What Happened to Obama’s $100 Million June?

Many of his supporters have stretched our budget limits with the drawn out Primaries. Even in February when we saw that there was no realistic way for Hillary to catch up, whe wanted to keep spending money and campaigning. I don’t blame her I know getting that national exposure meant a lot to her political career. But it meant that we had to keep pouring money into the Obama campaign. When, finally, there were not more reasons for her to stay in the race, many of us took a breather from our $25-$30 dollar donations and made sure our bills were paid.
We will donate again, but face it, it was Hillary who had the reputation with the ‘big’ donors.
We are still every bit as enthused about the prospect of having a president for ALL Americans, but we have to be responsible with paying our bills as well.

Truth Matters…
I couldn’t agree with you more. With the high price of gas, I just can’t keep giving $25 every month. But give me a little breather and I will certainly donate again!

all these guys are right…
Hillary’s long drawn out battle unfortunately stretched everybody…but one let down in the numbers and everyone will scramble.

The excitement level has also drawn down. The primary battle with Hillary was really intense. People donated b/c we wanted to see the Clintons defeated. Now that their gone, the excitement has sizzled down. Money will start rolling in after the convention.

The Democratic convention is before the GOP convention. After the Democratic convention I’m sure they’ll have a countdown to the GOP convention. Same as the primaries.

Perhaps Obama’s raffle to win a trip to the Democratic Convention will put him over the $100 million mark for July.
Obama’s campaign is similar to a carnival, circus, or popularity contest.

Remember there are 3 contributions. One for Obama Campaign, another one for offsetting Hillary,s debt and the last one for DNC Convention.
Infact we have done well if we have reached 30 million and above!

Obama has already peaked in his “popularity” — his fundraising abilities have peaked also.
People are sick and tired of being taken for granted.
He may wish he hadn’t refused public funds.

So just in case other didn’t get the memo, these are the talking points:
1. Blame the bad economy for Obama’s finances.
or
2. Blame Hillary.

Obama, ever since you stabbed your supporters in the back by telling them their donations would be sent to pay off a candidate they didn’t vote for, they decided donating to you is a waste of money. The problem is that they want to support you, but you won’t let them. Let us support you, not Hillary, and the funds will come rolling back in.

I think there’s a misconception going on here. The money we donate to the Obama camp goes directly to the Obama camp.
Obama has only opened up the door for his BIG donors to help retire Hillarys debt (I strongly oppose). You can also retire Hillary’s debt by donating on her website NOT the Obama site.
Obama represents change. Change from the Bush policies. McCain only offers an additional four years of the same.

“What Happened to Obama’s $100 Million June?”
That’s easy…
People are learning more about Obama than we knew in January.
The DNC will ultimately regret what they have done (forcing Hillary Clinton out).
George McGovern, Al Gore, John Kerry… and now BHO. How many more mistakes will they make before Democrats stop listening to voices from the Star Chamber?

Matt…
The problem with your assumption is that BHO and Hillary Clinton are NOT “interchangeable”. They are DIFFERENT people with very different philosophies. I was a contributor to Hillary Clinton, but I wouldn’t give a DIME to BHO. Why is this so hard for some folks to understand? They are NOT the same!

This money is for the primary season and only some of it can be used in the general. The day after the DNC we will see how much money he has. I assume three times as much as McCain

Right on Love America. The so-called “liberal media” is desperate for 4 more years of deregulation and profits from building media/entertainment monopolies. What McCain’s chief economic adviser said, and affirms, is so much more caustic to regular American’s than what Obama’s former minister said, but look at the differing reactions. Texas Phil’s remarks will be sweep under the rug in no time.

Am I the only one who is for “none of the above”

I believe the Mccain camp is underplaying its fund raising which the obama is overplaying theirs.

McCain is not Bush!
McCain took hits from Republicans by standing up to Bush on torture and immigration.
Obama has never stood his ground on anything! – but flip flops all over the place to be everything to everybody.
NObama!

Stop blaming Hillary, if obama is getting more people registered then there should be new funds right? He didnt ask his small contributers on his website to contribute he asked his big money donars(of who he keeps trying to say are few). Maybe people don’t like the fact that he fliped on Iraq, or thinks its okay for the goverment to spy, death peanalty, gun control. The list goes on. I am seriously thinking about making a contribution to Hillary and Obama. I think some of the obama supporters could also look to themseleves to blame, Hillary’s money bundlers aren’t eager to donate Obama because of what they see as arrogance by some of his staff/supporters. So please stop just blaming Hillary there are plenty of others to blame including the big O himself.

