Finally: The Video of Obama Donating $5K to Himself

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Finally: The Video of Obama Donating $5K to Himself

• Posted on August 1, 2012 at 12:00pm by Becket Adams

You may have heard already that President Obama donated $5,000 to his own campaign. Depending on your political persuasion and what you think of the president, that's either very noble of him or it screams of desperation.

Of course, there is always a third option: you don't care.

For those of you who do (for a myriad of reasons, we're sure), we invite you to watch the following video released on Monday by the Obama campaign:

Final thought - In regards to the line, "We don't get some of the massive checks that the other side does," that just simply isn't true. Didn't Bill Maher and Morgan Freeman both donate $1,000,000 a piece to the Obama reelection campaign?

Furthermore, we don't recall anyone on that "side" complaining in 2008 when they hauled in a record-smashing $750 million from fundraisers. And we really don't recall anyone on that "side" explaining how outspending Sen. John McCain by a ratio of 3-to-1 was a "bad" thing.

Okay, so let's see if we understand this correctly: Romney's "massive checks" are bad, our "massive checks" are good. Got it.

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[mustbeGRACE]

Yes, I know.

Quoting rocketracer:

Quoting mustbeGRACE:

He is veeeeeeeeeeeeery, veeeeeeeeery  poor.

Mitt Romney is veeeeeeeery rich.

We get it................

He just wants people to think he is very poor.

[popomill]

Shouldn't the presidential candidates pay for their own campaign anyway?

[gsprofval]

Yes, and they shouldn't be allowed to campaign on our time while serving in ANY government office. It makes me mad that they all campaign while getting paid to serve us.

Quoting popomill:

Shouldn't the presidential candidates pay for their own campaign anyway?

[popomill]

Quoting gsprofval:

Yes, and they shouldn't be allowed to campaign on our time while serving in ANY government office. It makes me mad that they all campaign while getting paid to serve us.

Quoting popomill:

Shouldn't the presidential candidates pay for their own campaign anyway?

 

Well, I could see them being allowed to campain for office while in office, as long as their office duties come first.

[gsprofval]

But it's just painfully obvious the office duties come in dead last every time.

[blondekosmic15]

 quote.....

 or it screams of desperation.

[_Kissy_]

Of course, there is always a third option: you don't care.

[heidimoose134]

Personally, I really don't care. I'm a firm believer that the candidates should be the primary source of campaign funding anyway, and that a disgusting amount of money is used on political campaigns.