Obama Campaign Seeks to Move on After Tough Week The task for President Obama's campaign this week: turn things around. All presidential campaigns have bad weeks, and when they come in early June, it is hardly a disaster. But it is also important for campaigns to clean things up after they have gotten a bit messy, and that is what Mr. Obama's team will have to do after the week that ended with Friday's problematic news conference on the economy. As usual, Mr. Obama has his presidential week planned out for him. But the official schedule of events will be the backdrop for getting back on message. Here is how Mr. Obama will most likely try to recover: FUND-RAISING Last week, Jim Messina, Mr. Obama's campaign manager, tried to use the bad news about the money wars. "We got beat!" he wrote in an e-mail to supporters after Mitt Romney raised almost $17 million more than Mr. Obama in May. If that reverse psychology works, June could be a better month. For most of the past year, liberals had assumed that Mr. Obama would outraise the Republican candidate, a blasé attitude that may no longer be common among Mr. Obama's most ardent supporters. Mr. Obama will start this week with another fund-raiser in New York City. The dinner with Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue magazine, and the actress Sarah Jessica Parker is sure to generate plenty of cash, as well as headlines good and bad. COUNTERPUNCH It took only a few hours after the news conference on Friday for Mr. Obama's campaign to return to the offensive, and it is likely to continue attacking this week as the president travels to Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio to try to to regain momentum. Campaigning in Iowa on Friday, Mr. Romney mocked Mr. Obama's assertion that more federal money should be spent to help states pay for teachers, firefighters and police officers. Mr. Obama's campaign quickly pounced, accusing him of not supporting those professions. Campaign surrogates took to Twitter, blogs, cable TV and newspapers, seeing an opportunity to raise questions about Mr. Romney. It was part of an effort to deflect attention from Mr. Obama's assertion at the news conference - later reversed - that the "private economy is doing fine." That message continued on Sunday. "He said we don't need any more teachers," David Axelrod, the president's senior campaign adviser, said of Mr. Romney on CNN's on Sunday. We don't need any more teachers? He continued, "What planet is he living on where he thinks we can take these kinds of hits in our education system and move on as a country?" CHANGE OF SUBJECT One of the best ways to recover from a bad week is to talk about something else, and for that, there is no better job in the world than to be president of the United States. On Wednesday, Mr. Obama will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Shimon Peres, the president of Israel, at a dinner at the White House. The next day, he will travel to New York City for a visit to ground zero. It is designed to coincide with a milestone in the construction of One World Trade Center, a "topping off" ceremony that will commemorate the completion of the framework. But it will also provide a way to shift coverage toward a different and safer conversation. THE UNKNOWN Mr. Obama's 2008 campaign was particularly good at deftly reacting to events; his handling of the economy's collapse in September of that year may have cemented his election. There is no reason to think that his current campaign will not be just as effective in that area. What will the president have to confront in the coming week? Europe's leaders will be grappling with the debt crises in Greece, Italy and Spain. The investigation into national security leaks may pick up steam. The situation in Syria could turn even worse. How the president handles those events - and others that might arise - could help redirect his campaign, for better or for worse.