President Barack Obama urged Democrats on Thursday to help him "finish the job" at the first events of his 2012 re-election bid, appealing for higher taxes on the wealthy and a rejection of Republican budget policies.
Obama, seeking to reignite the energy of supporters that propelled his candidacy in 2008, said "extraordinary progress" has been made during his two years in the White House but "we've still got work to do."
"If you're just as fired up now despite the fact that your candidate is a little older and a lot grayer, then I have every confidence that we're going to be able to finish the job," he said.
The president used Washington budget battles as a backdrop at the first of three fund-raising events that were estimated to raise $2 million for his campaign from a hometown crowd that included many key figures in Obama's rise to power.
They were the first fund-raisers in what will be a long slog t
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