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- Robozilla, on 10/11/2007, -18/+89I've never ever donated to any political candidate. Or bought any t-shirts or whatever.
I bought a 25 dollar support pack for Barack Obama.
I bet there are lots of people like me, first time actually donating... or in my case, buying a t-shirt with some stickers and stuff.
I understand diggers love Ron Paul, and I respect the guy, but I will definitely be voting for Obama. - futurebird, on 10/11/2007, -16/+85Listen people, it's him or Clinton.
- Frost9999, on 10/11/2007, -5/+65Please look closely and see if you can spot the problem with Clinton getting in:
Bush (senior) as president, Clinton (Bill) as president, Bush (numpty) as president, Clinton...
Bush, Clinton, Bush, ... Clinton?! That's all kinds of wrong. - Tsen, on 10/11/2007, -6/+61I like his approach, though--relying on very few "big-spender" types and instead building a foundation among hundreds of small-time donators. It's an approach I think more politicians should take. Politics never should be a business tended to by millionaires and corporations, but that seems to be where it gets stuck most often.
- DeusNova, on 10/11/2007, -14/+64I'd rather have Ron Paul for president in the year 08 but Obama would be a million times better than Bush.
- TheXeno, on 10/11/2007, -6/+56I'm one of those small time donors. Read his book, was begrudgingly impressed and decided to drop ten bucks for him. I see great things in him. Hope he is what I think he is.
- jeremyduffy, on 10/11/2007, -8/+49That is sick. Our society is so f*****d if someone needs that kind of money just to run for president.
- fantasticFlan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+38Ron Paul has no chance at the Democratic nomination.
- Moriya, on 10/11/2007, -9/+39As a registered republican that is disgusted with the current state of the party, go Obama. I love Ron Paul, but let's face it, he's not getting the nomination, and calling the rest of the republican candidates lackluster is an understatement. More and more its looking like come primary time we're practically going to be deciding our next president, and as inexperienced as Obama is, I shudder at the idea of Hillary Clinton in office. Obama is exactly the levelheaded, centrist politician we need as president to get our country back on track.
- JohnnyXmas, on 10/11/2007, -9/+36And yet my kid can't raise $50 for his walk for cancer thing at school. Yay America.
- BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -7/+27Even though Obama said impeachment wasn't acceptable, I'm finding it hard to hold that against him. In the same breath he called the leaders bums and it is very clear he wants them done with. But I think him being an actual politician is what makes this divide between what he'll do and what people want. The easy answer is getting rid of the bad guys, but he is obviously much more focused on replacing them with a good guy.
If Obama did all he has promised so far it really would be better that way. And even then, once Bush and Cheney are out of the White House I don't foresee them living long when some dead soldier's relative decides they have nothing left to live for. - swavalier711, on 10/11/2007, -11/+31I like to challenge Obama supporters all the time about what issues Obama stands for, and they 90% of the time have no idea, but they do have this mindset. Let's go through it with steps.
1) Bush is Republican.
2) Therefore, Republicans are bad.
3) I have to vote Democrat.
4) I can't vote for Hillary because her last name is Clinton.
5) Therefore, I vote for Obama. Because he's cool, too.
Sigh. - saturn5, on 10/11/2007, -10/+29It should be Obama. Clinton is too divisive to win the general election. And Ron Paul doesn't stand a chance of getting the nomination.
- mastercheif, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Buy back all of the Ron Paul supporters on digg.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/11/2007, -24/+41Ron Paul?
You mean the guy polling at 1%, who transferred $165000 of his campaign funds to his daughter?
The guy who's against net neutrality because he thinks it's right that telecoms get to throttle bandwidth for people who don't pay extra?
The guy who's in favor of letting big oil drill wherever they want, completely unrestricted?
The guy who sponsored bills to have the Ten Commandments in federal buildings?
The guy who wants to ban stem cell research, ALL stem cell research, including privately funded?
The guy who wants to dismantle NASA, FDA, EPA and all other federal research organizations?
You mean THAT guy?
What about him?
OBAMA '08! - bigbadtabs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16"The Obama campaign emphasized the breadth of its fundraising support, reporting that more than 154,000 new donors had given during the April-June period for a total donor database of 258,000. The Clinton campaign had about 60,000 donors in the first quarter but did not release a total for the last three months."
- Akronos, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Assuming she wins, and then wins a second term, we would have 28 years of a presidency controlled by just two families. Sounds like an aristocracy to me.
- johnhummel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Oh, sure - like his platform for health care, his stated support for pro-choice, his entire book "The Audacity of Hope" where he laws out nearly every position he has on everything.
Stuff like that. Really vague. Only the part where it's not. - omnirusa, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16... How would he have a chance in hell of winning without it.
- xerus, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16Hot. Juicy. Burger.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -13/+23Money talks. That's why the candidate with the most money will win, not someone who actually deserves it like Ron Paul.
At least we can rest easy knowing that Obama would do something about the illegal immigration problem... or not. - Christia, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13Buried to protest against the constant inflation in choice of titles (the sensational title is a lie):
The title says "Obama Breaks All Records". The article says "Only Republican President George W. Bush has raised more in the year before a presidential election." - johnhummel, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12See bigbadtabs - 154,000 new donators. Each of them giving say $225 each you easily reach $33 million - heck, I've been getting campaign donation emails offering a chance to win a dinner with Obama for as little as $5!
