Obama Tries to Change the Subject

Obama also pledged to return the donations when he accpeted public financing. I am sure you all could use the money to pay for gas.

He is an agent of change, there will not be a Republican in the White House.
He is a damn smart politician. We haven’t seen that in sometime.
He is calm and steady and knows what he is doing.

Is this fear I see…
Republican posing Democrats fearing Obama?
Landslide?
Obama is leading in 4 of the big states Clinton won
Michigan, Ohio, Florida, and PA
Leading in tranditional Democratic states
AND
Leading several Republican states
Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana, NH, Wisconsin and Missouri

Obama is right about one thing …
You can fool some of the people all of the time!

geevil, you are a republicain who pretends to support Hillary or the democratic party. If you are a Hill’s supporter then stop crying like a baby and get yourself behind her and support the candidate she is supporting i.e. Obama. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

HILLARY IS CURRENTLY DANCING WITH THE WOLVES …VERY SMART MOVE, HILLARY… WHILE SHE CAN STILL BEAT THEM, JOIN THEM…SHE’LL DO ALL SHE CAN TO HELP OBAMA FOR A SHOW THAT IN THE EVENT HE LOSES, HE AND HIS CAMP WON’T HAVE THE EXCUSE OF BLAMING HER…EVENTUALLY, SHE WILL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH AND SAY, “I TOLD YOU SO….”

VANESSA,
REMEMBER, BEFORE THE 2004 GENERAL ELECTION, THE GALLUP POLLS WERE CONSISTENTLY UP FOR KERRY BY 14% -15% OVER BUSH. AFTER THE ELECTION ITSELF, KERRY HAD DOUBLE-DIGIT (88%) ADVANTAGE ON BLACK VOTES OVER BUSH (11%). GUESS WHO EVENTUALLY WON? DID THE BLACK VOTE MATTERED? WE HAVE 85% WHITES OVER 15% BLACK POPULATION IN US ALONE. THIS 85% HAS NOT COME OUT YET FROM THEIR SHELL AND THIS 85% MAY BRING THE BEST IN MCCAIN COME THIS FALL THEY’RE NOT AS VOCAL ABOUT IT AS THE BLACKS. MAJORITY OF THOSE 85% ARE THINKING…WEIGHING…AND NOT PLAYING THE RACE CARD.
I DON’T BELIEVE THE GALLUP POLLS RIGHT NOW WHERE OBAMA HAS A LEAD. THAT LEAD WILL VANISH SOON BECAUSE WHEREVER I GO, WHOMEVER I MEET PERSONALLY OR ONLINE, I NEVER HEARD GOOD THINGS ABOUT OBAMA OTHER THAN THOSE POSTED BY Bhrandon, Omentum, pt, NoMcSame, Melissa, Sandy, Danny Hussein, etc…ONLY A FEW OF THEM ARE OBAMANOTS IN ALL BLOGS THAT I WENT INTO. THEY ARE FAR OUTNUMBERED BY SO MANY BLOGGERS WHO DON’T JUST SIMPLY FORGET OBAMA SCANDALS AND ISSUES IN THE PAST RECENT MONTHS…WHO DON’T JUST SIMPLY FORGET THE UNDERESTIMATION OF MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA… WHO DON’T JUST SIMPLY FORGET HOW HILLARY WAS DEMORALIZED BY THE OBAMA CAMP, MEDIA, ETC.

Besides I think he shouldn’t take it I thought it was dumb to say he would. If you can raise 250 millon in a month from small donations from supporters then why take the money from the feds? the should donate the 85 mill to the mid west! Also hes going to need more than that to fight off the swift boat. Captain Flop is scared because he knows he can’t touch that kind of fund raising without going with the shady lobbisty money. Which he is essentually taking anyway because thats were the “public” money comes from.

ea isnt Captain flop getting investigated right now?

