Obama Didn’t Buy the Presidency

Yeah sure Matthew – yeah right, uh huh, Just like he quit smoking too..uh huh..sure…stop being Obamas lap dog and take a serious look at his foreign campaign contributions. Talk to the staff members who quit because they became disgusted watching foreign money pour in and then be readdressed in new envelopes with US postage showing on them. He didnt raise almost 700 million legally and if you beleive that then you shouldnt be employed as a journalist.

thanks john..go back to the kool aid fountain and keep drinking..

From my studies, name recogniton is the primary factor in voter decision. Advertising certainly helps with that factor, because many people rely on locally respected leaders to supply political advice. Another major factor is the political affiliation of one’s parents. In the hostoric election of a black man, this could have happened long ago if more qualified voters had trounled thenselves to vote. Voter turn-out has been dismal because nothing was in danger of being taken away from the controled, uninformed, and lazy.

Obama didn’t do anything that all other presidents haven’t done. Whoever spends most, wins. That formula has a 100% success rate. Guys like Dowd labor under some delusion of awe-inspiring hope and brotherly love. We’ll all sit around camp fires holding hands singing Cumbaya. Ain’t gonna happen. Whoever spends most wins. Every time.

“Just because a belief has been repeated over and over again doesn’t make it true.”
True enough.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” – Joseph Goebbels
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/black-box/

I can’t see the argument is here.
Ad spend didn’t have as nearly as smuch sway as Obama haters claim it did. That’s a plain and simple fact through evaluation in hindsight and can’t be undone.
However, it did help Obama –maintain–(the key issue) his polls (and votes) where there was no previous clear advantage and he could not afford to lose ground.
Having saud that, I don’t think you can rule out or (let’s face it) ignore the fact that both John McCain and Hillary Clinton ran – in the main – very negative campaigns in contrast to Obamas key messages.
Sure, there was negativity on all sides but they really outdid Obama in the hating stakes – and seeing as they )JMc & HC) spent so little, those sentiments really did play a part in underpinning key messages in both of their campaigns. Hence why they rightfully lost.
I don’t remember Obama pandering to racist sentiments with suggestive and surreptitious language and goading (dangerous!) remarks. Ahem, Palin.

yes, he did buy the presidency.

It isinteresting that at a time of dire financial news everywhere you turn, that anyone can defend the concept of a presedential election costing 1 billion dollars.
With this kind of money being tossed out, there is no way that the winner (No Matter Which Party), can avoid having to return some favors!
The real question you need to ponder is …. do you ant the next one to cost 2 billion, 4 billion, or more
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Whomever has the strongest support amongst voters, is best able to raise money. Duh.

Yep….please is right ..he is ABCs Obama liason like Maureen Dowd is the NY Time’s liason. Very few news outlets can be unbaised anymore and just report the facts. Most of them have continued their love affair with Bam Bam and he hasnt even done anything yet. Unending devotion and unconditional love for the Chicago politician. At a time wqhen everyone is complaining that they cannot afford gas, food, mortgages,college etc they think we are stupid enough to believe that average families pumped hundreds into the empty suits campaign. What a fairy tale. We cant wait to see what they will be writing 6 months from now when golden boy falls off his pedestal.

If you don’t like the campaign finance system, then help us change it. But don’t fault Obama for using it well.

Matthew, you are so much in the with Obama that is laughable. Obama is perfect for you. Pleasssssse! LOL

Obama had to run against the too powerful right wingers and FOX NEWS 24/7 ! he outsmarted the haters and born again nascar lovers!

If you don’t like the campaign finance system, then help us change it. But don’t fault Obama for using it well.
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jock59801,
Wether you liek or dislike McCain, he helped to put in place some level of campaign finance reform, and then commited political suicide by ACTUALLY keeping his word!
By staying with the public financing, he was restricted, where Obama was not. EVEN THOUGH Obama gave HIS WORD to negotiate with McCain over this issue.
I have no problem with the fact Obama chose the option he did. My issue with it is that he never intended to keep that promise to talk with McCain about it.
Moving forward, if you have groups contributing to candiates in the quantities we are now talking about. How can anyone expect that “REAL CHANGE” will ever happen? You cant just take 750 Million dollars and then ignore those who gave you that money!
The entire cycle needs to be compressed. We dont need primaries going off 10 or 11 months proir to the election. Start holding the primaries in Early May. Get this cycle down to 6 months. Limit the $$ amounts that ANY organization can throw into the mix. The idea that UAW threw hundreds of millions of dollars to ANY candidate with the current conditions going on is just short of criminal!
You think some of those soon to be unemployed auto workers would like to have a cut on those millions now?

