An a entire article on an unprecedented amount of money spent on a campaign (during a recession mroeover) and no mention of obama's broken campaign promise to accept public funds. imagine if the parties were reversed on this issue. The broken promise would have been the headline as everyone whined about how much money was being wasted.

lgray:

An a entire article on an unprecedented amount of money spent on a campaign (during a recession mroeover) and no mention of obama's broken campaign promise to accept public funds. imagine if the parties were reversed on this issue. The broken promise would have been the headline as everyone whined about how much money was being wasted.

Well, yes. McCain was one of the authors of campaign finance reform. That's why there's a loophole that says you can travel all you want to if your family owns a plane. See, most candidates don't have personal planes. McCain does. This gives him an unfair advantage over other candidates.

Obama could have let his opponent tie both of his hands behind his back and hobble one of his feet. Lord knows Kerry just rolled over and played dead. But Obama is smart, and he's a fighter. I sort of think that's what we need right now. A smart fighter who's great at tactics. Hmm.

Obama does whatever is politically expedient. He changed his mind about campaign finance. This is one kind of change he is probably talking about.

But, seriously, if there are so many racists in America and if we are in a recession and so many people, especially poor people, are losing their homes and jobs, then who gives him so much money? He is swimming in it.

Maybe America doesn't have as many racists as journalists on this site would make us believe?

There are about 300 million people in the US, but only 169 mil. are registered voters, 86 mil. registered Democrats. Obama raised $150 mil. in September...

The number is easier to understand if we imagine that

Almost every voter gave him $1

Every registered Democrat gave him $2

Every 5th registered Democrat gave him $10

Possible? Maybe.

From The New Yorker essay Making It: How Chicago shaped Obama.by Ryan Lizza:

"And so he [Obama] to Marty Nesbit] said, 'Therefore, if you raise five million dollars, I have a fifty-per-cent chance of winning. If you raise seven million dollars, I have a seventy-per-cent chance of winning. If you raise ten million dollars, I guarantee victory.'"

A whole country is not Chicago, but, money make the world go round.

I wish there was a way that you could space printed words so that the reader could read them very slowly, and hopefully it would allow a rather dull mind to take them in. Unfortunately there's not, and considering writing in ALL CAPS is thought to be somewhat rude, I guess I'll just have to hope Igray reads the following slowly and carefully, or gets a 5 year old to explain it to him:

The article was about how Obama will spend his money, not how he raised it.

Did you get that Igray? Or is still being explained to you?

lgray: An a entire article on an unprecedented amount of money spent on a campaign (during a recession mroeover) and no mention of obama's broken campaign promise to accept public funds.

You mean to say you really don't get how dumb that line is? I highlighted the part which I thought especially worthy of dumb status. Isn't it best, during a recession when the federal budget is already extremely tight and money scarce, that a candidate should refuse to take taxpayers money?! You know, so it could be spent on hosptals, roads, the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? Bet you didn't think of that Sherlock...

How did the Obama campaign get so much money? I suspect a good percentage came from people like myself. Inspired and motivated by Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican Convention, immediately after its conclusion I got online and pledged $100.00 through my credit card to the Obama campaign. Contributing that much to a political campaign was something I never done before. Reportedly, a lot of other people did the same that night.

I see John McCain as simply Dubya v. 2.0, and Palin as – well, I'm not quite sure, but it's not complementary. Judged simply by abilities, intelligence, and policies Obama-Biden blows McCain-Palin out of the water. However, this will be a close race because there are plenty of people in this country who would vote for any Republican candidate before they would that nigger.

The Messiah rarely keeps His Word:

campaign financing

FISA

Could never disown Rev. Wright

Saw nothing wrong with forcing His children to attend a church steeped in black theology

Barely knows who William Ayres is

I could go on but that should be enough to prove the point.

Ok, so Obama's failure to live up to his word is now patriotic? What kind of twisted logic is that?

