Even though the midterm elections are still a year away, President BarackObama and the White House have started to unleash the fundraising forceof the administration for candidates and campaign committees. Though the president and his advisers continue to look for ways to create jobs in a woeful economy, reform healthcare and devise and implement a strategy for the war in Afghanistan, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are increasingly staying busy working to keep Democrats in office. Obama and Biden have done well more than two dozen fundraisers for candidates for the House and Senate, the Democratic campaign committees and the two Democratic gubernatorial candidates running this year. About half of them have come in the last month, and... TAGGED: President , Vice President , Hari Sevugan, Robert Menendez, Jon Corzine, Joe Biden, Democratic National Committee, White House, Republican National Committee, Democratic Party, Senate, New York, New Jersey, Afghanistan, reform healthcareRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| WASHINGTON -- Somebody explain this to me: The president of the United States wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and Rush Limbaugh joins with the Taliban in bitterly denouncing the award? Glenn Beck has a conniption fit and demands that... more ›› |
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