Those Undisclosed Obama Donors

Another non-starter for the failing and flailing McCain Campaign. The fact that so many people donated to Obama while we in the middle of a financial crisis should be enough to shut Rick Davis up, but they continue to whine whine whine. Just go lose and shut up.

Why do the want the donor names, so they can change our voter registrations?…lol

Another distraction while economy is in peril, incertainties are high, college cost is a real challenge, foreclosures a real reality and the future of the financial market is bleak. No way, No how, No McSame and No Palin. God save America from McCain and Palin.

ANY TIME SOMEONE HAS TO KEEP SOMETHING SECRET, YOU CAN BE SURE THEY HAVE SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT TO HIDE.

Of course no one cares. If Obama is buying the election, or Acorn is committing voter fraud, who cares? It all helps to defeat the evil Republicans. So it’s ok to cheat.

Jack,
I would rather think Obama doesn’t want to expose his donors to harrassment by some crazy extremists who are in effect, no better then Muslim radicals, or by the GOP.
McCain’s campaign is so careless they ended up sending a letter to the Russian ambassador to ask him for money.

“keeping the contributors SECRET for no good reason.” Why am I not surprised that Obama has to hide where his money is coming from?
And the beat goes on. And the dumb get dumber.

No One cares! The law states he doesnt have to Disclose them, I donate all the time when I can 20 dollars here and there when Palin Attacks him I donate more. Mccain camp is Jealous and this is another Distraction, We dont care MCCAIN WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR PLANS AS PRESIDENT! SICK AND TIRED OF THE OBAMA BASHING WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS MCCAIN?

Considering how one Republican has been arrested for voter fraud and changing Democrat’s registrations to Republicans without their permission, I shouldn’t be surprised Obama doesn’t want the GOP to get their hands on the names of his donors.
Or how Obama supporters got their car tires slashed while at an Obama event.

The Republicans are saying:
“Obama is NOT breaking the law and we want to know why?”

Angie,
They claimed it was a computer error. If it wasn’t, that’s well, huge. Begging a citizen from the “Commie, Socialist” country for money? Oh GASP. Even if it was an error, it underlines their incompetence.
Posted by: Grey Matter | Oct 21, 2008 8:53:17 AM
They were trying to teach him how to use a computer and he hit the wrong button.

GREY MATTER
Can you provide a link to that Republican being arrested for changing Registrations? and what is up in West Virgina changing Obama votes to Mccains is this what your talking about?

Jack, how many past contenders for the White House have posted the names of those who have contributed less than $200. This is a non-issue, especially when compared with all the other major factors of this election. You do yourself and the Country a disservice with such a dumb distraction. A good question that I think you should raise is the matter of intellectual curiosity and intelligence. Take a serious look at the education of all four candidates and compare them. It seems that Americans don’t care about electing stupid presidents as evidenced by electing Bush twice and now having McCain as a serious candidate. He is a nice guy but not someone who will be making challenging decisions.

This human nature of Republicans are
now going over and above the normal
limit.
Do they want to tell us that they were not aware of anyone contributing
less than $200 is not entitled to be shown, until now when they realised the record made of 150M $?
Can’t they practice boldness when they loose??

No – I don’t care.
McCain/Palin – The Politics of distraction and inaction.

“My daddy makes more money than your Daddy.”
Sounds like little Johnny and Ricky are pouting because Obama has more people giving him money than them..
Does that tell you anything you fools?
hahahahaha!!!

Yes I care, but most do not. The unfairness, along with possibly some questionable donations is what it will take to bring this issue to the front. Every dem must think this is ok.
Must be because they see the end justifying the means….where have I heard that before?
Posted by: smith | Oct 21, 2008 9:07:07 AM
As crooked and dirty as the Republicans are, I don’t think anybody wants them to get a hold of the names.

GREY MATTERS
Thanks for the links The Republicans are at it again trying to Steal the Election Pathetic, Yes I agree we need to completly CHANGE THE VOTING SYSTEM!Thats why we keep ending up with Republican Presidents.

Those touchscreen machines are frankly, a waste of money and only cause problems. And they leave no paper trail. I mean, why not forgo the complicated stuff and just go with pen/pencil and paper to mark a cross on a PAPER ballot like what less developed countries we encourage democracy in do?
Posted by: Grey Matter | Oct 21, 2008 9:11:29 AM
Because then they would be throwing the paper ballots away..lol.

