160 fundraisers since filing for reelection? Gosh, this presidency truly is Historic™.
On Monday, Man of the People Barack Obama told a reporter why he couldn’t make it to Wisconsin to campaign for Democrat Tom Barrett:
The truth of the matter is that as President of the United States, I’ve got a lot of responsibilities.
Translation: As Campaigner in Chief, I’ve got a lot of responsibilities.
Obama had 13 fundraisers in the two weeks before #WIrecall. 9 in four days prior. http://t.co/mVzg7xqk
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 11, 2012
Mark Knoller offers more detail on the president’s mission to reach 160 fundraisers.
The events range in price from $250 to $40,000 per person. The six events will raise at least $3.6-million for his campaign & DNC.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 12, 2012
Hey, he’s just spreading the wealth … from celebrity pocketbooks to his campaign coffers.
At the same point in the 2004 re-election cycle, then-Pres GWBush had done 79 fundraisers.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 12, 2012
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Shorter @markknoller: Obama has attended twice the number of fundraisers attended by GWBush in 2004.
— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 12, 2012
In a recent column on Obama’s 24/7 fundraising presidency, Mark Steyn put the president’s fundraising in perspective with a figure from Brendan J. Doherty’s forthcoming book The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign:
Obama has held more fundraisers than the previous five presidents’ reelection campaigns combined.
That thing Obama said about having a lot of responsibilities as president? We do not think that means what he think it means.
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