$600 Million, $150 Million in September alone

What is the most interesting is that his donations have come from millions of people, as the average donnation is still under $100. That would be an average of more that 6 million people have donated to his campaign. Astonding! I wonder what similar numbers are for McCain. What was his average donor size?

I also don’t believe he raised all this money by people sending in small donations. They don’t have to trace donations under $200, so that leaves a hell of a lot of untraceable donations. He is essentially being allowed to try and buy the presidency IMHO.

Hey NewHampster! Most of the donations Obama is getting these days, are coming to him through illegal foreign sources I am sure. I bet a good portion is coming from Africa. They just love him there, even though he doesn’t give a damn about them. The FEC won’t investigate this, and I am sure they realize that he couldn’t possibly raise this kind of cash in the U.S. alone. Obama’s campaign won’t disclose who all those $200 and under donations are coming from, because he knows they aren’t legal. Mac disclosed his, but Obama isn’t made to do anything. His campaign is now offering packages to the media for election night coverage. The least expensive place for a reporter on a riser is $800. You gotta pay to play is the Obama campaign’s creed.

150 million in Sept. doesn’t make sense anyway you look at it. Is just too much. Is the same as saying that my cow gave 150 litters of milk this morning.

It is another thing in a string of unreal unbelievable things that keep coming up in this campaign from Obama. Like Hillary said, ‘the sky will open up….’ This pathological liar projects all these lies so seamlessly in all direction. I feel I live in the twilight zone. Yesterday Hillary was nodding her head to every stupid sentence that Obama was saying. And then he ‘misrepresents’ McCain’s positions everywhere and no one seems to be able to say ‘that’s not exactly what his position is on that.’

I am going to go crazy and the Ohio governor just said that they had to close the mental hospitals in that state for lack of funding.

Where the money goes? Where in heck did it come from? McCain’s listed his donors. Where’s Obama’s donor list? Anyone? Bueller?

I.AM.SO.SICK.OF.OBAMA.IN.MY.FACE.EVERYWHERE.THIS.IS.RRIDICULOUS.AND.IT.HAS.TO.STOP.FOREVER.

MCCAIN/PALIN

WE MUST SAVE OURSELVES FROM THIS PLAGUE!

Can Obama buy America?

I recall that in the Pennsylvania primary, Obama outspent Hillary Clinton by an estimate of anywhere from 3:1 to 5:1. That didn’t help him, did it?

Hillary still won in PA. She got a lot of help from Obama’s “bitter/clinging” statement.

Obama is probably outspending McCain 10:1 now in PA but John Murtha runs around calling Western Pennsylvanians racist and then in an attempt to correct it he now says that up until 5-10 years ago they were all rednecks.

McCain/Palin and crew including Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, and Cindy McCain are all hitting PA hard.

My point — I think people are getting tired of Obama in their faces every minute on TV, internet, radio. I think that happened in the PA primary as well. McCain’s internals must be showing that PA is still up for grabs even though all the polls say he can’t win there.

If only it can be true that all those undecideds are really getting turned off by an agenda of “all Obama, all the time” and decide to vote for McCain in protest?

BTW, here’s how crazy this polling is. The 2 closest polls in the last election were GWU/Battleground and IBD/TIPP. Today, Battleground says Obama is +1 and IBD says he is +14. Which one has gone totally off track?

Battleground has been within 1-3% in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. I’d probably trust them more.

By the way, Nickelodeon Kids poll released today says Obama will win by 2%. This one might be the most reliable and actually bode well for McCain since the same Kids Poll elected Kerry in 2004 and Bush actually won.

This will all come down to how much voter fraud is out there (like the New Jersey machines with no paper backup that can be hacked without any trace within 7 minutes).

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Sarah Palin is speaking live right now (CNN live stream) and she is talking DIRECTLY to women and women small business owners…!!

Update on Madelyn Dunham. I feel bad….I hope she pulls through. Obama should have left as soon as he was notified of her condition. IMAO!! $150 million and a private jet, and a blathering stump speech is more important. Shameful!!

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why should I specifically care about obama’s grandma any more than I care about anyone who loses a loved one?
I care more about making sure he doesn’t steal the presidency!

That money is coming from overseas donors (muslim countries) that he refuses to show. Then the money is funneled through blogs like DKos and Democratic Underground to make it look like its coming from the general public.

The rest of it is to buy off networks and so-called fourth estate news outlets.

Any wonder why news is obviously biased towards Obama – the press is permanently stuck up The One’s rectum.

