Antiprogressive Democrats in Denial about the Fat Pig with Clay Feet
By Un coup de des on June 25, 2008 at 12:32 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Democratic party, Democrats, Hoodwinking, Joe Biden, John Kerry
The cartoon Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer sketched today illustrates what readers of No Quarter already know: ostensible progressives and venal Democrats are acutely aware of the compromised status of their candidate. But they will never admit it. Instead, they will turn their backs and behave as if Barack Obama’s desire to privatize public institutions is entirely acceptable. ”Yes, I know, but nevertheless:” this is the statement Democrats are now forced to utter.
I quote Senator Joe Biden (D-DE):
“In terms of undermining the public financing idea for everyone” the decision “doesn’t help,” Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said today on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program. “It’s going to be harder to make the case” for public financing, he said.Still, Biden said Obama has kept his commitment of “reducing the influence of big money in his campaign, unlike other campaigns.” Almost 80 percent of Obama’s contributions are $100 or less, “so he’s keeping with the purpose of public financing,” Biden said.
I quote the Obamabot Joseph Palermo’s vain attempt to justify Obama’s decision not to accept public financing:
Let’s set the record straight. First, Obama did not “vow” to take public financing no matter what ensued in the campaign. There were all sorts of conditions and unpredictable variables that he said would affect his decision about public financing when (and if) the time came. He wisely gave himself wiggle room on the issue. That’s what politicians do. He didn’t paint himself into a corner because at the time he didn’t know if he’d be able to unseat Hillary Clinton or who his likely Republican opponent would be.Second, absent from the discussion about Obama’s “betrayal” of his principles because he’s not foolish enough to tie his hands in the general election is the fact that he has broken all records in American politics for the amount of money raised BY SMALL DONATIONS. The vast majority of his campaign cash, about 93 percent, has come from donations of $200 or less. George W. Bush could never do this; and John McCain could never do it either. So we should punish the one candidate whose campaign is the least beholden to giant corporations and wealthy individuals? Obama has accomplished exactly what he said he did in his recent statement on the issue: a new form of public financing.
I quote Senator John Kerry (D-MA), who stumbles over himself to rationalize Obama’s poor decision:
On a conference call with reporters moments ago, Kerry insisted that the decision was necessary if Obama is to avoid succumbing under a barrage of such spending, as he did.“You know, the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth hadn’t appeared in July of my year as a funded group,” Kerry said. “And they were funded in August, which was the time I was tied to campaign finance reform and didn’t have the money to respond. And it had an obvious, profound impact. So I think in order to control your campaign and your message, it is essential to be able to respond to those and be free to respond to them.”
”I know, but nevertheless:” antiprogressive Democrats and their stenographers are in complete and utter denial. At least Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) is unwilling to turn his back on the giant pig with clay feet that has inserted itself into the Democratic tent. I quote:
“This is not a good decision,” Feingold said in a statement today. “While the current public financing system for the presidential primaries is broken, the system for the general election is not. The entire system must be updated.”
Real Democrats such as Russ Feingold understand what we and columnist Liz Sidoti understand: Obama “chose winning over his word.” But even worse, Obama also lied. I quote Sidoti:
Obama blamed his decision in part on McCain and “the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups.” But he failed to mention that the only outside groups running ads in earnest so far are those aligned with Obama — and running commercials against McCain.
Because Democrats seem to support a candidate who seemingly desires to privatize public institutions, I can only assume that the Democratic Party is no longer a party of reform. Disavowing the compromised status of the candidate they selected to serve as their Party’s nominee, they are unable and unwilling to acknowledge the giant pig with clay feet that will hog all the space at their little convention in Denver. Principles, I guess, will be jettisoned in the name of electing a corrupt candidate with clay feet who learned politics in the pig pens of inner city Chicago.
Democrat’s in denial about WHO Obama really is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSemkPChvHo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT05ANzLIAo
I believe that an excellent campaign ad would open with Nancy Pelosi’s revealing inability to answer Greta Van Susteran when asked about Obama’s accomplishments and Pelosi could not come up with anything!
I agree, Pelosi had nothing of value to say in that interview. It is painfully obvious that Obama cannot be justified. Everything about him uderscores his lack of character and morality and for her to push the same talking points about judgment and fresh politics is not only stupid but works to elevate voters’ frustrations to yet a new level.
Judgment?!! That is absolutely laughable. This guy is the poster boy for bad judgment. I hope the 527’s are crafting an excellent rebuttal to the phony judgment argument. That can’t be too hard to put together!
How long can this denial go on…???
