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Barack Obama's 2012 cash challenge
Politico ^ | January 14, 2011 | JEANNE CUMMINGS

Posted on 01/14/2011 6:42:28 AM PST by yoe

Bracing for a half-billion-dollar onslaught of outside GOP cash in (2012) President Barack Obama President Barack Obama’s advisers are quietly working to bring back together the major donor base that produced a record-breaking fundraising haul in his first run for president.

In the past few months, (DNC) aides have contacted several of Obama’s earliest financial backers to brainstorm about when and where to host the first money-raising events. Several big donors said they expect the Obama 2012 operation to open its doors this spring, with a string of fundraisers to generate the early cash needed to rebuild the president’s high-tech campaign operation.

But already some of Obama’s top financial backers are warning the (White House): Raising money won’t be as easy this time around.

“They are getting organized in Chicago to start a massive two-year campaign, which I believe will be successful, but has extraordinarily large challenges in some of the major states,” said Philadelphia philanthropist Peter Buttenweiser, who hosted one of the first Obama presidential fundraisers in 2007 and is in talks to organize an early one for the re-election.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2012; corruption; democratsabroad; dnc; donations; obama
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Was Tucson the start of this campaign? President Obama and his JD department are suing AZ for up-holding the immigration law....they call it illegal to profile HuH? These laws have been on our books for years....Obama and his HLS has turned the Southwestern part of AZ into a no man's land, now protecting the 'mules' and illegals from gangs that prey on them. What is going on here Mr. Obama? You call us out then slip in here on a tragedy as if nothing you have done is wrong. Sorry kiddo....I am not buying your brand...........
1 posted on 01/14/2011 6:42:31 AM PST by yoe
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To: yoe

He’s going to have one hell of a time considering the fact that probably half of his small time “donors” have become unemployed since he became president. LOL


2 posted on 01/14/2011 6:45:14 AM PST by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: yoe

I would not be surprised to see major funding for Obama come from the Middle East and the drug cartels in Mexico.


3 posted on 01/14/2011 6:46:00 AM PST by thethirddegree
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To: yoe

Any person who would give money to re-elect Obama must be a !@#$%^&*! commie son of a bitch.


4 posted on 01/14/2011 6:46:45 AM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: yoe

Obama2012, launched standing atop coffins


5 posted on 01/14/2011 6:48:31 AM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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To: GeronL
Obama2012, launched standing atop coffins

Does the name "Horst Wessel" ring a bell with anyone?

6 posted on 01/14/2011 6:52:13 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: yoe

On the bright side (for him), he won’t have to dilute his funds amongst all of the 57 states. He will likely be unable to appear on the ballot for some of those states, so his cash will need to be spent in only some 40-odd states.


7 posted on 01/14/2011 6:54:28 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Don Corleone

Vere do you keep you Horst Wessel?.............

8 posted on 01/14/2011 7:00:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
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To: RU88
Obozo will get lots of money from Saudia Arabia, China and George Soros. He's going to need it. We need to put pressure on Congress to vet the Obozo before the next election.
9 posted on 01/14/2011 7:03:16 AM PST by drypowder
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To: yoe

Because of the Republican majority in Congress, his campaign knows they will be under much more scrutiny than the last time...and with subpoena power.

He is going to have a difficult time raising the kind of money he did before.


10 posted on 01/14/2011 7:23:08 AM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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To: RU88

texting Soros for cash?


11 posted on 01/14/2011 7:39:59 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: yoe

There will be a LOT of money available to him for the run. Always a false hope to think otherwise, this fight is so far from over that the “light at the end of the tunnel” is nothing more than a pin hole sized LED at the end of a very long tunnel.

The outcome is bleak but we are not to give up the fight. Our biggest challenge is pushing aside the RINOs which are still present in large numbers and waiting in the wings wearing sheep’s clothing bleating platitudes and lies of their “conservative credentials” schmoozing the uninformed and nodding heads of sheeple.


12 posted on 01/14/2011 7:46:10 AM PST by brushcop (CW4 Matthew Lourey CW2 Joshua Scott/ Kiowa pilots KIA Iraq '05. Thank you for our son's life.)
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To: yoe

Obama raised a billion dollars BEFORE he was POTUS. Much of it came from lefty billionaires and Arab Sheikhs.

Does anyone imagine that he won’t get even MORE from the Saudis and others after closing down the American oil and coal industries? And after saying that nuclear power would be great but then quietly blocking it?

Plus he has just thrown a trillion American taxpayer dollars down the drain. Does anyone imagine that he won’t get some of it back again from his donors? If he gets just 1% of it back, that would be maybe $10 billion.

No, he won’t lose the election for lack of money or for lack of cheating at the polls or for lack of lying press support. There will have to be an absolute landslide if he is to be stopped.


13 posted on 01/14/2011 9:08:59 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: yoe

Politico campaigning for money for Obama, their boy king.


14 posted on 01/15/2011 9:07:12 AM PST by KansasGirl
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To: brushcop

Good post of the truth. The RINO’s are Democrats with an ‘R’ beside their names whose job one is to redefine Conservatism Left. That is what they are doing simply by participating in the Republican Party. They gotta go. Toss ‘em out. They are traitors.


15 posted on 01/15/2011 6:56:25 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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The GOP Congress will be alert to irregularities this time.

Last time the dims chose not to investigate where all the money was coming from. And, more importantly, where it was going.

16 posted on 01/15/2011 7:00:30 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: thethirddegree

Just like 2008. Saudis again. This Politco piece is more propaganda.


17 posted on 01/15/2011 7:04:10 PM PST by Frantzie (Slaves do not have freedom only the illusion of freedom & their cable TV to drool at)
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To: Cicero

Wow - somebody else here gets it. Careful - they will call you a kook.

Fox’s boy Glenn Beck said he loved the speech/funeral rally. Maybe Beck was just trying to suck up to his boss Prince Al Waleed. I assume Obama gave his standard Mussolini poses when he rallied his thugs in T-shirts as he stood on top of the coffins.


18 posted on 01/15/2011 7:07:54 PM PST by Frantzie (Slaves do not have freedom only the illusion of freedom & their cable TV to drool at)
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To: Perdogg; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ...

Thanks yoe. Green Bay is handing Atlanta its ass. That may change though.
Bracing for a half-billion-dollar onslaught of outside GOP cash in (2012) President Barack Obama President Barack ObamaÌs advisers are quietly working to bring back together the major donor base that produced a record-breaking fundraising haul in his first run for president.

19 posted on 01/15/2011 7:10:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Ev Reeman
"Any person who would give money to re-elect Obama must be a !@#$%^&*! commie son of a bitch."


20 posted on 01/15/2011 8:23:06 PM PST by RasterMaster (The only way to open a LIEberal mind is with a brick!)
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