DemocratNoMore2 you don’t make sense.It was a republican president supported by republican control bouse and senate including John McCain that didn’t do their job of oversight that took away your freedoms in the first place.Lets get the facts correct.It was president Bush that went around the fisa court.It was president Bush that ordered the telecoms to spy on you.Please remember that only company that turned them down was Qwest.Qwest’s chairmen was later indicted and charges with fraud by the Bush justice dept.What amazes me is that you republican now all feign outrage because Obama didn’t stand up to protect your freedom.The same freedom that the President that you support and candidate you support Sen.Mccain took away from you in the first place. Stop believing lies from ABC and Fox.

I’m with stark granger. 4 Years ago I thought we had the worst possible two candidates on the planet. Cut to 4 years later and here we are with a democrat that makes W’s talking style look like Einstein (when off teleprompter) and a republican that wants amnesty and limiting free speech. These two bozos make Bush vs Kerry look like Lincoln vs Jackson. Neither one understand anything about the economy, the constitution, or leadership. They are senators. a senator hasn’t been elected in this country since JFK, and he “got the hell beat out of me” in a private room by Kruschev before he realized the Senate is not a good training ground. Luckily Kennedy had a strong mind and a steel spine. His initial weakness may have invited the Cuban Missile Crisis, but he was strong enough to realize his mistakes and grew a pair. Unfortunately, Clinton had a much larger pair than either of these two. I’m continually amazed at the idiots who proudly wear R or D on their jerseys and vote blindly like lemmings piling off a cliff. Can you people not see that McCain and Obama BOTH are HORRIBLE choices? We need to move to a national primary. all 50 states vote for primaries at the same time, and sometime in JULY. Obama lost something like 8 of his last 12 primaries. He is weaker than Clinton. I don’t think he is a bad guy, but I wouldn’t want him for a department head, let alone a president. Both candidates don’t want you assailing their records: JM is a war hero blah blah and BO doesn’t want you to talk about his ears, his wife, or his politics. Thats a problem. Lincoln had no trouble when people said he was too ugly, Carter wasn’t afraid to talk about being a peanut farming outsider, and Reagan confronted the age issue head on. Hell, even W dealt with the 11th hour DUI thing. Both of these clowns need to get out and both parties need to put up people who are honest about what they believe. love em or hate em, both Reagan and Bill Clinton were straight up about what they wanted to do and about their ideology. Neither Bush is/was, and neither was Kerry or these two clowns. It’s called integrity. It’s too late this go round for any of that though.

WELL MAYBE THINGS WILL PICK UP AFTER SOME DEBATES ARE DONE BETWEEN THE CANDIDATES !!!!!!

He could have opted for public financing and begin to change and unify the system together with McCain. But instead, he make excuses to gain an edge, just as he make excuses for his wife, Wright, Rezko, Iraq, Nafta, FISA.

What’s the fuss?
Whoever gets to be your next decider, Corporate America still runs your life. If you’re in credit card debt today, you’ll still be in credit card debt fours later. Maybe deeper debt. Wanna bet?

JoseyJ,
“McCain took hits from Republicans by standing up to Bush on torture and immigration.”
He did, didn’t he?! How about now? He has reversed on both those issues and agreed with Bush. So, nothing new here from McSame, but the same tired WEAK and OLD policies.

We need debates between these two so we won’t have to rely on the media’s interpretation of their positions.
I demand a roll call at the convention.

Obama: The more people see and understand him, the less they like him!

What’s so surprising? The Obama campaign is all about hype and arrogance. They really thought they’d bring in 100 million in June? Well, it figures that they really would believe this. That’s just par for the course.
Anyway, the bloom is off the rose. The more people see of Obama the less they like him. So I’d say they’ll be plenty more in the way of disappointing fund raising from here on out.

“She lost it in May” Take a look at the figures. Had it not been for the DNC pushing her super delgs to change over, she would have been the winner by then.

Obama is a change from the Bush Administration, huh?
LOL!
Well, let’s see…he is rethinking his Iraq pullout timeframe, he now votes for wiretapping, he’s in with Rezko and the corrupt businesspeople.
HOW IS THAT ANY DIFFERENT?!!?!?!?!
This guy is a black GWB with a bigger smile!

