Politicker reports that the Obama campaign is still trying to wring money out of its supporters.
To wit, Mr. Obama’s electoral operation, Obama for America, is asking their supporters to contribute after filling out a formbacking his plan to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
“Thanks for sharing your story. The next chapter begins today. Stand with President Obama for the next four years,” a subsequent contribution form declares. Suggested donation amounts range from $15 to $1,000 and a picture of Mr. Obama is presented with the text, “Stand with me, work with me, let’s finish what we’ve started.”
By federal campaign law (which the Obama campaign flouted by accepting donations from non-citizens overseas), the Obama campaign must shut down. But they’re not.
Why?
I don’t have an answer; I’m just asking the question.
I do have a stray thought which may or may not be related. Those of us who have researched Obama’s background to any extent are aware of his relationship to Frances Fox Piven, and at the same time are aware of the Cloward-Piven strategy. Briefly, that strategy lays out a means by which capitalism can be brought down via economic collapse. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cloward-Piven was tried on a local level and succeeded, most notably in pushing New York City into bankruptcy in 1975. It has never been tried on a national scale.
Isn’t the fiscal cliff the one and only chance that Barack Obama will have during his presidency to push the Cloward-Piven strategy into action on a national scale?
Building up the Warchest for when Michelle runs in 2016.
Not.
I don’t know where this stupid idea comes from. The One isn’t the least interested in having Michelle as President, and neither are any party power players. She’s a complete non-entity. Window dressing.
That’s all that Da One ever was. So, one window dressing the other? Why not? It’s not at all inconceivable. Da Ones wouldn’t have to move for another twelve years, and the same people backing them now wouldn’t have to look for new figureheads. None dare call it conspiracy!
The irony of course is that Piven is a CUNY professor with all the benefits and job security attached to that including a great pension plan. CUNY is a ridiculously large cost center to NYC with absolutely no worthwhile job development for the city as a whole and no real future to its graduates except for the microscopically small amount of graduates who will be swept up for out of state positions. The real Cloward Pivening should be first directed towards CUNY and its faculty and administrators. Costs towards entitlements should necessitate the removal of this budgetary cancer. Oh and that includes those pensions especially Piven’s.
The CUNY system was a great way out of poverty for children of the poor and from immigrant backgrounds—until the 1960s. Prior to then, the system offered a free college education to entrants on a strict merit-based system—which provided an incentive to do well in high school and on the Regents exams.
But merit-based admission was decried as “racist” in the ’60s, on the unproven grounds that schools and tests were “biased” against black and Hispanic applicants. So political pressure forced the CUNY system to go to open admissions—come one, come all. This greatly overburdened the system, and spelled the end of free tuition (now, of course, there are constant complaints whenever the tuition goes up). It also spelled the end of CUNY as a source of quality education; since anyone could enter, the school in effect became bogged down in remedial high school courses.
I think he’s planning on a third term. He’s got 4 years to work on it. Unless he succeeds in collapsing eh economy and declares marshal law voiding any need for future elections. But then why raise funds?
MARTIAL law, Walt. Not “marshall”.
It’s military law.
He could be raising funds for a House retake campagn in 2014 — though he’s never shared his campaign funds before…
He was running up a debt in the last few months of the campaign, so he may need to pay some bills.
Or it’s a future slush fund for 2014 House and Senate races to help out friendly Dems (i.e. Dems friendly to Obama, not the party).
“By federal campaign law (which the Obama campaign flouted by accepting donations from non-citizens overseas), the Obama campaign must shut down. But they’re not.”
Ya gotta know when to Holder ‘em and when to folder ‘em.
I shudder to think this would actually happen but could he be planning to do a Putin-style switch with Biden for 2016? They reverse the ticket where Obama becomes the VP but is the de facto president, like Putin did to get around the Russian election laws. Heaven help the universe!
Laws are for the little people.
Probably The Won is just building up his personal savings. After the campaign pays all it’s bills, Obama can keep the rest for himself. Duh.
I’m sure that they’re building the war chest for Michelle’s presidential waddle.
The One has been shifting governmental authority to the U.N. Once he has finished “what we’ve started,” for the U.S., what’s to say he and his handlers don’t have a campaign for him to head the U.N. waiting in the wings?
– has debts.