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To: longnshort who wrote (660549)	7/2/2012 5:20:53 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572506

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To: longnshort who wrote (660549)	7/2/2012 5:32:04 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1572506

Obama campaign call affirms money anxiety By Emily Heil, July 1. 2012 washingtonpost.com Leaked details of a plaintive phone call from President Obama to some of his biggest donors this weekend offered a rare and revealing look into the typically private rituals of big-dollar campaign fundraising. The pitch also affirmed the campaign’s anxiety about lagging behind in the money race. A political ad for President Obama’s reelection campaign touts his tax plan and criticizes ads from Mitt Romney’s campaign for attacking the President’s plan. In the conference call made late Friday from a special campaign phone on Air Force One, a recording of which was obtained by the Daily Beast, Obama bemoaned the anonymous super PAC donations flowing to his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney. “If things continue as they have so far, I’ll be the first sitting president in modern history to be outspent in his reelection campaign,” he said, according to the report. If Democrats didn’t write checks, Obama warned, such Republican PACs could permanently alter the political landscape. “The special interests that are financing my opponent’s campaign are just going to consolidate themselves,” he said. “They’re gonna run Congress and the White House.” Obama was candid and contemplative in the 18-minute call with donors who had given him the maximum allowable amount in his last campaign, addressing concerns that some supporters might be less enthusiastic — and generous — than they were four years ago. “In 2008 everything was new and exciting about our campaign,” Obama told the unidentified donors, according to the Daily Beast. “And now I’m the incumbent president. I’ve got gray hair. People have seen disappointment because folks had a vision of change happening immediately. And it turns out change is hard, especially when you’ve got an obstructionist Republican Congress.” Such fundraising pitches aren’t unusual, since candidates seek to keep donors from feeling complacent, and Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt characterized the conference call as “routine.” But it echoes the urgent tone the Obama campaign has struck in recent appeals, which have raised the specter of Romney holding a significant cash advantage over Obama. “I will be outspent,” read the subject line of a Tuesday e-mail Obama sent his supporters. The call from Air Force One, which apparently ran afoul of no laws governing the separation of official and campaign business, came just hours before the Saturday deadline for reporting June donations. And it was on the heels of what turned out to be a fundraising boon for Romney: the former Massachusetts governor’s campaign claims to have taken in $4.6 million during the 24 hours after the Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act. The Obama campaign claims that it, too, raked in money after the decision, though the campaignhas not revealed how much. Obama has benefited from Democratic super PACs, but they have trailed their GOP counterparts in amassing funds. The Romney campaign raised more than Obama in May and a senior Obama official predicted to reporters two weeks ago that Romney could raise $100 million in June. For a campaign that had the luxury of vastly outspending Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) four years ago, the prospect of being on the other side of a torrent of money has become the second-biggest worry, after the state of the economy — which is expected to be voters’ No. 1 concern.

To: longnshort who wrote (660549)	7/2/2012 5:41:07 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1572506

Secret Service shuts down ‘fire Eric Holder’ protest July 2, 2012 By Joel Gehrke The Washington Examiner washingtonexaminer.com U.S. Secret Service officers shut down a student-led protest calling for President Obama to fire Attorney General Eric Holder this morning, according to a report from in front of the White House. After discovering a “suspicious package,” the Secret Service ended the protest. “Several agents seemed hostile to our march and seemed anxious for us to leave the area,” Maurice Lewis, a University of California student, told Campus Reform. “The discover[y of] the ‘unidentified package’ came just as the protest began gain traction.” The U.S. House of Representatives cited Holder for contempt of Congress on Thursday after he defied a subpoena demanding documents pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious, the gun-walking scheme that claimed border patrol agent Brian Terry’s life. The Justice Department denied, in a February 4, 2011, letter to Congress, that law enforcement ever allow guns to be trafficked into Mexico. In December 2011, DOJ retracted that claim. About 50 students congregated outside the White House this morning for the anti-Holder protest.