You're correct that the article was about spending, but the article wouldn't be relevant without Obama's decision. You'd think a passing mention would be useful.

Go Obama! He's gonna win this thing, and win it big! WOOHOO!

It's totally possible! I make less than 40K a year, and I have donated between 15$ and 25$ dollars when I could - for a total of a little over 100$. The way I see it, I could go to the movies (10$ min for ticket, 20$ if I go with my husband, easily 40$ if we get popcorn or anything) OR I could contribute to the campaign of a person I really believe in.

I don't consider myself an "Obamaniac", but jeeze, what's so wrong about getting excited about a candidate huh? I have never voted in my life (I've been registered since 1998), largely because I didn't care much for either candidate. I would probably voted for McCain over Gore, but McC 2008 is a far cry from McC circa 2000.

I'm thrilled that Obama has raised so much money, and I completely believe it's due to small contributions from lots of people (not that he doesn't have some friends w/ cash, but...) And yes, money does make the world go 'round. To quote Dick Cheney, "So?"

1. People donated the money. If they didn't like how much he was spending, they'd stop sending money.

2. "During a recession" means what? See #1.

3. Obama promised to sit down with his opponent to negotiate spending. The RNC had $100m and McCain refused to have them refrain from spending their money on the presidential campaign. The DNC had far less money to match the RNC spending.

Typically the republicans do have far more money. Too bad.

Wait till everyone finds out that he got all of that money, in $10 and $20 donations from Ayers.

Even worse, he got all of the money from Fannie, Freddie and Osama.

I don't recall one single Conservative, anywhere, complaining when George W. Bush was setting campaign fund raising records. Conservatives said it was a sign how much America loved George W. Bush.

But now that the records are being set by Barak Obama, it is suddenly different.

Re: "Wait till everyone finds out that he got all of that money, in $10 and $20 donations from Ayers."

Got any proof of that? Or is that your NewsMax talking point of the day?

I was kiddin'. Could you imagine Ayers busily writing a million checks? You should recognize when somebody is being a smart ass.....

I've typically kept my donations to under the limits, because when you write checks for over $200 you start getting a lot more requests for money. I get too many now. The repubnuts think that this would mean I'm trying to break the law. They didn't mind so much when I was a republican.

Oh, good God. How many times are the McCainiacs going to drag this excuse out? Obama said he would sit down and discuss campagin financing with his opponent. Then he changed his mind. Big deal.

He changed his mind because when he filled out that questionnaire over a year ago, he could not have had any idea how much money he would raise. When it became clear that he could raise more money on his own than he would have with taxpayer money, he changed his mind.

Do you seriously think that if McCain had found himself in the same position that he wouldn't have changed his mind? Come on. Get real. Politics is a cutthroat, nasty business, and people who win do whatever is necessary to get what they want. That's what Obama did, and McCain is just whining because he couldn't do the same thing.

Besides, the person McCain should be kicking is himself. For many people, including me, every time we see Sarah Palin we are inspired to make contributions to Obama -- like when she gave that nauseating speech at the convention, or when we see clips of the disastrous Katie Couric interview, or when we see her sowing the seeds of divisiveness and xenophobia by talking about the "real" America, or when we find out that she abused her power as governor of Alaska, or when we see video of her being blessed by a witchdoctor at her church, or when we see an interview clip of her saying that the job of the Vice President is that (and this is a direct quote) "they're in charge of the Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes," AAAAARRRRGHHHH! Seeing one or all of these things inspires many people to dig into their pockets over and over again and give to Obama's campaign, doing whatever we can to keep this stupid, ignorant, crazy woman from coming within 1000 miles of the White House.

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Sarah Palin has been Obama's biggest fundraiser, ableit indirectly. So McCain has no one but himself to blame since he's the one that agreed to have her on his ticket. This is merely part of the price he is paying for selling his soul to the Christian right, and it pisses him off.