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IRONY: Democrats Lament Too Much Money in Politics
as Obama Heads to California for Five More Fundraisers.
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Democrats Lament Too Much Money in Politics as Obama Heads to California for Five More Fundraisers
Posted by Jammie on Jun 06, 2012 at 7:25 am
After their crushing defeat in Wisconsin the coordinated reaction from the White House and their media mouthpieces was sniveling about too much money in politics while ignoring the millions they spent themselves in a futile effort to oust Scott Walker. They’re going to have a tough time keeping a straight face as their party’s leader, fresh off a dozen fundraisers since last Friday, heads to California yet again for another five shakedowns. The irony obviously escapes these idiots.
President Obama’s campaign is increasingly focusing its fundraising efforts on California, where Obama on Wednesday will make his third trip in a month to attend five fundraisers.
Silicon Valley and Hollywood are Obama’s hottest spots to raise money, and the spigots have opened wider since Obama last month went public with his personal endorsement of gay marriage, which went over particularly well with California donors.
The president’s trip on Wednesday will be his 16th visit to California since entering office.
To be sure, the Golden State has always been a major cash machine for Democratic candidates — and even some Republicans. Sixteen of Obama’s top bundlers — including DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg — hail from California. But the state’s importance to the president has increased as Wall Street has cooled to Obama because of his attacks on Mitt Romney’s private-equity background at Bain Capital.
“California has always been the go-to, but it’s becoming that way more than ever this cycle,” said Chris Lehane, a Democratic consultant based in the Golden State.
While Obama might be losing support among investment bankers and hedge fund managers, he’s tapping into the munificence of Silicon Valley, where business has continued to prosper under his presidency, Lehane said.
So some businesses have managed to weather the Obama economic calamity and they claim they’re prospering under Obama. OK, folks, keep believing that.
And when Obama visits the state on Wednesday and Thursday, with two stops in San Francisco and three stops in Los Angeles, he’ll reap the financial benefits of his endorsement of same-sex marriage, observers say.
Ted Johnson, who writes the popular Wilshire and Washington blog for Variety, points to one example as proof: Ticket demand for an LGBT gala Wednesday night in Los Angeles spiked after Obama’s gay-marriage declaration, and a separate dinner — hosted by “Glee” co-creator Ryan Murphy — was added to the schedule.
“The campaign is definitely seeing the demand in California this year,” Johnson said. “Just the fact that he was here three weeks ago and now he’s back is proof of that.”
Actually it’s proof his base is dwindling and his alleged support for gay marriage was a cynical ploy to prop up his failed presidency.
Now when he outspends Mitt Romney and still gets crushed in November, how will his apologists explain that?
Oh, racism, of course.
Posted by Jammie on Jun 06, 2012 at 7:25 am
After their crushing defeat in Wisconsin the coordinated reaction from the White House and their media mouthpieces was sniveling about too much money in politics while ignoring the millions they spent themselves in a futile effort to oust Scott Walker. They’re going to have a tough time keeping a straight face as their party’s leader, fresh off a dozen fundraisers since last Friday, heads to California yet again for another five shakedowns. The irony obviously escapes these idiots.
President Obama’s campaign is increasingly focusing its fundraising efforts on California, where Obama on Wednesday will make his third trip in a month to attend five fundraisers.
Silicon Valley and Hollywood are Obama’s hottest spots to raise money, and the spigots have opened wider since Obama last month went public with his personal endorsement of gay marriage, which went over particularly well with California donors.
The president’s trip on Wednesday will be his 16th visit to California since entering office.
To be sure, the Golden State has always been a major cash machine for Democratic candidates — and even some Republicans. Sixteen of Obama’s top bundlers — including DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg — hail from California. But the state’s importance to the president has increased as Wall Street has cooled to Obama because of his attacks on Mitt Romney’s private-equity background at Bain Capital.
“California has always been the go-to, but it’s becoming that way more than ever this cycle,” said Chris Lehane, a Democratic consultant based in the Golden State.
While Obama might be losing support among investment bankers and hedge fund managers, he’s tapping into the munificence of Silicon Valley, where business has continued to prosper under his presidency, Lehane said.
So some businesses have managed to weather the Obama economic calamity and they claim they’re prospering under Obama. OK, folks, keep believing that.
And when Obama visits the state on Wednesday and Thursday, with two stops in San Francisco and three stops in Los Angeles, he’ll reap the financial benefits of his endorsement of same-sex marriage, observers say.
Ted Johnson, who writes the popular Wilshire and Washington blog for Variety, points to one example as proof: Ticket demand for an LGBT gala Wednesday night in Los Angeles spiked after Obama’s gay-marriage declaration, and a separate dinner — hosted by “Glee” co-creator Ryan Murphy — was added to the schedule.
“The campaign is definitely seeing the demand in California this year,” Johnson said. “Just the fact that he was here three weeks ago and now he’s back is proof of that.”
Actually it’s proof his base is dwindling and his alleged support for gay marriage was a cynical ploy to prop up his failed presidency.
Now when he outspends Mitt Romney and still gets crushed in November, how will his apologists explain that?
Oh, racism, of course.
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MILLER: Hate-the-rich hypocrisy
Obama is against capitalists, unless he wants their money
By Emily Miller
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The Washington Times
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Taxing millionaires and billionaires is at the top of President Obama’s agenda. He plans to use money extracted from “the rich” to pay for his big government - but not until he’s used their cash to fuel his campaign. Mr. Obama is also all too willing to break bread with the vilified hedge-fund owner or raise a glass with the awful private-equity investor as long as their wallets are open to his billion-dollar quest for re-election. The public should see through this hypocrisy.