I’m not for Obama, but I don’t think it matters we know his donors under $200.
I do think the hypocrisy is at an all time high though.
If Republicans raised this kind revenue and were drowning out Obama’s message 3-to-1, they would be accused of buying the election.
But Obama can do no wrong according to the media. Hypocrisy.

GOP DONOR SEARCH ONLY ALLOWS $1.00 TO $200.00. THIS IS TRUE TRANSPARENCY? WHERE IS THE LARGE DONORS SEARCH? OR IS THE GOP PROTECTING THE GUILTY? MJM

Jwench, regarding donors over $200. It’s already reported to the Federal Election Committe.
Federal law requires us to report the name, address, occupation, and employer of each individual who contributes over $200 in an election cycle (for contributions to McCain-Palin Compliance Fund) or $200 in a calendar year (for contributions to the Republican National Committee or to any state party committee).

Distractions? Are you seriously suggesting, Johnson, that making sure that the financing of both campaigns is transparent and honest is a distraction?
Not to me. First Obama went back on his promise to take public financing when he saw it would be to his advantage. Then he refused to reveal all the donations, using the excuse that it is not a law to reveal small donations. McCain has revealed all donations all along. It is not hard to do.
But the Obama team doesn’t really want us to see all those thousands of donations that are, to put it kindly, suspicious. The donations from Mickey Mouse and asdfjk;. The multiple small donations from the same person who flies under the radar by donating under variations of his/her name: Joe Plumber gives 100 and Joseph T. Plumber gives 100 and J.T. Plumber gives 100 and Joey the Plumber gives 100… and soon you are over the contribution limit but no one calls you on it.
A great deal of the Obama money is tainted– estimate are up to 200 million, according to some news accounts. The press ignored that as long as they could. Bringing it up now? Better than not mentioning it, but by th e time this gets investigated, if it ever does, the campaign will be over, the unfair money spent on ads and walking-around money, the votes bought. It will be too late and Obama will be able to shrug and say, “we tried. It was just such a lot of money.”
McCain led the fight for campaign finance reform, to the chagrin of powerful members of his own party. He has been transparent in his fundraising. he has played by the rules. This is leadership. This is the president we need.

JWENCH
I live in PA too I also will be talking to people about this

moderate,
I don’t think he wanted go back on his word. But he saw it as a good strategy when he realised how much he could pull in from small donors.
Considering how usually the RNC is able to raise more money then the DNC to support their candidate, I can’t fault Obama for doing this. It was smart on his part, and actually shows he does have good judgement. This is a non-issue.
They DO check and return the donations that are illegitimate, by the way.

Who cares.
People don’t give a crap about this.

It was me I gave him $100 bucks. shoot me GOP

McCain led the fight for campaign finance reform, to the chagrin of powerful members of his own party. He has been transparent in his fundraising. he has played by the rules. This is leadership. This is the president we need.
Posted by: moderate | Oct 21, 2008 9:22:10 AM
Why is he asking the Russians for money then?

McCain flip-flops too.
He actually voted AGAINST his own immigration bill or something!
And not to mention the bailout. First he angrily decries it, then he supports it, THEN- here’s the whopper- he ADMITS HE HADN’T EVEN READ THE (then 3 page long) PROPOSAL!

Gray matter,
Spare me the reluctant saint Obama spin. He is an operator, a politician like any other. There is no special air around Obama. As you say, he did what he had to do to win. You are comfortable with that? He makes a promise, repeats it several times in primary debates and interviews, pledges to meet with his republican opponent and discuss it, then, when it suits him, he walks away from that inconvenient promise. Does this inspire confidence in you that he will keep the other promises he has made on the campaign trail? Not me. It reminds me of all the other flip flops he has executes, mostly right after clinching the nomination, far enough away from November, he hoped (correctly, it seems) to fade from voter memory by election time.

Grey Matter.
Obama lied, he said he would use Public Financing and he didn’t.
Don’t try to spin out as some great move. It is one of many lies.
Like, Obama’s unifying message about rural people in PA “clinging to guns and religion”. Great unifying message there.
Just more Hypocrisy.

