According to this AP article (via Hot Air), Barack Obama’s fundraising is getting lower…

teh messiah has $43 mil on hand and has raised $287 mil? he has burned through 240 million dollars to just be tied with an old crank?

No. He spent that money in winning the primary and beating Clinton. Now a new ballgame begins, starting essentially from scratch.

Breaking: Obama stumbles to a $22 million May

Yeah, but look where some of Hussein Obama’s money is shamefully coming from:
Code Pink

McCain learned his lesson last summer, and his coffers remain full – Ed Morrissey

Bad time to run out of money. The sub prime bust is not 30 percent over but it has created the coming credit bust. Predictions are building banks will begin cutting credit limits on the little guys, some predict within the next three months. Since the public has been surviving on plastic when they find their credit lowered the real economic slowdown will begin.

That slowdown will cut down the mid range donations of the people who feed off the little guys. Rich people will still be rich but there are campaign limits.

The time to get collect bucks was last year.

Small wonder that the campaign waited until Friday night to release this information.

Yeah, I love those Friday evening press releases and data dumps — the political equivalent of, say, a baseball team firing its manager via email at 3 in the morning…

Does Vegas still have this at 2:1 Obama? I’m not a betting man, but I might have to make an exception…

But the info here indicates he’s putting on a better demonstration of financial buffoonery than the head to head was likely to reveal – short of his campaign mis-managing itself into bankruptcy before 1 November.

Keep in mind kids – here’s a guy that’s been handed an ENORMOUS amount of cash, to ‘fight’ a campaign (with more than ample ‘free’ support from his various MSM cheerleaders and their quivering/tingling appendages) against probably the most stunningly incompetent executive/manager of such prominence in America today (quick, name one thing Hillary! has been involved with besides her cake walk basically unopposed runs for the New York Senate seat – the walk to the finish re-election managing to flush 30 million dollars without blinking an eye – that hasn’t turned into a train wreck) and consider this – then press the point home to others – if he, and the ‘team’ he wants to assemble are this horrendous with managing the cup runneth over finances of a mere election campaign, what does that tell you about how competently and efficiently this man and his people are going to run the government’s executive branch if they gain access to the levers of power?

My bet is that if he’s elected, Carter’s handling of the economy will begin to look like absolute genius. /sarcasm

Just think of the constant drumbeat of calls to donate he and his surrogates continually issue, what they’ve ‘accomplished’ with the money, and then substitute ‘tax’ for ‘donate’, then consider it won’t be optional if he get’s his way (and with tax revenue drunken Dems in charge of the Congress, you can bet they’ll sing hallelujah every time the messiah sends that message).

Then again, maybe in the back of his mind, he figures the Iranians or one of their surrogates will pop us with a nuke in some form, so he can blame the economy going down the tubes on that, rather than how he was busy driving it into the dirt before his weakness in international affairs came back to bite us in the ass.

Yeah, the next four years is potentially very, very scary.

I would like to add that Obama will not get 50% of the vote.
NotCoach on June 21, 2008 at 9:04 AM

Correct, Sir.

Point taken. Let’s remember though, that besides BJ Clinton, America has gotten it right for the last 30 years. We’ll come through again.

Mojave Mark on June 21, 2008 at 1:26 AM

Maybe even with Clinton they got it right, they just weren’t happy with the alternatives. Only one Dem since 1964 has gotten above 50% of the vote. That was Carter with 50.08% in 1976. Americans do not like the candidates that the Dems nominate. As long as the Republicans give them a good alternative a Dem will lose.

Yes, I know. McCain is not exactly the best alternative.

liking the way he is uniting the dems by telling the sweeties to deal with it

Hillary Clinton’s money woes complicate this as well. She has over $20 million in debt, perhaps more than $30 million. Obama obviously cannot retire that debt himself, which means she has to spend her time holding fundraisers for herself and not for Obama.

What obligation does a nominee have to retire a former opponent’s campaign debt? Is this one of those customary things? A quid pro quo for the defeated candidate’s support? What’s the deal here?

Can’t wait for the Nutsballroots to start blaming Clinton for this decline in Obama’s windfall profit!

Topsecretk9 on June 21, 2008 at 3:08 AM

Obama’s got so much campaign money he needs a windfall tax imposed on him. :}

He’s more greedy than an Oil Executive.