U.S. President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign has received tens of thousands of small donations after it was officially launched, U.S. media reported on Wednesday.
Media reports said the campaign received 23,000 contributions in the first 24 hours following the Monday morning announcement. Nearly all of the donations were in the amount of 200 dollars or less.
Small donations are key to Obama’s election success in 2008. In all, the campaign raised a whopping 750 million dollars. The reelection campaign is targeting the one-billion mark this time.
In addition to small donors, the Obama campaign is also targeting big donors. Starting next week, the campaign will organize a series of big donor events headlined by Obama himself.
You know all that talk about the progressives abandoning President Obama?
Yeah not so much.
Now if you were a Republican thinking about running for the GOP nomination, how would this news make YOU feel?
He's just going to steamroll whoever the GOP picks, unless Diebold gets to throw the election.
ReplyDeleteI went to dinner with some Republican relatives last night; they are all excited about a book coming out in five weeks called "Where's the Birth Certificate?" - Yes, rather than discussing alternative energy sources or how to improve our educational systems, they hope to discredit President Obama. *Sigh*
I used to respect the Republican party; I used to vote Republican, but no more.
These people desperately want the world to go back to the way things were in 1950.
It's not that progressives have abandoned Obama. It's that Obama has abandoned progressives. And this progressive will be sitting out the 2012 election. I will never vote for a Republican. Which is why I will never vote for our sell-out to Republicans Democratic president again, either.
ReplyDeleteJust take a good look at the people considering running on the gop ticket. There isn't ONE single respectable, honest, hard-working one in the entire group. ALL of them have baggage, scandals in their lives. I do not see a single one of THEM as president. Most are "bought and paid for" by special interest groups. A lot are just in it for donations, then will opt out because it is too much like hard work to actually run and WIN.
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ReplyDeleteIf you sit out the 2012 election you may as well vote Republican. It's easy to call Obama a sell-out but I look at it as compromise and statesmanship. In a representative democracy, no one gets their way 100% (thank goodness!). When people choose not to vote, Republicans win.
Id like to see Trump debate Obama. Now that would be exciting. A man who likes to talk AND knows what's he talking about vs a man who cannot speak without a tight script, ear piece or teleprompter who knows nothing of which he speak
ReplyDeleteThe real battle will be in the states, to undo the damage of the last election which enabled so many GOP/TP monstrosities.
ReplyDeleteO/T - Sarah is over already. Yay! http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/sarah-palins-tipping-point/2011/04/07/AFQAoa0C_blog.html
ReplyDeleteOn topic: We Democrats/progressives HAVE to get energized about the election. The Senate is at stake. We can take back the House. You can dis Pres. Obama if you want to (personally, I've already donated to his re-election campaign), but there are other battles at stake. We need all hands on deck unless you want a President Koch Brothers.
If I was a Republican thinking about running, I'd fabricate an astroturf campaign funded by the Kochsuckers and make it look like it was an authentic grassroots campaign funded by the people.
ReplyDeleteOh, wait, I think that's been done before.
Gee, is he going to schedule $10,000 per table events with pretend organizations that spend more on spokespeople than on the services they are supposedly offering?
ReplyDeleteYou know, because that half-white is always stealing ideas and themes from Sarah.
In other news, the Donald bought "The Kluge Winery" in Charlottesville, Va. at a foreclosure auction Thursday. The Kluge family owed Farm Credit $35 million and the auction only went for approx 7 million.
ReplyDeleteThe Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Va. or Readthehook, Charlottesville, Va.
I want to see who donated. because they got shady last time. but im happy people support him. every president needs support no matter their ability or progress
ReplyDeleteI only wish media werent stuck up his ass and would call him out on lies and hidden motivations - and past deceptions
Sit out the election? Remember the Nader supporters hooting in 2000 about how both major political parties are the same? Remember how THAT turned out?
ReplyDeleteI am a progressive and I am sorry that the President has not accomplished some of the things we all want to see. However, given the enormous sh*theap he inherited, I am grateful every day that he heads calmly to the Oval Office, in a crisp white shirt, shovel in hand.
@ 5:54 AM
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You may feel let down by the President at this time but staying home and giving your vote to the Republicans is not the answer. Why not make your displeasure known and take an active roll in assuring that your voice is heard? I'm sure the President is well aware that he has not been able to fulfill many of the promises he made to the satisfaction of progressives but he has done the best he can under the circumstances.
