OBAMA CAMPAIGN CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE DAY ... WITH FUNDRAISER IN PARIS

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Breitbart.com:

 

Apparently tiring of US soil as a source of campaign dollars, the Obama campaign is headed overseas -- with its celebrity friends in tow. The European Obama campaign starts next week in Paris on July 4 with a reception organized by various fundraising heavy-hitters. Independence Day fundraisers in Paris – now that’s a flag-waving campaign.

 

The Obama campaign will host events in Geneva, Switzerland in August as part of their “European outreach effort.” George Clooney will headline a fundraiser there, with 150 tickets going for $20,000 per piece. There’s even more to the bargain: if you go as a couple, the second ticket is half-off!

 

With the Obama campaign’s increasingly desperate campaign emails begging for cash from the American people, perhaps the campaign thinks they’ll find more fertile soil outside the country. Especially in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that upholds Obama’s European-style healthcare plan, Obama’s hoping to cash in on like-minded folks abroad. Americans don’t believe that Obamacare is a triumph; they see it as a massive net negative, sucking our coffers dry and handing us long-term rationing in return. Europeans, however, know nothing else. The entitlements have already kicked in. What better place to ask for campaign cash?

 

That also may be the only place Obama can still find cheering throngs.

 

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"There is no controlling legal authority that says this was in violation of law." -- Al Gore

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Wow. Even without the fund raiser, being oversees on July 4th?

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OK I'm thinking the article is not clear or I'm not reading correctly. He is not oversees this week, but in August.

 

"Congress is on holiday recess, having wrapped up two items that had been a source of dispute with Obama: A highway bill and an extension of a college student loan program.

On Wednesday, the president will host a White House holiday barbecue for military families."

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Apparently this was a misstatement of his itinerary. Lot's of sources are withdrawing their statement of him being in Paris this week.

 

As ol' whatshername used to say: "Never mind."

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Does Congress need to pass law limiting time sitting president spends campaigning?

 

posted at 5:01 pm on July 1, 2012 by Howard Portnoy

 

 

According to Keith Koffler of White House Dossier, the president has been burning the midnight oil of late. But before you applaud him for working tirelessly on your behalf, you should know that the commander in chief’s non-stop activities have been on his own behalf.

He has been spending considerable “me” time working feverishly to promote a second term. In the month of June he participated in 33 fundraisers, which works out to a little over one per day. That is more than eight times as many fundraising events as George W. Bush attended in June 2004, the year of his own re-election campaign.

Some may argue that the president’s time is his own and that as long as he faithfully discharges his duties as leader of the free world, he is free to do as he pleases. Well, maybe free is not the best word. “Obama’s aggressive fundraising,” Koffler writes, “runs up a large bill for taxpayers, who must foot many of the exorbitant costs of presidential travel, though a portion is paid for by the Obama campaign.”

There is also the matter of quality-of-life issues for inhabitants of the cities on his campaign tour. As a resident of New York City, a place the Obama has visited disproportionately often, I can tell you firsthand that his trips here generate gigantic traffic snarls, bringing transportation into and around Manhattan to a halt as he gallivants from the East Side to the West. These in-and-out trips also set local taxpayers back a small fortune in NYPD overtime. An unscheduled visit he and his wife made to the World Trade Center Memorial site in June took an extra $2 million out of New Yorkers’ pockets.

The solution it would seem is for Congress to write a law that sets Read More http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/07/01/does-congress-need-to-pass-law-limiting-time-sitting-president-spends-campaigning/