On Monday, Mr. Obama flew Air Force One to Manhattan for an evening of big-dollar fundraising with singer Jon Bon Jovi. Former President Bill Clinton warmed up the crowd at each event, the first of which was a $40,000 per-person reception at the home of billionaire Marc Lasry, founder of the Avenue Capital Group hedge fund.
Mr. Obama used to bash this profession with lines like, “Let’s ask hedge-fund managers to stop paying taxes that are lower on their rates than their secretaries.” His tone changes when he wants access to their deep pockets. This week, he thanked his hosts for being “great supporters and great friends.”
Next, the two Democratic presidents were whisked from 5th Avenue to the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, where 500 people who could afford to plunk down $2,500 enjoyed a luxurious dinner surrounded by red velvet curtains, golden drapes and glittering chandeliers. Bon Jovi performed the apt “Living on a Prayer” and the more wishful “Here Comes the Sun.”
Mr. Obama didn’t mention his promise to raise taxes on everyone in the room at the end of the year, but he subtly told the assembled plutocrats how he planned to spend their money on another stimulus. “The agenda that we’ve put forward - which says let’s put people to work right now rebuilding our roads and our bridges and putting teachers back in the classroom to accelerate growth now at the same time as we couple it with long-term spending restraint - that’s a recipe that works.”
Mr. Obama’s trillion-dollar stimulus was supposed to lower unemployment, but it’s been stuck over 8 percent since it took effect. No matter, the president’s song and dance culminated with a concert modestly entitled “Barack on Broadway” at The New Amsterdam Theater.
Some 1,700 high-falutin’ Democrats paid up to $1,000 each to hear performances by Patti LuPone, James Earl Jones, Stockard Channing, Neil Patrick Harris and Angela Lansbury. Throughout the glitzy night, Mr. Obama’s teleprompter was wiped clean of his favorite phrases “millionaires and billionaires,” “it’s not fair” and the “Buffett Rule.”
This was just the latest stop in a chi-chi national fundraising tour that started last month with a $15 million evening at movie star George Clooney’s Los Angeles home. Next week, Air Force One will shuttle Mr. Obama back to the Big Apple for a dinner co-hosted by “Vogue” magazine editor-in-chief Anna Wintour at the home of “Sex and the City” actress Sarah Jessica Parker.
Mr. Obama pretends to be the voice of the 99 percent, but he feels most at home with the 1 percent. Voters aren’t likely to fall for the act. The struggling working and middle classes will look at the president’s actions, rather than his rhetoric, when they decide which lever to pull in November.
Emily Miller is a senior editor for the Opinion pages at The Washington Times.
Obama is against capitalists, unless he wants their money
By Emily Miller
-
The Washington Times
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Taxing millionaires and billionaires is at the top of President Obama’s agenda. He plans to use money extracted from “the rich” to pay for his big government - but not until he’s used their cash to fuel his campaign. Mr. Obama is also all too willing to break bread with the vilified hedge-fund owner or raise a glass with the awful private-equity investor as long as their wallets are open to his billion-dollar quest for re-election. The public should see through this hypocrisy.
On Monday, Mr. Obama flew Air Force One to Manhattan for an evening of big-dollar fundraising with singer Jon Bon Jovi. Former President Bill Clinton warmed up the crowd at each event, the first of which was a $40,000 per-person reception at the home of billionaire Marc Lasry, founder of the Avenue Capital Group hedge fund.
Mr. Obama used to bash this profession with lines like, “Let’s ask hedge-fund managers to stop paying taxes that are lower on their rates than their secretaries.” His tone changes when he wants access to their deep pockets. This week, he thanked his hosts for being “great supporters and great friends.”
Next, the two Democratic presidents were whisked from 5th Avenue to the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria hotel, where 500 people who could afford to plunk down $2,500 enjoyed a luxurious dinner surrounded by red velvet curtains, golden drapes and glittering chandeliers. Bon Jovi performed the apt “Living on a Prayer” and the more wishful “Here Comes the Sun.”
Mr. Obama didn’t mention his promise to raise taxes on everyone in the room at the end of the year, but he subtly told the assembled plutocrats how he planned to spend their money on another stimulus. “The agenda that we’ve put forward - which says let’s put people to work right now rebuilding our roads and our bridges and putting teachers back in the classroom to accelerate growth now at the same time as we couple it with long-term spending restraint - that’s a recipe that works.”
Mr. Obama’s trillion-dollar stimulus was supposed to lower unemployment, but it’s been stuck over 8 percent since it took effect. No matter, the president’s song and dance culminated with a concert modestly entitled “Barack on Broadway” at The New Amsterdam Theater.
Some 1,700 high-falutin’ Democrats paid up to $1,000 each to hear performances by Patti LuPone, James Earl Jones, Stockard Channing, Neil Patrick Harris and Angela Lansbury. Throughout the glitzy night, Mr. Obama’s teleprompter was wiped clean of his favorite phrases “millionaires and billionaires,” “it’s not fair” and the “Buffett Rule.”
This was just the latest stop in a chi-chi national fundraising tour that started last month with a $15 million evening at movie star George Clooney’s Los Angeles home. Next week, Air Force One will shuttle Mr. Obama back to the Big Apple for a dinner co-hosted by “Vogue” magazine editor-in-chief Anna Wintour at the home of “Sex and the City” actress Sarah Jessica Parker.
Mr. Obama pretends to be the voice of the 99 percent, but he feels most at home with the 1 percent. Voters aren’t likely to fall for the act. The struggling working and middle classes will look at the president’s actions, rather than his rhetoric, when they decide which lever to pull in November.
Emily Miller is a senior editor for the Opinion pages at The Washington Times.
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