The story wasn’t only about the enormous amounts of money that obama raised – It was because it was under dubious circumstances involving foreign donors, prepaid credit cards, and false names.

The story wasn’t only about the enormous amounts of money that obama raised – It was because it was under dubious circumstances involving foreign donors, prepaid credit cards, and false names.The media infatuation with Barack Obama, and its desire not to raise key issues of concern to the American people. Why were there so many people like Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Pfleger, and Tony Rezko in Obama’s past in the first place?

Thank you for this clarifying article!
Unfortunately, you will always have those uninformed idiots who believe that Obama “bought” the election in 2008 just as they continue to insist that Bush actually “won” the election in 2000. They will believe whatever they want and to heck with facts.
Again I say to them…Get Over It Already!!!

Sure he didn’t buy it… he said he would take public financing but then he switched his position. He then spent $700,000,000.00 running a campaign that outspent mccain by 3 times…..of course he bought the freakin thing!
What I think is so ironic is that barry o was willing to go state to state telling everyone he will make everything fair by “spreading the wealth around”, but he was not willing to give mccain 1/2 of his $700,000,000.00 he raised. Typical liberal- always free with everyone else’s $$.

Yea, he bought the presidency. He bought it with 4 million people’s money. He bought it with my money and he doesn’t owe me anything except being the best leader that he can be for our and our children’s future. This is democracy at its finest. There is a huge difference between where he got his money and where Bush and his compatriots got theirs, from big donors and corporations. Bush owed plenty to big money special interets. Obama does not.

The right is crying now because their Meistger “Karl” Rove’s system didn’t work. He produced a turnout. He got the public involved. Republicans were ever for big turnouts. A big turnout usually means a republican defeat. Did anyone ever think the message got him elected? Maybe we got tired of smokey backroom deals. Maybe we got tired of under the table negotiations. That was the only way the Republicans could win.

The story wasn’t only about the enormous amounts of money that obama raised – It was because it was under dubious circumstances involving foreign donors, prepaid credit cards, and false names.
The story wasn’t only about the enormous amounts of money that obama raised – It was because it was under dubious circumstances involving foreign donors, prepaid credit cards, and false names.The media infatuation with Barack Obama, and its desire not to raise key issues of concern to the American people. Why were there so many people like Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Pfleger, and Tony Rezko in Obama’s past in the first place?

I beieve he won because of all the lie’s. For example his campaige claims over four million people donated to his campaige……Wrong go, he actually only had 1.8 milliom. Many, many people who donated did it small amounts of $5 or $10 dollar amounts but the joke & Lie was they donated 30, 45, or 70 times over and over again & again to enable someone to say over 4 million small donators gave to his camp/war chest. What a big fat lie, what a stupid case of fraud being pulled on the digbat voters who voted & beleived in him. I guess the true hurts,,,doesn’t it?

How come you haven’t reported the facts about his missing truth about his birth certificate? I gues you do not write about the facts nor do you investigate a man who hids the truth. Obama will continue to have to hid the truth for four years if he goes thru and takes office without settling this important issue of law. Plus he’s supposely a lawyer to top it off…… I see the big lie & he’s hoping it will go away. It won’t until he releases his real true birth cetificate and tell us the real story about who this man reaaly is. I ‘d aslo want to see all the other things he hiding from us, such as school records etc etc……..

I agree Obama didn’t win because of money. He won because he made people affraid of the republicans. Change? I don’t think so. Just more of the same fear campaigns used by Bush etc…

>He won because he made people affraid of the republicans.
No, honey! Sarah Palin amongst everything else made the electorate afraid! Obama did not “BUY” the election. The American people did! we bought back the hope of regaining our standing internationally, and domestically. We had grown tired of the politcs of fear; “He’s a muslim,” “He pals around with terrorists,” et alia. I knew more about Bill Ayers, socialism (mis-used by the way), Rev Wright, than what the Republican platform was about. Sure! I could have gone to their websites and read about these issues, but if the candidate had no interest in discussing them then they probably weren’t worth reading.

this will always be an argument until we have REAL campaign finance reform that says no-one can make a donation to any particular candidate, only to a contest (i.e. A presidential race). Then all money is doled out evenly therefore giving the candidates an even slate……. this includes the lesser parties too. Then we have a fair race and how it ends it ends.
Did I mention the free and equal airtime the networks are forced to give?
That’s CFR!!!!!

