President Obama Makes $5,000 Donation…To Himself?
- Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:34pm by
Jason Howerton
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President Barack Obama (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Obama so sincerely believes in his abilities as commander-in-chief that he was moved to donate $5,000 to his own reelection campaign, an official confirmed to Politico.
Earlier this morning, Obama sent an email to his supporters, explaining that his donation to himself was a symbolic gesture.
“On its own, what I gave won’t be enough to surmount the unprecedented fundraising we’ve seen on the other side, both from our opponent’s campaign and from the outside groups and special interests supporting him,” Obama wrote. “But we have always believed that there‘s nothing we can’t do when we all pitch in. That includes me.
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While there are no limits on a candidate donating to his or her own campaign, Obama’s donation is the federal maximum that an individual can give to a campaign (of course, the ‘real’ maximum is much higher — and the Obama has taken donations form as high as $75,000 by combining their fundraising effort with the Democratic National Committee and state parties).
Chicago has embarked on an all-out fundraising push in advanced of the July fundraising deadline — attempting to keep pace with a Mitt Romney fundraising operation that has outpaced them two months in a row.
Along the way, the Obama campaign has tried tirelessly to use the Romney campaign’s financial advantage against them. According to Obama, they are the underdog and presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is trying to buy the election with all of his riches.
“Over the past two months, we have been outraised by our opponents. They’ve used that advantage to distort the truth and mislead people, over and over, on TV and the radio in battleground states,” Obama wrote in a different email to supporters. “Tonight is one of the most critical fundraising deadlines we’ll face.”
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Comments (78)
NHwinter
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:52pmTell him to get his feet off that historic desk! Have some respect.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:35pmI’d like to smack that smarmy grin off his face.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:56pmI’d like to taze him on his tongue.
Report Post »ZZZZT.Agg, agg, agg, agga gaga.
HigherRoad
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:07pmThe height of disrespect for the office he holds! I can’t wait to get a President who really cares about this nation!
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:24pmThis may be the first time he has spent his own money..Still 5000 does not seem like much from a guy comfortable with spending trillions of other peoples dollars in wasteful ways..No point in him risking more on himself..he will probably write it off as charity. money given to a pathetic communist bisexual manchild,
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 6:34pmAgga gagga agg gag a kaka yag.
Report Post »Zzt, zzt,zzt.
dgonzalez01
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:49pmHa Ha Ha.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 9:02pmHe should have saved his money to buy himself and his family a plane ticket out of America (After his shellacing in November) to some Communist eden like Cuba, N. Korea, China and even some of the newly emerging Communist paradises in Africa. He would feel right at home and could even become a dictator of some of those countries.
Report Post »FrankJHornik
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:46pmMaybe Michelle should have worn a $990 blouse and donated the other $5810 to his campaign also.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:31pmDid she buy her dress?
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:03pmI’m donating to myself every time I open my wallet to pay some of my expenses…..they both (Barry & Moochelle Antoinette) do not understand that basic concept of personal finance: You don’t donate to yourself….you just pay your own bills!!!
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:45pmSomewhere in a Kenyan village, a village of Kenyans our missing their idiot…..Naw..just kidding, they don’t miss him at all…. (meanwhile back at the village) a year from now… Obama will be giving a speech to another village…”You didn’t build that Hut Kenyans”…… Clown shoes and ears say’s, You didn’t build that hut…I could donate you Kenyans $5,000 and rebuild a whole village, but instead I will donate it to me, me, me, me and spend it on my, my, my, my, she money fund….. Money she don’t know about….
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:42pmOur “president” is such a whiner. How embarrassing.
Barack, you are being outfunded by your opponent for a REASON this time around. Gee, maybe it has something to do with the way you’ve performed your job as president?!?
Oh no. THAT can’t be it. Because you still walk on water, don’t you?!? So it MUST be for some OTHER reason. . .
NOBAMA 2012
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:57pmThe Pepsi Symbol Campaign Logo wants you to donate your electric bill payment to his campaign. They promise you that they will pay you back after the election in the form of free stuff. It’s only 110 outside, could ya sacrifice a little for our boy.? say’s plouffe or messina or axeltweetelrod… Mr. President will part the seas for ya if you do.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:36pmHey Barack: BUILD IT YOURSELF!
Report Post »spirited
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:18pm;^>That’s a good one !
