Letter: Obama's campaigning is costing the American people

Published: Thursday, July 26 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

FILE - In this June 21, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

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Summary

President Obama, for the past three and a half years, has conducted his campaign at the expense of the American people.

At this election time, when there is added focus on the use of Super PACs, one very important point needs to be addressed. President Obama, for the past three and a half years, has conducted his campaign at the expense of the American people.

Each time he travels on Air Force One, of which he has done continuously throughout his presidency, the enormous expense of using the plane, automobiles, the Secret Service and other security arrangements has been astronomical in terms of the use of our American tax dollars.

He has been campaigning for re-election since the day he was elected.

Grace Jensen

Bountiful

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Esquire

Springville, UT

No more so than any president. There are rules for this. You just don't want him to run. Another right wing, corrosive talking point.

4:17 a.m. July 26, 2012
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embarrassed Utahn!

Salt Lake City, UT

OBAMA in 2012! What a sweet victory it will be! I just hope in his next term he stops trying to be so inclusive with all the negativists, naysayers and poor-sport sore-losers!

12:34 a.m. July 26, 2012
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Blue

Salt Lake City, UT

Gosh, no other president in history has ever campaigned for re-election, right?

If Mitt Romney were president, and he ran for re-election in 2016, he'd never dream of actually functioning as president while he campaigned, right?
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6:41 a.m. July 26, 2012
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