On the Trump birther debacle... He has said that he has sent investigators to Hawaii; well, ain't that grand. Let's hope for his sake that he will be able to wash that egg off his face when they fail to prove the President is a foreigner. Trump = Chump
Coupled with the fact that no one can win the Republican nomination without demanding to see the President's birth certificate, it's going to be a right-wing freak show. Not to mention an epic fail.
ReplyDeleteLove it, love it, love it ... sounds like I might have been one of the first too (as soon as the email showed up in my inbox) and my donation was very small, but hey, I will probably repeat it at intervals for the next several months! You betcha! Thanks for posting this Gryphen.
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ReplyDeleteThe Donald is an idiot, has bankrupt 4 times and has no morals and is a proven liar.
He has more baggage than a baggage car loaded, he also has no morals.
He just bought a winery at an auction in Charlottesville, Va in order to help his friend Pat Kluge who owes Farm Credit 35 million. He is going to let her continue to run the winery even though she is a failure and can't pay her bills.
Farm Credit and Virginia just got screwed by the "Donald".
Anon @6:15 - Well it's quite true that Trump does not know whereof he speaks.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama has spoken extemporaneously (that's off-the-cuff) and unscripted without the use of teleprompters (which every President dating back to Eisenhower has used - but please don't let facts cloud your issues) to audiences of every stripe, political leaning and age many many many times.
6:15 AM You have no idea what you are talking about.
ReplyDeleteTrump is full of Hot Air and Our President is always the smartest man in the room.
Remember this beat down last year at the Republicans' retreat? During the Q&A the President did not use a teleprompter or ear piece. He was answering questions off the cuff.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/transcript-of-president-o_n_442423.html
5:54 Anon. Obama can't do it alone. If progressives don't support him and get some control back, we're all screwed. I remember a friend who voted for Ross Perot. She was the biggest whiner about Bush I ever heard after she threw her vote away. When you have one party threatening to shut down the government because they are waging war against women's health and cry phony crocodile tears about it (Glen Beck revisited)...well, are you still thinking of President Obama as the "Magic Negro"? Don't pretend you're a progressive. You're an immature whiner too. Get over it, and do some work to improve things.
ReplyDeleteBecause the economy seems to be righting itself, jobs being added to the books for the 13th month in a row - America is turning back from the Fear Chamber - which made celebrities out of fringe-thinkers like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.
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There are, happily, signs that the influences that undermined Beck are doing the same to other purveyors of fear. The March Washington Post-ABC News poll found that Sarah Palin’s favorability rating among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents had dropped to 58 percent from 70 percent in October and 88 percent in 2008. Her negative ratings among Republicans are higher than those of other prospective Republican presidential candidates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-glenn-beck-lost-it/2011/04/06/AFNEgnqC_story.html?fb_ref=NetworkNews
I think it's not right that the GOP wants to go back to the 1950s. I think they want to go back to the 1880s. Maybe before that.
ReplyDeleteFrom your mouth to God's ears, 6:20 a.m. (and I'm an atheist!)
ReplyDeleteBut yes - and GO Wisconsin - Impeach the TeaTHUGlicans!
The few GOP POTUS hopefuls that actually have brains know that unless something major happens to change Obama's fortunes, the president is going to stomp on whomever the GOP puts forward. Their nominee will be forced to engage in the basest, the most desperate campaign of fear mongering, character assassination, pandering, race baiting, batshit crazy conspiracy theories, and outright lying that the GOP has ever run. Why? Because that is the only arrow in their quiver.
ReplyDeleteDespite the dire prospects for the GOP nominee I suspect that one of their turds will eventually float to the top of their cesspool. The GOP POTUS pretenders are nothing if not vain.
Abraham Lincoln spoke of people who lusted for the presidency as having "the worm." When the worm begins to turn in those thus afflicted, they will resort to any tactic, take any risk, bet against any odds that they will be the next president.
Vanity, thy name is Republican.
The teabaggers sure as hell ain't going to be any use to the GOP in 2012. They're too busy trying to ratfuck the country with our current pending government shutdown. Their circular firing squad will effectively eliminate them once and for all.
