A British newspaper claims a new Hope™ and Change™ accomplishment for #Occupant Obama:
Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book.
Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office.
The figures, contained a in a new book called The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign by Brendan J. Doherty, due to be published by University Press of Kansas in July, give statistical backing to the notion that Obama is more preoccupied with being re-elected than any other commander-in-chief of modern times.
Unbelievable. I can’t imagine how this can be true. How can he possibly find the time?
I mean, between all the rounds of golf…
That stat is nestled comfortably against the one where obama has spent more money than every elected president combined since, well…all of’em.
I mean, between all the rounds of golf…
When you’re not actually, y’know, Presidentin’ any of the time, that leaves loads of free time.
It looks like the last record holder was GWB, but as in all things the Teleprompter has left him in the dust — and the election is still more than six months away.
Come on. You must realize that our Community Organizer in Chief needs to mug for the communities he’s selling CHANGE to. What else is he qualified to do?
It’s all spinning out of control. . .
I scooped Instaman.
When you can’t talk to the press without POTUS but you are good at accepting adoration from coeds, you spend your time presidentin’ in college bars.
POTUS should be TOTUS?
I seriously doubt “number of fundraisers held” is the best metric for adjuding government by permanent campaign.
Somebody should ask Dick Morris what he thinks.
Not the best, but a data point worth considering.
TOTUS is holding all these fundraisers because he wanted a billion-dollar re-election campaign — and he’s having trouble even matching his decidedly sub-billion pace of 2008. It tells us a lot, both about his priorities and about the willingness of his supporters to keep funding those priorities after 39 months of seeing them in action.
Start governing in year five? Or start campaigning for King of the World?
Obama doesn’t have the time for governing. He’s a busy man!
Can’t he just eat his waffle?
But he wants to have it too!
“Can’t he just eat his waffle?”
No, but maybe after his next golf vacation he’ll drop by, ring the doorbell, and eat our waffles. Y’know, to make things more fair.
Here’s Obama’s version of “governing” now. Oh, sure, it looks like campaigning. So Barry’s people seem to be beginning to understand they need to dump their problems quickly, rather than let them linger to fester into re-election burdens. But then, what the hell is Eric Holder still doing in office?
Argh. The Wonce is on teevee with the PM of Japan and is, once again, making it all about him. He even threw in an analogy to basketball.
Gist of talk: The Japanese are and always have been our pals. Let me tell you about our new vision to guide our alliance.
Double argh.
Now he’s waving the corpse of Bin Laden and dissing Romney.
I consider the Japanese to be our pals now, because it’s currently in their best interest to be pals with us. It wasn’t all that long ago they were not our pals, so we had to administer some correction. There are still people alive who recall clearly how much they weren’t our pals.
That wasn’t for the regulars, that was for the Obama apologists out there.
Barack Obama. He’s tanned, rested and ready!
Vote Obama! No child left a dime!!
All these years later, including my oldest son being station there for a while, and I never knew Okinawa was pronounced O-KEE-NA-WA.
President Bam, he knows all them tricky ferrin words.