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-Election 2012
Champ will do July 4th funder -- in Paris
2012-07-01
Apparently tiring of US soil as a source of campaign dollars, the Obama campaign is headed overseas -- with its celebrity friends in tow. The European Obama campaign starts next week in Paris
France, not Illinois...
on July 4 with a reception organized by various fundraising heavy-hitters. Independence Day fundraisers in Paris -- now that's a flag-waving campaign.

The Obama campaign will host events in Geneva, Switzerland
Not Geneva, Illinois...
in August as part of their "European outreach effort." George Clooney will headline a fundraiser there, with 150 tickets going for $20,000 per piece. There's even more to the bargain: if you go as a couple, the second ticket is half-off!

With the Obama campaign's increasingly desperate campaign emails begging for cash from the American people, perhaps the campaign thinks they'll find more fertile soil outside the country. Especially in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling that upholds Obama's European-style healthcare plan, Obama's hoping to cash in on like-minded folks abroad. Americans don't believe that Obamacare is a triumph; they see it as a massive net negative, sucking our coffers dry and handing us long-term rationing in return. Europeans, however, know nothing else. The entitlements have already kicked in. What better place to ask for campaign cash?

That also may be the only place Obama can still find cheering throngs.
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