It must suck to be in the GOP right about now.
Listen, if Progressives can't absorb the truth that to sit any election out means potentially allowing Tea Party crackpot ignoramuses (many don't have any legislative experience at all) to take over and hijack our government - that's strictly their problem, and they have to live with themselves. Every freaking vote counts. What will it take for the idealists to get that?
ReplyDeleteI imagine if the Right gets away with this Planned Parenthood budget assault, the vast majority of women in this country are going to chase their asses out of DC in 2012. Karl Rove himself knows it.
We on the Left do not have the luxury of principles at this point in history. I am sorry, but that is the way it is.
Barack Obama has done amazingly well given the parameters, and limitations, of the present.
He has got my vote.
As a progresive I will NOT sit out the 2012 election because the other side scares the bejesus out of me. But as a very DISAPPOINTED progressive, I will not be writing checks like I did in 2008, to the tune of about $7-8K- lost track as I responded to one group after another. I told the DNC to delete my name until they back candidates that represent Democrats.
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ReplyDeleteI understand your frustration with President Obama. I feel much the same way. In fact I've probably been one of his harshest critics and I've been lambasted on this very site for my views.
My disappointment in the president has not changed, but I suggest that to sit out the 2012 election would be a grave mistake.
As lacking as the president might well be, he is INFINITELY preferable to the pack of puffed up buffoons that the GOP has to offer. Additionally, the GOP is creeping ever closer to fascism and dictatorship. Look at the bullshit that the teabagger GOP is trying to ram through during budget discussions. Unless the party reforms, the next GOP president will be the closest to a monarch that we have ever known.
I suggest that you should hold your nose and vote for President Obama in 2012. That is our best hope at reforming the GOP. If the Republicans suffer the largest defeat in modern history, calmer heads will seize power and they will abandon their current campaign model in favor of something less radical and destructive. Unless their defeat is crushing, they will assume that they just didn't rally their teabagger base enough. It will take a humiliating loss to either destroy or reform the GOP.
In our nation's history, there may only be two, maybe three times when we've clearly had THE best person available as president. The rest of the time we must settle for the best among the available choices. In 2012, Obama is clearly the best available choice.
I know this isn't going to be a popular sentiment, but campaign spending is a real issue I have with Obama. He has effectively raised the entry price to run a serious campaign for the presidency. A billion fucking dollars? Come on! No way this kind of money is raised without corporate donations, and we need to get such money OUT of campaigns once and for all.
ReplyDeleteThe only good thing about McCain was that he was once for campaign finance reform. In fact, he agreed to a public financing only campaign in 2008...something progressives have desperately wanted for years...and OUR CANDIDATE backed out of it!
Anybody who would support Donald freakin' Trump for POTUS needs to have his or her head examined... literally.
ReplyDeleteI don't think even HE really wants to be President.
O/T
ReplyDeleteIn Tennessee, they are making it so you
need a photo ID to vote. Now they want to
double the price of drivers licences and
photo IDs.
Gotta love those Republicans!
I hope all the fuckers who stayed home
on election day are happy! They showed
those damn Democrats!
6:52 am
ReplyDeleteFucking moron troll alert who kisses Sarah or Brisket's ass daily.
Why don't you get a fucking job that pays better than posting such stupid shit. You hate Obama and you are fooling no one but yourself.
The Palins are the ones who lie about everything and you are going to get kicked under the bus unless you are a dumb Palin yourself.
You are truly ignorant, have chit for brains and need an intervention. Go to hell.
6:46, 6:52
ReplyDeleteIgnorant lying troll alert, spray, wash and rinse then repeat again.
Wonder if the welfare trolls realize that the repubs are going to cut their checks out and their food stamps?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous at 6:52....defend your statements. Please educate us with the "facts".
ReplyDeleteSeriously, with all the anti-union campaigns, the war against pap smears for low-income women, ie, the Battle Against Planned Parenthood, and the rampant birtherism, the GOP must WANT Obama to win in 2012 because all they're doing all the heavy lifting for the Big O and REALLLLLLLY making it easier for the Democrats to solidify the base.
ReplyDeleteAyelet Waldman is a Hollywood big wheel who raised over $1 million for Obama in 08. She said the other day that she is not working for him this time, done.
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