Has to implode soon…
It would be nice if it would, but may not be till the fall…
http://nocache.homestead.com/nativeamericansagainstobama/index.html
Progressives are individuals who are ostensibly working within the republic and its capitalist system, while their real goal is to subvert it, weakening its foundation, the Constitution of the United States of America, and amending it to reflect the Marxist-Socialist philosophy described as Progressivism.
Progressives contend that Progressivism is rooted in three core principles: “Fighting for economic justice and security for all; Protecting and preserving civil rights and civil liberties; and Promoting global peace and security.” That’s what they say — it sounds great — but it’s not what they intend.
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/progressivecaucus.htm
Spot on.
When I first supported groups like WorkingForChange(later Credo) I thought they were FDR type Democrats, little did i know that these people were nothing of the sort.
I learned thanks to NQ and Rezkowatch that they are leftist radicals just like Tom Hayden and Alinsky.
To them the Democratic party was nothing but a vehicle to achieve power and there is nothing progressive about them.
Yes, but many of those small donations are bundled through big donors and lobbying groups. Let’s say a big donor gets a group of his or her friends to donate $200.00 each. It’s then bundled into one large donation. But the Obama campaign will present this money as coming from a group of individuals rather than from the backing of the big donor that had these people give the money. Some in the media have reported on this but they are few and far between.
Neat trick.
Exactly. Frank Clark of ComEd, also on the board of Exelon BUNDLED $200,000 for Obama. He’s not the only one. There are many of these bundlers. JP morgan, Goldman Sachs, Exelon, etc etc. There are the back door lobbyists who bundled so as not to directly donate. It’s all a hhoax. Not to mention the individuals, such as Rashid Kalhidi and his Pakistani buddies, such as the guy who held that fundraiser in San Fran where Obama discussed people who cling to their religion out of frustration. Funny, that:
“Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes.”
–Karl Marx
Religion. It is the opium of the people.”
What I want to know is who are Obama’s overseas backers. To me, every foreigner giving any amount of money to a presidential candidate should have to identify themselves to the American people.
This HAS to be exposed: this lie about his small donations. I have always found that to be the biggest hoax, and very few people know the truth about it. I do not have time right now to find the link, but USA Today and Congressional Quarterly both did reports on Obama’s money. I seem to remember that over 60% of his money comes from Wall St. (sub-prime mortgage industry) and corporate related sources. It is such crap. Meanwhile, he arrogantly denounces Hillary and McCain for their lobbyist ties. I want to see this guy revealed!!!!
Messiahs with clay feet do not on water walk.
No Obama. Not now. Not ever.
Instead of principles and ‘truth to power’ we now have lies and ‘flip flops to power’-that’s the Obama’s Party way..
WAKE UP OBAMABOTS!
Give the yuppie a break.
How else can Soros going to pump money into the campaign?
That’s not to say Hillary, McCain, or any of the other candidates didn’t do the same. The difference is they didn’t claim they weren’t doing it.
Exactly. And they didn’t make TV commercials saying they didn’t take lobbyist and oil money either. You have got to be one arrogant lying sack of crap to do that.
Yeah, talk about chutzpah (sp?).
AND HE GETS AWAY WITH IT!!! Who is going to blow the lid off this constant hypocrisy? It’s a sad day when this lifelong liberal is actually looking forward to the Republican 527’s. It’s come to that, since the “legitimate press” no longer exists.
Apparently he is losing fans among his core voters too.
Check out this article from The Black Agenda Report’s website.
Obama’s campaign finance comments are pretty damn disingenuous: not exactly the “straight shooter” talk he claims to represent.
But it’s hardly the first Obama deception to date - not by a long shot. Here (below) are some of the bigger examples of stark dishonesty I’ve discovered in the process of writing a book on the Obama phenomenon and U.S. political culture.
Here is the link to the whole article:
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=676&Itemid=1
The blackagendareport has been on his tail for quite awhile now. They perceive him to be just what he is. A man who is using black America while pandering to white America.
I’m surprised he hasn’t sent his NOI friends to “reason” with them.
Every time Obama’s rethoric about
change, meets his actual record of
change, it evaporates into a cloud of hypocrisy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdxrrgGUfAg
The figures quoted by the politicians above are simply wrong. Only 40 percent of Obama’s money came from small donors. Sixty percent came from special interest groups (law firms, lobbyists, wall street).
They’re intentionally distorting the truth to make it appear that Obama has some great grassroots support.
However it was Clinton who won the popular vote, not Obama.