I care. With the so finacial crisis going on, it is hard to believe that the American people could donate such an enormous amount of money. $605 million dollars could have paid a lot of mortgages.

This is so typical of the way McCain has run his campaign: agree to the rules up front, and then whine, cry and attempt to distract when the game goes badly for you.
McCain used to oppose Bush’s tax cuts for that 5% of the population and business community that earn far more than the other 95%, and opposed the cuts vigorously — until this campaign. Now, when Obama is essentially formalizing a plan to do the same thing, McCain is criticizing it as “socialism”. No principles in play here – just tactics.
On the sub-$200 donations, the confidentiality of small donors was perfectly fine, until 2 weeks before the election when McCain’s camp realizes that Obama has amassed enough money from individual small donations to let him really fight back effectively in battle ground states. Once again: agree to the rules up front, but whine and distract when you find yourself losing.
As others have pointed out in this thread, it’s likely that many who donated less than $200 did so with the assumption that their privacy would be maintained. Changing the rules after that fact is a violation of the privacy they have every right to expect.
Additionally, as others have pointed out, this makes each and every one of these people a target for competing campaigns — and we’ve witnessed, with the recent spate of misleading robo-calls, how access to voter contact information is abused by some of the more aggressive and amoral folks behind McCain’s campaign.
Considering that no law has been broken, and that these sub-$200 donors have every reasonable expectation of privacy, there is no legitimate reason to break this trust now when it’s purely a convenience for the losing GOP campaign effort.
Claiming, this late in the game after agreeing up front with it, that this is some kind of moral hazard, is yet another of the idiotic, disingenuous tactics that have actually soured much of the republican party on McCain and his campaign.
Desperation brings out the worst in people, and John McCain has illustrated that point all too effectively in recent weeks.

And, how can we tell those donations are all from PRO-AMERICA Americans?!
I can see the McCampaign trying to go over those millions of names with a fine-toothed comb to find ONE that comes from a person who once carried a protest sign against the Viet Nam War at a Weatherman Underground approved event, therefore proving once and for all that Barack HUSSIEN Obama is a terrorist. Or has poor judgement for not thoroughly vetting all his contributors. I mean his associates. I mean his BFFs.
Gimme a break. Go ahead and give them the names at this point. They can look at it after the election. It will keep them busy while they look for new jobs.

Many of us are aware that the Obama fundraising is legitimate. Their are literally millions of us donating. We see an upswing when Palin or Bachman speak. I have countless friends who have made donations, none of them approaching $2,300. Just small donors donating to a cause they fervently believe in. Each time the campaign of distortion sends out another misleading ad or speech or story, we donate.

Anyone in PA who votes for Obama is a fool. After he insults your whole state with the cling to guns comment.
It makes me laugh at the blind following. Insult me and my state but I’ll still vote for you.
Fools.

Like, Obama’s unifying message about rural people in PA “clinging to guns and religion”. Great unifying message there.
Just more Hypocrisy.
Posted by: Joe Detroit | Oct 21, 2008 9:32:37 AM
Well us PA people got over that comment. He is ahead in this state 12-15%.

As someone you donated less than $200 I really don’t want my info revealed.There’s to much hate coming from the Repubs.and I don’t want the hassle,harrasment or possibly worse.That’s probaly why the law is written the way it is.
It’s a shame but true.
As far as transparency I would be more interested in the truth about McCain’s medical records than folks that made small donations to either candidate.
Here’s something for McCain,”there’s not a lot of people even listening anymore,and the ones that are hear a new lie eveyday”.Why don’t you at least come up with a good one and stick to it.I disagree with McCain on just about everything and that doesn’t make me less “American”or “patriotic” than anyone else.
The attitude that anyone who’s different or disagrees is an enemy of America is why McCain is to dangerous to be President.Is this what America is really about.

Well us PA people got over that comment. He is ahead in this state 12-15%.
Posted by: Jwench | Oct 21, 2008 9:38:07 AM
Priceless, we got over it. HA! What do you do when someone insults your family, invite them over for dinner…LOL

Up until about a month ago I was an under $200 person…
but all the bS the McCain camp has been throwing around has put me *well* over that milestone.
So, guess I’m listed now. Bully for you! These stupid attacks got me so annoyed that I gave over twice as much money in the past two months than I had in over a year…
smart campaigning.