Now that Obama has secured the nomination, we want to catch our breath and will once again begin to ramp up our donations at the end of the summer, I am sure of it.
Posted by: geecee | Jul 11, 2008 10:46:08 AM
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Not so fast, we still have a convention. We will fight him on the floor!!!!

Yolanda,
“HOW IS THAT ANY DIFFERENT?!!?!?!?!
This guy is a black GWB with a bigger smile!”
Nice try! We’re tired of the lies and hate mongering coming from the neo-cons. No matter how you slice it, there’s basically nothing McSame is bringing to the table that Bush already has not. Nothing! Why on earth would we want more years of the same reckless and irresponsible polices.
McSame and his polices = WEAK and OLD!!

Yolanda,
“HOW IS THAT ANY DIFFERENT?!!?!?!?!
This guy is a black GWB with a bigger smile!”
Nice try! We’re tired of the lies and hate mongering coming from the neo-cons. No matter how you slice it, there’s basically nothing McSame is bringing to the table that Bush already has not. Nothing! Why on earth would we want more years of the same reckless and irresponsible polices. /quote
Wait a minute. Would a neo-con bash Bush like that? Pull your head out for a minute and try to think for yourself. Both candidates suck. I’m writing in or voting 3rd party. Wake up and smell what you are shoveling.

Obama spent more money than he took in for the past two months also, with very little to show for it, since Hillary beat him during both months.
Obama’s supporters are maxed out, and there aren’t many other people who are going to be sending him campaign contributions.
Also, the DNC is way behind the Repubs in fundraiing.
What a shame.

Posted by: America’s Downfall | Jul 11, 2008 11:13:32 AM
————–Yeah, yeah tell the above to Florida and MI!!!!
People, votes? Some count, some don’t!

The people on this blog are the reason we are in the shape we are in now.. gas prices, foreclosures, and outsourcing. But oh now.. blame Obama, its his fault. Honestly people get angry and say he won unfairly but how is that when he had a good amount of popular vote behind him. We are supposed to be about the people but I guess the people don’t matter. Look at Rove, Bush, Cheney and all his crownies. That’s want America wants. Honestly, both Clintons are just as bad as any republican so if you want a continuation of Bush’s agenda stick with McCain or even Hilary. It’s not about hope but it’s about saying we tried all they other stuff before, let’s do something different.
Posted by: America’s Downfall | Jul 11, 2008 11:13:32 AM

You failed to mention something very important to us Democrats. Many of us are trying to help out Hillary with her campaign debt.

The only thing you can do different this time that would be GOOD is for both parties to get up in arms and select two entirely different candidates. I’m not talking about clinton either. A low should be passed where no senator can ever run for president. They are juiced in and weak ineffectual people, so they get in because they are well connected and know how to play the game, but the problem is that THEY PLAY THE GAME. Every senator promises change, yet their idea of change is a name change on the White House letterhead. Senators ROUTINELY make deals. That’s ALL they DO for a LIVING. If people (read: journalists) would be smarter than the average 3rd grader, they would stop eating the crap that liars like Obama and McCain shovel them. A senator is born to compromise, with some exceptions… Helms and Kennedy being the two most prominent. If you know a person COMPROMISES THEIR PRINCIPLES FOR A LIVING, why would you want that person in ANY LEADERSHIP position? That isn’t leadership. I don’t like Bush at all, but I admire the fact he stands on his own principles, and it ain’t about R or D: I can say the same for the leadership abilities of Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Carter, though I definitely get angry with some of ALL of their policies. Stop being cheerleaders and start questioning the leaders. I want a house of commons type thrashing once a month. If we had leaders who STOOD FOR SOMETHING, they would have debates every week instead of RAISING MONEY. Think about that. We are hearing more about fundraising than ideas. Yet both sides want to defend their baby-boy from the mean old people on the other side. I know in my personal dealings, I hold my friends to a MUCH higher standard than I hold the average person. If political parties did this we would have some really great leaders. Instead we have the choice between a marshmallow that used to be a *ahem* “maverick” and an empty suit. Oh boy. I can’t wait to see who shows up in 2012. /sarcasm

Obama: The more people see and understand him, the less they like him!
Posted by: Soetoro No! | Jul 11, 2008 10:48:04 AM
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Thanks Soetoro NO, you have said this for my whole family as well! That’s exactly how we feel about him!

so silly to contribute to politician. What can you get return from that???????

geez, give us a break. we’ve been donating throughout the primary season, let us catch our breath. I will be donating again but give it sometime. Plus I don’t want a dime going to HRC so I want to make sure that the BO campaign confirms that my money is going to BO not HRC and Mark Penn.
Posted by: MB | Jul 11, 2008 12:48:26 PM
It can not go to Hillary by law. Obama can only give the same 2300 to her as anyone else.

