
We find Mitt Romney GUILTY of lying to the American people. Case closed.
You didn't find any thing but LSD..... and it seems you are still on it.
On another thread skrekk points out that ...
Backhouse - if you had a brain you would be dangerous! You along with the moron celebrities who support the liar-in-chief are what is wrong with America! Too many imbeciles who should be locked up because of their stupidity. Obama is going to tear down our democracy and those who think he is the masiah are a bunch of nitwits! He has caused massive debt, elminated millions of jobs, created division among Americans and is bent on his radical agenda to make us look like a socialist country.
His radical mentors like Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Joey Behar, Rev Wright, Joey Behar, and other morons illustrates where he is going! He was so busy smoke blow and blowing smoke the liberals don't even know what to expect from the liar-in-chief. He may be a cool guy to you and the hollywood imbeciles like Clooney and other idiots but he is a failure as a leader. You are another of the unthinkums in this country who have feeble brains. You are a lover of welfare and handouts by the government so you can sit on your lazy rearend and have someone take care of you. You are a sorry bunch of losers. How is the hope and change going for you? Good luck with your fearless leader as we toss him out on his rearend in Nov!
Good old corrupt Chicago politics, any body with common sense would stay away from anybody that even tries to enter government leadership, look at obama and the mess he's making. Obama's a f--king bad joke. He's a habitual liar, and a disgrace to any body who wants a government that is FOR the people. Obama, read this and go back to the rock you crawled out from under of.
where are Obama's grade transcipts? What is he hiding in fast and furious? How many more soldiers have died in Afghanistan since he escalated the war. What is his true relationship with Wright and Van Jones? Where has he hidden the robust economy? Where is he hiding the 8.3% unemployed? Where has he spent the additional 7 trillion in debt? How many thousand IRS agents has he hired to goose-step to your front door to make sure you have insurance? When is GM going to pay us the the 50 billion $ they still owe us? Why did Obama use the stimulus money to invest in foreign companies? Why doesn't Obama have a plan that works? Why did Obama take over 700 billion $ from Medicare?
If you want a job, if you want to save social security, if you want to help save the middle class, if you want to get the deficit under control, if you want a capitalist instead of a socialist as president, ---- Vote Romney and the best choice ever Ryan for president. If you want government welfare and government cheese vote Obama.
Obama the downgrade president - makes him unique among presidents.
Since Obama's in Chicago, I wonder how many dead people have turned in early votes?
$40,000.00 tickets? Where is the outcry from the libtards. I thought Obama only knew working folk.
mikeSanJacinto says…
But Bo-1925019 correctly reminds us that
So whereRthejobsBoehner aptly warns
And BrianJ concludes that
So, when you put that all together you get...
the only only wreck I see is at the bottom of a cliff. That's where Obama has driven the nations wealth and spirit of freedom. Long live the tyrant Obama but not in the white house. How about a nice community organizer office in Chicago. Probably did a horrible job there too.
LATE BREAKING NEWS UPDATE ...........
Steve Baker-338532 says…
Cogito Ergo Sum 1 confirms
and Zardoz8238 informs us that the The Romney Ryan Express is
So there you have it folks. Officially verified confirmed reports that ...
The truth brought to you by all our intrepid reporters!
What do you think all the secret ervice agents, bomb-sniffing dogs, police cordons, Air Force One, etc is costing the taxpayer for his "fundraising" Oh, that also means he's not in washington leading the country.....
can't afford obamass lavish vacations and spending. vote the jackass out
I did not vote for Obama last time and I won't do it this time. However, I pray for all of our leaders to make the tough calls.
I believe that Romney/Ryan is exactly what we need to get us back on track.