Priceless, we got over it. HA! What do you do when someone insults your family, invite them over for dinner…LOL
Posted by: Joe Detroit | Oct 21, 2008 9:40:58 AM
Some of us aren’t moronic. I don’t agree with everything he says, but I also believe he will do this country some good.

Obama is a fraud. It’s smoke and mirrors. Time will soon tell.

I have a good reason, as one of those ‘foreign’ donors,
Why they have not give out our names…how about privacy? That if I want to donate a small amount of money it is none of anybody’s business. Like voting it should be private. OH I forgot, the RNC and GOP don’t care about the rights of people.
I’m an American living in Canada…. I have donated 450.00, when Obama wins I will be proud to be an american again. Go Obama!

Dear Jake,
Oh stop. Obama agreed to take public financing if an agreement could be reached to limit 527 expenditures, which McCain would not agree to. Your effort to paint Obama as having “gone back on his word” is inaccurate and you of all people should know better. Further, the last time I looked the percentage of undisclosed donors by the McCain campaign, as a percentage of donations, was about two percentage points higher that the percentage of undisclosed donations to the Obama campaign. It is becoming axiomatic in this campaign that every hysterical McCain attack on Barack Obama turns out, surprise, to be an attempt to hide a weak spot of McCain’s by attacking Obama first. What they are counting on is that the public and much of the press will not look too closely or think to look back at the McCain campaign to wonder why they are going there. I am surprised that you have bought into this one, when the facts appeared so each to check and debunk.

Jwench.
That’s the problem no president will get us out of an economical problem.
Ask any economist and most will say we need moderate regulation and less government involvement.
The Bailout was a mistake, we should have let those companies fail. Others would have took heed and began operating more responsibly.
That’s the problem with Obama’s plan. It is not economically sound to raise taxes in a recession. On anyone. But yet no one brings this up, it is suppressed.
Posted by: Joe Detroit | Oct 21, 2008 9:45:44 AM
I guess you think we should use the same old tired trickle down nonsense that hasn’t worked in how many years.
My vote is going for Obama and that goes for my entire family as well.
The rest of you Obama supporters, fight the good fight. I need to get to bed, I worked all night. Have a wonderful day!

I hear the list itself (of supporters willing to give money) is a very valuable thing. But rest assured, 3 or 4 million people giving 25 or 15 dollars when they can to a politician over a period of 6 months- WE are the ones who made this happen. And I personally would like to stay private so noone else asks me for any money! lol

lets make the votes on Nov. 4 public also via searchable database.

These continuous, false, divisive tactics by the Republicans are sickening me and dividing our nation. I am one of those undisclosed Obama donors. I gave 50 dollars, six times. Wait, make that 7.

I should not be surprised. I have heard some people say how they feel ashamed of America- because of what Bush has done and dragged the country’s name through the mud with the Iraq fiasco.
Some said they also felt shameful that America did not intervene in Rwanda.
But that doesn’t mean they’re not proud of AMERICANS and don’t love their country. They’re just disappointed witht the direction the country has gone.

Jwench.
I have heard the full context before. I didn’t take it out of context.
So she wasn’t proud of her country when Clinton was in office either?
This doesn’t make me feel any better. She said it and meant it. I think that statements like that are devisive.

From Politico: if he discloses the names of his donnors they can be hit with requests by other democratic candidates.

I don’t care. I’m one of those people, a teacher, who gives what I can.
There are a lot of people like me who are in the under $200 range. The McCain campaign is just trying to find a way tar Obama.

Grey Matter.
Excellent civilized exchange. I think if people didn’t get so emotional more understanding would occur.
The Chinese debt issue is a major problem, not to mention tainted products we receive from them.
Here is the thing, I know several business owners that employ 50 or people. Once Obama’s tax plan takes effect they are going to cut jobs to make up for the cost of increased taxes.
Most responsible will cost-cut to save aas some are barely making it now. That iis my biggest economical concern with Obama.

ei, McCain, you dont have to ask who donated those to Obama. I am one of them and i am a nurse who is trying to make a living and is not happy with what the republicans is doing. I am sure that there are countless more people like me who gave 10, 20 or 50 dollars or more… just to be sure that you and Palin does not bring more misfortunes to all of us…

