Unless the the GOP can come up with a good candidate, Obama will win. I'm not happy with several of Obama's policies and selection of officials (like the Monsanto lobbyist he chose to be in charge of Food Safety), but he still has a lot of support from a lot of people.
I would love to see Ron Paul in the White House. He is not perfect, and that is okay with me. He would make the tough choices to balance the budget (end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, end the War of Drugs, and bring other spending under control) and that's what we need most right now, before we spend ourselves off a cliff.
tweoijfoi wrote:
I dunno...this doesn't bode very well!
Obama fundraiser underwhelms
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN | 06/13/11 8:06 PM Updated: 06/14/11 10:08 AM
The empty seats at President Obama's fundraiser in Miami were hard to miss.
MIAMI, Fla. -- A low-dollar fundraiser here Monday felt like a throwback to the 2008 campaign.
There was the same old soundtrack – including “City of Blinding Lights” by U2, the president’s 2008 anthem -- the enthusiastic organizers and the abundant appeals for supporters to rally behind President Obama.
The one missing element? Overflowing crowds.
Granted, it was a fundraiser, not a free rally. But the empty seats were hard to miss.
The top level of the 2,200-seat concert hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts was entirely empty, as were the seats along the side of the second and third levels.
"The expectation was 900," a Democratic official said, and more than 980 tickets were sold.
Tickets for the Gen 44 event started at $44, the official said.
"This is going to be a very tough fight," said Alonzo Mourning, the former Miami Heat player, who spoke ahead of the president. Once Obama took the stage, a protester interrupted him at one point, repeatedly yelling: "Keep your promise, stop AIDS now." But the protester was quickly drowned out by the audience chanting, "Obama, Obama, Obama."
"The reason we’re here today is because our work’s not done," Obama said after hushing the crowd. "Our work is not complete. We're not at the summit. We’re just part way up the mountain. There is more to do."
He didn't directly address the protester's issue.
