Obama On Re-Elect: Lasting Change Doesn’t Come ‘Quickly Or Easily’

There’s good news and there’s bad news. 

The good news is that President Obama will probably when his re-election.  The bad news is that for various reasons, this election will be missing millions of disappointed and disenfranchised people who campaigned and voted for Obama the first time around.

The President is right, hope doesn ‘t come quickly or easily, especially when you have the GOP blocking everything that the Dems presented on behalf of the POTUs in the first two years.  Now they are stonewalling on the budget and governing on social issues and not jobs.

TPMDC

President Obama launched his reelection campaign in an unusually low-key fashion Monday — with the simple posting of a video featuring level-headed endorsements from a cross-section of Americans, a far-cry from the adulation and soaring rhetoric that catapulted the junior senator from Illinois into the Oval Office three years ago.

Although understated, the video, titled “It Begins With Us,” signals Obama’s formal shift into campaign mode and marks the official beginning of a fundraising blitz Obama and his team hopes will dwarf his staggering record in 2008.

Obama aims to break the $1 billion ceiling and is getting a running start by kicking off his campaign 45 days earlier in the cycle than did then-President George W. Bush. The drive for dollars will pick up later this month with several fundraisers.

If the campaign can rake in a war chest early and spend it wisely, Obama could have an enormous cash advantage in the general over any Republican challenger. The early GOP field is so crowded — at least 15 Republicans have expressed some degree of interest in opposing Obama — that GOP primary opponents will be both forced to compete for dollars and spend it furiously trying to separate themselves from the pack.

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