Jake asks: “Have you heard one? Do you care?”
I’m in the I Don’t Care camp. These donors are Obama’s and he is free to do what he likes with them. Kerry didn’t publish his donors in 2004.
This is another, in a long series, of campaign stunts by the increasingly irrelevant McCain campaign. His shenanigans have done nothing to further his cause, and only increase his negatives. He doesn’t seem to understand that Obama, like Reagan, is the Teflon Candidate.
McCain campaign, and its surrogates, have tried to smear Obama as a baby killer, terrorist, closet muslim, empty suited celebrity, unpatriotic, etc., etc. All this has accomplished is an increasingly divided electorate, a fraction of which is becoming increasingly homicidal and violent.
I’m sincerely looking forward to an end of this election, and the swearing in of a President Obama. What a glorious day that will be.

I am once again shocked but not shocked at claims by John McCain Campaign!!
Barack Obama never, never ever signed any form he would take public financing. John McCain made a mistake and did sign form and he was obligated to use. Obama mentioned couple times, maybe more he would probably be inclined. Just before announcement Obama and McCain Campaign met regarding this. McCain knew Obama may not.
In America we are entitled to change our minds as long as we have not signed anything legally. We do it all the time!!
Why did Obama stay with private and take a chance – yes big chance???? He realized he would be fighting Republican Machine and the money of the Republican super rich who get preferential treatment for their interests. Republicans have a war chest of money, much more than Democrats.
There is no law for submitting small donors. That is why Barack Obama does not submit these donors.
Why are Republicans asking for this list?? Why are they complaining??? Why do they want the names??? Are they going to get and call each and everyone using their horrible terrorist, racial, baby killer, etc accusations??? This is one reason – known as fact.
This is just a complaint!!! There will be problems with each candidates. To be expected. But system is good.
Everyone should be praising Barack Obama for all he has done during this campaign. They said he couldn’t but he did. Why – because he had faith in us – we are responding!!! His donation raising campaign is awesome and wonderful!! I get great updates from them all the time. And I give every month.
For couple of weeks all we heard about was voter fraud. John McCain claims worst VOTER FRAUD TO HAVE HIT AMERICA!! Seemed to only be problems with registration of voters. Donald Duck hasn’t even committed voter fraud yet!!! Donald hasn’t voted yet!! Donald has to vote to commit voter Fraud!!
In California head of hired Republican group arrested for intentionally duping/causing voter party affiliation to be changed. Changing addresses, etc. Group is all across the country. Obama doesn’t attack for this!!! All we heard was ACORN, ACORN, ACORN. More than likely they were duped by their own voter registration employees who did not want to work and made up names to get money. All the experts on voter farud say voter fraud is rare. But with computer voting machine – with no paper trail – information can be deleted – many problem of machines for technical problems – one place in Virginia machine were broken into and as voters cast ballot machines automatically switched all votes over to Republican candidates. Huge complaints in Virginia??? Voters wanted printout of how they voted. Voters wanted proof. Finally machine shut down because person raised such a ruckus and went all way to top of government there!! These machines are disaster, as they are not a computer where you can still retrieve all information, record of when information changed. Republicans have done some things to create actual voter fraud!!! But no records!!!
Tell McCain Campaign to stop complaining!!! McCain is so erratic!! This man is running a horrible mean campaign!! Same Karl Rove Playbook that was played against him when he ran against Bush.
This white college educated female registered Republican has had it with John McCain and the Republican Party!!

Grey Matter.
Size of government is debatable.
For small business that make less than 250k, no tax increase which is a large NUMBER or quantity.
But the small businesses that generate jobs and employ 50 or more employees, they make more than 250k.
The 95% of small biz consist of many side-business, hobby-types and very low-revenue generating businesses. That would not employ many people anyway.

If we know nothing of Obama it is that he can tell some whoppers and breaks his promise without batting an eye. 150 million right in the middle of what Obama calls” the greatest crisis since the depression” is odd and since he seems to have enough to last him shouldn’t he tell his supporters that he has enough so go buy your family a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk?
Looks like we’ll get the best man that money can buy.

As someone who has donated to Obama, I don’t want my info being released to RNC thugs.

