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- flavioribeiro, on 07/06/2008, -2/+8People will vote for him as long as the Democrat/Republican false dichotomy persists.
- Kashabear, on 07/07/2008, -0/+5I fail to see how Obama raising funds for the DNC and his campaign is such a big deal. This is part of the process of anyone wanting to get elected - you have to raise money. Both the DNC and the GOP need to raise money for their outlandish conventions, advertising, etc. Fact of life. get over it.
- voxlisa999, on 07/07/2008, -0/+4Agree. What? Democrats aren't allowed to raise money from affluent Democrats? But McCain can bypass the law with his $70K limit loophole that Karl Rove cooked up? Yeah, right.
- bgrah449, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1I see what you did there.
- Bagos1, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1So all you poor deluded voters that dugg this down and believed in this piece of garbage.....digg up now.
- QuantumBios, on 07/07/2008, -2/+3People from his own town are starting to see that his "change" is not the change they are looking for. It's beginning to happen. Slowly, but surely.
- abran1984, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Pun not intended, actually...I'm not that clever
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -9/+10I am curious how much further down the road people will follow him.
He will have the 'elites' but the well intentioned good hearted people for change must be disappointed. We need to elect better candidates. - ToddSmyth, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1This is a contrived and pathetic reaction to Obama raising money. Barack Obama has inspired the largest grassroots political movement in all of U.S. history with the broadest base of donors and volunteers and nothing changes that. Ari Fleischer, via 527 Freedom’s Watch has lined up over $450 million from big oil, big pharma and defense contractors to slime Obama this election cycle.
- littlequeenie, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1Damn I am so sick and tired of hearing he has gone back on his promise to use public campaign financing. HE NEVER PROMISED TO DO THAT!! He DID say that he would work with the republican nominee and do it IF the republican nominee did it. McSame was the nominee back in March and HE went back on his promise to do it - didn't he use that as collateral on a loan??
What Obama has received in donations from more than a million supporters counts more as public financing to me than using tax dollars to support his campaign.
So now he is showing up at fundraisers designed for the big pocket people. That's fine. I'm tapped out. I'm sure it will take a lot of bucks to fight some of those sleazy ads that will be attacking him soon. - bgrah449, on 07/07/2008, -1/+1Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens.
This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.
...So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: ‘The Public Sucks. ***** Hope.’ - CRAVECOFFEE, on 07/07/2008, -1/+0Okay - before you chastise Senator Obama - how about this - each person can only donate $2,300 to the campaign. Some people give it by going to big $ dinners (donation plus food, rental space, etc. - and give it as a lump sum. Before you dig Senator Obama in - what about McCain's fundraisers? The money comes in all forms. He NEVER said he would not fund raise in this manner. AND, this was Clinton's manner of fundraising.
*May 18, 2008 ... John McCain (R-Az.) hits Chicago on Monday for high dollar fund-raising on LaSalle Street and a stop in McCormick Place for a speech to the ...
*May 17, 2008 ... President Bush plans to help John McCain fill his coffers at a high-dollar fund-raiser at the end of May, marking the first time the ...
*Mar 15, 2008 ... A foreign trip that Senator John McCain has repeatedly said is not political could be seen to serve as a promotion of his foreign policy ...
*May 19, 2008 ... Lacking a robust small-dollar Internet fund-raising operation, McCain has embarked upon an aggressive schedule of some two dozen high-dollar ...
*Mar 13, 2008 ... John McCain Chooses High Dollar Fundraiser Over Virginia’s ... Tickets to his fund-raiser at the Rittenhouse hotel are $1000 a plate. ...
*Jun 10, 2008 ... The Reformers As Fundraisers. Washington Post: Obama, McCain Balance Image .... McCain's five-minute talk at a high-dollar reception and his ...
*It will be a two-tiered event with an early high-dollar reception followed by a general reception. As with all McCain fundraisers now, the money will be ...
*Jun 9, 2008 ... The unofficial Republican nominee attended a high-dollar reception with ... If McCain can only get 40 people to a $2500/head fund-raiser, ...
Just search McCain's high dollar fund raisers. - abran1984, on 07/06/2008, -8/+7The Obama nomination may end up being a black eye for the Democratic party
- kosser, on 07/06/2008, -8/+6...Obama's advisors have been more explicit. His top foreign policy advisor, Anthony Lake, a former Clinton administration national security advisor, told the press that an incoming Democratic administration was committed to maintaining "a residual force for clearly defined missions" in Iraq, as well as "preparedness to go back in," if needed. "That is not a 'cut and run' and let's just see what happens,'" said Lake, one of the architects of the Clinton administration's "humanitarian" interventions in Somalia, Haiti and the Balkans.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/obam-j04 ...
It just seems no matter how obviously bad our candidates are, there will always be people who manifest their own beliefs and image for people like Obama. He will further ruin this country after Bush is gone. - Pssdoff, on 07/07/2008, -5/+2Obama can't even wait until after the election to begin going back on his promises.
- Bagos1, on 07/07/2008, -8/+3What a whore.....but then what else would you expect from any of these
people who's sole objective is to get voted.
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