Is Obama a Sleaze?

So it turns out there's a reason the president hasn't wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo, or found anybody a job. He's been out raising money.

He's been schmoozing, and golfing, and kissing ass.

The Wall Street Journal has outlined in quite excruciating detail just how the president has actually been spending a significant amount of his time and attention. In nine months he's done 26 fundraisers. Three a month.

George Bush, by this point in his presidency, had, according to the Journal, only done six. The Journal says Obama's hyper-fundraising is because of McCain-Feingold, which limits soft money contributions. Obama has got to do more to raise more. George Bush raised $48 million with his six fundraisers; Obama, so far, has only raised $21 million.

He's not just been on his belly, but on his belly for a relative pittance.

It's important to be clear on just exactly what this operation is: The president of the United States is slavishly stroking rich guys. He's listening to their dumbass (and dull) opinions, he's laughing at their lame jokes, he's cultivating their secret ambitions.

He's becoming their friend.

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Comments

[HeevenSteven]

Presidents befriend rich guys? NO WAY! Big news here.

[Jesse64]

I'm just really glad that this is how our president is spending his time. So he has held four times the amount of fundraisers that Bush had by this time, but has only come up with half the amount of money that Bush had. That seems kind of weird to me. You'd think he realized that he needs to change his strategy by now, since obviously his current one is not working out for him at all.