Obama’s candidacy has been overblown from the beginning. He’s never won more than 38% of Democrats votes and he’s been losing popularity ever since. Caucuses are not representative of majority votes.
America is going into recession and we are engaged in two wars…there’s no chance in heck we are going to turn over the Presidency to an inexperienced flip-flopper without a clue. We need HRC to be President…I hope we, Democrats, do the right thing in Denver.

Maybe – just maybe – if there was actual truth to anything any of them said – I would consider one of the candidates. However, I see Obama’s own state has one of the highest tax rates and is in poor condition. I also see that his proposed tax plans actually ends up costing the average person a lot more. As much as I hoped for change – I don’t see it happening with any of the candidates we have to choose from. So for me – I vote for NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!

John H Wrote:If Obama wants to bring unity to the party, and get his hands on money from Hillary’s supporters, he has to get his own people in line.
I do not think he can do it though. He spent a year and a half training his followers to hate the Clintons. How long will it take for him to reprogram his bots? Probably too long to do him any good.
John H is RIGHT.Obama could win with overwhelming support if he was wise enough to join forces for a Dream-ticket. However, his campaign’s systematic Hillary-Hate brainwashing seemed expedient, but was ultimately TOXIC to the Democratic Party.
His gullible fold thought his Dem-4-A-Day crossovers would shower BHO with money after the primary, and vote for Obama in November (NOT!)
They thought they could just throw Hillary under the bus and bully Clinton supporters into helping Obama (NOT!
They thought Obama could flip-flop on the issues and take Progressive voters for granted (NOT!)
Some Obama disciples would sooner drink urine than unify the ticket and express the FULL will of the Democratic Party.
Too bad that hate may cost them the White House AND the Democratic majority…ESPECIALLY since their few treasured R’s and Inde’s will NEVER vote a straight Democratic ticket!

Hillary lost. It’s over. When you lose, you don’t get to dictate terms to the winner. Barack has no reason to pretend he should feel bad for winning.As bad as Bill and Hillary behaved during the primaries, I don’t want to hear any more nonsense about how terrible the Obama campaign behaved. He was a better strategist and manager and won. She didn’t. If you’re sore about it, get over it. This is politics.

I think either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama would make a great President. I find it difficult to believe average, ordinary, normal people are anywhere near a tied in knots as the rabid Hillary and Barack supporters. I personally would have been happy with either one.
Most of us average, ordinary, normal Democrats want to protect a woman’s rights, preserve our public schools, expand the working middle class, promote energy conservation, inhibit corporate greed, etc.. Both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama will do those things for our country. Senator McCain won’t.
Keeping our eye on the prize means electing a Democratic President, not electing your favorite Democrat as President. Us average, ordinary, normal Democrats already know this. The rest will come around … eventually.

Money – $$always money – Guess obama and the DNC are cash poor – must be those MILLIONS of Hillary Supporters – we will NOT give 1 penny to the FRAUD the DNC picked.
Our Votes will Count – our voices Heard – - obama OUT – PRICELESS!
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Again,
Your candidate lost. She lost fairly and by the rules. Not by the made-up rules her campaign and supporters wanted to run on when they couldn’t win by the rules agreed to by every candidate. Stop the nonsense. Your candidate lost. Move on.

Obama phenom has peaked. The public is eeing that this man is truly and empty suit and only believes in what will get him elected. What happened to the $100,000 million predicted. King Obama now wants to not allow Hillary on the roll call in Denver. She won the popular vote and he is so arrogrant.
With his flip flops on Nafta, abortion, Iraq, public financing, etc…I will not support him.
Hillary showed real courage with her vote on Fisa. Obama has no core or convictions. In protest I am sending McCain $200 bucks today.