The interesting side note to this entire story is that the RNC has so much more money on hand than the DNC. Obama’s 1.5 million contributors aside, it seems millions of Americans are not too happy with the Democratic party and have ceased donating. Or is that the RNC is pulling in new supporters? Either way, it spells bad news for the Dems in November.

I’m more concerned with the fact that Mr.Campaign finance reform McCain himself took himself out of matching funds, then when he had no money took out a loan, then magically allowed himself to go back to matching funds AGAIN, VIOLATING his own pathetic campaign finance laws that he freakin’ wrote! He got ballot access NOT by signatures but by buying ballot access. Then, when he couldn’t raise any money he kept ballot access, while taking out loans against his campaign. He broke a boatload of election law with these illegal tactics, so I don’t think Obama opting out of public finacing is NEARLY as bad. But the neo-CON Hilliary smiters will be out in full force again, I’m sure. How many advantages did she have, and she STILL LOST! She couldn’t even win a fight rigged in her favor, MOVE ON, MOVE ON! Or just vote McCain and start WWIII. Let’s finish off bankrupting the country and blowup health care, unemployment and bring back the draft. After all I’m sure McCain will do plenty for you women right after he takes away abortion from the feds, kills the economy and sends your sons and daughters to fight and die in the middle east for another CENTURY. But what the hey, it’s not like Mccain can be as bad as Bush was during his first term (War, recession, murder, destruction of the constitution and personal liberty) right, RIGHT?!!!

it seems millions of Americans are not too happy with the Democratic party and have ceased donating. Or is that the RNC is pulling in new supporters?
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Or is it that Dems are just suppoting the candidate, not the party. The money goes to Obama instead of the DNC.
Either way, it’s bad for the Republicans.

I’m a Clinton supporter and will never vote for Hussein Obama!
McCain wins my vote!

IT’S JUST OK TO BE FOOLED ONCE…LEARN FROM IT…BUT IT’S JUST TOO SILLY AND TOO DUMB TO BE FOOLED TWICE OR MORE…NEVER LEARNED FROM IT…. THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN, OBAMA SUPPORTERS… FOOLED AND TRICKED BY OBAMA MORE THAN ONCE….

Oh, please. Scandalous breaking of a pledge? Hardly. Everyone with any common sense and half a brain understands his decision to forego public financing and use the money he has raised during his campaign. Don’t try to make this look like a big deal. It isn’t!!!

Grandmare:
Polls are random sample surveys. They do not call the same people repeatedly. And the Obama campaign calls you what, two or three a week do they?
Yah, the polls – ALL OF THEM – are scewed because a few pathic individuals are pretending to be clever. Whatever.
Today’s Rassmussen
OBAMA 48%
McCAIN 44%

And by all rights she should get behind him. I am positive he would for her if the tables were turned.
HIllary people need to get a grip. It was a fair race, he won by the rules, now it is her duty to help him and us move forward. She likes him, there is not much difference in their policies so the think the same, it was just a race and Obama won.

Every time Obama is in trouble then his campaign advisors try to change the subject. OBama is a candidate that never keep promise.

Really, does anyone care about this public financing thing? I’m so sick of it already and it’s only been one day. I’m a pretty intelligent woman, but I’m utterly confused as to why it’s as huge a deal as McCain and the media are making it out to be. Basically, McCain is crying foul because Obama will raise enough money to destroy him in the general. Pardon me while I feign my outrage sympathy…

“A CNN commentator said last night that Obama winning is more important than keeping promises.”
My guess is Roland Martin. I can’t sit through a “newscast” on that station any longer. Reminds of the run up to the Iraq war.

