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Originally Posted by buggyone
If Pres. Obama has attended 132 fundraisers for his political party, good for him. The last sentence of the posting says the taxpayer foots most of the bill whether the fundraiser is across the country or across the street. Of course the Secret Service and official travel is used. Do you want the President - no matter who - taking the Metro at rush hour by himself to the W Hotel to deliver a speech and then schlepping back to the White House by himself on the Metro after the speech?
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In all honesty I want the President to be President.
To attend almost TWICE as many POLITICAL fundraisers as any other President
in these hard economic times at our expense gets my attention.
Perhaps there are those who do not care about something like this, but at the minimum, you would think the President would care.
I said it for a few years...the single most political president in history, and if that is ok with everyone thats fine. It is not with me, no matter the party.
"President 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."
Book: Obama Held More Fundraisers Than Previous 5 Presidents Combined
Taking your quote literally....
"If Pres. Obama has attended 132 fundraisers for his political party, good for him" then we differ a great deal on judging the President while in office.
PS...Allow me to add this. While 2012 is an election year, the below link is from Dec,
2011..
On Wednesday, President Obama zipped up to New York City to attend three different fundraising events. Occupy Wall Street protesters greeted the president outside the Sheraton New York, the site of one of Obama's fundraisers, though New York police officers kept the demonstrators penned in what NYPD called "frozen zones."
"Sixty-nine fundraisers this year by December 1. That's an average of more than one fundraiser every five days. (Though, as Obama's latest Big Apple trip shows, these events are often clustered together on a single day.) This is a blistering pace of rainmaking for the 44th president in 2011.
Obama's fundraising activity surpasses that of predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. According to Brendan Doherty, a political scientist at the US Naval Academy, Bush attended 41 fundraisers between January 1, 2003 and November 30, 2003. Clinton attended 23 fundraisers from January 1, 1995 and November 30, 1995."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011...five-days-2011