How times CHANGE

    

Daily Mail (UK):

Mr Obama has now held more fundraising events than the last six presidents combined, leading to his opponents coining the derisive nickname 'Campaigner in Chief'.

He frequently combines the events with his official duties, which allows his re-election campaign to defray the President's travel costs by charging part of them to the public purse.

 

So what did The Won tell the fifty donors (@ $40,000 each) gathered at the NYC home of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick? 

Speaking in a dimly-lit, art-filled room, Mr Obama told supporters they would play a critical role in an election that would determine a vision for the nation's future.

 'You're the tie-breaker. You're the ultimate arbiter of which direction this country goes.'

 

Gd forbid.

 

.... Some New Yorkers reacted with anger at the prospect of footing the bill for Mr Obama's fundraising visit to the city.

Lauren Greenwood, a 28-year-old who works in medical sales, told MailOnline that while she had no objection to the President attending campaign events, 'it shouldn’t be on New York taxpayers’ dollars to support him having parties.'

But Jonathan Fischer, 24, disagreed, saying: 'He came here on business, he handled his business. . . He spends his days protecting the country, the rest is up to his own free will...."

 

The streets of NYC's West Village neighborhood were closed off, filled with police and security, for the Parker/Broderick fundraiser.

 

This photo evokes more than a little nostalgia on my part. Thirty-seven years ago, I brought my first newborn child home to a fourth floor "walk-up" apartment with a tub in the kitchen ($175/mo.) -- just a block from where this photo was taken. 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

It is nothing less than astonishing that in a land with more opportunities than ever before to stay abreast of what's going on in the world, we still turn out characters like the terminally-naive Johnathan Fischer who -- at the age of 24! -- believes that Obama spends his days "protecting the country." Has this man no access to the internet, to a newspaper (even one as bad as the New York Times would inform him about Obama's incessant gallivanting and time-wasting), or to any other source that might give him some clue about what's happening in the real world? Combine this man's invincible ignorance with the thought that Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have been designated by Fate to "determine a vision for the nation's future" -- and you have the ingredients for the most depressing post ever published on the internet. If all of this is really happening, we are doomed.