“Republicans usually win married white women/soccer moms…the Obama tax plan would increase their taxes for them. Top 2%”
Yes, that’s a pretty clear reason to vote against Obama, Vanessa. What you are missing is the coupling power of that class of nodes in the network of influence.
Basic game theory: a node that influences 10 voters is more important to win than a node that can only influence two in a game that has only one round of play. They stay at home only in name. The truth is they use that free time to exercise power and influence in their social networks which has multiple levels of indirection. If you win working stiffs who stay on the shop floor, their circle of influence (immediate nodes no indirection) is very limited.
Now you have to determine which node class is most affected by events such as broken promises, radical connections, racist advisors, a wife that needs a million dollar makeover to distract from her otherwise perceived mean personality, and so on.
Obama’s marketing of late has been clearly to patch the deficits created by his own support base. That’s a tightrope and with the announcement of breaking the fund pledge, he slipped and is trying to climb back on the rope from the midpoint. Tricky to do and it ruins the act’s pacing if he does it more than once. The audience gets bored and goes back to watching the tiger act.

If votes of Americans can be bought then BO wins. If not, he losses.
Now Americans, are you for sale in the general election
For me,
Nobama, Never BO, anyone but BO and the caustic fanatics.

Senator Clinton should just turn her back on the DNC and Obama campaign. After all, she ran as a moderate Democrat but he is nothing more than a socialist, racist, Marxist, communist and a liar. He will bankrupt America with all his socialist and hand-out programs. Most of his issue policies were copy-catted from the Clinton campaign. He is an empty suit and a dud. This pledge about public funding in just another lie in a list of 48,000,000 Obama Lies.

Hillary should turn her back on Obama and the DNC. Maybe put herself on the ballot as an independent party. No way in hell would I work for let alone help people to vote for Obama. Obama lies,stumbles over everything that comes out of his mouth and frankly the only reason why he won the nominee is because he is African American. Don’t get me wrong, I am not racist but rest assured that there are alot of racist out there no matter what their skin color. There will always be racist because of the media. Hillary should turn and run the other way. I will vote for you Hilliary if you run independent!!!!!!!!!!!

An orgy of hypocritical
piety and character
assassination centered
on a non-issue – that’s
what is going on here.

“An orgy of hypocritical
piety and character
assassination centered
on a non-issue – that’s
what is going on here.”
He did it to himself. Get it. He needs to start taking responsibilty for his actions and stop blaming everyone else.

“Soccer moms voted Republican in 1992 and beyond. Chances are they’ll vote Republican 2008. Obama will still win.”
How do you figure that? Soccer moms are said to have put Bush over the top. You must believe the landslide hype for the Democrats. The numbers don’t support that. Things could change but the only real chance I see for that is to put Hillary on the ticket.

“I am so sad Obama let me down. Now i have to consider someone else to vote for”
Look on the bright side, they made Michelle over and now she loves her country!

Don’t insult our intelligence Obama’s & Axelrod. Come out and be truthful. You bashed Hillary shamelessly for her untruthfulness. Now you are insulting us thinking we will buy your see through lies. Just tell us – when you made the statement about the public financing you had no idea how much money your supporters were willing to kick in for you to win. and as for Michelle: just tell us what you really feel about this country- do not stop short with “I was a girl from the south side of Chicago and I am proud.” I have to still question – what are you proud of? yourself? your climb from poverty? or this country? You guys are poor liars and worse back pedallers. David Axelrod better start speaking up telling America what you should have said. Where’s the teleprompter???

Whoever keeps saying women vote Republican in 1992- it was women who put Clinton in the white house. I am one of those soccer moms you keep stating voted Republican- NEVER! I voted for CLinton twice and never voted for Geo. W or his Daddy! Hillary supporters are not Republicans – Obama has a real chance to lose the women vote.

I’d like to say that anyone who votes for someone the likes of Clinton or Obama or McCain deserves what they get. Problem is: we all suffer the consequences. Therefore I’d like to say: just once, just once in your lives try to forget about party politics, do the little bit of research necessary to learn more about these candidates other than what you read or hear in the media and try to have an original thought of your own. If you don’t know what that is, google it. Take this simple test: if you cannot in detail explain your candidate’s policy on fiscal policy, monetary policy, foreign policy and the constitution. If all you can mutter about your candidate is: “he/she will bring change” then you don’t know your candidate and you shouldn’t be voting.
Ron Paul ’08

Bless you, Jake Tapper! You are one of the very few MSM analysts that sees through the BS the Obama campaign feeds us.
Poor Hillary! She is forced to campaign for this Plastic Jesus.

