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By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – Fri, Jul 6, 2012
President Barack Obama says he's not worried about Mitt Romney's prodigious fundraising. But his campaign sounded the alarm Friday about the Republican standard-bearer's eye-popping $100 million haul in June and warned Democrats to open their wallets—before it's too late. "If we don't take this seriously now, we risk finding ourselves at a point where there is too much ground to make up," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in an email request for cash. Subject line: "URGENT." "Romney and the Republicans announced yesterday that they brought in more than $100 million in June. For context, that's about what we raised in April and May combined," Messina wrote. "We're still tallying our own numbers, but this means their gap is getting wider, and if it continues at this pace, it could cost us the election," he said, asking for immediate donations that he promised "can start reversing this trend in just a few hours." Messina name-checked the Koch brothers, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and Karl Rove—all boogeymen to liberals. The appeal landed just hours after Obama told a cheering crowd in Poland, Ohio, that he wasn't afraid of the mountain of cash about to be spent against him. "Over the next four months, you will be bombarded with more negative ads. You've got these super PACs, millionaires, billionaires writing $10 million checks, just pouring, raining down on my head," he said. An audience member shouted, "That's all right." "Oh, no, it is all right, because I'm tough. I'm skinny but I'm tough. I am," Obama said, drawing cheers and applause. "But the main reason it's going to be OK is because of you. What I learned in 2008 was that when ordinary Americans decide what's right, when they commit to working together to bring about a better day, they can't be stopped. You can't be stopped." More coverage from Yahoo! NewsRelated Content
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says legislation to keep transportation projects going and prevent interest rates from doubling on new loans to college students will help many in this country. But he says "we've got more to do." Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday that the measure he signed into law Friday will keep thousands of construction workers on the job and help students and their families. In first election bus tour, defiant Obama touts his health care law White House Correspondent
President Barack Obama promised cheering supporters in Ohio that he would "make no apologies" for his overhaul of health care and mocked rival Mitt Romney's apparent change of heart on his own approach in Massachusetts. "When you hear all these folks saying, 'Oh, no, no, this is a tax, this is a burden on middle-class families,' let me tell you, we know because the guy I'm running against tried this in Massachusetts and it's working just fine--even though now he denies it," Obama told about 300 supporters at Dobbins Elementary School in the village of Poland. The president brought up health care often on this week's two day bus tour--the first of this election cycle. On Friday, the president's reelection campaign promoted an interview with an NBC affiliate in Cincinnati in which he hit Romney for changing his tune on whether the individual mandate—the requirement that people have health insurance—is a penalty or a tax. Romney says it's a tax in Obamacare but a penalty in his own plan. "One of the things that you learn as president is that what you say matters and your principles matter," Obama scolded in the interview. "And sometimes, you've got to fight for things that you believe in and you can't just switch on a dime." The debate has flared because the Supreme Court upheld Obama's signature domestic policy achievement under Congress's taxing power. Republicans have seized on that to accuse the president of breaking a pledge not to raise taxes on middle-class families. The White House insists that the fine imposed is a penalty, not a tax."We're going to charge you a penalty to make sure that you're not unloading those costs on everybody else," Obama said in Poland. "It will affect less than 1 percent of the population, because most Americans are responsible and do the right thing. I make no apologies for it." "We're going to keep it moving forward. It was the right thing to do two years ago, it's the right thing to do now, and we're going to keep moving," he said. Obama's argument highlighted an interesting aspect of Campaign 2012: While pundits confidently predicted that he would not run on the health care law, which remains unpopular, the president rarely misses a chance to highlight it on the stump. There is no doubt that the economy remains both the top issue on voters' minds and Obama's greatest vulnerability. But the president has shown no hesitation about making health care an integral part of this appeal to supporters. Here he is, again, in Poland: "I'm running because I continue to be convinced that in a country like ours, the greatest country on Earth, nobody should go bankrupt just because they get sick. I am proud of the work we did." Here he is in Sandusky, Ohio, on Thursday: "I'm running because the health care law that we passed was the right thing to do … we fought so hard to make that happen, and now the Supreme Court has ruled. It is time for us to move forward. We don't need to reargue the last two years. I'm willing to work with anybody who wants to make it work, who wants to improve health care in this country and lower costs for individual families. But I don't want to just keep on having political arguments that are based on politics and not on facts." Here is part of what he said is in Maumee, Ohio, on Thursday: "I'm running because I believe that in America, nobody should go bankrupt because they get sick. I'll work with anybody who wants to work with me to continue to improve our health care system and our health care laws. But the law I passed is here to stay. And here is a very small sample of what he said in in Parma, Ohio on Thursday: "I couldn't be prouder of the work that we have done in getting this health care law passed." In Parma, the president met—and embraced—Natoma Canfield, a cancer survivor whose letter about health care inspired him to fight for his overhaul. The letter reportedly hangs in the Oval Office. |
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