I agree, campaigning needs to be done with campaign funds.

well, even though taxpayers do end up paying some of it, they don't pay all. an incumbent president is responsible for reimbursing expenses used for campaigning (mainly, air force one). and under new laws passed, obama's actually paying a much larger percentage than other incumbents have.

and both candidates/running mates have secret service and motorcades which we're paying for.

Taxpayer seat the cost of all the Air Force One campaign flight. Try around a million dollars for 1 round trip. With all the daily campaign trips this year lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Can you tell me how Obama's campaign activities differ from his predecessors that were running for re-election?

But now he HAS run the USA for nearly 4 years, so the past is the past.

Jeff--You left the " i " out of run

Hey Jeff-
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of this country was recently downgraded to 1.3%.
This is abysmal. The upcoming jobs report will show America to have a 44th month of unemployment over 8%. When you figure in those that have given up looking for work, it's closer to 19%. THAT is abysmal.

Median Family Income has dropped $4,000 under Obama. More people are out of work now then when Obama took office.

The above are the facts. Why are some Americans continuing to support a president who's only experience was as a US Senator in his first term, who spent most of that first term running for higher office. Before that he was a state senator in his first term who voted "present" over 100 times instead of a yea or nay vote.

Romney has run a business, a successful Olympics and a state.
One has "Executive Experience" , the other is still trying to figure out what that is after almost 4 years.

Keith, thank you for your well worded reply! I wish there were more people like you on both sides!

Maybe they should sell tickets on AF1 to defray the costs? Sell 20 first class tickets at $10,000/hr and turn a profit!

Priceless?

If you count all the Koch & Adelson $ Rove is spending as "Priceless", maybe.

You're paying for their free cell phones every month. It's part of your phone bill.

French, since you seem knowledgeable on the issue, specifically which itemized fee or tax on our phone bill is going towards the free cell phones?

Who's talking about OBAMA phones? I never heard them called that until I watched that hysterical lady in the video screaming about them to justify voting for Obama.

Patrice, to be clear - the program called "Lifeline" originated in 1984 subsidizing landlines. Then the cellphones were added to the program in 2008. In 2008 that program cost the taxpayers $772 million, yet in 2011 that grew to $1.6 billion and is full of fraud. An audit in 2011 found hundreds of thousands of subscribers of this Lifeline program receiving two or more phones from multiple service providers. It does have something to do with Obama, like it or not.

Amen to that, Holly!

An save the abortion talking point they said the same thing with reagan ,bush senior,and bush junior there are way too many pro choice republicans out there to ever let that happen