Comments on: Obama and the DNC Don’t Take Lobbyists’ Money

By: PS

PS — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:58:52 +0000

One can only hope that others in this young man’s generation will put down the Kool-Aid as well!

By: Boxer Mum 06

Boxer Mum 06 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:02:42 +0000

Could it be any more obvious that he’s reading from a teleprompter on this too?

Is it true that his online contribution site does not prohibit international donating?

I’m confused – first he had all of this money then he was short and now he’s confident with his $5 here and there contributors that he will have more than McCain b/c he has to out spend McCain due to his fear of the swiftboaters coming after him.

I live in PA and just can not see how he will win this state. During our last Governor election, we had a Democrat Ed Rendell vs. a Republican Lynn Swann (yes, the guy from the Steelers).

Speculations and polls were running wild and they tought Swann (with little to no experience) would win because everyone was in love with the idea of a minority.

Guess what – the polls and speculators were wrong! Rendell won by a landslide.

McCain will win PA

By: Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:07:41 +0000

Nuclear energy is one of the most important issues of this campaign. McCain openly supports building nuclear power to meet the energy crisis and address global warming. Obama hems and haws keeping the Left believing he doesn’t back nuclear power. If this is the direction the country goes, I’d at least like the candidate to tell us the truth.

We are at a fork in the road. Our taxes and loan guarantees could be used for big corporations to maintain their power over us, both by running nuclear plants and maintaining our dependency on oil. Or, our wealth could be used to subsidize the building of wind and solar, which could also be used to power our cars.

One model leaves us dependent on monopolies, the other empowers us all to be part of the solution. One leaves us with a nuclear waste legacy that will also require taxes to bail out, the other leaves us all with a part of the dividend. One is decidedly liberal, the other is corporate business as usual.

By: Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:53:42 +0000

I don’t think it’s a dumb question at all. A couple people here keep raising the question. Obama won the money race, and we’re supposed to believe it was a grassroots uprising, but the rules make the money’s source opaque. So, it is also possible that it’s a ruse hiding more sinister funding. We don’t know. We’re supposed to take Axelrod and Obama’s word for it.

By: Five Thirty

Five Thirty — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:06:08 +0000

Thanks for the inside info.

By: belltoll

belltoll — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:56:54 +0000

Did you see the blurb about the woman in England that had her bank cleaned out. She researched where the money went. Someone donated to Obamanations campaign fraudulently using her card!

By: belltoll

belltoll — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:53:23 +0000

Does anyone know if we can get a list of Obama’s small donor list under the Freedom of Information Act? I would like to go through it to see just how much these small donors give. It could be possible that people are giving more than the maximum because it seems they give over and over. I don’t see how tracking over the internet could be very effective.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:41:17 +0000

Yeah, it is, fran.

It’s bamboozlin of the worst kind.

This man is a hustler, just like he was in the Chicago machine.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:36:41 +0000

And I’d like to know why Barak Obama, as the “new leader of the Democratic Party,” didn’t take a stronger stand against the Stoyer/Pelosi cave in to President Bush.

Why can’t this man LEAD?

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:33:21 +0000

And yet, he makes some very good points.

Democrats think Obama can lower gas prices, he says, mockingly.

He’s right. Obama voted FOR Dick Cheney’s bloated Energy Bill giving huge subsidies and tax breaks to the big oil companies, pandering to “special interests.”

John McCain, on the other hand, voted AGAINST that bill, because he is against pandering to “special interests.” There are no earmarks that show McCain got $$$ for family members like Obama or James Clyburn did.

Don’t you think it’s a little hypocritical of Obama NOW to want a windfall profits tax, when his own vote gave those same oil companies a pot load of our tax dollars in subsidies and tax breaks?

I DO.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:25:19 +0000

Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Tribune reported that Obama regularly holds fundraisers for the big boys, like the one at Ethel Kennedy’s house for $23,000 a pop just to attend.

The $5 and $10 “little people” are just the public relations image Axelrod feeds to the press.

His biggest donations came from financials like Goldman Sachs and UBS, the very companies involved in the subprime mortgage fiasco.

Don’t believe the hype. Obama’s no different and nothing new.

By: btintaos

btintaos — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:06:34 +0000

I think they’re talking about Buy Crack Obama. Or is that “bi?”

By: openmind

openmind — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:59:41 +0000

Judy,

This is a conservative columnist. Have you read all of the articles he has written ripping Hallary and the Dems to shreds over the years calling them Socialists, etc.?

By: fran

fran — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:35:18 +0000

That is complete b.s. and Carville should know better. This sham about Obama’s lack of lobbyist activity and “money coming from small donors” has to be exposed. Isn’t it over 60% of his funds come from Wall St. (sub-prime mortgage industry), lobbyist related sources and nuclear energy. Why don’t the Republicans blast back with the ACTUAL FACTS?!

On another related topic:
I have a friend who is connected to Hillary’s “big donors.” I was bothered by the recent reports that Hillary and BO are meeting together with them next week, thinking that they were weakening. I received this response from her this morning:

There is a big joint fundraiser in DC on Thurs. where they have asked donors to give to Obama. Many of my friends who are on the finance committee are not going—they are giving only the minimum—the $2300 b/c she has asked—they refuse to raise any money for him—everyone is holding strong together and every day that goes by it gets stronger. I am very proud of our top fundraisers. They are not caving at all.

PUMA!!!!!

By: PadrePio

PadrePio — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:24:45 +0000

The pet rock was at least a harmless gag gift Obama is a dangerous demagogue.