YEAH YEAH YEAH. blame it on Hillary…. dumbos. it’s what you do best.
Keep yourselves lily white in the blame department even though you pushed through one of the biggest con artists in today’s political arena!
Thanks for allowing your prejudices to color your concern for your country!
BO has prompted change, alright, right back to the mid sixties.
Watch B O wiggle his ears as he signals for a right….. no… a left… turn in tactics tonight on any tv channel…..
Watch him chat with his long list of questionable associates … and pad their earmarks as Michelle plans on re-docorating the the Oval Office with ashtray’s shaped like a donkey’s Ass…. fitting.
Watch how in these times of economic depression he feels a top priority. should he win, to show off his fat head and big ears in the biggest arena in the world!
What is wrong with priorities like this?
How many of you are facing foreclosure?
How many are hobbled by gas prices?
Lack of jobs?
Why wouldn’t ANY contender for the title of protector to these United States consider the PEOPLE… and say..
I don’t NEED to be the show! I support my people…. and will take some of these shekels and pour them into a self-perpetuating fund to HELP them.
BUT, Obama is all show!
Luckily, he will not win!
Note how the e-press expounds this outrageous explotation of political editorialization.
As for the dnc….. let him keep it; it’s blind, broken and, like humpty dumpty ready to take the plunge!
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY!
MCCAIN IS PLAIN BUT SANE!
AND HAS PROVEN HIS LOVE OF COUNTRY

Those Republicans (and other big money interests) who had been funding Obama to take out Hillary, decided that he had accomplished that mission — so they stopped, er, suspended, donating.

Obama is exactly like the “it-girl” in Hollywood. Rapidly rising star which quickly fades that no one wants to be seen around anymore. People don’t want to be associated as a cult-like follower that can’t have an original thought on their own.

Again,
Stop whining. Hilary lost. It’s just a campaign. If you want to cut off your nose to spite your face (voting for McCain) then go right ahead. But if he wins and takes away abortion rights and destroys what’s left of health care, be big enough to own up to that decision. Don’t try and find another person to blame for your bad, bad, bad choices.

You trust Obama on Abortion? Really after his comments this week about “mental distress”? Why would you believe him on a right to choose any more than any of the other promises he already broke?

No Donna,
The only people who planned for a coronation were Hilary and her supporters. The only reason why you’re so mad at Obama supporters is because we actually thought you should earn the nomination and not be appointed. Stop the phony arguments about how Hilary really won the popular vote (as long as you don’t count the caucus states and add in Florida and the uncontested Michigan vote). Stop grasping at straws. Hilary lost. If anything you should wonder how someone of such vaunted experience and knowledge managed to squander $250 million and end up with $22 million of debt.

Well, we called it correctly back in January — Obama is the pet rock of the
Democratic Party — just like McGovern was in 1972 — get ready for one of the worst electoral defeats in history if this unqualified, inexperienced, flip-flopping man is the nominee.
Just call your Congressperson and say “We’ve Changed Our Minds.”
It’s not too late to nominate Hillary — the one who has had the same solid and correct policies on the economy and on Itaq from the beginning — no b.s., just straight talk.
She is raising more than Obama or DNC and she’s not even in the race. What does that tell you? She has the Democratic base in her pocket.
She is the only one who knows what she’s doing. Obama is lost as sea and his bragging about his big fundraising is a joke, too. He only raised $22 million in May — McCain raised just about the same amount.
Why won’t Obama release his numbers for June? Hey, Howard Dean, got Convention dough? That’ll teach you to kick Hillary to the curb.
You want to save this party, you’d better beg her to do it and tell Obama to step aside — for the good of the party.
By the way — McCain showed his actual birth certificate. Where is Obama’s — he refuses to show his. Why?
Wake up, America.

b o ran a better campaign.
i will give you that!
let’s elect AXELROD!!!!!!!

No JDona,
There was no hijacking. Your candidate agreed to the rules in the beginning which stated that you have to have the 2100+ delegates by either winning them outright or in combination with super delegates in order to win. All candidates agreed to not campaign in states that tried to circumvent party rules over when to have their primaries. If everyone agreed to this willingly and Barack won based on the hand dealt him, which by the way was considered an extremely difficult one at the time, then what exactly is your problem?

