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[...] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ... By rsinderbrand (CNN) – One day after President Obama was the headliner at a fundraiser at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, he heads tonight to Hollywood for two fundraisers for the Democratic Party. ... CNN Political Ticker – http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ [...]

Obama can fly all over the world throwing parties trying to raise money to catch up to the Republican party. Fact is, his administration's decisions with bailouts, stimulus and foreign policy are not going well at all. Bottom line, this is what will count in 2010 and 2012.

@Randolph Carter May 27th, 2009 11:15 am ET
Did someone say Western Swing? Bob Wills rules!!! Have a nice day!
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Now there's something I agree with you about. Wholeheartedly!

Steve, Columbia SC I judge Bloggers by the state they decided to live in. And SC is the worst state in the union when it comes to race relations. If you guys ever decide to succeed from the Union again you have my support provided you take GA with you.

TCM = Troll... head over to the Fixed Noise blogs your kind is welcomed there.

@Matt

Pray tell, what actions would you want the US to take? It is one thing to consistently criticize, but another to bring real solutions to the table. Now is your time.

Glad the POTUS is here in CA. I'm sure he will do well fundraising. Democrats have a great chance here because the GOP and their ultra conservative views have really hurt our social, political and economic lives and the people are fed up. People tend to think CA loves their programs/services but doesn't want to pay for them. What we want is the GOP and business to quit being crooks and pay their fair share. We the people are aware that huge and devastating cuts are coming...we are just watching to see if the GOP cuts go to business this time or the people.

Part of Obama's job is defeating the GOP which is why he is in CA now and was in NV yesterday. But keep in mind that he was in Europe and Trukey when he stompped out the pirates in Somalia. Its called walking and chewing gum. Now if you don't like what he is doing perhaps you should go back to Europe.

B.O. berates the rest of us for going to Vegas to party but it is perfectly fine for him and all of his rich democrat friends and fundraisers to do just that. WHAT A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES!!

oh yeah, that is so much more important than north korea situation, isnt hollywood broke yet?

Greg in SFO

The difference is that when W was doing fundraisers, we were not in the middle of multiple international crises. North Korea is testing us and there is still no answer. The crickets are chirping in the Oval Office while Obama jets off to Hollywood to rub elbows with the elitists.

Shouldn't he be doing something about North Korea? We don't pay this guy $400K a year to be raising money for other guys we have to pay.

President Obama is visiting the people in various states and getting his supporters to contribute to his good policies. That's the kind of listening and calm President we need especially since the last 8 years of Republican diasters.

GOPer's It's ok to disagree with Obamas policies, but to call a Magna Cum Laude Harvard Law graduate an idiot...... is itself sheer idiocy.

Go struggle through "Good Night Moon" with your intellectual equal George Bush.

@ TCM

Where do you come up with your conspiracy theories? Someone's been puffing the magic dragon.

The Messiah in in CA having a good time. But that is because he can get more work done with half his brain tied behind his back (Oh no Rush is getting to me) then Bush could do in 8 years.

@ Bob in PA, who said "Let's have your liberal elite friends start to pony up voluntarily"

They do. Pay attention...there are myriad hollywood types who not only donate their money, but their time and sweat to worthy causes. The male half of Brangelina is a great example with all the work he is doing in New Orleans, which is not only helping get people into affordable housing, but also setting standards for "green" housing.

That being said, you might want to find a different word than "elite," because we're well aware that it's just GOPer code for "is informed uses facts and evidence to prove me wrong when he argues."

I see TCM the paid street teamer,that works for Limbaugh is here using a number of names of both genders trying to impress us with his high IQ.hahahaha

Whine complain moan...When GWB did fundraisers it was great for America but when Obama does it, it's the end of the world as we know it.

but yet my children will have to work two jobs... That sound more like an statement on your children's and grand children's upward mobility then on the POUTS. You should have them take up a trade. Kevin I should have said that to TCM sorry.

North Korea tests a nuclear bomb and is test firing surface to air missiles....

