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If those new donors give amounts similar to what Obama supporters have given so far this election cycle, Obama could raise another $630 million for his campaign. He raised $272 million through the end of April from about 1.5 million donors.
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But…but…but…Americans are hurting financially, I thought. At least that’s what Obama said. Would he accept someone’s last dollar?
Connie on June 9, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Good Lord, when is someone going to investigate where all this money is coming from?
There is something rotten in Denmark…
jencab on June 9, 2008 at 9:22 PM
basically this is an international election, much of this is probably coming from overseas in under 250 amounts.
jp on June 9, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Democratic friends of mine are excited about the Big O, I’m a Conservative who has donated on an annual basis to local or nationwide Republican candidates but has given nothing in probably close to two years now. I’m voting McCain but that’s all, because from toe-tapping airport bathroom scum to global warming apologists on the “right”, I’m disgusted. And I don’t live anywhere near Denmark.
Marcus on June 9, 2008 at 9:34 PM
THANK YOU! GOOD QUESTION!
CP on June 9, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Dang, and here I am about to be crushed by my tax burden, which Obama wants to raise. I fell over $16K short this year because I worked exceptionally hard last year. To me, that’s big money and hard to come up with. To Obama, it’s a minute’s worth of fundraising. I’m feeling a lot like an ant about to be crushed under his thumb.
aero on June 9, 2008 at 9:51 PM
Isn’t it suspicious? Every month Obama is raising such an exorbitant amount of money. The MSM is portraying Obama as the messiah, so it is not suspicious to them. I hope the RNC is doing their homework. I think there is a need for an investigation.
jencab on June 9, 2008 at 9:59 PM
McCain just needs to turn this into a talking point.
If the economy so bad; its a wonder that millions of people can give money to a politician.
lorien1973 on June 9, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Obama would be better off using the money to start his own church. He is not fit to be President.
Connie on June 9, 2008 at 10:14 PM
where are the GOP congressman to stage a press conference and “demand, demand, open and transparent hearings” into:
NY Sun: Foreigners may be contributing to US presidential campaigns
come on, make a stink…surely there is one GOP congressman or hell O’Reily to raise some eyebrows….then you turn the talking point once everyone knows the story and $$$, that “Obama is running for President of the World”, followed by Al-Jazera clip of Hamas palestenians doing a phone bank for Obama…
the Conservative Paradox: Politicians who have balls with FP, while gonad-less with dealing with Dems and the MSM. The liberal paradox is the opposite, which is why they are so much better at politics than the Repubs.
jp on June 9, 2008 at 10:23 PM
he’s not fit to run a Church either, maybe his own cult though.
jp on June 9, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Yes. Shame on me for being too subtle.
Connie on June 9, 2008 at 10:29 PM
If the money is being funneled to citizens, I am not sure how that could be traced back to the International sugar daddies.
One thing is obvious, something is not right.
javamartini on June 9, 2008 at 10:39 PM
And not a penny of that from lobbyists either…
We’re talking he could raise 1 BILLION dollars
And not a DIME is going to charity.
Or helping the poor.
Things that make you go hmmmm…
I’ve already had to square off against two mind numbed friends who have sucked down the kool-aid big time.
Skywise on June 9, 2008 at 10:47 PM
If measured by cents, 1B$ is 250,000 Tons of CHANGE.
Aristotle on June 9, 2008 at 11:10 PM
It’s June 9th. The June estimates seems a bit premature. I’ll take the under on this one Allah.
phronesis on June 9, 2008 at 11:29 PM
As has been said, he needs all that money to get his message out that everyone is doing poorly. Without all this money, they wouldn’t have enough for an ad buy that would explain that they were doing badly.
What I want to know is if he really believes in ’shared prosperity’, why not split all those campaign contributions up equally among the candidates (including Barr)? Do as I say not as I do, eh?
ThackerAgency on June 9, 2008 at 11:44 PM
How many vets could go to college on Barry’s money?
How many children coulld get a hot meal?
How many scientists could get funding for stem-cell research?
Oh yeah. $100 million is peanuts. When you get to write a $3 trillion dollar budget, then yuo’re doing gangbusters.
I f-ing hate government.
VolMagic on June 10, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Why would anyone donate money to this idiot? If he raised hundreds of millions, when is it that the donors would collectively agree that enough is enough? Don’t the liberals hate it when someone has so much money anyway?
jencab on June 10, 2008 at 12:08 AM
Yeah, where are the cries about too much money being in politics and corrupting the system this year?
What happened to public funding of elections?
Oh yeah… Obama declared he wouldn’t play by those rules because he was earning too much. So the Democrats think it’s ok now.
Skywise on June 10, 2008 at 12:20 AM
LOL! Since we’re getting our asses handed to us, there must be something wrong! It couldn’t be that the Democrats love their candidate, while we’re trying to decide if we don’t despise ours too much to even vote for him.
Let’s investigate this: What happened to the Republican Party that it couldn’t do any better than John McCain?
paul006 on June 10, 2008 at 1:51 AM
This is my favorite part (emphasis mine):
It’s a bit more subtle than ” I was for it before I was against it,” but I think it means the same thing.
Quisp on June 10, 2008 at 7:14 AM
When Obama loses in Nov (or so I hope) then all that money wasted will bring a smile to my face.
Yakko77 on June 10, 2008 at 8:40 AM