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Shocking Huffington Post Headline: 'Obama Begs Donors: Send More $$$'
News Buster.org ^ | July 1, 2012 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 07/01/2012 9:29:56 AM PDT by Kaslin

Here's a headline you likely never expected to see at the perilously liberal Huffington Post: "Obama Begs Donors: Send More $$$."

The sub-headline below the picture was just as shocking: "Phones Donors From Air Force One... Call Caught On Tape... Issues Warning: GOP Will 'Run Congress And The White House.'"

The link directed readers to a Daily Beast article titled, "President Obama Asks Campaign Donors to Send Him More Money."

Author Lloyd Grove teased, "President Obama sounded weary and maybe a tad worried late Friday during a rambling conference call with campaign donors whom he repeatedly begged to send money—and send it now."

This certainly wasn't what one would have expected from a President that supposedly won a tremendous victory the previous day having his landmark healthcare legislation declared constitutional by the Supreme Court.

Yet as many conservative commentators pointed out including yours truly, this wasn't close to the conquest his fans in the media claimed.

Judging by his pleas in this audio tape sent to the Daily Beast by an Obama donor, the President and his campaign know it:

The majority on this call maxed out to my campaign last time. I really need you to do the same this time,” the president said in a highly unusual (and presumably legal) fundraising pitch from Air Force One on his way back to Washington from Colorado Springs, where he’d been assessing the terrible damage caused by uncontained wildfires. A special phone on the government aircraft is dedicated to political calls that are paid for by the campaign.

I’m asking you to meet or exceed what you did in 2008,”  he continued. “Because we’re going to have to deal with these super PACs in a serious way. And if we don’t, frankly I think the political [scene] is going to be changed permanently. Because the special interests that are financing my opponent’s campaign are just going to consolidate themselves. They’re gonna run Congress and the White House.”

Maybe this call took place after Americans for Prosperity and American Crossroads each created and started running ads Friday pummeling the President for his signature healthcare legislation now being a tax on the citizens, something he promised the people wasn't the case before it was passed.

“In 2008 everything was new and exciting about our campaign,” said the President. “And now I’m the incumbent president. I’ve got gray hair. People have seen disappointment because folks had a vision of change happening immediately. And it turns out change is hard, especially when you’ve got an obstructionist Republican Congress.”

The President then complained about being out-fundraised by Mitt Romney last month, and that the GOP Super PACs are likely to continue to give the former Massachusetts governor the edge.

Those on the call were warned he couldn't wait for contributions later in the year because ad time could already be gobbled up in key markets.

“We are going to see more money spent on negative ads through these super PACs and anonymous outside groups than ever before," Obama said. "And if things continue as they have so far, I’ll be the first sitting president in modern history to be outspent in his reelection campaign.”

Does that sound to you like a man the media claimed was dancing in the White House in the midst of a post-ObamaTax ruling victory lap?


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: airforceone; alteredsource; obamacampaign; obamafundraising; onetermobama
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To: ElkGroveDan

I just pasted the link into IE and okay there


61 posted on 07/01/2012 1:54:32 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

Do we get taxed if we don’t contribute?


62 posted on 07/01/2012 2:01:50 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA: Likely only country in history with laws and policies that ensure self-destruction!)
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To: Kaslin

Thanks! I’m still in the stone age, having just forced my phone company to run DSL to my house about a year ago. My wife keeps saying we should get MagicJack. I guess it’s time to do it.


63 posted on 07/01/2012 2:15:32 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Eye of Unk
Why doesn't Obama just tax penalize those refusing to give him campaign donations, I mean everyone has to pay their fair share, right Don't give those scummy Commies in the Big House any new ideas.
64 posted on 07/01/2012 2:27:22 PM PDT by RightLady (Take out the trash the first Tues after the first Monday in Nov)
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To: Eye of Unk
Why doesn't Obama just tax penalize those refusing to give him campaign donations, I mean everyone has to pay their fair share, right Don't give those scummy Commies in the Big House any new ideas.
65 posted on 07/01/2012 2:27:39 PM PDT by RightLady (Take out the trash the first Tues after the first Monday in Nov)
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To: Kaslin

What? The Saudis and Soros have cut him loose? Chicoms not answering his voicemails? Maybe he should ask Hillary for an intro to the Riadhi family.


