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because Im SURE the Dems are flat broke 
http://news.yahoo.com/changing-positions-obama-campaign-push-support-democratic-super-045043748--abc-news.html
In a conference call with members of President Obama's 2012 reelection committee Monday evening, campaign manager Jim Messina announced that donors should start funding Priorities USA, the Democratic Super PAC run by two former White House staffers, Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney.
"Given the amount of money that the Republican SuperPacs have raised we decided to express more explicitly support for Priorities USA and its mission which is reelecting the president," a top campaign official told ABC News.
Burton and Sweeney left the White House in February 2011 to start Priorities USA, which has two components.
Priorities USA Action is the Super PAC and it must disclose the names and amounts of donors. It can raise and spend unlimited funds on overt electioneering. Priorities USA is a non-profit 501c organization that does not disclose, but can't do overt electioneering. Issue/policy advocacy only.
The Obama campaign is supporting the Super PAC - the one that discloses.
You may recall the president made a big issue opposing the non-disclosing groups in the 2010 midterm elections in which Democrats lost the House. Specifically President Obama repeatedly protested the way these groups filled the airwaves with television ads - essentially from anonymous contributors. "They don't have the courage to stand up and disclose their identities," President Obama said on October 15, 2010, of these groups' donors while campaigning in Wilmington, Delaware. "They could be insurance companies or Wall Street banks or even foreign-owned corporations. We will not know because there's no disclosure. But this isn't just a threat to the Democrats: It's a threat to our democracy."
Messina said in the call this evening, and emailed supporters, that Republican Super PACs have "spent more than $40 million on television and radio, almost all of it for negative ads," just in the last few months.
"Last week, filings showed that the Super PAC affiliated with Mitt Romney's campaign raised $30 million in 2011 from fewer than 200 contributors, most of them from the financial sector. Governor Romney personally helped raise money for this group, which is run by some of his closest allies…With so much at stake, we can't allow for two sets of rules in this election whereby the Republican nominee is the beneficiary of unlimited spending and Democrats unilaterally disarm."
Priorities USA Action posted comparatively weak fundraising totals for 2011 - just $4.4 million in all, per its filing with the Federal Election Commission, with just $1.5 million cash on hand. The donor base was also small - only 46 individuals gave in the second half of last year. Most of them are Obama campaign donors from 2008 and 2012 who maxed out and wanted to give more. Most notable - and most generous - are Jeffrey Katzenberg (2 m) and Steven Spielberg (100k).
Senior campaign and White House officials as well as some Cabinet members will appear at events that raise money for Priorities USA though they themselves will not solicit funds, the campaign official said. (Cabinet officials who raise money for the campaign include Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan; those who don't include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder.)
Messina noted that "the President, Vice President, and First Lady will not be a part of this effort; their political activity will remain focused on the President's campaign." "As has become evident in the past month, the only enthusiasm in the Republican Party is among oil company billionaires and investment bankers on Wall Street looking to defeat President Obama," Burton said in a statement. "We're committed to providing a balance to Karl Rove and the Koch brothers who have pledged more than half a billion dollars to their effort."
-Jake Tapper and Devin Dwyer
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In war you need to constantly adapt to what your enemies are doing.
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kinda like torturing prisoners... amirite?
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suntzukali2 posted:
In war you need to constantly adapt to what your enemies are doing.
Wow. Guantanamo for Republicans?
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so NOW it's ok to say "well they are doing it."
it amazes me how many people are fine with this because the other side does it.
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corporations ARE people
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Obama gonna doggie style the redumbfookans for the next four years instead of missionary like now. Changing positions.
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so NOW it's ok to say "well they are doing it."
it amazes me how many people are fine with this because the other side does it.
The rule is a bad one. Unfortunately the choices are use it as best your can, or get swiftboated and lose the election. Which option would you suggest?
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Casuist posted:
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so NOW it's ok to say "well they are doing it."
it amazes me how many people are fine with this because the other side does it.
The rule is a bad one. Unfortunately the choices are use it as best your can, or get swiftboated and lose the election. Which option would you suggest?
i dont like Obama...you figure it out 
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This is like the Republican screaming, "He said he'd pull out of Iraq faster, dammit, why isn't he doing it, so we can complain louder."
Remember your banner bearer's words.... 
So do you disagree with the Party line, comrade, (which makes you a democrat I guess)
Or just some good ol' Republican hypocrisy in action?
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Until humans outgrow their need to be told things they want to hear (IE lied to), we will continue to suffer an insufferable arglebargle by governors that we could live without if we just got a little smarter.
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Aerlinthian posted:
Until humans outgrow their need to be told things they want to hear (IE lied to), we will continued to suffer an insufferable arglebargle by governors that we could live without if we just got a little smarter.
I thought you hook lined all that garbage Ron Paul was feeding you.
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Ron Paul wants to decentralize power and generally put it back in the hands of the people.
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uh huh.
Also didnt you hook line and sinker some wackjob theory someone fed you about Tower 7.
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