capitalism doesn t work. you re angry at wall street? washington, too, or just wall street? definitely washington. the politicians who are corrupted by a lot of the corporate money from wall street. so what do you want, protesters? it seems like people want a messiah leader. just like they did when they anointed barack obama. but, if you don t know what s wrong, no one can fix it for you. john adline is contributor and cnn columnist for newsweek and the daily beast. john, great to have you with us. you spent some time there, as well. great to be here. and i m curious what your takeaway was. i have to say, i was in tahrir square during the egyptian revolution, and this lacked the intensity, to say the least. it s not remotely parallel. look, drum circles don t solve problems. it s tough to get your demands taken seriously dressed as a zombie. there s no parallel to the grievances these folks have. some of them are legitimate, people should be angry, but to comp
new donors, that means 290,000 people renewed their support of his presidential campaign. that s less than 7% of the nearly 4 million people who donated to him four years ago. that s a third to a quarter to what he should have expected to renew their support in first quarter. the the washington post picked up on it and said he has extraordinarily high fundraising expenses and mail expenses. i think it s because there is a weakness among the donors. look, i was impressed but the president can t keep it up. nor, can he reach his goal. remember they raised about $87 million they said they wanted to raise a billion dollars over the course of the campaign in order to do that between the reelect and the dnc, they would have to raise $183 million on average for each of the five and a half quarters left before the election day. if he was to match four years ago $745 million. he would have to raise
what he should have expected to renew their support in first quarter. the the washington post picked up on it and said he has extraordinarily high fundraising expenses and mail expenses. i think it s because there is a weakness among the donors. look, i was impressed but the president can t keep it up. nor, can he reach his goal. remember they raised about $87 million they said they wanted to raise a billion dollars over the course of the campaign in order to do that between the reelect and the dnc, they would have to raise $183 million on average for each of the five and a half quarters left before the election day. if he was to match four years ago $745 million. he would have to raise $183 million for each of those next five quarters. he will hit that sometimes. is he not going to hit it consistently and i don t think he is going to hit it on average. bill: here is what i don t understand. most of the money is coming from fat cats now, i believe in new york and l.a., right?
health care plan. congresswoman bachmann and herman cain who are both running for president will be coming up very shortly right here on this program. also, one other item we d like to tell you about, there s a big item, lead story in the washington post this morning. that talks about brian, to your point earlier about how the president has been running around crazy doing all these fundraisers, recently, he s had something like 28 of them. and apparently, there s a story in the post that talks behind the scenes, the white house aides are trying to win over skeptical big donors, you know, we ve heard this figure they re trying to raise a billion dollars. well, now they re kind of backing off from that. and now they re saying well, if they raise as much as they raised last time, that would be effective, $745 million. why do you need a billion dollars when he s the most recognized person on the planet and he has a record to run on and we re going to see him front and center doing
involved in libya. former ambassador to china jon huntsman says he s make different foreign policy decisions than his boss, president obama. i would have chosen from the beginning not to interveen in libya. i would say that it is not core to our national security interest. meantime, senate republicans have blocked the president s pick for a federal judge. it s a big victory for the gop because it s the first republican filibuster of an obama judicial nominee. good win liu is painted by some conservatives as an extreme activist but he has the endorsement of the american bar association. don t underestimate the power of twitter when it comes to the race for the white house in 2012. president obama used social media to raise $745 million in the 2008 campaign. $235 million of that from small donors. and congresswoman michele bachmann trying to take a page from his book, three quarters of the $1.7 million she s raised