NYT: Obama Sees Steep Dropoff in Cash From Major Donors

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. I don't put too much stock in what "progressives say". Bitter progressive opponents have been....

savaging him since Jan 20th, 2009, and long before. On Feb. 26th, Helen Thomas penned her first hitpiece. It was vicious, and a bit premature.

One of Hillary's big donors, who claims to have supported Obama in the general, started a Draft Hillary campaign for this election cycle. He also claims that Hillary would be better at reaching out to the business community because Obama's administration has been hostile to them. But if you listen to "progressives", they claim the president is in the pocket of business.

My point is, people can draw their own conclusions from the o.p., and you and the president's antagonists have certainly drawn yours. That doesn't make your hypotheses true, but it certainly gives you guys something to gossip about.

I'd say 89% approval from the liberal base of your party is quite strong, wouldn't you? 85% by Democrats overall. We know that there are some very liberal, and some very conservative Dems won't support the president again, and that's fine. But I just didn't want you to hang your hat on slower fundraising than 4 years ago, because the circumstances are entirely different right now.

I think the base sometimes confuses the office of the president with their favorite shock jock, or teevee personality, but he isn't. He's the POTUS, and there's a certain dignity that comes with that office, and I think he and Joe Biden have both been very dignified, despite all the noise.