Great post, but it’s the MSM’s job to help us out with finding NECESSARY information. They have been bought buy the O, and as my partner says, “the fix is in.”

Besides all the work they did to investigate and tarnish Joe the Plumber, they sure have been busy screwing with Governor Palin. Just today, there’s a new AP Investigation article out about her children traveling with her on the Alaska state budget. Jeez.

The slant of these organization is so transparent, it’s sickening. I would post a link, but I’ve had trouble doing that in the past here at NQ. Following is the article:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.
In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters’ 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.
Alaska law does not specifically address expenses for a governor’s children. The law allows for payment of expenses for anyone conducting official state business.
As governor, Palin justified having the state pay for the travel of her daughters — Bristol, 17; Willow, 14; and Piper, 7 — by noting on travel forms that the girls had been invited to attend or participate in events on the governor’s schedule.
But some organizers of these events said they were surprised when the Palin children showed up uninvited, or said they agreed to a request by the governor to allow the children to attend.
Several other organizers said the children merely accompanied their mother and did not participate. The trips enabled Palin, whose main state office is in the capital of Juneau, to spend more time with her children.
“She said any event she can take her kids to is an event she tries to attend,” said Jennifer McCarthy, who helped organize the June 2007 Family Day Celebration picnic in Ketchikan that Piper attended with her parents.
State Finance Director Kim Garnero told The Associated Press she has not reviewed the Palins’ travel expense forms, so she could not say whether the daughters’ travel with their mother would meet the definition of official business.
After Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain chose Palin his running mate and reporters asked for the records, Palin ordered changes to previously filed expense reports for her daughters’ travel.
In the amended reports, Palin added phrases such as “First Family attending” and “First Family invited” to explain the girls’ attendance.
“The governor said, ‘I want the purpose and the reason for this travel to be clear,’” said Linda Perez, state director of administrative services.
When Palin released her family’s tax records as part of her vice presidential campaign, some tax experts questioned why she did not report the children’s state travel reimbursements as income.
The Palins released a review by a Washington attorney who said state law allows the children’s travel expenses to be reimbursed and not taxed when they conduct official state business.
Taylor Griffin, a McCain-Palin campaign spokesman, said Palin followed state policy allowing governors to charge for their children’s travel. He said the governor’s office has invitations requesting the family to attend some events, but he said he did not have them to provide.
In October 2007, Palin brought daughter Bristol along on a trip to New York for a women’s leadership conference. Plane tickets from Anchorage to La Guardia Airport for $1,385.11 were billed to the state, records show, and mother and daughter shared a room for four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House hotel, which overlooks Central Park.
The event’s organizers said Palin asked if she could bring her daughter.
Alexis Gelber, who organized Newsweek’s Third Annual Women & Leadership Conference, said she does not know how Bristol ended up attending. Gelber said invitees usually attend alone, but some ask if they can bring a relative or friend.
Griffin, the campaign spokesman, said he believes someone with the event personally sent an e-mail to Bristol inviting her, but he did not have it to provide. Records show Palin also met with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs representatives and visited the New York Stock Exchange.
In January, the governor, Willow and Piper showed up at the Alaska Symphony of Seafood Buffet, an Anchorage gala to announce winners of an earlier seafood competition.
“She was just there,” said James Browning, executive director of Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, which runs the event. Griffin said the governor’s office received an invitation that was not specifically addressed to anyone.
When Palin amended her children’s expense reports, she listed a role for the two girls at the function — “to draw two separate raffle tickets.”
In the original travel form, Palin listed a number of events that her children attended and said they were there “in official capacity helping.” She did not identify any specific roles for the girls.
In July, the governor charged the state $2,741.26 to take Bristol and Piper to Philadelphia for a meeting of the National Governors Association. The girls had their own room for five nights at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for $215.46 a night, expense records show.
Expense forms describe the girls’ official purpose as “NGA Governor’s Youth Programs and family activities.” But those programs were activities designed to keep children busy, a service provided by the NGA
to accommodate governors and their families, NGA spokeswoman Jodi Omear said.
In addition to the commercial flights, the children have traveled dozens of times with Palin on a state plane. For these flights, the total cost of operating the plane, at $971 an hour, was about $55,000, according to state flight logs. The cost of operating the state plane does not increase when the children join their mother.
The organizer of an American Heart Association luncheon on Feb. 15 in Fairbanks said Palin asked to bring daughter Piper to the event, and the organizer said she was surprised when Palin showed up with daughter Willow and Bristol as well.
The three Palin daughters shared a room separate from their mother at the Princess Lodge in Fairbanks for two nights, at a cost to the state of $129 per night.
The luncheon took place before Palin’s husband, Todd, finished fourth in the 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race, also in Fairbanks. The family greeted him at the finish line.
When Palin showed up at the luncheon with not just Piper but also Willow and Bristol, organizers had to scramble to make room at the main table, said Janet Bartels, who set up the event.
“When it’s the governor, you just make it happen,” she said.
The state is already reviewing nearly $17,000 in per diem payments to Palin for more than 300 nights she slept at her own home, 40 miles from her satellite office in Anchorage.
Tony Knowles, a Democratic former governor of Alaska who lost to Palin in a 2006 bid to reclaim the job, said he never charged the state for his three children’s commercial flights or claimed their travel as official state business.
Knowles, who was governor from 1994 to 2002, is the only other recent Alaska governor who had school-age children while in office.
“There was no valid reason for the children to be along on state business,” said Knowles, a supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. “I cannot recall any instance during my eight years as governor where it would have been appropriate to claim they performed state business.”
Knowles said he brought his children to one NGA event while in office but didn’t charge the state for their trip.
In February 2007, the three girls flew from Juneau to Anchorage on Alaska Airlines. Palin charged the state for the $519.30 round-trip ticket for each girl, and noted on the expense form that the daughters accompanied her to “open the start of the Iron Dog race.”
The children and their mother then watched as Todd Palin and other racers started the competition, which Todd won that year. Palin later had the relevant expense forms changed to describe the girls’ business as “First Family official starter for the start of the Iron Dog race.”
The Palins began charging the state for commercial flights after the governor kept a 2006 campaign promise to sell a jet bought by her predecessor.
Palin put the jet up for sale on eBay, a move she later trumpeted in her star-making speech at the Republican National Convention, and it was ultimately sold by the state at a loss.
That left only one high-performance aircraft deemed safe enough for her to use — a 1980 twin-engine King Air assigned to the public safety agency but, according to flight logs, out of service for maintenance and repairs about a third of the time Palin has been governor.