Case 08a469 — Cort Wrotnowski vs Bysiewicz, Connecticut Secretary of State has been distributed by HON. Justice Antonin Scalia for full conference (private, as occurred with Donofrio’s case last Friday) to take place this Friday, December 12th. This case was distributed on the same day, Monday, December 8th, that the U.S. media sensationalized the U.S. Supreme Court decision not to hear Donofrio v. Wells, Secretary of State, New Jersey, to the point of misconstruing that decision to mean that the SCOTUS Justices had affirmed Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President of the United States.
Cort Wrotnowski submitted on December 9th a Supplemental brief to the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) with evidentiary material substantiating just-unearthed revelations regarding the fraud and deceit perpetrated by the 21st U.S. President Chester A. Arthur — to wit, his having lied, before becoming Vice-President on James Garfield’s presidential ticket, about his family history, specifically about the date his father, William Arthur, had become a naturalized U.S. citizen, which on December 6th was proven by Leo C. Donofrio, Esq. to have been nearly (14) fourteen years AFTER Chester A. Arthur’s birth, conferring dual citizenship upon Chester A. Arthur at his birth, rendering him a U.S. “Native-born” citizen but NOT a NATURAL-BORN U.S. citizen, and therefore ineligible to become either President or Vice-President of the United States.
By virtue of what Barack Obama has already admitted on his “FighttheSmears.com” website which is that dual citizenship (U.K. and U.S.) was conferred upon him at birth because his father was a citizen of a foreign power, NO birthing document whatsoever is necessary to prove or disprove the U.S. “Natural-born” citizen status of Barack Obama. At birth, he is automatically *NOT* a U.S. *NATURAL-BORN* citizen, and can never gain it, regardless of where he was born.
The only claim that could stand to be verified/confirmed by way of birthing documentation is the claim that he is a U.S. “Native-born” citizen; that is, that he was born on U.S. soil (land under U.S. jurisdiction) and therefore a citizen of the U.S.
The Donofrio and Wrotnowski cases are banked on the fact that for probably most of the first three quarters of this nation’s history the understanding of the meaning of the “Natural-born” category of U.S. citizenship was commonplace. It is only in the post-World-Wars era that this commonplace understanding began to slip away from the nation’s collective consciousness, until, in this age of reactionary attitude toward egregious government behavior, beginning in earnest with the assassination of JFK, Americans have increasingly put all things civic out of mind out of disdain and disgust. It is within this atmosphere of widespread disinterest in how our system of government is constituted that abuse and corruption can find root. This is evidenced by the fact that over the last several weeks hardly anyone immediately understood that “Natural-born” and “Native-born” were not interchangeable terms.
That said, a Birth Certificate IS NOT the same as a “Certifica-*tion* of Live Birth.” The Certification of Live Birth is NOT a document that is acceptable for nearly all critical purposes as formal proof of original nationality (country of “natural birth”). A secondary point to bear in mind is that, in Hawai’i, an actual ‘Birth Certificate’ is referred to using the words, “Certifi-cate of Live Birth.” This ‘long-form,’ “vault” Certificate of Live Birth, as it is the Birth Certificate, displays much more information surrounding the birth, such as hospital name, doctor’s name and signature, weight, height, even a footprint. However, Hawai’i may issue a certified “Certifica-tion of Live Birth” as merely an abbreviated report of an actual ‘Certificate of Live Birth.’
