The Obama campaign just issued an “urgent” fundraising pitch to supporters, lamenting that Mitt Romney raised more in June — more than $100 million — than they raised in April and May combined.
“We’re still tallying our own numbers, but this means their gap is getting wider, and if it continues at this pace, it could cost us the election,” reads the appeal from campaign manager Jim Messina.
“If everyone who’s been waiting to give pitches in $3 or more today, we can start reversing this trend in just a few hours,” the email continues.
“One hundred million is alarming enough, but it doesn’t even include the millions pouring into pro-Romney super PACs — or the fact that, unlike four years ago, it’s perfectly legal for the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Karl Rove, and anonymous billionaires to funnel unlimited money into attacking President Obama in critical battleground states,” Messina writes. “…If we don’t take this seriously now, we risk finding ourselves at a point where there is too much ground to make up.”
and it is illegal for super millionaires/billionaires like Streisand and George Soros to give money to Obama or left leaning PACs…. Hypocrisy, thy name is the Obama administration…..
“We Need Cash or ‘It Could Cost Us the Election’”
I fail to see the problem here…
Sorry, The Whine, but I need that $3.00 — and look for change in my sofa — to buy a gallon of gasoline.
Oh they are just trying to cheer me up…and it’s working. If Obama can’t buy the election then he can’t win? It takes money to drive all those voters from the cemetery!
Good.
– were mistaken the other day when they boasted they had raised more than Romney? Which is it?
He says that like it’s a bad thing. What? He’s serious? Ha Ha.
Maybe if they offer dinner with Cloony this time? Or better yet, the Man himself, George Soros.
If they were to offer a chance at dinner with The Won and Rush, I’d kick in $3 for a chance at that.
Be careful what you wish for, Walt C.
Remember that deluxe dinner Sarah Jessica Parker and Anna Wintour were flogging for the Lightworker? The “winner” of that contest would be on the hook for income taxes.
Failing to see what the issue is. Can anyone translate please?
Great! Send me another fundraising form so I can send it back blank again with another note saying I don’t vote for or donate to people who don’t believe in religious freedom.
It must suck to be Jim Messina right now considering how his boss never takes any blame for anything. I mean the problem couldn’t possibly be the candidate could it?
I call B.S.
They still have billions of dollars of un-distributed “TARP” funds, which they have been holding for no other purpose than to grease palms, bribe, and extort votes and support from fence-sitters as the election draws near. A Billion dollars here, a Billion there, you can buy a lot of elections with that sort of money.
It will be interesting to see how many NBPP-types will be insulting and intimidating voters at the polling places this fall. People will be better prepared to face’em. But it will be a miracle if the Green Light given the Intimidators by our so-called Department of Justice doesn’t embolden them to actually use the weapons they only brandished in the previous election. The internet posts from those the government chose not to prosecute, are filled with hatred and threats for white people.
There have been other regimes as corrupt as this one.
In past times most of their criminals were either put into prisons, or received punishments admitting of no appeal.
Next Up: the Obama campaign asks voters to donate their food stamps and WIC payments.
I still am confused why the smartestest man that ever lived, the One who lead us from the darkness, who personally shot and killed OBL, who plugged the gulf oil leak with his bare hands, who caused the oceans to recede, changed the way that washington does business, saved the economy from certain ruin, united us as a nation like no one since Jimmy Carter, the first post partisan, post racial super double plus good messiah, needs any money at all. For the man who did all this, why wouldn’t he get 120% of the vote(like Saddam, the other Hussein), not even counting that eternal democratic voting block, the dead person vote…..?
It is simply an optical illusion that Mitt is as close as he is. Must be.
Besides all he has to do if he falls behinds is pull out the trusty old race card on Romney…..the way it’s looking, that will be next week…..
Tell all the 21-26 year olds whose parents work for govt (at any level) to cough it up. They’ve all been given free medical insurance paid for by the taxpayers. Every one of them, regardless of ability to pay themselves.
Their govt employee parents will kick 0-15% of the premium, the rest is on the taxpayer. Think they’ll enroll in an employer’s plan with that deal there? And that, citizens, was the real reason for slipping that provision in. Oh, and business owners who have lots of 21-26 year olds? You should pay as well. After all, someone else will be funding your employees’ medical insurance. You certainly won’t have to! They certainly won’t enroll in your plan, even if you offer it-they’ll get it cheaper on their parents plan at another company! (employee contribution, on a per covered person basis, is less on family plans!) Oh, but then what happens? You’ll be punished, because your insurance coverage will be too tilted towards higher compensated employees (those over age 27). You’ll either have to force the younger employees onto your plan, which you can’t do and they won’t do (see above!), or stop offering it. Yes, this will happen.
I’m going to leave it to more experienced men than myself to evaluate what I’m going to say, since I’m not up enough on ways of campaign finance disclosure to find the tricks–but remember that with the Obama crowd you always need to keep your powder dry. These cries of poverty could be dezinformatsiya, to either cause the Romney campaign to misjudge the strength of the Obama war-chest, or to help create some kind of anti-corporate money backlash for either immediate political purposes (esp. with the base) or to generate some kind of ammo to sway Roberts or Kennedy in the future (yes, I really don’t trust the Obama team that much).
In other words, they could low-ballng numbers right now, then claim what they need to claim when they need to. Not saying they are doing it, or that anything different needs to be done, just that it is a possibility.
Anyways, just a thought that occurred to me.