Another day, another robotic minion to send the plea:
George —
Well, I’ve got some good news and some bad news.
Good news first: June was our best fundraising month yet. We exceeded expectations — more than 706,000 people like you stepped up and pitched in for a grand total of $71 million raised for this campaign and the Democratic Party.
Bravo. That’s seriously impressive.
Bad news? We still got beat. Handily. Romney and the RNC pulled in a whopping $106 million.
So, to recap: We had our best fundraising month yet, and we still fell about $35 million short. We can win while being outspent — but we need to keep it close.
You know what that means. We’ve got some work to do.
Pitch in $4 or more right now to start closing the gap.
This is no joke. If we can’t keep the money race close, it becomes that much harder to win in November.
But this election isn’t about how much money our campaigns can raise — none of us would be fighting this hard just to win a money war. We’re here because we believe in something bigger — because none of us wants to see this country go back to the policies that drove our economy into a ditch, which is exactly what the other side wants to do.
Whatever it is that brings you to this fight, what happens next is up to you. Donate today:
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. – As protesters assembled on a beach in advance of Mitt Romney’s evening event at the home of conservative billionaire David Koch, the candidate slipped to East Hampton for his first of three fundraisers on this tony stretch of Long Island.
The line of Range Rovers, BMWs, Porsche roadsters and one gleaming cherry red Ferrari began queuing outside of Revlon Chairman Ronald Perelman’s estate off Montauk Highway long before Romney arrived, as campaign aides and staffers in white polo shirts emblazoned with the logo of Perelman’s property — the Creeks — checked off names under tight security.
They came with high hopes for the presumed Republican nominee, who is locked in a tight race with President Obama. And some were eager to give the candidate some advice about the next four months …
A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name, said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. “I don’t think the common person is getting it,” she said from the passenger seat of a Range Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. “Nobody understands why Obama is hurting them.
“We’ve got the message,” she added. “But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact …”
“It’s not helping the economy to pit the people who are the engine of the economy against the people who rely on that engine,” Michael Zambrelli said as the couple waited in their SUV for clearance into the Creeks shortly after the candidate’s motorcade flew by and entered the pine-tree lined estate. “He’s basically been biting the hand that fed him in ’08. … I would bet 25% of the people here were supporters of Obama in ’08. And they’re here now.”
I’m all for total class warfare but I’m not interested in a crowd-sourced competition with these people.
The Comedian, in Watchmen, right before he shoots someone with a tear gas round: “What happened to the American Dream? It came true. You’re lookin’ at it.”
KABUL — The United States declared Afghanistan a major non-NATO ally on Saturday, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton personally delivering the news of Afghanistan’s entry into a club that includes Israel, Japan, Pakistan, and other close Asian and Middle Eastern allies.
The move, announced as Clinton stood with President Hamid Karzai amid the towering trees and rose beds on the grounds of the presidential palace here …
The moves also appear to have already yielded one dividend for the United States: Karzai has not recently lashed out at his backers, as he has in the past, at one point calling Americans ‘‘demons.’’
“Comedy thrives; indeed writers are hardly needed to invent outrageous events.??? — Sun Tzu for the American Geo-Politician
“As Paisley and his band finished their final song (Welcome to the Future), fireworks began over the National Mall.”
In the mail, this morning:
George —
Election Day will be here in less than four months. And we’re facing a big problem right now that could directly affect the outcome that day.
The Romney campaign and the Republicans raised $100 million in the month of June alone. That is a massive sum.
Just wait until they start spending all that money in full force in key states we need to win.
Folks, here is the simple reality: Building this campaign today is more important than it was a few days ago. We can still win even while getting outraised by these guys. But we’ve got to keep it close.
That means none of us — not one — can wait to make a difference right now, with whatever we can afford to chip in:
https://donate.barackobama.com/Closing-the-Gap
A little incentive: A donation before midnight tonight will also automatically enter you for the chance to sit down with me for a cup of coffee sometime soon. We’ll fly you out, and you can bring a guest.
