President Obama’s campaign manager announced yesterday that it raised $42 million for his re-election campaign plus another $24 million for the Democratic National Committee during the final quarter of 2011. Obama has now raised almost $141 million for his 2012 re-election campaign, and this far surpasses the highest amount ever raised by a presidential candidate.

It gets better, and even more absurd; Twenty-five people paid a whopping $45,000 to gain inclusion in a group discussion with Obama in the first of two fundraisers he attended on Monday night. According to a prominent, non-democratic Washington insider, “The White House seems to spend as much time denying their focus on fundraising as they do raising money from the 1 percenters they condemn. Next they’ll be telling us the president doesn’t own golf clubs as a pool report describes a chip shot from the back nine.”
Remember when the Obama administration made a promise last fall insisting that the president wouldn’t do much campaigning early in the election process in 2012. Apparently, reports from top White House officials that Obama won’t be involved in any serious campaigning until later in the year mean about as much as the promise not to raise any taxes on any group. That one was blown out of the water a year ago when military retirees received their monthly retirement amount statements and the bottom line amount had been lowered due to an increase in withholding tax that wasn’t initiated by the retirees–the administration stealthy initiated it.

And the year has just begun…hang on!