Barack Obama Officially Announces He's Running In 2012

[Mustang Man]

http://gothamist.com/2011/04/04/bara...nnounces_h.php

President Barack Obama has kicked off his 2012 effort with a campaign video (see below) posted on his website that encourages people to help get out the vote, in hopes of recapturing the grassroots fervor that helped him get elected in 2008. Obama doesn't appear in the video, but many of his supporters do, and one says, "President Obama is one person...Plus he's got a job. We're paying to do a job so we can't ask him to take some time off to get us all energized so we better figure it out."

Politico reports, "An official filing with the Federal Election Commission is expected to come Monday so that Obama can begin fundraising for his campaign. His first official fundraiser is scheduled for April 14 in his hometown of Chicago. Two more are set for the following week, in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with ticket prices ranging from $25 for young adults — “Gen44” — to $2,500 for VIPs." Politico also notes Obama's email message from this morning to supporters:

“We’re doing this now because the politics we believe in does not start with expensive TV ads or extravaganzas, but with you — with people organizing block-by-block, talking to neighbors, co-workers, and friends,” he says, explaining why the launch is coming more than 19 months before Election Day. “And that kind of campaign takes time to build.”

“So even though I’m focused on the job you elected me to do, and the race may not reach full speed for a year or more, the work of laying the foundation for our campaign must start today,” Obama continues in the written message. That includes fundraising for what could be the first-ever $1 billion campaign.



The Caucus points out that unlike his change message in 2008, "Now, Mr. Obama must defend his own unpopular wars, an economic recovery that remains fragile, fiscal policies that have drawn skeptics and energy policies that have stalled in the face of natural and manmade disasters. And most of all, the president must find a way to explain how he made good on promises to change the way Washington conducts itself in spite of a brutally divisive health care fight and an ongoing budget standoff that appears to have bogged down in the same politics that Mr. Obama decried as a candidate in 2008."

[Wiseman]

This is a change we can definitely believe in. Unemployment is definitely a big change...maybe we'll get more of that.

[Box]

silly me...
...I thought he had started his 2012 campaign on 21 January of 2009

[AngelsSix]

Even scarier is the 56.43% (136 people) that said that will vote for him in 2012. That just astounds me.

[Box]

Even scarier is the 56.43% (136 people) that said that will vote for him in 2012

...and even MORE scarier is that he only needs 51% to win

[Red Flag 1]

Originally Posted by Billy L-bach

...and even MORE scarier is that he only needs 51% to win

No help from Acorn this time.

RF1

[slickman777]

i think that we are not recognizing progress when we see it. this is possibly the first time our supreme commander has saved we lowly tax payers money.... by not appearing in his own friggin commercial.







-gun control is staying on target.

[Tress]

Originally posted by Red Flag 1:

No help from Acorn this time.

He might also receive less help from his celebrity friends. They do not seem too happy with him at the moment. It seems they feel that he is not as left-leaning as they thought.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thetic...esident-obamaa

And projections are through the roof when considering how much they are thinking of spending for the upcoming election.

“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,” reports Politico.com. “The campaign is expected to raise $750 million to $1 billion.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politic...cost-1-billion

Can they not find something else to do with all of that money?

[LarryW]

Even scarier is the 56.43% (136 people) that said that will vote for him in 2012. That just astounds me.

The 3 kinds of lies: Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

No help from Acorn this time

Watch. The pinhead is from Chicago. ACORN will revive itself wearing a Union Label.

Originally Posted by Aloysius

And yet the Right has zero to offer, so I guess we are all hoping and wishing at this point in time.

Obama is on his way for a 2nd term because the GOP cannot look into the future and come up with a plan.

They do know what to tell the American people what to be against, but they cannot lead this nation any better than this POTUS.

While I will do everything I can to toss this guy on his ass by casting my free and independant vote, I am bracing myself for another 4 years.

But do not forget, more can happen in a few hours that changes the course of any pre-conceived agenda.

7 Dec 1941
9-11-2001

(next????)

I can think of 5 people who would be great as president, but none of them would take the job.

o.k., maybe two......

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by LordReagal

Question. Is it possible to destroy America in 3 years? A lot of you Obama "haters?" seem to think he destroyed the country. Are you guys blaming him personally? Or just blaming him because he is in charge?

Answers: Yes,Yes and Both!.............

Big Teddy

[echoes]

Originally Posted by LordReagal

Question. Is it possible to destroy America in 3 years? A lot of you Obama haters seem to think he destroyed the country. Are you guys blaming him personally? Or just blaming him because he is in charge?

And... a lot of us Gals, too.

Is "He" in charge? Hmmm, makes me wonder. "Who-Sane" seems to be following his agenda very closely:

1. Bring about real change= Destroy the economy first.

2. Bow to Dictators= Destroy the trust second.

3. Enact rediculous laws that bring about communism & Islamic Tolerence=

BANG! We Are Dead.

And your question was what??? Get a clue man, seriously.

Thankfully, there are still Real Americans who can call a spade a spade.

Holly

Originally Posted by LordReagal

Question. Is it possible to destroy America in 3 years? A lot of you Obama haters seem to think he destroyed the country. Are you guys blaming him personally? Or just blaming him because he is in charge?

Yes.

Don't hate him, I just think he's an ass, an idiot, and could not think his way off of dangerous ground.

No, not personally, we began this sliding slope of falling many years ago, but he keeps greasing the rails.

I blame everyone who put him in office and most importantly, the Hollywood suck heads who supported him and the grassroot, punch drinking, door to door HS kids who thought he would make "Change". Well they got that part right, things have changed. He is in charge, for the moment.

Not that I haven't seen a few governments fall in my time.

Seems Oprah has also recently pulled her support of her favorite president, wow, what commitment!

[incarcerated]

Originally Posted by LordReagal

Question. Is it possible to destroy America in 3 years? A lot of you Obama haters seem to think he destroyed the country. Are you guys blaming him personally? Or just blaming him because he is in charge?

Nice stereotype.
Care to be more specific?
Please refer me to the posts in which ‘we’ claimed that Obama destroyed the country.

[echoes]

Originally Posted by LordReagal

On the first page someone said he was running the country into the ground. So he is destroying the country.

This must be a joke right? Are you Lord whatthefuckever, honestly saying that? This must be a joke, right?.....

Back onto the thread topic, Obama must think running for election is more importan t than running America, IMHO. Can we please bring back Regan?

Holly