Obama says he's up against the most expensive campaign "in history"
President Barack Obama speaks at an ice cream social at Washington Park in Sandusky Ohio, Thursday, July 5, 2012. Obama is on a two-day bus trip through Ohio and Pennsylvania.
/ (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)(CBS News) As his bus tour rolls through Ohio, President Obama told a crowd in Sandusky that he is facing an uphill battle this election when it comes to matching his Republican rival's campaign cash.
Mitt Romney and his supporters will spend "more money than any time in history," the president told a few hundred supporters Thursday in Sandusky, Ohio, a town between Toledo and Cleveland with a population of about 25,000.
The president's remarks came shortly after reports surfaced that Romney and his joint fundraising arm with the Republican National Committee raised $100 million in June.
It was the second month in a row that Romney has outraised the president, something Mr. Obama is not exactly accustomed to. During the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Obama broke every fundraising record - including the still-standing monthly fundraising record of $150 million - on his way to a total of $750 million dollars.
But in Sandusky, which is the second stop on a two-day bus tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania, Mr. Obama told the crowd that the money will be used to paint the president in a negative light.
"Every ad's the same," the president said. "The economy's not good and it's Obama's fault," he said mimicking Republican attack ads. He cautioned that repetitive ads will make people "discouraged" and "cynical" so people "don't participate."
"That's what the other side is counting on," he said.
The president briefly mentioned the health care law, which the Supreme Court upheld last week, and urged the conversation to move on, as he did on the day of the Court's decision.
"We don't need to reargue the last two years," he said, adding that the health care law "was the right thing to do."
Mr. Obama rarely mentioned his opponent's name during the nearly 30-minute speech, but it was clear who he was talking about. He repeated a common refrain and theme that has emerged during his campaign: There are "two fundamentally different visions in this election."
Without giving detailed specifics, the president said he said he would invest in education, transportation, manufacturing and veterans. He said he would balance the budget "in a responsible way."
"I'm running because we have more to do," he said.
He characterized Romney's vision as helping "wealthy investors" and letting it "trickle down and everybody else will do better."
"Here's the problem: We tried that before I came into office... and it didn't work," he said.
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Obama had claimed he wanted to spend a billion dollars to get
re-elected. Now why would you need that much money to get re-elected if you had done a good job in the first place?
This only shows us that he knows he has done a lousy job and his only hopes of being re-elected is to buy the presidency.
Too bad for him the money isn't coming in like it did in 2008 and we all know the reason why.
He is so hard up for money, he is begging his lemmings to give him the money they would use for buying their loved ones birthday and wedding gifts.
If that is not low down and shameless for a person to do, I don't know what is.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Biden is going to help Obama loose the election along with Bill Clinton and the rest of the Clintonistas just waiting to get their revenge for Obama throwing Hillary under the bus in 2008.
He probably wasn't even born back then and learned that in the public schools that have been re-writing history now for the past 20-25 years.
Poor kid!
This time around people have seen his non deeds and broken promise of the phony hope and change that never came to pass by a country mile and the worse corruption and one scandal after another.
I knew he would be bad but never imagined he would be the destructive disaster he is.
The guy is a walking talking socialist WMD to our beloved America and I hope he gets the to live out his days in infamy in the history books.
I spit on him and his legacy.
Even before he started campaigning for re-election(this is not to say he ever stopped) he stated earlier in the year that he was going to raise $1 BILLION for his 2012 campaign.
Now; because Romney is ahead of him in fudraising; he wants everybody to throw him a pity party.
In the last few months I have received emails from both Barack and Moochelle.
The first one wanted me to send Obama $3 to take part in a lottery drawing to have dinner with him.
The second was from Moochelle asking for $3 to take part in a lottery drawing to have luch with Obama.
The third was directed to children to send $3 to take part in a lottery drawing to have lunch with the President.
The last one I got was from Obama asking me to send the money I would normally spend on gifts (birthday, wedding, etc,)to him in the name of the person I would have given the gift to.
It almost sounds like he's beginning to get just a glimmer of how the American people really feel about him; in spite of whant his handlers keep telling him.
If somebody tells you over and over again "You are the absolute best President the US has ever had and you have accomplished a great deal to improve the lives of Americans" often enough; I guess after a while you believe it.
Obama lied so much and made so many promises he never delivered on during his last campaign, people are not as inclined to believe everything he says.
To make things even more interesting; Obama doesn't have a clue why.
It's probably because he believes everything he says, even though he doesn't have a clue how he's going to do it.
The Republicrooks are no different.!
Looks like one more time we are going to have to choose between corrupt and evil and more corrupt and evil.
Governor Romney - Hundreds of people giving him millions of dollars to get elected.