1950 democrat:
The difference would be that you could pretty much count on the black and young vote staying home because their hard fought campaigning would have been for nothing. Why have rules if no has to follow them? Why have elections if a candidate can nominate herself a year in advance and demand that outcome become reality even after she lost? Why even have a political party if that’s the case.

I think the obama campaign has lost some of it’ luster

Obama does need to start doing something, he is a sensation but the people need a positive something. Anyway, I still think he is way better than McCain.

12SpeakOut:
Let me just break it to you, you aren’t in the majority. The only way you can come to that conclusion is if you play very fast and loose with numbers. You have to count Florida which every candidate said shouldn’t be counted because they broke party rules. You have to count Michigan, in which Senator Obama’s name wasn’t even on the ballot. And then you have to completely leave out caucus states because as we know they are an inconvenience to those of you in the Hilary faction. Also I thoroughly enjoyed your demagogic use of “march on washington.” If your candidate’s use of codes during the campaign didn’t work, why would they work here?

1950democrat:
I don’t know what political map you are looking at, but I don’t see how you carry MD, NY, NJ, PA, OH, MI, or IL without the black vote. That’s electorally speaking of course. Not only that, you pretty much hand back the Congress to the Republicans because many districts hinge on black voter strength. If democrats only usually get about 40% of the white vote and the Latino vote splits between the parties, how do you get to a majority? Hmm, sounds like more irrationalism to me.

AMEN BETWEEN THE EARS, AMEN

Senator Obama and the race horse, Big Brown will have a lot in common. Both won the first races but both will come in last place in the final contest.

Between the Ears,
Umm, didn’t Hilary vote for a war she didn’t really believe in? Didn’t she cravenly side with John McCain for a bogus gas tax holiday that would have just driven prices up more, just for political expediency? Come on, let’s get it together.

Pray that this is a sign that people are finally seeing that the emperor has no clothes! Wonder if he will change his mind about public financing if this keeps up!

This whole idea of each side contributing to the other may just not be working for small donors. It makes better sense for those who are ‘maxed out’, ie who have already contributed the maximun to their own candidate.
Hillary supporters in particular have many other places to donate right now, such as “The Denver Group” to try to get a fair, open roll call election at the convention. (Only a few Hillary supporters switching back to her, would give her the nomination. Then we could have a Clinton/Obama ticket which would probably win by a landslide in November.)

Every month – like clock work !
$25 at a time to take back America.
Barack Obama for President of the UNITED States of America.

After watching TV the last few days, it seems some Obama supporters are confused about supporting him now. He has changed his positions on so many issues and moving to the right too far. He seems to be wanting to appeal to all people by talking out of both sides of his mouth. He should have studied all issues thoroughly, came up with one position and stuck with it.
He is disgusting to me.

Really it seems nothing has changed. The people who really studied and supported Obama still feel the same. The ones who did not,still feel the same.
But as time passes the ones who begin to pay attention so they can pick who to vote for in November will see that Obama is a strong leader and will be a great President. The ones who are Democrats but did not support Obama will realize that they cannot vote for McCain because not only are his policies wrong he is completely out of touch, either due to age or due to his lifestyle or a combination of the two. In 2008 we can’t have a President whose wife does Internet business for him. That is not because a President has to be online a lot, but because it indicates a mindset that is not suitable for leading in this century.

Obama’s rejection of public funding seems to be very dismissive of all his lower-income donors who have been loyally contributing what they can to his campaign?
Aside from reneging on the principle that he once professed to endorse, he seems to be assuming that his internet donors have limitless discretionary income and will be happy to continue to finance his campaign even though he has rejected public money?
Well maybe. But it seems arrogant to me. When you are pitching yourself as the candidate who is “different” to usual politicians, t’is never a good idea to take your supporters for granted.

As a Republican come Independent as of Monday… this all sucks. I would vote for Satan before McCain, but simply can’t vote for Obama either. What a bad year. It’s like Franklin Pierce vs James Buchanan, except both of those candidates were infinitely more qualified. As an American, I’m simply horrified that neither candidate has any backbone for standing for their principles whatsoever. As a registered R, I would gladly vote for Carter, Mondale, Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, or Gore before these clowns. At least the previous 5 held to their principles, even if I disagreed with them.

“What Happened to Obama’s $100 Million June?”
Hillary Clinton. She scared democrats into believing our money would go towards paying off her campaign debt. We have refused to contribute until Hillary-camp pays up.
Once Hillary’s debt is retired, Obama’s numbers will get back in line.
Obama 08!

