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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRevealed: Obama's record-breaking effort to tap wealthy donors for cash (The Guardian)
This is "revelatory" to The Guardian?Although unable to run again for election himself, Obama is estimated to have raised up to $40m for other Democrats since his last inauguration in January as he devotes a growing portion of the second term to financing efforts aimed at winning back control of Congress in next year's midterm elections.
Travelling to the 30 fundraisers, mostly held in private mansions and luxury hotels across 10 cities, has also required him to clock up more than 20,000 miles on Air Force One at an estimated cost to the US taxpayer of more than $6m.
In contrast, the Guardian research reveals presidents of both parties previously averaged only 13 fundraisers in the equivalent period of their second terms. George W Bush attended just 11 similar events, Bill Clinton managed 18 and Ronald Reagan only 10.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)... offshores jobs, votes against teachers, donates to charter schools, and supports digging an environmentally destructive mine in our state. Not much of a Democrat by my reckoning.
Pisces
(5,599 posts)what could have been accomplished if he had had a Congress to work with.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)decent human being. That is sad.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts). . . it's a question of being blinded by self-interest.
Pisces
(5,599 posts)want our side to win. There are differences. One side is rational and the other is insane.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Democrats? What happens when that person AGREES with all Democratic principles, should they just close their wallets and vanish instead of trying to get Democrats elected to office? The President is doing exactly what he should be doing. I am sure that in every one of those events, there were local Democratic candidates at his side.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)or do they get to purchase a new, let's call it a 3rd way, to define Democratic principles?
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