President Obama touts early progress from the Los Angeles Times reports on President Obama's gaudy fundraising tour-de-force in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.He offered himself a great deal of congratulations for the progress (on the citizen's dime) of his administration - in full I-bama mode - another way that he is in the Bush model of private fundraisers wrapped in a patina of public interest.
Presidential Fundraising Trips Leave Taxpayers With Hefty Tab
Barack Obama makes Franklin Delano Roosevelt comparison
Speaking to a well-heeled audience of campaign donors in Beverly Hills, Obama was strikingly upbeat and assured. He said he would stack his first four months in office against any president going back as far as Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"I'm confident in the future," Obama said. "I'm not yet content."
He touted passage of his sprawling $787-billion economic stimulus package, which Obama said had already started to improve the country's well-being.
"It's safe to say we have stepped back from the brink, that there is some calm that didn't exist before," he told a crowd sprinkled with celebrities, including actors Jamie Foxx, Marisa Tomei and Kiefer Sutherland.
Politico's Whiteboard has the minute by minute junket details
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