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 4:38pmDoesn’t that make it tax deductible as well?
Report Post »RETIREDUSAFDEFENDER
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:27pmAnyone surprised? No me, what a tool!
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:01pmYes. I am amazed at how stingy he was with himself. I would have thought that a man with such great love of self would have given more. :-)
Report Post »Madmilo
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:24pmOh I love me,I love me,I love me,I love me,I love me,I love me,I love me,I love me.
Report Post »Dude makes me want to puke. Anyone but Obummer 2012
AJAYW
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:13pmThey need to count the Billions he has stashed from the bankrupt green company’s our tax dollars went to. The money’s some place ……………….
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:09pmDon’t forget ALL the billions he and his buddies stole from the stimuli bills!
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:12pmObama and I are “Facebook” friends.
He sure has stepped up his begging. I got 5 posts from him yesterday – ALL asking for money.
Hey Barack –
Remember this?
“I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.” – Barack Obama (Dreams of My Father)
Maybe you should be asking THEM for money.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:36pmWhy did he choose his friends “ carefully ” way back then ?
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 5:37pmI have been getting the same thing on my mobile He is down to begging Three dollar donations They just keep trying no matter how often i send back “NOT A DIME FOR THE MARXIST POS”
Report Post »jrcess
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:12pmWhy don’t he give back a trillion he stole?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:09pmGREAT IDEA!!!
OMG 2012
Report Post »Liberty NOW
jjufon
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:12pmWTF????
http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/27/obama-backs-race-based-school-discipline-policies/
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:10pmRacist POS
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:05pmWhen you fall all over yourself to woo the masses who only want to be taken care of, where can you go for donations except to yourself…? Most of his constituency has no money to give.
Report Post »dublinthewagons
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:25pmWhat he is no longer accepting food stamps. Lol
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:27pmWAGONS: Yeah, but they’re all in debit-card format now. Makes it easier to donate online…
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:03pmThank you for donating part of your taxpayer-funded government salary back to yourself. After various campaign management, administrative, and miscellaneous fees have been deducted, you will probably have around $3,500 dollars left on your original $5,000 investment.
I’m sure there is a “teachable moment” in there somewhere.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:03pmWow!
JUST MORE PROOF THAT HE ……
TAKES from HIS left pocket and GIVES it to HIS right pocket.
Obama ALWAYS sets up a WIN – WIN situation for himself, huh?
Well….
Report Post »COME NOVEMBER ELECTIONS…
WE ARE GOING TO BREAK THAT VICIOUS CYCLE.
RightUnite
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:55pmWow! That smells like desperation to me!
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:51pmshe spends 6800 on a shirt for his wife, and only 5000 for his reelection,
Report Post »ha
jackact
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:50pmYes, Obama donates $5000….and spends $10,000.
Report Post »Just like he runs our economy.
hi
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:47pmHe auctioned off Michelle’s $7000 that the tax payers bought her.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:19pmI hope it was in the form of a IOU
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:46pm“unprecedented”..everything is “unprecedented” to Obama.
Report Post »How sad and classless can little Barry get? Donating to himself to motivate political donations.
Get this idiot out of the white house..enough already.
huey6367
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:44pmIt’s a tax deduction. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Romney/Rubio 2012
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:07pmNot if he follows the LAW .. they are not tax deducible .. but knowing Obama ;-)
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:19pmand when do you think he will follow the law?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:02pmthat was the point of the ;-) (wink) neve
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:41pmHe is a narcissist to the core; so why is this such a shock?
Report Post »Too_Far_Gone
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:48pmAnd a snake ..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:03pmI bet he would like his own postings on Facebook also!
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:41pmDoes he kiss himself in the mirror?
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:06pmI seriously DOUBT he reflects an image in a mirror.
And, IF he does…you WOULDN’T wanna see it!!!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 2:11pmYou don’t want to know what he does to himself in the mirror, although I will tell you it involves a feather, bacon grease, a shamwow, two midgets, and a picture of a block of Cheese. I understand most of it, I just can’t see where the feather fits in, what a freak, really a feather.
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 3:31pmDARMOK: Can’t go wrong with bacon grease.
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 7:09pmI guess, the two midgets are wearing leather costumes and makeup?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:36pmIt was his birthday money, see, he is practicing what he is preaching, giving up his presents and donating to Barrack 2012.
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