Photo-ops, Fundraisers and Vacations: Is That All This President Does?

Next to being a con artist and a Marxist, it's all Obama knows how to do...

First Family to Begin Sixth Holiday of the Year

President Barack Obama will be accompanied by his wife Michelle and daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, nine, and are expected to stay at the historic Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark.Bill Burton, the deputy White House press secretary, said that the US president was “going to spend a little time recharging his batteries” at the Massachusetts island ahead of the November midterm elections. Read more ...

Fundraiser In Chief

Washington Sen. Patty Murray sure appreciated the effort. Or at least she should have, after President Obama made an Election Day stop in Seattle—the farthest major city from D.C. on the continental U.S.—simply to show some support for the folksy senator. She didn’t actually need the help, either. In the state’s primary last night, Murray won handily, besting her closest opponent, former state lawmaker Dino Rossi, by 12 points.

But Obama was in the neighborhood anyway, passing nearby on a cross-country tour this week to pad the pockets of Democrats hungry for funds as they head toward November. He started Monday with a speech in Wisconsin for gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett, then jetted to Los Angeles for a pair of glitzy fundraisers including one demanding $30,400 per couple that featured A-list celebrities like director Steven Spielberg and actor Taye Diggs. Before he heads back to Washington tonight, he’ll stump for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland in Cleveland and then to an evening event in Miami to vouch for the Florida Democratic Party. In total, five states, 7,300 miles, nine fundraising events, and, his party hopes, millions of dollars in the bank. Read more ...

Pres. Obama Paddles After Chairman Mao, Many Others With His Latest Swimming Photo

President Obama went swimming in waters that could have been from the Gulf of Mexico last weekend. There's some online dispute as to whether swimming at Point Alligator near Panama City in an inlet off thDemocrat president Barack Obama swimming with daughter Sasha in Florida 8-14-10e gulf is really swimming in the gulf.Also some might remember how the newly-sworn-in Obama sought to exclude his daughters from the media spotlight, at least when he didn't want them in the media spotlight as political props. Read more ...