Posted on 06/30/2011 10:58:14 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
PHILADEPHIA (AP) — Even as President Barack Obama's re-election effort is powering toward an impressive early fundraising haul, campaign officials are trying to reassure donors who have concerns about a range of policy decisions and pace of change during Obama's first term.
Some top donors and even members of Obama's campaign team say that to replicate the success of 2008, the president and his advisers must reassure the fundraising community on a number of issues, from regulations on Wall Street to the Middle East peace process to the president's refusal to endorse gay marriage.
"It's not unfair to say the donor base, at least the significant-to-large donor base, has questions," former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, told reporters Thursday. But he said Obama "has good answers for all of them."
Obama seemed to acknowledge the dampened expectations Thursday during a fundraiser in Philadelphia, telling campaign donors that he knew there would be setbacks in governing, just like he faced setbacks during his campaign in 2008. But he appealed to supporters to show the same vigor they did more than two years ago to send him to victory.
"I understand that sometimes generating the same energy is difficult," he said at an event later. "We've gone through two years of very difficult work." He then added, with a chuckle: "My hair is grayer. I'm not as young and vibrant as I was."
Obama's team hopes to raise $60 million for the campaign and the Democratic National Committee when the latest fundraising quarter ends Thursday. Obama and the Republicans competing for the GOP nomination will file quarterly reports that will be disclosed by mid-July, offering the first extended look at each campaign's financial health.
Obama is expected to demonstrate a whopping fundraising advantage over the entire GOP field....
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2008....was that back when unemployment was 6%, gas was $1.80 a gallon, and we were not running annual deficits of $1 trillion for three years in a row?
Does Fidel give six hour speeches?
His supporters are just too busy getting their cars tuned up and checking the air pressure in their tires.
“C’mon, pepple. Do it for meeeeee!!!!”
Consisting mostly of protection money and quid-pro-quos....If it looks like he'll lose he won't even get that.
LLS
They shot their load with the 2008 fiasco and what did they get - the hands down worst president in the Nation’s history.
Just what we need - more hope and change. He’s going to need every penny he can raise. Gotta have some “walkin’ around handout money” to get the leeches to the polls.
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