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2008 Presidential Election
For the first time ever in U.S. history, the candidates for president raised more than $1 billion.
Banking on Becoming President | OpenSecrets
President Barack Obama is either oblivious of the backlash his celebrity-infused commercials and fundraisers have caused or feels the monetary benefits outweigh the mocking headlines. Obama is now hosting a pick your own star contest as a campaign fundraiser, the Washington Post reports. A mass email sent to Democratic supporters earlier today offers donors a chance to win Dinner with Barack and a celebrity of their choosing.
The president is banking on elite entertainers to help so often they have essentially become a cast of characters in his campaign, The Huffington Post reports. Reaching out to Hollywood so often in the race for campaign cash could result in peril, according to the news organization. The economy appears to be taking a backseat to fundraising, bolstering claims by political foes that Obama is an elitist and out-of-touch with mainstream America.
President Obama has been on quite a star-studded tour during his re-election campaign. His coffers should be over flowing after the George Clooney, Sarah Jessica Parker and Marc Anthony hosted fundraisers. Tonight the president and Michelle Obama will be dining at Sarah Jessica Parkers New York City home accompanied by at least 50 donors who have contributed at east $40,000 to the re-election campaign. After a delicious dinner with the actress and the president, it is on to the Plaza Hotel for a Mariah Carey concert for $10 thousand donors. Last month Obamas campaign earned approximately $15 million from the Clooney fundraiser, according to the Washington Post.
obama is complaining that he will be outspent. That's not true. He is simply outspending his income and must continue to beg for more.
Obama: I will be outspent - Washington Times
The operative word is SPENT. obama's millionaire donors are continually filling the bottomless pit that his campaign has become. He keeps trying to wring more money out of Hollywood and New York liberals. But, as he has shows with the economy, he can't stop spending. No matter how many millions he gets, it goes through his campaign like water through a sieve.
This is the same man who six months ago bragged about a billion dollar warchest and the ability to win the election based on dollar amount.
Romney takes money from a casino owner with ties to the chinese mafia (Sheldon Adelson).
You can't get dirtier money than that.
Romney takes money from a casino owner with ties to the chinese mafia (Sheldon Adelson).
You can't get dirtier money than that.
Republicans represent the oil companies and the super rich.
That why Romney was selected by the billionaires who run the Republican Party.
Romney takes money from a casino owner with ties to the chinese mafia (Sheldon Adelson).
You can't get dirtier money than that.