Last time I checked, the DNC didn’t pay the salary of the chef who cooks for the First Family. That’s a taxpayer supported position. But to this president, the White House chef is just another political asset to be deployed in The Great Swindle 2.0.
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.
To do so, Obama and his aides are leveraging every asset available to a sitting president — from access to top West Wing officials to a possible food tasting with the White House chef.
This smacks of desperation. And it’s probably illegal — VP Al Gore got in trouble merely for making campaign fundraising phone calls from his office. Using the WH chef for fundraising goes a fair bit beyond that.
The West Wing charm offensive shows how Obama’s White House, which has eschewed Clinton-style traditions of feeding donor egos with Lincoln bedroom overnights and frequent phone calls from the president, is adjusting itself for a campaign that needs to overcome low approval ratings and a sour economy.
So let’s boost our approval rating by skirting the laws! Those are for the little people and our political enemies anyway.
Anyday now he’s going to start selling White House art and furniture on E Bay.
Do not question the decisions of the Commander-in-Chef.
Well, there are less than 500 days to the 2012 election. The administration already announced that they plan to raise $1 billion for the President’s re-election campaign. That’s $2 million per day, every day, until Nov 6, 2012.
Sometime Thursday all presidential hopefuls will have to disclose how much they raised this quarter. Let’s say that Obama has $50 million in the bank now. So then he only has to raise $1.9 million per day.
A glorified bake sale with the White House chef isn’t going to put a dent in that kind of figure. This is a red herring, to distract the public from a major source of the real money – the on-line credit card contributions.
Remember last election, when the Obama fundraisers turned off any and all constraints on validating credit card transactions? Money poured in from all over the world, with no checks whatsoever on whether the contributions were legal or not.
We are going to see more stories about sleepovers and bake sales, and nothing about contributions sneaking in the back door.
500 Days of Supper.
Win a dinner at Chez Prez, a chili dog, french fries, and a Guinness stout…well, not for you…you get a watercress salad, an apple to polish and juice from a sippy cup.
Why is Obama allowed to use the presidential jet to attend campaign functions, especially since Al Gore got into trouble for simply making campaign fund raising phone calls from his White House office????? What can be done to stop this immediately?