Obama’s Billion Dollar Re-election Campaign Denied

Obama’s Billion Dollar Re-election Campaign Denied


“People have speculated this is a billion-dollar campaign,” said Messina.  “That’s bullshit.  We don’t take PAC money unlike our opponents.  We fund this campaign in contributions of three dollars or five dollars or whatever you can do to help us expand the map, to put more people on the ground, to build a real grassroots campaign that is going to be the difference between winning and losing.” - Jim Messina - Obama’s Campaign Manager


By Dell Hill via Ed Morrissey

“You know, nothing says classy in a presidential campaign like having to bleep out a word from the national campaign manager in a prepared video.  The Daily Caller catches Obama 2012 chief Jim Messina calling the billion-dollar expectations of their fundraising “bull****” at the 2:50 mark, and arguing that their fundraising relies on $3-$5 donations from all you ordinary ****-kickers out there, or something:



“People have speculated this is a billion-dollar campaign,” said Messina.  “That’s bullshit.  We don’t take PAC money unlike our opponents.  We fund this campaign in contributions of three dollars or five dollars or whatever you can do to help us expand the map, to put more people on the ground, to build a real grassroots campaign that is going to be the difference between winning and losing.”

Messina might have a point, albeit with a potty-mouthed presentation.  The billion-dollar campaign theme started with this Wall Street Journal article, where Democratic Party leaders (unnamed) speculated that the 2012 presidential election would cost each party one billion dollars — not necessarily the campaigns alone.  That’s due in large part to Obama himself, however, who refused to participate in the federal election fund and its spending limitations in 2008 after promised earlier to comply, and then doing nothing to fix the system he claimed was “broken” for the three years he’s been in office.  Obama raised $600 million on his own in 2008 after bailing out of the system, and he didn’t do that in increments of $3, either.

Nor has he done so in this cycle.  Messina conveniently neglects to mention that the Obama campaign has a few bundlers raising big money for the campaign.  Did I say “a few”?  More like three hundred and fifty-seven of them, including Obama’s personal envoy to Wall Street, MF Global CEO Jon Corzine, a magician whose firm made $1.2 billion in customer funds disappear.  That figure includes 78 from law firms, 62 from the investment community, 31 from “business services,” and 15 from the entertainment industry.”

Dell’s Bottom Line:  Nice mouth, Messina.  It’s going to be quite the trip to November with the head of Obama’s campaign committee utilizing guttural street-talk to the American public.  The lame-stream media will love it.  

Also take note of the fact that Messina is a liar, just like his boss.

Obama took many millions in contributions that could never be traced because his campaign committee, as well as the DNC, refused to keep a record of the “small contributions” that came from people who didn’t even know they had contributed.  Obviously, names (but not addresses) of these phantom donors were plucked from telephone directories and people like George Soros provided the illegal funds in their name.  Undoubtedly, George Soros accounted for many of those “contributions”, but there’s no way to follow the money because of the Democrat’s trickery in recording them.

This is one of the primary reasons why rank and file citizens of this country have given up on a totally corrupt system and that corruption isn’t limited to Democrats solely.  They just happen have the system of corruption mastered.