Overinflated projections to match Obama’s overinflated ego.
All that money and only 6 points ahead of McCain. Ouch!
Just proves that all Americans can’t be bought.

Common Sense………Really? Hillary Clinton scared you……..BOO

The DNC has deadlines of its own for convention expense advance payments.
It was reasonable for the DNC and Pelosi to think that if they closed the contest early, so the two candidates would no longer be spending a million a day battling each other, their donors would be free to donate to the DNC instead — or Obama would fund the convention himself.
However that doesn’t seem to be working out for the DNC. Now that Obama is having a test drive of the nomination, he doesn’t seem to be helping them much. He’s raising convention expenses by wanting a stadium with color coded organic hotdogs and popcorn and arugula. :-) Some of his own delegates are grumbling about being lost in a shuffle in the stadium. Some DNC people didn’t like being told to move to Chicago or lose their jobs. He’s not even doing very well in the polls. And 9 million Hillary supporters refuse to vote for him in November, and are doing grassroots internet organizing against him and for McCain, such as hillarysupporters.
So at this point it would be reasonble for some of the superdelegates who switched away from Hillary in June, to switch back to her on August 25, when the real vote happens.

Being a good speaker and being able to motivate are good assets for a president to have. But you have to have the background also or those other assets are meaningless. The voters seem be be coming aware.

McCain and the GOP have several good reasons for saving their energy till after the Democratic convention Aug 25.
Part of it relates to McCain’s acceptance of public financing, which has rules about when the financing period starts.
Also, the more they attack Obama now, the more help they give the HILlary groups such as hillarysupporters and turndownobama that are working for her to be nominated. The GOP certainly does not want Hillary as their opponent.

I believe that most American’s now can agree that going to war was a huge mistake, and it’s having severe direct and indirect effects on our economy, no matter what the neo-cons would have us believe. Therefore the only rational choice is to elect the person who had the intelligence to recognize this conservative war-mongering for what it is – playing fast and loose with America to enrich the oil and defense industries and appease the powerful Israel lobby here at home. McCain was still physically energetic and morally honorable in back in 2000, as he maintained his independence from the right wing wackos, as personified by the Christian right. Now however he has finally been brought low by his own Republican base, and will never be able to lead independently to serve America. He is just another tool of the right wing at this point, and their ideology has been totally and rightfully discredited in the eyes of all informed Americans.

Enough with the “he’s paying off Hillary’s debt” excuse!
Since she suspended, Obama has only raised a paltry $100,000 towards her debt. At a joint fundraiser this week he conveniently “forgot” to even mention it! Meanwhile she raised 5 million for him.
But the good news is, his strategy to use the debt as leverage against her has backfired. And guess what? And on top of that, it made her base rally behind her, back and stronger than ever. Whoopsie!
Her supporters have nearly paid the entire thing off in two weekend drives! The debt will be retired by next week.

1950democrat “As for us Dems needing to take back our party, we centrists on both sides are lucky in the timing. A Hillary person voting for McCain is improving both parties, moving them both closer to center.”
McCain is a radical rightwinger who wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and who has opposed legislation that would have defended women’s rights to equal pay for equal work. If he is elected, it will undermine everything Hillary Clinton ever fought for. McCain is no centrist and no centrist of the modern Democratic party would ever vote for him.
But if by “centrist” you mean what your screen name implies: a Democrat of the 1950s era, when segregationists were the most important voting block in the Democratic Party, I guess McCain is a centrist by that definition. Most “centrists”L of that ilk have already moved to the Republican Party since the civil rights legislation of the 60s.

No one in their right mind should vote for a flip flopper like Obama, who has already shown the ease with which he could throw his grandmother, Rev. Wright, Campaign Finance Reform under the bus – not to mention, pimp out his children on national television for cheap votes. He can’t even give his daughters a pet dog without conditions.
What a mean man.
As for McCain being more of the same, even the Republican’s have known McCain to be an Independent at heart – if not a closet Democrat. At least he is not the Emperor-with-No-Clothes.
If Obama’s son would be serving in Iraq as McCain’s son is currently, I’m sure Barry would have milked it to the skies.

TerryDo,
Oh, how I hope you are right… I’m not a Democrat, but having Hillary run instead of the dangerous man Obama would be a blessing for the country.