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-Election 2012
Champ will do July 4th funder -- in Paris
2012-07-01
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
France, not Illinois...
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
Not Geneva, Illinois...
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.
Posted by:Steve White

#19  beem = been
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2012-07-01 16:32  

#18  Negotiating sanctuary?

Speaking of that, I've beem wondering if BO ever gives any thought to his post WH existence. He's made some people very angry.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2012-07-01 16:32  

#17  I'm fairly sure this guy and his bosses will be chucking 2/6d towards the Obaniation's cause:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070h86
Posted by: Deadeye Sproing4297   2012-07-01 15:44  

#16  Negotiating sanctuary?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-07-01 15:11  

#15  There is a George S. Patton story where he was quoted by the press. His statement got him in considerable trouble with his superiors. While speaking to a group of reporters, he compared the Nazis to losers in American political elections, and that being a Nazi in Germany was, "like being a Democrat in the States." Patton was soon relieved of command of Third Army and transferred to the Fifteenth Army, a paper command preparing a history of the war.

Patton was not politically correct. IMO he was an astute observer of domestic politics.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-07-01 14:17  

#14  Not Paris, TN, Paris, TX or Paris, OH either. The Hustler-in-Chief hustling bucks from his Europeean elitist buddies. Forgoing the $3 raffle for the little people this time? I will never watch a George Clooney movie again. The last movie I saw him in was the Ides of March on cable. The movie captured the rot and corruption of the Democratic left perfectly. He doesn't need my hard-earned bucks.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-07-01 13:57  

#13  Oh, oh, oh.... you unenlightened crackers zaklyuchënny take exception with my mounting green's fees and Martha's Vinyard activities?

The upcoming Paris junket is just a little 'pay-back' for the rough handly of my people Holder. Vindictive bastard! Fits the pattern you might say.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-07-01 13:12  

#12  How much are these INTERNATIONAL campaign fund raiser trips Moochelle and Hussein are suddenly taking costing the US Taxpayers!!???
Posted by: Dino the Weasel6053   2012-07-01 12:56  

#11  Well, Bill, the contributions will be collected from expatriat Americans. Wink wink nudge nudge.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2012-07-01 12:54  

#10  I thought foreign contributions were illegal...oh never mind, this is the Democrats.

Posted by: Bill Clinton   2012-07-01 12:14  

#9  Permit a minor modification if you will:

#7 Boy, that title sums up Obummer perfectly. Worthless phueching, Anti-American elitist snob. Posted by DarthVader
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-07-01 11:40  

#8  ...Mr. One Percenter, in mind and action. The words he extrudes are for political theater. [and remember Julie Baby aka the patrician Julius Caesar was a 'champion' of the plebs in his political environment]
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-07-01 10:58  

#7  Boy, that title sums up Obummer perfectly. Anti-American elitist snob.
Posted by: DarthVader   2012-07-01 10:24  

#6  The European Obama campaign starts next week in Paris

So why is someone running for President in the United State campaigning in Europe, he asked innocently?

And good catch, Deacon!
Posted by: SteveS   2012-07-01 10:23  

#5  What isn't said is Obama will be here in the US, it's just the Campaign that is going to Paris.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2012-07-01 09:18  

#4  Obamacare, sold as holy chalice. In reality a poison chalice.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-07-01 09:05  

#3  Romney on Day #1 should end tax breaks for hollywood.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-07-01 08:52  

#2  Interesting Liotta cartoon on Barry's recent court victory.

Klik
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-07-01 07:05  

#1  Visiting a Marxist president on our national Independence Day with his Hollywood sycophants in tow? I detect no character deviation at all.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-07-01 03:26  

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