So if he does not publish who his small donors are, what would stop foreigners from donating millions in small increments? We already know that there is massive interest worldwide in weakening the U.S. via an Obama Presidency.
I am concerned we are seeing a win at any cost effort by the far left and their candidate. They seem to be attempting to buy this election on the front end and close with ACORN fraud on the back end.

Joe Detroit,
In my opinion, if we stabilize the middle-class and allow people to be able to afford things again more easily, then it would have a “trickle up” effect. People will have more purchasing power, and bring in more revenues for these business. Right now, these business that earn more then a quarter million may not have tax cuts, but at the same time their business has falled because of hard times. It’s pretty much two-way.
For these businesses, I suppose there is merit in not raising taxes on them. But for huge oil companies rolling in billions, I don’t see why we should give them a tax cut like what McCain would do, especially since they’ve profited from the stratospheric oil prices. It would be great if we did not have to raise taxes, but to me, we’re going to need to pay for programs one way or another, or if we want to continue fighting in Iraq, we cannot keep charging it to the Chinese-we have to pay the bill some day.
I trust Obama will review things carefully before making as he has shown himself to be pragmatic and deliberate.

anonymoose – interesting and insightful point you raise there. I am convinced of your solid thinking.

When donors of less than $200 made their contributions, many would have assumed privacy since it’s common knowledge these donations aren’t reported.
Privacy is a very American concept.

HP Boston – the real fraud will happen in the count at each precinct. the massive voter registration covers up the fact that the vote is already in. One does not want the count to be higher than the number of registered voters – ACORN has fixed that little problem.
Watch Florida and Ohio will come in with unbelievably high numbers.

HP Boston,
How about machines switching Obama votes to McCain in West Virginia? It is the GOP who is trying to force voter caging- things like foreclosures.
Honestly, as I’ve said earlier, I’d rather we got rid of this complicated electronic voting thing.
Electronic machines can be messed with and not be noticed easily. Just use PAPER BALLOTS and a pen/pencil. And ink to mark the finger.
Just count every ballot carefully, I don’t care if it means the results come out later, I would sooner have paper ballots.
Fox news is a right-leaning news and isn’t exactly unbiased. I’d rather get my info from a variety of sources.

The democrats want to do three things. First, make us believe that small donors have contributed a billion dollars. Second, that there is no voter registration or voting fraud. Third, that your vote for socialism is only worth the $500 tax refund we are all going to get.

The reason why Obama is not releasing his donor list is simple as it includes lots of fictious names who are covering for Palestinians, Saudi’s funding his campaign.
There is no way Obama is raising these funds from regular Americans, at 70% could be from foreign sources.

Grey Matter.
You know maybe a better message would have been raising taxes on businesses making 5 Million a year. Not raising it on successful small businesses.
My only problem with Obama is his contradictions.
There was much criticism for McCain suspending his campaign to work on the Bail-out (which we shouldn’t have done anyway).
But now Obama suspends his campaign, rightfully so, to see attend to his grandmother. No criticism whatsoever.
I don’t like hypocrisy and that is what I see most of in coverage and vetting or lack thereof, of Obama.

I am one of those small contributors. I don’t care, let it rip.

BrooklynGirl – thanks for taking it out on a McCain supporter. That sort of public beating will happen more often in New York as the Obama supporters get more into it. You really set a nice tone for the nation.
No need to argue the issues. Your show of force will more than do.

To raise $150MM in a month on $200 donations takes a lot of individual donations. That’s at least 750,000 individual donations or donors in 1 month. Is anyone really buying that?
The issue once again is hypocrisy. The Democrats fought for campaign finance reform when Republicans were able to raise more money from rich donors. Now that Obama is raising more money from unknown sources they are silent about the possibility of corruption. See no evil, hear no evil?
Obama’s people have to know what’s going on. The fact that they will not release records is curious if not suspicious.
If this election sis being bought and paid for by an individual or a small group of individuals, I think we all want to know that.

Let’s see. In the middle of this economic crisis, while many people are loosing jobs, value of their 401K, and spending their savings to survive, the rich people are investing heavily on the cheap stocks. When the economy recovers with the help of everyone’s tax dollars, the rich will be even richer with their investments, the middle class will be trying to recover their losses working even harder. And, Today, you claim this is the way it should be, and Obama should not raise the tax of rich because it is socialism?
Obama’s tax policy is NOT socialism. This is necessary to balance and support the engine of this economy, the middle class.

