President Obama Celebrates 50th Birthday With Re-Election Campaign Fundraisers

CHICAGO – Trying to make up lost time, President Barack Obama plunged back into the search for money for his re-election campaign Wednesday with a coast-to-coast series of parties marking his 50th birthday after he was forced to cancel fundraisers because of the debt-ceiling crisis.
Lowering expectations, Obama's campaign said it would raise tens of millions of dollars less this summer than it did in the spring because it had to scrap 10 fundraisers headlined by Obama and others in California, New York and elsewhere and now faced a sluggish time of the year to raise campaign cash.

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