Just imagine how the US is going to be ripped off by all of the financial IOUs SOetoro is going to have payback if elected POTUS>

OT…API has an ongoing discussion with FOX NEWS on the best way forward in the process of releasing Michelle Obama tapes to the American people.
API hopes the negotiation will be completed soon so that the tapes can be made available in the next few days.

“Someone is going to have to give up a piece of the pie so that someone else can have more.” – Michelle Obama…I guess that explains Michelle’s $447.39 tab at the Waldorf Astoria-10/15/08-for lobster, Iranian caviar and champagne compliments of all the small people who made the small donations.Your hard-earned donation was well spent. Tasty

Remember, this is the same msm that brought us the Iraq War; made fun of Gore for inventing the internet and sighing during debates that he won; trashed Kerry as an elitist flip-flopper and was rah rah for George W Bush TWO times. The only surprising thing this time is that Kos, Moveon, Huffpo etc are all part of the echo chamber.

Most of the money goes to the media. They are getting fat off his campaign. Nader is right–until we get money OUT of politics it will continue to be corrupted. I have some hope that McCain will actually try for more campaign finance reform with this pal Feingold if he wins.

So his fund raising skills were learned when he was a community organizer? Too bad he wasn’t able to come up with that kind of money for the people on the South Side who could have used it. I think it’s a disgrace to be blowing hundreds of millions of dollars on a campaign of hype.

Obama has raised $600,000,000 SO FAR.

If health care coverage costs $10,000 per person), the money Obama has raised SO FAR could cover 60,000 people.

If it costs $2000 to give a soldier the best possible protection (e.g. bullet-proof protection, good headgear, vehicle protection), the money Obama has raised SO FAR could protect 300,000 soldiers.

If it costs $1000 to supply a teacher with the best possible equipment, books, and supplies to teach her children (so she doesn’t have to do it out-of-pocket, as most teachers do), the money Obama has raised SO FAR could help 600,000 teachers.

If it costs $50,000,000 dollars to repair or build an apartment building for the residents of South Chicago, most of whom live in squalor because slum lords like Rezko, Jarrett, Davis and Davis’s son have exploited the taxpayers thanks to the legislative and advocating assistance of their friend and colleague Barack Obama, the money Obama has raised SO FAR could help build 12,000 apartment buildings.