I've been listening to Mr. Obama's podcast for some time, and it's clear why his approach is working: it's more grass routes, it's certainly rather lucid. While I do have some questions about particular experience, I'd love to see him as a VP candidate, maybe tied with either Clinton or Gore. - modelcadet, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9I dunno why you're being dugg down. Your comment made me laugh.
- DesuKN, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Obama has the Oprah endorsement. It will be the Housewife Legion against the Clinton Mafia.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10I read Obama as simply stating that at present it is impossible to impeach Bush & co, and he's right - the democratic majority in congress isn't big enough to actually pass any harsh measures against the administration.
In other words, Obama was simply stating the truth. - sodade, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9"once Bush and Cheney are out of the White House I don't foresee them living long when some dead soldier's relative decides they have nothing left to live for."
Now THAT would be justice. - neodorian, on 10/11/2007, -5/+11@stopthepc
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
Oh so basically your little conspiracy theory is correct even though you have no evidence besides that which has already been debunked? If you don't like the guy's policies fine, but you're really reaching with this Muslim conspiracy *****. You're as bad as the LeRouche guys who pass out info on how Cheney is the antichrist or whatever. Sure he's a corrupt ***** but come on now. You lose all credibilty when you start passing on such blatant misinfo that you're just parroting from another source you can't even cite. - Junkyarddawg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7It would be awesome to have a Gore + Obama ticket, though.
- bejitunksu, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7I support democrats and there are only 2 main choices for that side right now.
Hilary is one of those video games cause violence types of people and that alone is cause for me to not vote for her cause it will reflect on her other beliefs - eatsushi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6It's scary people like you are still alive and voting. You might just be the type that votes Mitt Romney.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Third time in this thread you've copied & pasted that comment, ronbot.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Everyone knows it should be Mike Gravel or Ron Paul
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7ron paul has a much better voting record than obama. can obama claim all of the things on ron paul's site? NO, he can't, because even though his presidency will be a sigh of relief over bush's, ron paul is still the best candidate out of all of them for any party.
From Ron Paul's site:
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year. - jonathono2000, on 10/11/2007, -10/+14i don't know where these pipedreaming kids came from on Digg but all this support for the "abolish the IRS" fantasy of delusional Ron Paul is really starting to wear on me. grow up.
- conmulligan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Humour always loses its meaning on the internet
- FlamingWombat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I hope so badly Obama wins the primaries, but I think Clinton has a much better chance. Even though Obama has a huge support base in the younger community, much of that age group won't get out and vote in the primaries (or can't, as is the case with me - I'm not a registered Democrat, on general principle, though I might register to support Obama). Obama seems like he'll actually do some good, whereas Clinton will probably be a do-nothing president.
- oracleofmist, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I agree, I will be voting for Ron Paul in the Primaries (as I am registered republican) however if he doesn't make it to run for president I am sure Obama would and he's my next best choice. ***** the rest.
- carpespasm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4he also doesn't have that weird look that makes you think that he's got something else on his mind while he's smiling.
- GRANDPAMUNSTER, on 06/11/2009, -7/+11I just want to know how much of that came from corporate donors, and which corporations they were.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5@jonathon: they come from prisonplanet and lewrockwell.com.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5If your digg-history is anything to go by, the reason you don't like Obama is because his middle name is 'Hussein'. You DO know he's not a muslim fundamentalist terrorist, right?
- netmasta10bt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I just realised you're on the bury brigade list for attempt to systematically remove/censor posts talking about Ron Paul. But I'll bite. What do you mean ultrareligious? Paleocon == true conservative. Is that bad?
- Arcnite, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4This is what's wrong with politics. There should be a set amount for each candidate, or something similar.... When you're talking this much money then good candidates will be eliminated due to funds and the funded candidates.. well.. they're owing somebody something.
- Fabc001, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9The Bush Presidency, then we had the Clinton Presidency, then we had the Bush Presidency and now we are about to get the Clinton Presidency!
Can you morons see what is going on yet? - carpespasm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4from what i've read and head it's pretty unusual, but obama's money is coming for the most part in donations of less than 1000 dollars. usually, especially in the past few years, candidates with big money usually get it from companies and groups with big money.
- gonknet, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Actually, I think most people have their "money stolen" directly from their paychecks.
- the6thReplicant, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4>> I'd love to see him as a VP candidate, maybe tied with either Clinton or Gore
Always makes me think of the Chris Rock routine about why America can never have a black VP. - BESTenemy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4At least now he does have "a chance in hell" better known to as the "United States". Land of the best freedom money can buy.
- endlessthinker, on 10/11/2007, -7/+10When you get 32 million, people own you. Being President has become who can raise the most money and it shouldn't be that. What we need is someone of middle class who understands how the greater majority is living and what priorities need to be taken care of. I for one think education should be the most important thing of all. We should allow same-sex marriages, because love is between two people not just a male and female. Immigration laws should be enforced, while still allowing people inside the country but must be made a citizen and speak English.
Again, I'm not expecting much, there's only so much one person can do. Usually, a new president is cleaning policies and acts done by the last president. -
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