The Obama Campaign posted, on the “FighttheSmears” webpage (http://fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate, a “Certifica-tion of Live Birth” on June 13, 2008, calling it a Birth Certificate. It is not. It represents the abbreviated report that, when having a certifying embossment, may serve official purposes of a non-critical nature. On the document posted on the FighttheSmears.com website, however, there appears no certifying embossment, no signature, and the Certificate No. (which would refer back to the actual and as-yet unpublished “Certificate of Live Birth” document) is blackened out. It is reported by Hawaiian state officials that the official certifying embossment, the date-stamp, and signature customarily appear on the reverse side of these abbreviated “Certification of Live Birth” reports. There is a faint mark on the online scan of the Certification of Live Birth posted on the FighttheSmears page possibly indicating the existence of a date-stamp on the reverse side of the scanned paper document. On scanning other such documents, however, invariably the certifying embossment is discernible, albeit to varying degrees, regardless of the side of the document that is scanned. If there does exist a certifying stamp on the reverse side of the Certification of Live Birth on the Obama “FighttheSmears.com” webpage, it does not appear to be embossed.
On November 1st, Hawai’i state officials confirmed that the Certification of Live Birth posted on Obama’s campaign site, “Fightthesmears.com,” is not the actual ‘long-form’ Certificate of Live Birth (Birth Certificate), but rather an example of the state’s issuance of the abbreviated report known as a “Certifica-tion of Live Birth.” They confirmed also that there is on file a typewritten Certificate of Live Birth (actual “Birth Certificate”), but they keep its contents private.
Meanwhile, on November 22nd, 2008, arguments were published allegedly proving that Obama’s “Certifica-tion of Live Birth” posted on his “FighttheSmears.com” webpage is a forgery. However, whether or not it is a forgery is moot. This abbreviated report simply is not equivalent to a “Birth Certificate” at all.
Also moot is the fact that the document posted on the “FighttheSmears.com” website is not the ‘long-form’ Certificate of Live Birth, as the issue in front of the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices tomorrow is the question of the affirmation of the long-understood meaning of U.S. “Natural-born” citizen status, which in Barack Obama’s case no longer stands in need to be proved or disproved. If anything is to be proved or disproved via a ‘long-form’ Birth Certificate, it is his U.S. “Native-born” citizenship status (birth on U.S. soil). A Certificate of Live Birth, by itself, does not prove U.S. “Natural-born” citizenship status. If proof of U.S. “Natural-born” citizenship status indeed must be provided, the documentation that would do that is — *both together* — the ‘long-form’ Birth Certificate (Certificate of Live Birth), showing hospital name, doctor’s name, etc, proving the child’s birth on U.S. soil, *AND* documentation proving the U.S. citizenship status of the *father.* The child would then be proven to be BOTH a U.S. “Native-born” citizen AND a U.S. “Natural-born” citizen.
Despite all biased media reports to the contrary, to this day Barack Obama has not proven his U.S. “Native-born” citizenship (birth on U.S. soil). Despite all display of confidence, Barack Obama is struggling against becoming known. Someday Americans will be able to more clearly look back at these times and discern the great disservice that this nation’s media has done to the welfare of our Constitutional Democracy in the short run. Yet, in the long run it will be the full recognition of the stark nature of this period of journalistic prostitution that will serve eventually to catapult our evolving Democracy into its inevitable future.
If the U.S. Supreme Court Justices do not grasp the baton of destiny now reaching out to them, this nation will have to endure great social dysfunction over a transitional period of indefinite duration while we await a more enlightened time when it is widely recognized and accepted that expediency is not a valid substitute for truth and the constitutional rule of law. http://truthliving.com/obamafraud.htm