Obama has won it. No use haggling over little issues like freedom.

BrooklynGirl – no I am agreeing with you. I think Ayers is a dandy guy. He fits right in with the Brooklyn democrats. If he set fire to your house, you might want to go for the windows as the judges family he tried to burn to death had both fron and back doors set on fire to keep them from exiting. Thoughtless republican neighbors must have saved them.

I didn’t hear Republicans complaining when George W. Bush was breaking fund raising records in 2000. If there were an Oscar for Best Faux Outrage, the McCain campaign would win it hands down.
Obama’s $150 million resulted from contributions by 3.1 million people who’ve had it up to here with Republican lies, distractions, divisiveness and distortions.
We’ve put our money where are mouths are and we’re going to keep on doing it.

Well, desertique, I respect your wish for privacy. It’s too bad Obama is going to make sure that workshop elections are no longer secret, when workers decide whether or not to be represented by unions. As Biden would say, “Think, literally, think” about it.

BrooklynGirl – by the way the supposed shout of “kill him” did not happen. The police and secret service take these things more seriously than democrats. They would have arrested any one who had said that. Look at the reports from teh secret service.
You can also look at the lovely Murtha democrat who is calling his own constituents racists – that is well documented.
OK, sorry do not mean to be picking on you, but you directly assaulted some one else.

Grey Matter, actually the primary factors for me supporting Sen. McCain are his experience and most of his policies (I agree with him only about 80% of the time). I am a strong believer in smaller government, Capitalism and the Free Market. While regrettably the Republican Party has reneged on its promise to shrink the size of the federal government, Sen. Obama will add an additional $1 Trillion in new entitlements. I believe Sen. Obama’s domestic policies will decimate the Free Market and turn our economy away from Capitalism and make a hard Left turn towards Socialism. And Sen. Obama’s plan for redistribution of wealth is nothing more than a punishment for success, which will obliterate the American Dream.

“Many will be deceived” Are we at this point in history? Could YOU be one of them? It is time for Americans to WAKE UP. Are you willing to take a CHANCE with your vote?
There Were a time when MOST ALL AMERICANS would FIGHT for FREEDOM of CHOICE. I am hearing alot about “more government” from the Democrats… More “freedom” from the Republicans. Where DO YOU think all this MONEY is pouring in from into the OBAMA camp? Aren’t you ONE BIT CONCERNED?
What about “THE REAL OBAMA” don’t you wonder and ask questions as an AMERICAN?
The media bluffs it off, so does the OBAMA camp as being NO BIG DEAL. ON THE SURFACE…it is NOT MUCH OF A DEAL. Jeremiah Wright is a showboat preacher. There are MANY showboat preachers all across America, black & white .Many of his remarks is VERY disturbing.
He is OBVIOUSLY against the WHITE AMERICAN…HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
Ayers is a SOMEWHAT reformed TERRORIST that has a position at a college… Obama knows him from college and has been on a few boards with him….NOT A BIG DEAL necessarily. These 2 men are about all you ever get from the media. Sounds benign enough BUT AMERICANS…there is more to it…THIS IS THE PART THAT YOU NEED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT. OBAMA HAS SEVERAL CONNECTIONS THAT ARE CONNECTED TO THE WORSE TERRORIST AGAINST CHRISTIANS & AMERICANS (BLACK & WHITE) OVERSEAS. He lives in the very neighborhood with several of them. Don’t YOU care? Do YOU associate with evil as a good law abiding American? ALL THIS COULD BE CLEARED up if OBAMA would release his college records and come clean about ALL the people involved all the way to the #1 Terrorist overseas (which is linked straight to the devil) If OBAMA is a TRUE CHRISTIAN, a TRUE AMERICAN then he should FEEL the CONCERN instead of grinning everytime ask about it. Many questions are STILL unanswered. We don’t neccessarily need to know about Jeremiah Wright & Ayers, we NEED THE DEEPER TIES ANSWERED. The media doesn’t ASK for the “DEEPER” to be uncovered. Why did this smart young Lawyer take a job for $12,000. yr. SOUNDS LIKE GROOMING FOR SOMETHING BIGGER TO ME.
AMERICANS, CAN YOU WITHSTAND THE CHANGE IF IT COMES WITH AXIS OF EVIL ATTACHED?
I hope NO ONE is DECEIVED. Could Obama be decieved himself…could he be playing with fire and NOT know it until elected? I pray that these things COULD NOT, WOULD NOT be so. I AM NOT GETTING THE ANSWERS I NEED. I WILL NOT TAKE A CHANCE FOR AMERICA’s SAKE, MY FAMILIES SAKE OR MY SAKE. What about you?
BTW, this post is not party driven…I am a registered Democrat. this post is not race driven…OBAMA is 1/2 white and 1/2 black.
God be with us ALL…ALL over this world.

