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Title: Obama '12 launch likely next week (Panic early campaign, as hopes fade)
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Politico
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52416.html
Published: Apr 3, 2011
Author: GLENN THRUSH & MIKE ALLEN
Post Date: 2011-04-03 04:45:43 by Hondo68
Keywords: chaos in the Middle East, announcement will be transmitt, text messages, email, social m
Views: 3196
Comments: 10
President Barack Obama plans to announce his reelection campaign early next week in an electronic message to grass-roots supporters, Democratic sources tell POLITICO. Obama launches with a recovering economy and a weak, fractured Republican field, but with chaos in the Middle East that adds unpredictability to an environment that points to likely reelection. Obama’s campaign, which could raise $1 billion or more, will be based in Chicago, just a few blocks from the headquarters of his historic 2008 race. The most likely day for the campaign to file registration papers with the Federal Election Commission is Monday, but officials are not committing to a specific date in case some transcendent event in the world would overshadow the kickoff. Obama aides want to tell their supporters first, and so are not encouraging preview stories by the press. The president’s announcement will be transmitted directly to supporters through text messages, email and social media, not with an appearance by Obama, the sources said. The launch could come any time, according to the sources. The website is ready, the donation button has been tested, and call sheets to key political supporters are set. David Axelrod, who returned to Chicago after serving as a White House senior adviser for the first two years, will once again be Obama’s strategic guru. Obama campaign organizers have long planned to launch at the beginning of the second quarter so they can show a fundraising juggernaut in their first report to FEC. But they couldn’t pull the trigger on the first day of the quarter, April Fool’s Day, and then the next two days were weekend days. Obama is scheduled to raise money for the campaign in Chicago on April 14, and the campaign had to formally organize before that date. Former West Wing staffer Jim Messina, Obama’s likely campaign manager, has been holding donor meetings around the country, and the president is scheduled to hold a series of fundraisers in New York and California over the next few weeks. The campaign expected to raise $750 million to $1 billion. On Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney teased reporters about the FEC filing, one of the worst kept secrets in Washington, inserting a breathless, dramatic pause into a typically monotone readout of Obama’s schedule for the next week. “On Monday, the president will …” Carney said. “File?” suggested Chip Reid, a CBS reporter. “Wait for it, Chip,” added Carney, with a chuckle. “On Monday, the president will attend meetings at the White House.”
Expected to lose the nomination, and be deported to Kenya on inauguration day
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
President Barack Obama's First Ad of 2012
If Obama is reelected, it will clearly spell out that either... (a) there truly is no hope because Americans have lost it, or (b) our elections are rigged
(a) there truly is no hope because Americans have lost it, or (b) our elections are rigged Or "C" - ALL of the above. The havoc this guy will create until 2012 is frightening. If the Kenyan and the Elites do manage to rig the 2012 election in favor of this anarchist/commie, America is DEAD. Agenda 21 has seen that our sovereignty is eliminated. Thank you again, Bush Family.
HA! That was GREAT.
Agenda 21 has seen that our sovereignty is eliminated. Thank you again, Bush Family. If a D or R gets elected president again, America as we've known it will cease to exist. The D&R party is on-board. Vote third party!
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... Then a (D) gets elected, that's too bad but reality sucks. A 3rd Party will never work from the top down, it has to start local and take a significant number of Congressional seats, then it can go for the White House.
If there are sufficient votes to elect a third party president, then there's enough local support to accomplish useful change, even if there are lots of D's and R's in congress. They'll be forced to go along with the overwhelming public opinion. Either way will work IMO, bottom up, or top down.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... Perot put Clinton in, twice. The same thing would happen w/ Obama vs. (R) vs. 3rd. Party. It is what it is.
Darn! Looks like we'll just have to support whatever globalist, leftist neoconservative that the RNC anoints.
Support who you like, I'm just pointing out what is. I'll be in a new district in 2012. If they put out a RINO, like I suspect the good 'ol boys around here will do, then I'm hoping the Libertarian that ran last time gives it another shot. That's who I will support against a RINO. As I have already said, a serious 3rd Party has to evolve from the bottom up. If you start at the top, all you're doing is splitting one candidate or the other's (most likely the (R)'s) votes. And even if you did put a 3rd Party in the White House, he'd be a lame duck from the get go because the (D)s & (R)s in Congress would team up against him. Just look at what's going on now, Boehner, Cantor, & the establishment RINOs are itching to find a way to join the Dims in blocking the Tea Party Republicans' agenda, they both look on them as a semi-3rd Party.
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
#3. To: We The People, hondo68 (#2)
If Obama is reelected, it will clearly spell out that either...
#4. To: Happy Quanzaa (#1)
#5. To: Liberator, *Constitution Party* (#3)
(Edited)
If the Kenyan and the Elites do manage to rig the 2012 election in favor of this anarchist/commie, America is DEAD.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
Vote third party!
#7. To: Happy Quanzaa (#6)
(Edited)
A 3rd Party will never work from the top down, it has to start local and take a significant number of Congressional seats
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#8. To: hondo68 (#7)
#9. To: Happy Quanzaa (#8)
#10. To: We The People (#9)
(Edited)
Darn! Looks like we'll just have to support whatever globalist, leftist neoconservative that the RNC anoints.
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