And really — thanks, for whatever you’re able to give today.
Joe
Holy cow, a four dollar lottery ticket with one in a million odds to have coffee with Joe Biden!
Ask Brad.
Oh, wait. He’s probably already had coffee, soda and hot dogs with you and the President at the White House a few times.
In a side note, Brad Paisley is about the only mainstream big-selling country artist who would appear to be inclined to vote for the President in November.
Romney and the Republicans announced yesterday that they brought in more than $100 million in June.
For context, that’s about what we raised in April and May combined.
We’re still tallying our own numbers, but this means their gap is getting wider, and if it continues at this pace, it could cost us the election.
We need to reverse this trend — and we need to start now. Will you make a donation of $4 or more today?
One hundred million is alarming enough, but it doesn’t even include the millions pouring into pro-Romney super PACs — or the fact that, unlike four years ago, it’s perfectly legal for the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Karl Rove, and anonymous billionaires to funnel unlimited money into attacking President Obama in critical battleground states.
I’m proud of the way we build this organization. Through the primaries, more than three-quarters of our donations were from people giving less than $1,000. Meanwhile, in that same period, Mitt Romney’s campaign raised three-quarters of its money from people giving $1,000 or more.
If we don’t take this seriously now, we risk finding ourselves at a point where there is too much ground to make up.
We need to do something about it. Today.
Here, send [Mean Future] … to your mailing list and I might think about donating.
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Thank you,
Obama for America
It’s such a great idea to send robotic dunning e-mails to the little people everyday. That’s the definitive answer to Mitt Romney’s crazy right-wing billionaire sugar daddies.
The economy continued its sluggish performance in June as employers added just 80,000 jobs and the nation’s unemployment rate remained at 8.2 percent, the government reported Friday …
The job market seemed to plateau on many fronts in June, as only professional and business services added significant new jobs, while manufacturing — a bright spot in the otherwise tepid recovery — added 11,000 positions. Health care added 13,000 jobs, while most other industries showed little change.
The number of people officially labeled unemployed held steady at 12.7 million, and the number of people who have been out of work for more than six months remained at 5.4 million, accounting for nearly 42 percent of the overall unemployed …
Markets slid …
From the economy that’s boiling down into making nothing except high end goods, cars (saved by the taxpayer) arms (paid for by the taxed) and trivial services, business remains profitable by paying the desperate people still employed less and less. They then go on food stamps or depend on the strapped resources of extended family.
And this couldn’t be a better summary of delusion in the culture of lickspittle.
Why, you would think Brad Paisley would be happy someone made such a bang on update of his super hit. Some people, jeez, you just can’t please ’em.
Obama visited Ziggy’s Pub and Restaurant in Amherst, Ohio …
“I’ll arm wrestle you for your vote,” [patron Jeff Hawks] told Obama. (Landler’s report was mum on the relative sizes of the two men). The president demurred.
340 pounds of loud sodden fun. The President’s a gamer, that’s for sure.
With Chief Justice Roberts‘ vote to save Obamacare, I was reminded of what my dad told me more than 50 years ago: Never trust a man who wears a black robe. He might be naked under there …
Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.
How the future really turned out. Not quite what Brad Paisley’s big hit single, Welcome to the Future, advertised. Well, it wasn’t his fault. He got the iPhone bit right.
Reality shows again and again you can’t spoof the Tea Party.
Abe Lincoln messed up everything, sez a descendant of John Wilkes Booth one Tea Party man.
In Hey Craig Man, at 2:12, a Tea Party marcher with a poster of preposterous assertion, MLK was a Republican. At 2:17, someone promenading with an “I Love Capitalism” placard. You scratch your head and laugh a bit when you see such things. It’s immediately offset by realization that most of the Obama administration’s tenure has been crippled by the ascent of Tea Party dogma and that the annihilating nature of such views could easily take the country down in November.