Astrologers consistently say …But, of all the candidates, including Barack Obama, Hillary has the strongest astrological forces. What a waste. Hillary has the option to run independent …. We don’t know what’s going on in her mind right now but I hope she’s doing the right thing.

this election counts,
If you write in Hillary’s name, that vote will technically go for obama.

I find it rather hard to believe that Obama and Clinton were in cahoots to wag the dog on June 26th after he reversed on campaign financing. Now isn’t that a stretch and a spin? An exercise, perhaps, to diminish the gain in Democratic unity?

Following astrology is no more lunatic than following Obama. And it’s a heck of a lot less destructive to our country.

I QUIT THE DNC .
APPROVAL OF CONGRESS 16%. REMEMBER ALL THOSE CAMPAIGN PROMISES?????????
what we got was a sub prime housing mess, higher food and gas prices, lost jobs and wager…
The two party system no longer works.

McCain’s making a big deal because now he knows the RNC will have a harder time finding third parties to swift boat the hell out of Obama, the ONLY way a Republican wins elections these days.

One down two to go: Mc Cain and Hillary ‘s supporters, like sand between his toes.

I voted for Obama in my state’s primary. However, I will NOT be voting for him in November. There are 3 other voters in my house that will not be voting for him again either. Subtract FOUR votes from BO’s total and give them to McCain.

Some excellent points, Howard.
A few other observations… Obama and his party have done a masterful job of manipulating the masses and serving up some hope that things are really going to change in this country. Government has grown too large, and it can not be “fixed” only managed. To really change anything would involve a large part of government being fired and tossed out on their ears and looking for jobs. That is not going to happen. Are changes possible? Yes, but nothing like the radical makeover that BO is planning. Of course, we all know that nothing in life is free (well, some of us do), so we know who will pay for changes, don’t we? You got it. We ALL will pay in the form of taxes. I am willing to pay my fair share to get the health care crisis fixed. Insurance companies are out of control. And just who has allowed that to happen again? It sure wouldn’t be Congress, would it? They would never cave in and sell the American people out, would they? My insurance premiums as a small business owner for 2 employees and my family are $2,500.00 per month. For those that can’t do math, that is $30,000.00 per year. That’s insanity! And that is with a large deductible.
I do not believe for a second that our Founding Fathers ever invisioned career politicians either. Is that going to change? Fat chance. They are not going to vote themselves out of a job replete with all those “benefits.” That is why they have not voted for term limits or even seriously suggested it in more than placating kind of way.
As for Obama, the truth is that Americans are gullible and believe only what they want to hear. They don’t want to hear that life is hard, expensive, and that it will remain that way. They don’t want to hear the truth. So, along comes a guy that promises that he’s going to fix everything and all their problems will vanish. Americans buy the “hope” and “change” BS hook, line, and sinker, especially the young, idealistic types. But then, that candidate makes some mistakes that trigger questions about his “change” mantra and really his integrity in general because he changes his mind and goes back on things he stood firmly behind at one time. Those ideals are tossed under the bus, along with a few people (a pastor, Muslims with headscarves on, etc.). A pattern emerges and it looks very familiar. It looks eerily similar to every other politician, and he is no different. Then a large part of the voting public wakes up and sees the candidate for what he really is, an empty suit telling them what they want to hear and nothing more just to get elected.
I have a feeling that a lot of people will be waking up soon and removing their support from Obama. Like my mother always told me, “If it sounds too good to be true, it’s too good to be true.” However, if they don’t wake up, your scenario will come to pass. However, we American people will not let our history be rewritten and stand. Oh hell no! We’ll be looking at the SECOND American Revolution.

I guess scrutiny and sarcasm go a long way in making the politicians better people especially when all those flaws are found.