He's outdoing the other guy because Romney's not really trying to fund raise. 1. Romney's rich and 2.and he's got far more anonymous super packs to raise the money for him.

So now the complaint is Obama is working too hard?

Why can't you be richer Obama! Take more vacations! Bush hardly worked at all when he was president!

Unhip1: Maybe the fact he has a ton o money in the warchest already also speaks to why his fundraising isn't criticized much.

Good thing that's a news article, rather than just an opinion piece expressed as news.
Right, subby?

It's neither. It's a book advertisement.

FTFA: The figures, contained a in a new book called The Rise of the President's Permanent Campaign by Brendan J. Doherty, due to be published by University Press of Kansas in July, give statistical backing to the notion that Obama is more preoccupied with being re-elected than any other commander-in-chief of modern times.

Apparently the author is a professor of political science at the Naval Academy.

I find this interesting, seeing as how that Teatard was recently dismissed from the Marines for statements critical of the Commander in Chief. I'm not about to suggest like certain Conservatives that professors at ANY school be given an ideological purity test, but I do find this fact interesting.

Sock Ruh Tease: And ruthless herpaderp.

Dammit! All right, All RIGHT. The SEVEN weapons they have...

edmo: He's outdoing the other guy because Romney's not really trying to fund raise. 1. Romney's rich and 2.and he's got far more anonymous super packs to raise the money for him.

Ah, I see we are back to them flinging their feces and seeing what will stick.

Can't wait to see the herp and derp when Romney is obliterated in November.

randomjsa: The My Little Pony Killer: More like "When Obama does anything at all, no matter how mundane, somebody out there will flip their shiat."

You mean "When a Republican does anything, no matter how mundane, liberals will flip their shiat then excuse Obama for doing the same thing or even worse"

I'm sure that's what you meant.

Case in point right here. Thanks for the demonstration, randomjsa.

tenpoundsofcheese: i rather having him out fundraising and playing golf than him trying to "improve" the economy.

you do know that the President really can't affect the economy directly in any significant manner, right? that's the job of the Federal Reserve.

Bill Murray said I was weird: ox45tallboy: Sock Ruh Tease: And ruthless herpaderp.

Dammit! All right, All RIGHT. The SEVEN weapons they have...

What about prayer? Their prayers for failure, their prayers for assassination, their prayers for terrorist attacks, etc?

Okay, okay, they have a LOT of weapons. Therefore, Obama really does need the extra "fundraising".

/I love how they're taking him to task for actually talking to and visiting with the American people. Would that other Presidents had done the same more often.

Does anyone want to talk about the fact that the author is a professor of political science at the United States Naval Academy? He's written a book critical of the President, and he's the one educating our Naval Officers about politics.

Hmmm.

cman: Weaver95: cman: Wow, the Obamunists are a bit slow tonight.

Usually by now this thread would be at 50+ and have a downvote of 10

they're all off having gay sex abortions while smoking dope and watching Glee reruns on netflix.

They say they are watching Glee because they are too ashamed to admit the truth: Meego

Not all liberals. Some of us own Glee on dvd.

stoli n coke: tenpoundsofcheese: i rather having him out fundraising and playing golf than him trying to "improve" the economy.

Question, what is Romney's economic strategy? He does realize he can't outsource the whole country, right?

Doesn't mean he won't try. BushCo outsourced a good part of the military, which is almost a third of the budget, and the Republicans are already working on Medicare vouchers and Privatizing Social Security, not to mention "school vouchers" for private schools. If those three pass, then we're pretty much outsourcing more than we're doing ourselves, with every single business owner with a government contract taking a significant percentage of the money as "profit" and adding absolutely NOTHING to the services they are providing.

It's almost as bad as when Bush spent on vacation at his ranch in Texas.

cameroncrazy1984: tenpoundsofcheese: Weaver95: tenpoundsofcheese: i rather having him out fundraising and playing golf than him trying to "improve" the economy.

you do know that the President really can't affect the economy directly in any significant manner, right? that's the job of the Federal Reserve.

got it.
I remember you kept defending Bush when people criticized the state of the economy during his administration.

At least you are consistent.

What criticisms were leveled at Bush about the economy during his administration?

tenpoundsofcheese: Weaver95: tenpoundsofcheese: i rather having him out fundraising and playing golf than him trying to "improve" the economy.

you do know that the President really can't affect the economy directly in any significant manner, right? that's the job of the Federal Reserve.

got it.
I remember you kept defending Bush when people criticized the state of the economy during his administration.

At least you are consistent.

actually, I managed to pass all my econ courses. the President has no direct control on the economy...that's not his job.

granted...you might have just fell asleep through econ 101...lots of people do. personally I found the subject fascinating. it's almost enough to make you start believing in conspiracy theory.

rnld: From the article

"While the Obama's campaign activities in office have been largely in line with historical trends..."

Just how many Presidential campaigns has Barry White managed?

Weaver95: granted...you might have just fell asleep through econ 101...lots of people do. personally I found the subject fascinating. it's almost enough to make you start believing in conspiracy theory.

Seems you might have caught up on nap time during American Government. Especially if you think that tax cuts, regulation of the financial markets, huge no-bid contracts amounting to a piece of GDP to the left of the decimal, and investigations/prosecutions (or lack thereof) of financial impropriety by the DOJ don't have an effect of the economy.

Not to mention war. War definitely doesn't have any effect on the economy, does it?

ox45tallboy: Weaver95: granted...you might have just fell asleep through econ 101...lots of people do. personally I found the subject fascinating. it's almost enough to make you start believing in conspiracy theory.

Seems you might have caught up on nap time during American Government. Especially if you think that tax cuts, regulation of the financial markets, huge no-bid contracts amounting to a piece of GDP to the left of the decimal, and investigations/prosecutions (or lack thereof) of financial impropriety by the DOJ don't have an effect of the economy.

Not to mention war. War definitely doesn't have any effect on the economy, does it?

all of those have an effect, yes...but not a direct one. that's the job of the Federal Reserve. in fact, much of what you mentioned (save declaring war) isn't the President's job either. tax cuts, regulation of financial markets, no-bid contracts...all that is either the job of the Fed Reserve and/or congress. other agencies can (and do) get involved...but congress is supposed to sort out any conflicts of interests. oversight of various federal regulatory agencies is supposedly their job after all...but meh. they'd rather just let the President take the fall.

Weaver95: gameshowhost: /don't whine about someone operating within the parameters that ~you~ created, conservafarktards

yes, but they wrote the rules specifically for themselves. having the Democrats abuse the same loopholes is wrong! it's...it's SOCIALISMS is what it is, gotdamnt! that's right, SOCIALISMS! socialisms right up the blindsided, that's what it is....unamerican too, ifn' ya asks the GOP.

Yes! Excuse me but I have to take a break to HAIL CHE.

"Goes fundraising"???

I didn't know "fundraising" was somewhere you went to go do.