66 posted on 07/01/2012 3:01:58 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: tflabo
Caution: we now have about 45% of so-called Americans either hard leftists, illegals, Unions, LSM, Hollyweirdos, GLBT, feminists, entitlement moochers, fawning sheeples, lunatics and morons locked up in to voting for their Dem overlords in the DC asylum. Gonna be a hard battle to win in Nov.

What a scintillating concatenation of slaves, misfits, catamites and sodomites. All sucking off the private productive sector via Federale wealth trasnfer. The natural constituencies of today's Democrat party

67 posted on 07/01/2012 3:02:19 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: a fool in paradise

Excellent point.


68 posted on 07/01/2012 3:09:43 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: tflabo

I completely, totally and absolutely lost faith in the American electorate in 2008.

This country voted this current President into office. As much as the media ran cover for him, there was plenty out there that should have guaranteed his defeat.

Boy, was that ever a telling spelling correction. I somehow mis-spelled “defeat” and the spell checker tried to insert “defecate”.


69 posted on 07/01/2012 3:53:45 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: Kaslin

BOZO’S in deep trouble and he knows it. The RATS know it, they are defecting in droves from his support. Many aren’t even going to show up at the convention. SORRY BUNCH OF LOSERS


70 posted on 07/01/2012 7:08:30 PM PDT by Spike the punch
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To: Kaslin

There is something going on out there among the American people that the polls are simply not picking up. We catch glimpses of it every now and then. We got a glimpse of it in West Virginia a few weeks ago, where the president of the United States finds himself on the Democratic ballot with a convicted felon currently serving time in Texas, and everybody knows that. The convicted felon serving time in Texas wins 41 percent of the Democratic votes in the primary in West Virginia against the incumbent Democratic president.

Two weeks later, we see the same percentage in Arkansas. The same day in Kentucky, Obama’s on the ballot by himself, but in Kentucky you can vote “uncommitted,” and 42 percent of the Democrats in Kentucky voted for “uncommitted” over the incumbent president of their own party. We saw the same thing in Wisconsin, where things were supposed to be neck-and-neck, and it turns out that Walker wins by at least 7 points. So there’s something going on out there that the polls are not picking up.

Two term California house member Tom McClintock


71 posted on 07/01/2012 7:13:02 PM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Spike the punch

You got it, there is a BIG amount of defections from the Dem party. Keep a close eye on the upcoming convention in NC. It may be smaller than realized.


72 posted on 07/02/2012 2:52:55 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl

“Despite what happened last week, Obama ia in big, big trouble.”

It is because of what happened last week...


73 posted on 07/02/2012 3:49:01 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: DefeatCorruption

Mail them a tea bag...


74 posted on 07/02/2012 3:50:08 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Kaslin

“And it turns out change is hard, especially when you’ve got an obstructionist Republican Congress” —> Obo — you had your own way for the first two years. What did you do?


75 posted on 07/02/2012 3:52:19 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

Exactly, and when we take the Senate back with the super Majority and gain more seats in the House we’ll show em who can be obstructionist


76 posted on 07/02/2012 3:56:47 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: NoGrayZone
beggar” in “chief

I guess the Obama registry website isn't doing all that well.
77 posted on 07/02/2012 5:37:52 AM PDT by freebird5850 (Guilty but not prosecuted? Sounds like a liberal to me.)
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To: Kaslin
Obama can only squeeze the money out of the Hollywood Left for so long. After all, the Hollywood Left also have to pay taxes and they too will eventually want tax relief without spending a fortune for tax lawyers and/or accountants to reduce the tax burden as far as possible.
78 posted on 07/02/2012 10:15:29 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: SuziQ

Yeah, so am I


79 posted on 07/02/2012 10:54:52 AM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: pallis; Kaslin
"I get several calls a day from the Romney campaign. I’m starting to think it’s a Democrat scam."

That's what I've thought from the beginning. The Romney campaign is a Democrat Scam.

80 posted on 07/02/2012 11:36:11 AM PDT by DannyTN
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