More Whiny Beeetches....

TW:... or also how doing the right thing receives so little press. Obama apparently is not stroking wealthy donors the way his recent predecessors did. This would appear to be a good thing relative to reducing the influence of big money within government although one never hears about it. The Trib probably frames the piece to make the donors come off as whiny beetches but then having known some of these types at least peripherally, they live to have their egos stroked and when the stroking is not there...they become whiny beeetches.

From Chicago Tribune:
"Some of President Barack Obama's wealthiest supporters are becoming a bit whiny, and it has nothing to do with policy.

Tickets for tours of the presidential residence are scarce, even for those who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for last year's campaign. Private fundraisers tend to be brief, businesslike affairs. And there have been no sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom, weekends at Camp David or intimate lunches with the first couple.

Nearly a year into his presidency, that pattern has led some top Democratic donors across the country to grumble that they aren't getting the kind of personal attention from Obama and special access to the White House that they became used to during the eight years of the Bill Clinton presidency..."There is no connection between the administration and money people," he said. "If they do have any connection ... it is very limited as far as the fun stuff is concerned."

..."Obama is clearly not appointing bundlers to the same extent as the Bush administration did," said Craig Holman, a lobbyist for Public Citizen, a group that monitors ethics in government.

"Under Clinton, we did spend time in the White House. We did spend time in Camp David. We did spend time with the president in Los Angeles," Spahn said. "There has been real frustration in the donor community in general. There is so much less of that than I think ever occurred in the past."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-talk-white-house-donorsdec14,0,5720357.story