Iran has rejected the most recent offer of incentives and dialogue on ceasing their nuclear program...

Hugo Chavez has been identified as providing nuclear material to our enemies....

and Obama thinks the priority should be fundraising for Harry Reid?

WORST PRESIDENT EVER!

TCM, you are a complete idiot, as only complete idiots believe in conspiracy theories. Like all untalented hacks, you under populate your imaginary universe. Not to say that people aren't meddlers, just that the holocaust denial / no moon shot / kennedy assassination level that you occupy is utterly ridiculous to anyone with any brains at all.

Ben Franklin: a conspiracy can work between 3 people......... if 2 of them are dead.

Not the time to be campaigning. He really needs to mature and become a leader. Step up Obama - playtime is over. Time to get to work.

To "Once you Vote Black"...

It's not up to my party to answer the questions. It is up to our absentee President. Where is your precious Messiah now? Let me turn on Entertainment Tonight and see if I can get his travel agenda.

Interesting, Obama tells Corporate execs not to go to Vegas, but yet there he is pushing his agenda for this fool Reid. And to think people would vote again for this idiot.

oh man, those poor rush the bloated followers......they cannot think for themselves......really pathetic..sick and completely ignorant repugnant reptiles....hehehehehe

Good for Obama. Part of doing his job. Whether the whiny Republicans like it or not.

Continuing the Marx-Lenin tour.

Keith in Austin...get a life

Keith in Austin: This President is ridden with hypocracy and beurocratic hyperbole.

I see you like big words! but it's riddled not ridden

Rome burns while Zero fiddles away.

Fundraiser and thief is more like it, thief as in my children and grandchildren's future is being stolen away from this fraud who never worked a day in his life, but yet my children will have to work two jobs to pay off this empty, empty vessels debt that he is laying on us.

And before you clueless sheep start, I hammered Bush on this very blog for his overspending, but the fraud in charge is doing it 10 times worse in only a hundred daze, yes DAZE.

One and done Barry.

Too bad the strength of the GOP lies in its army of nasty blog commentators, and not in creating viable candidates to govern. Reid, whatever people think of him in Nevada, will be running unopposed, because whomever the GOP puts up will just be a miasma of nonsensical rhetoric.

Anonymous me thing thy name is David! Matt has many questions but like his party no answers. Hey, Kevin in Austin, Rush was just making that very point. Funny how you and him just happen to think a like. Come to think of it I have never seen you and him at the same time. Rush, is that you?

Once You Vote Black:
I was responding to another post.... those words are not mine!!!

J.P. Wrote: Folks, ONLY the private sector creates jobs… the governement just creates "work." Learn the difference.

So how you define people who spend 20 to 30 years in the military? Is that just work? Nah, don't think so.

I wouldn't call it a job either. I'd call it a CAREER...

And yes, I speak from direct experience.....

Mr. President...what actions are we taking in response to North Korea's underground nuclear test?

Mr. President...what actions are we taking in response to the five missles that North Korea launched into the Sea of Japan this week?

Mr. President...what actions are we taking in response to the increased terrorist bombings in Pakistan?

Mr. President....Mr. President?

C'mon CNN...do some reporting. Make yourself seem relevant to what is happening in the world!

Randolph Carter May 27th, 2009 11:48 am ET
J.P. Wrote: Folks, ONLY the private sector creates jobs… the governement just creates "work." Learn the difference.

So tell the tens of thousands of people working for defense contractors that they don't have jobs - only work. You can tell that to the people working for road construction companies too. Yes. They are private companies but their customer is the Government. It's Government money that employs them. Your premise that those are not jobs is just ridiculous. Learn the difference indeed.

Randolph Carter May 27th, 2009 11:48 am ET
J.P. Wrote: Folks, ONLY the private sector creates jobs… the governement just creates "work." Learn the difference.

