Too Busy Campaigning

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Carney's awkward pause is very telling... rofllol

"He's campaigning for growth and jobs"

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Oh no, he's not campaigning for his job (since 2009), he's doing it for OUR SAKE! Ok Mr. President, we believe.

Must be that "state controlled media" that Rush says is in Obama's pocket.

Turn out low for his kick off campaign speech...

Barack Obama launched his campaign in unspectacular fashion today at Ohio State University, the largest college in the crucial swing state. A photo posted to twitter by Mitt Romney’s campaign spokesman Ryan Williams reveals sparse attendance. The above image, according to Williams, was taken during the President’s first official campaign speech.

Here’s the photo, with lots of open seats:

Four years after “Obamamania” swept college campuses and across the country, we will get a glimpse of what the phenomenon looks like the second time around. The Obama campaign expects overflow crowds at both OSU and VCU as part of carefully orchestrated optics. Aides want to portray the president as still highly popular among young people and still able to energize large crowds.

So much for Obamamania. Why, I doubt that the campaign had more than two or three fainters in this crowd. They did, however, try rearranging deck chairs on this particular Titanic to make it look as though the ship wasn’t sinking:

But the event fell short of the 20,000 supporters the campaign had forecast as organizers moved people from seats to the arena floor in front of the dais to project fullness to television audiences. Obama volunteers had worked feverishly over the last week to gin up a crowd, making multiple calls to residents believed to be supportive of the president.

Twitter was abuzz with photos and comments about vast areas of empty seats in the arena’s upper deck.

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/06/the-lonely-guy/

He's really getting his message out... but not as many people want to hear it.

Don't you just hate presidents who campaign for re-election and use Air Force One to do it?

http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-IH038881.jpg?size=67&uid=47a77b96-bce6-4046-b10b-1e60e38aabb1
President Ronald Reagan shakes hands with supporters as he campaigns for a second presidential term in 1984.


Remarks at Reagan-Bush 1984 airport rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 9/20/84.

(According to Rush, this never happened)

JSG wrote: Don't you just hate presidents who campaign for re-election and use Air Force One to do it?

[snip]

(According to Rush, this never happened)

Thanks for the ancient history lesson.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote: Turn out low for his kick off campaign speech...

I think that photo was taken well before the president arrived. Nah, the Romney campaign wouldn't stoop that low, would they? Watch the video in the Columbus Dispatch article and decide for yourself.

Obama officially launches campaign before 14,000 at OSU

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories ... ction.html

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

JSG wrote: Don't you just hate presidents who campaign for re-election and use Air Force One to do it?

[snip]

(According to Rush, this never happened)

Thanks for the ancient history lesson.

Just wanted to show the "gold standard" for the Republican party did the same thing.

But Obama has spent triple the time campaigning as other Presidents. At this rate for the Romney re-election 50% of the time will be spent campaigning and fund raising.