this is an article that came over from yahoo for todays inauguration of obama. now if you notice in his own words he states this..”Make sure I do something simple,” he told Sasha Bruce organizers. “Don’t give me plumbing or electrical work.” now if he needs something simple to do, how can he actually be the president of the USA, because being the president is not an easy job to take on for 4 years.
Throughout the day, Obama showed no hints of nervousness about becoming president within hours.
“I don’t sweat,” he told volunteers at Sasha Bruce House, a shelter for homeless teens in one of Washington’s poorer neighborhoods. “You ever see me sweat?”
All day, he switched easily from self-deprecation to faux cockiness to calls for action.
“Make sure I do something simple,” he told Sasha Bruce organizers. “Don’t give me plumbing or electrical work.”
As he painted a wall with a roller brush, he quoted King as saying, “Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.”
“Right?” he asked the late civil rights leader’s eldest son, Martin Luther King III, who was almost overlooked while painting nearby.
“Right,” King assured the president-elect.
so like i stated before to all you knuckleheads that voted for obama that our lives will end in 2012, because he is the antichrist, so all you obama voters just cut everybodies lives very short. read the book of revelations and watch the history channel and you will see for yourself if you dont believe me.

Oh please. If the situation had been reversed and McCain had raised $750 million and Obama only had $84 million of public funds, the left would have gone absolutely bananas accusing McCain of an unfair, lopsided advantage. They would have portrayed Obama as the victim. And you can bet that McCain would have had every penny investigated by the press (as they found time in between bouts of digging through Palin’s garbage).

We are discussing this issue along with a whole slew of others over on my political blog. Recently we began tackling the issue of where the Republican party needs to go in order to rebound. We have topics on all sorts of topics including the idea of third party viability. An exert from there:
Regardless of which of the above categories you fall into, the bottom line is that the lack of respectful, intelligent, logical, honest, and non-judgmental debate in America is the single largest obstacle to our country getting back to the state that it needs to get to. It keeps us divided and in turn keeps us powerless. Without a united front against the government waste, corruption, control, and theft, the American people have no chance to combat it. The politicians know that and they do their best to create the environment the way it is so we don’t stop arguing with each other long enough to realize that both parties are taking advantage of us daily.
So I am asking all of you to take a moment and jump over there and join in on the conversation. Be respectful and offer your version of where the party is wrong or right and what needs to change. Get there here:
http://standupforamerica.wordpress.com
Hope to see you there.

Somewhere in the world, a muslim country is missing its biggest idiot.

Yes he did buy the presidency with the media and Hollywood elite cheering the whole way.

THE TRUE MEANING OF OBAMA IS LISTED BELOW:
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BAD
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MISTAKE
AMERICA

YEAH RIGHT, WHATEVER!!!
OPEN ARE EARS TO LISTEN TO WHAT HE SPEAKS AND THAT IS WHAT EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR, THATS ONLY TO SUCK YOU IDIOTS INTO HIS WORLD, TO GET THE VOTES AND NOW HE SEES THAT YOU FOOLS FELL FOR IT, NOW SINCE HE IS DEFINATELY PRESIDENT, YOU WILL SEE HOW THEY REALLY ARE NOW. JUST GIVE IT SOME TIME, EVERYONE OF YOU OBAMA SUPPORTERS WILL REGRET IT WHEN THE TIMES COME. JUST MARK MY WORDS.

YEAH, THAT SENSIBLE PERSON WAS HILLARY, BUT NO ALL THE KNUCKLEHEADS VOTED FOR THE NI**ER, LIKE FOOLS YOU ALL ARE. THE PRESIDENTS SEAT IS FOR THE WHITE, NOW THE NI**ERS THINK THAT THEY HAVE SOME TYPE OF POWER OVER US WHITE. THE NI**ERS NEED TO RETHINK THAT BEFORE THEY CROSS THE LINE. WE THE WHITE CAN STILL VETO ONI**ER OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE SEAT. SO DONT FOR ONE CHANCE THINK THAT YOU HAVE CONTROL OVER US WHITE, BECAUSE THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!!!
HAVE A NICE LIFE YOU BUNCH OF NI**ER SUPPORTERS.

Obama won because most Americans are too lazy to actually research the voting records and political agendas of candidates. Obama has zero political achievements to his name…other than winning the POTUS. Only in America would you see someone so unqualified elected to the most powerful office in the world b/c he spouts out catch phrases such as “Hope” and “Change”. I guess his idea of change is sending troops to Afghanistan instead of Iraq and “changing” his mind on the Iraq withdrawal. Now he says he foresees having 50K troops in Iraq long-term. That is EXACTLY the kind of ongoing presense in Iraq that McCain had talked about and Obama then alleged that McCain wanted to fight the war for a 100 years. Obama is a complete fraud and charlatan. He is going to completely bankrupt this country by quadrupaling the already huge deficit in the next 5 years if his budget is passed! Please, call your senators and tell them to vote against Obama’s budget proposal before our dollar is worth nothing.

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Clearly written and researched. Is anyone listening? The extreme Right is blinded by anger; how could they possibly lose to a Black man with a Muslim father? America is complex and Americans, thankfully, unpredictable.
We travel the world on a tandem bicycle, and even the Muslims of Central Asia treated us with respect. We go back to Asia this fall for another pedal diplomacy journey. Wish us luck.

Money is raised to further a campaign. Where did the money go – if not on winning the election?