So tell the tens of thousands of people working for defense contractors that they don't have jobs - only work. You can tell that to the people working for road construction companies too. Yes. They are private companies but their customer is the Government. It's Government money that employs them. Your premise that those are not jobs is just ridiculous. Learn the difference indeed.

We live in the information age where one does not have to be in one place to do ones job. To that end Obama is on duty as he moves about the country. I know Paul from Phoenix may not have realized that since you guys are as backwards as the Southeast states. Heck, GA, AL, and MS had the King Holiday years before you did. But not only that, one of you bamas was upset because Barack Hussain Obama was using Air Force 1 to travel. Well get over it, its his until 2016. And Kevin Denver Colorado if Obama is a fraud then that would mean the GOP is not able to stop a fraud from taking over. You can blame Rush for Operation Chaos which took its eye off the ball in order to play games with the voting process.

All this money could be used to help those in need, instead of wasting it on more dirty politicians.

Politicians only care about themselves!

Obama and his glistening telepromter rhetoric borders on the inane! Change we can believe in? This President is ridden with hypocracy and beurocratic hyperbole. When will the ill-fated masses believing his marxist message wake up? He is like the Pied Piper leading his Liberal followers off a cliff like rats. Harry Reid is a disgrace to our Nation as Barry begs for more money from the left wing to keep him in power.

J.P. Wrote: Folks, ONLY the private sector creates jobs… the governement just creates "work." Learn the difference.

Whatever pays the bills, sparky. Have a nice day!

Somehow it doesn't seem right that the President ask people in Las Vegas to donate money to a political campaign, when he has been so vocal about businesses not wasting their money in Las Vegas.

His words created the economy in Las Vegas to spiral down, creating a loss of jobs and businesses.

Wait... I thought Hollywood didn't like religion being shoved down their throats? So why are they coming out in droves to see Jesus?

I hear the 25 Ohio police jobs that Obama "created" with his Stimulus joke are going to be cut by the end of the year. Hmmm... how about that...

Folks, ONLY the private sector creates jobs... the governement just creates "work." Learn the difference.

Too bad all that money raised by both parties can't be put to better use.

I don't care what anyone says, there is no such thing as a vacation day when you are President. When W. was in Crawford, do you think he wasn't receiving minute by minute details? Same thing as Obama.

However, as with W, I would like to see Obama spend more time in Washington. W didn't leave DC until the end of the summer. Obama has hardly been there.

It's amazing how the GOP loses and now everyone has an opinion about the new president. Every Republican President rode on the American tax payers dime when they traveled, now that President Obama is doing it, it is all of a sudden a problem. Phoenix 86 you are clueless. Get use to Obama being President whether you like him or not. He will be around for the next 7 1/2 years.GET USE TO IT!!!!!!

GW was as active in this duty in his tenure. It's the business of politics. Geeze! Get over yourselves.

@ munchmom and New Hampshire for that matter...

I would like to remind you that Dubya took approx. 500 vacation days while he was in office. A new record for POTUS.

So this is where the GOP circle jerk is taking place?

I want to see a copy of the check the DNC is obligated to write the federal government as reimbursement for Obama's partisan campaign expenses (i.e., use of Air Force One)! Come on, CNN - get on it!

Hey BO, how about putting some of that Fund-raising to good use. All you liberals decry that more needs to be done for the less well off citizens of American and you don't flinch at the record setting fund raising done by Mr. Obama. Let's have your liberal elite friends start to pony up voluntarily

Honestly, some of the vile-GOP comments are just disturbing. Thing is the GOPers ..... lie, or give misinformation. You, folks, need to seriously consider thinking for yourselves and doing some research, rather than buying every little bit of Limbaugh-Hannity-propaganda!

@ Joe the Troll........ I agree with you, Reid is a schmuck. President Obama is much too nice to help him!

Gotta love the GOP bloggers whose main agenda is a repetitive round of presidental bashing. Too utterly boring.

Sniffit – hope your day is going well. RE: CNN headline verbiage – well, that goes both ways, now doesn't it?