To: longnshort who wrote (660549)	7/3/2012 12:11:34 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1572506

Black House Members Force Congress to Vote on Reprimand for Issa June 29, 2012 by Nick Chiles Atlanta Black Star atlantablackstar.com A day after House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, the members of the Congressional Black Caucus got their revenge by forcing the House today to vote on a resolution scolding California Rep. Darrell Issa, the engineer behind the contempt vote, for mistreatment of Holder and behavior that they claim was against House rules. A total of 108 House members, led by the Congressional Black Caucus and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, staged a walk out during the contempt vote to protest the House voting for the first time in history to hold a sitting U.S. Attorney General in contempt. Rep. Barbara Lee of Texas decided to take the response a step further today by putting forth a “privileged resolution” that picked apart Issa’s handling of the Holder case through his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The case hinged on a botched ATF case called Operation Fast and Furious that was begun during the Bush administration [FALSE] by low-level agents [FALSE] who decided they could crack Mexican drug cartels by letting cartel members buy illegal guns in Arizona and tracing [FALSE] those guns to cartel bigwigs. But the whole thing backfired when illegal guns wound up being involved in the murder of about 200 Mexicans and ultimately the killing of ATF agent Brian Terry in a shoot-out. Though Holder, who has said repeatedly neither he nor President Obama knew anything about the operation, turned over more than 7,600 pages of evidence to Issa’s committee, Issa wanted more—leading him to push for a contempt vote. Lee requested that the House clerk read her entire resolution out loud so that she could get it on the House record. Among the accusations in the resolution are that Issa: “jeopardized an ongoing criminal investigation by publicly releasing documents that his own staff has admitted were under court seal”; that he took steps that could “potentially jeopardize a criminal conviction”; that he “has engaged in a witch hunt, through the use of repeated incorrect and uncorroborated statements in the committee’s ‘Fast and Furious’ investigation”; and that he “has chosen to call the Attorney General of the United States a liar on national television without corroborating evidence and has exhibited unprofessional behavior.” Republicans were able to table the resolution by a vote of 259 to 161. Issa had no response. But Lee got what she wanted: to show House Republicans that two could play the political shame game. To: Libloather Race card. Never leave it at home. A black politician can commit a crime and it is racist to even acknowledge it. 2 posted on Monday, July 02, 2012 7:19:45 PM by formosa To: Libloather With each fiasco like this, more and more ‘people of pallor’, along with the rest of the country, are caring less and less what the race card holders think. And the CBC knows it. They pushed as best they could, but failed. Now they see the train coming. 5 posted on Monday, July 02, 2012 7:23:45 PM by Norm Lenhart To: Libloather From the “Atlanta Black Star”? Noting racist about that site..... 7 posted on Monday, July 02, 2012 7:24:59 PM by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper) [ Post Reply \| Private Reply \| To 1 \| View Replies \| Report Abuse] To: Libloather Disband the black caucus. Either they are there for ALL Americans, or they don’t need to be there at all. 8 posted on Monday, July 02, 2012 7:25:11 PM by mardi5 To: formosa Screw them and the race card they ride in on. 10 posted on Monday, July 02, 2012 7:26:29 PM by papageo To: Libloather If you’re white and break the law, the cops take you to jail. If you’re black and break the law, the cops get taken to jail. Obama’s America. :) 11 posted on Monday, July 02, 2012 7:27:19 PM by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS) To: Libloather I wonder what the Atlanta White Star newspaper has to say about this? Oh, that’s right, only African-Americans can have racist newspapers, caucuses, TV stations and magazines. 18 posted on Monday, July 02, 2012 7:45:59 PM by Alas Babylon! To: Libloather Holder has been held in criminal contempt of Congress. A first in American history. Deal with it. 19 posted on Monday, July 02, 2012 7:48:15 PM by Gabrial To: formosa Make that black communist politicians. That is exactly who they are according to Colonel Alan West! LLS 21 posted on Monday, July 02, 2012 7:52:57 PM by LibLieSlayer