I do not care! McCainiacs are mad b/c people like me, who donated under $200, did not donate to them. And there are a lot of us! So deal with it. Maybe we don’t want our names disclosed so you dirty freaks don’t start robocalling us or you send you crazies out to harass us. We believe in something better than what we’ve had. We deserve a brilliant leader…not an old washed up one and an absolute baffoon VP who sounds like Bush. I voted for Obama yesterday…and it felt good…really good.

Speaking as a European observer, do you Americans really want more fanatics like Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid to have free rein? That appears in the offing with an Obama victory. So much for checks and balances, what?

“Speaking as a European observer, do you Americans really want more fanatics like Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid to have free rein? That appears in the offing with an Obama victory. So much for checks and balances, what?”
Checks and balances were scoffed at when the Republicans held all branches.
Their criminal reign must be ended.

“by the way the supposed shout of “kill him” did not happen.”
There were two instances of that happening.
One is heard on video.
The other was reported by a reporter.
The one reported by the reporter is unconfirmed.

BrooklynGirl – no one is apologizing. Bush is not running this year – except I guess in Brooklyn. I think the republicans should have run Romney. It was that goofy Huckabee that messed up this election. You probably watch him on Fox. See you on the A line.

Jake writes,”Obama, of course, opted out of public financing despite an earlier pledge to do so, an issue of real contention for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who (rightly) feels it’s a broken promise Obama hasn’t gotten much heat for from either the media or government reform proponents.”
Get ready for more of the same, friends. Biden warned you yesterday.

I started donating as soon as Palin was picked. $100 at a time, $250 last week, then I went all in yesterday for the max of $2,300. Palin is Obama’s biggest fundraiser.

A lot of democrats are interested in pay back. Brooklyn is close to Wall Street where greed is king.

I think we should take all rich people’s money away from them and pay for slavery.
If we can land a person on Mars, I don’t see why my babies and me aren’t entitled to free health care.
I think we ought to tax Big Corporations and make them cut prices so that everything costs less.
My babies and me are entitled to an affordable house. If I cannot pay because of the criminal acts of George Bush, my babies and I are entitled to money to pay for that house.
My babies and me are entitled to free education and free day care starting NOW! I am entitled to a government salary with paid vacation and a pension for taking care of my babies everyday.
Food is too expensive. The government should make food cheaper NOW! And we need more food stamps NOW!
There are a lot of other changes that need to be made NOW! so that this great country and our brave fighting troops can be what they used to be before Bush and the Rethuglicans turned our country into a police state.
Vote NOW! Vote OFTEN! anything to get the filthy rich thugs out of power. NOW!
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Obama follows the FEC rules on disclosure.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some people have given money under the $200 ceiling because they DON’T want their name, street address and Google map directions supplied to the entire online world, including some of the people who hate, and I use the word carefully, Obama and his supporters. Especially the ones who call Obama and his supporters ‘baby killers’.
What are you encouraging, Jake?

Zucchinia, great post!
I was/am a single mom, now married, who got $60 per month child support. I made it and did not expect the U.S. government to support me, or my illegitmate child. I was on welfare for 1 1/2 yrs going to college, then started working and became a taxpayer…one of the ten percent who pay all the taxes in this country.

We do know some of the small donor names…Daffy Duck, Sadaam Hussein, Bart Simpson… People using pre-paid credit cards can use any name they please. Foreign donors- no problem. The contributions go through.
Jake, do you care if foreigners are allowed to make donations? People should care, but they don’t.
Whether Obama wins or not (and appears he will) the FEC should investigate…this sets a dangerous precedent.