After 8 years, let's compare the shrubs total vacation time and total fund raising time to President Obama's before you start handing out titles.

CNN you are Fox-Lite.

Earth, Wind and Fire rule too. But they're not Western Swing. They're more like horn-driven funk. Have a nice day!

Who's paying for the DNC "Fund Raiser in Chief's" trip? Air Force One takes a lot of money to fly. Is it our tax dollars that foot's the bill, or does the DNC pick up the tab? Using tax dollars for the good of the people is fine, but I do have some restraints when it's for the good of the party. I don't care which party it is! Just thought I'd make that point.

One would think that Obama has more important things to address than begging for money and partying with Hollywood trash

He should be raising money for someone to opposed Reid. The man is a disgrace. Why no mention of the release of the FBI Blago/Burris tapes. They prove that there WAS consideration for a donation by Burris to Blago in return for the Senate seat. Reid was a fool to seat Burris, but then again 'fool' is standard operation procedure for Democrats.

TCM: Obama's the biggest fraud this country has ever seen, and he keeps shoveling the crap….what a tragedy for this country.

Buddy you're really just not that bright.....

"Fundraiser-in-Cheif"? Really looking to give the GOPers priapism eh, CNN? Might as well give 'em all rabies while you're at it…at least them the frothing at the mouth would be explainable.

And no, there's no outrage "Fair is Fair"...it's actually quite amusing that CNN goes out of its way to ramp up the partisanship in the commentary section because they think it gives the story more "newsiness."

Dutch – don't forget the illegal overseas contributions funneled through ACORN and "bundled," especially for the DNC and Obama. Obama and his administration are the biggest bunch of crooks ever to exist in Washington. You blind liberals are really in for a wake up call....
what's really disappointing is he's now stacking the deck at the supreme court, so she can cover for his case where he has to provide his citizenship documentation....what a sham the liberals have made this country. Soon, the days of Bush will be known as the good old days.....

The American taxpayer is the fundraiser for Harry Reid. Who do you think is paying for Clueless in Chief to fly to Nevada to fundraise for Idiot Majority Leader.

"Fundraiser-in-Cheif"? Really looking to give the GOPers priapism eh, CNN? Might as well give 'em all rabies while you're at it...at least them the frothing at the mouth would be explainable.

try doing the job that was handed to you instead of out tapdancing for other liberal idiots!

Obama's the biggest fraud this country has ever seen, and he keeps shoveling the crap....what a tragedy for this country.

Las Vegas and Beverly Hills. And the republicans are accused of being rich elitists?

Can't wait to see the liberal outrage on the "fundraiser-in-chief" words used in the title to this ticker post.

I judge a politician by the friends he keeps, or solicits money from. I wouldn't take money from anyone in Las Vegas or Hollywood...............it's filthy lucre.........made on the back of what is so wrong about the culture of our great nation.

But the president and his secretary of state aren't too choosy who they accept money from.

President Obama could raise more money in a week than Republicans could raise in three months and still keep his daytime job. What a President.

Fundraiser, good job for Obama. It keeps him out of the White House so he can't do any more damage.

The RNC may raking in money, but once the C-I-C is fundraising for you, that's when the big bucks start coming in.

Very good description of our prez-he certainly isn't being bothered with actually governing our country, just running around basking in his "super stardom". (CNN, I bet you won't post this one either!)

Good! I hope last nights event at Ceaesar's Palace puts a plug in the Nevada's governors mouth who obviously believes taxpayer money should be blown on his town. Sorry – not my money (unless you are going to invite me for the fun!!)

May the money flow to the DNC – we are going to rock the next election anyway!

Did someone say Western Swing? Bob Wills rules!!! Have a nice day!

Is this the best use of the president's time? It just seems like there are other issues to attend too.

Good – I always liked Western Swing Music. Did they sing "I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande?"

Time to enact Clean Money, public funding only, for all elections. Otherwise they are auctions with the office going to the biggest spender just about every time.

Reid doesn't deserve Obama's attention.