President Obama often likes to say that “folks can’t wait” until the next election for Congress to enact his proposals. Apparently, he couldn’t wait until closer to the election to go officially into campaign mode, attending six fundraisers this week that even the White House Press Office characterizes as “campaign event[s].”

Obama referred to the campaign as an ongoing event during a fundraiser hosted by actors Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith. “That’s what this campaign has always been about [a better future]. This campaign has never been about glitz and glory, or just the blind pursuit of power,” Obama said. “That’s not why we got involved. That’s not why you guys signed up back in 2007, 2008.” He also acknowledged that “those “Hope” posters; they’re all kind of, all kind of dog-eared.”