Per my previous post I really felt insulted by the Nancy Pelosi interview on Foxnews with Greta last night. I felt Nancy was talking down to we the people. Nancy was so arrogant it was nauseating. In my opinion Nancy basically said to we the people that we should not question her decisions and she doesn’t have to be accountable and how dare we ask her to justify anything. Nancy didn’t use the interview to tell us about “the change” she used it as an opportunity to talk down the GOP along with we the people.
I’ve raised my children and I don’t have time for the President to grow up in the White House. I am not mad Hillary lost the nomination but I am very concerned about my country.
First: if the Democrats think it’s just the women that are not considering voting for Obama they forgot to ask my husband (and this family prays and votes together).
Second: if they’re just counting the Democratic primary votes I think they are forgetting that a lot of Republican families came out in support of Hillary.
Third: If the Democrats think that we women are just mad and we’ll get over it then they should remember the old saying “Hell hath no fury like a women scorned!” That my friends is the truth, just ask my husband.
In my opinion the Democratic party does not speak or care about we the women voters. Women voters have rights and freedom of speech. When I cast my vote for McCain in November it will not be due to Premenstrual syndrome (PMS). My vote for McCain will reflect the love that I have for my country, my children, my family and friends to keep us all safe and prosperous.
McCain brings “Action” which means more to me than Hope, Change and just yes we can words. Everyone knows that “Action” speaks louder than “just words.”
Pelosi is now taking time off her busy schedule rigging the Democratic nomination to make “helpful suggestions” as to who Obama should pick for VP- “at least one House Member,” she says, and suggests Chet Edwards of Texas by name.
Good thing Pelosi took Impeachment off the table and doesn’t take her job as Speaker very seriously, it would really interfere with her extracurricular activities, wouldnt it?
Who is Chet Edwards?
That was another asinine thing Nancy did repeatedly during the primary season. Whenever she was asked about the dream ticket, she was extremely negative about it. Not that I want Hillary anywhere near that lying inexperienced hypocrite, but it was extremely irresponsible for the Speaker of the House to be injecting her opinion into the public domain about that. Obviously, she has her own agenda (ie: Nancy Pelosi).
It also goes to prove that we “emotionally hysterical women” are not just supporting women because they are women. You can take Pelosi, Claire McCaskill, et. al. and ban them from public office for life for all I care.
Very well said Denise.
Black Agenda Report has NEVER been a core supporter of Barack Obama. The editor thinks he’s a sell out-pandering to so called liberal whites who mistakenly think he’s a progressive and don’t want to be considered racists. The editor, Glen Ford, recently came out in support of Cyntha Mckinney, who will likely be the Green Party Candidate and BAR has been doing critical commentary on Barack for months and months.
Add today’s statement from Ralph Nader who said that Obama “is talking white” to appeal to liberal Dems. Go Ralph! Watch the “race” card go wild.
Always knew that Nader was a good citizen and a hero to consumers and the public at large but thought he overreached when he ran for the White House. How things have changed! Next to Obama he looks like Einstein…clearly more competent and knowledgeable than BO…but then who isn’t?
Yep, after an initial comment from the Obama campaign which sounded as though they were just going to brush off Nader, the second round is screaming Racist! Racist! Racist! Reprehensible!
Nader said the only thing different about Obama is that he’s half black and appeals to liberals with white guilt.
Ralph…telling it like it is.
Is that going to be their answer every time Obama’s record or actions are challenged? It is really getting old.
Nader is correct (never thought I’d say that). If you watch the videos where Obama is addressing a predominately black audience his cadence, tone, and method of speaking change completely.
Hillary was trashed for so-called “adopting” a southern accent while speaking in the south.
Forget all those years she lived in Arkansas. She must be a phony.
Qaddafi (Gaddafi, etc): Obama is a Muslim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSemkPChvHo
This was put on youtube yesterday. Qaddafi does a whole speech on Obama, and he says that he is a muslim and should be proud. Obama is of Islam. He should not have a black inferiority complex, because then he’ll act whiter than whites…and he also says that American people, black people want change…and that other countries (he lists them) want Obama, and have contributed to his campaign! $$$$$
A translator would help, but the words I can decipher do match.
Also, I double checked this on memri-TV and it is there under Obama in search box. The crowd looks to be stock footage to me, but I think that is part of Qaddafi’s regular propaganda, and I’ve seen other leaders do it, but who knows.
I think it is just something AlJazeera TV made up…here are pictures of Muammar Al-Qadhafi from goggle.
http://tinyurl.com/5zx4an
Nope, it really is Qadhafi. I’m a lot older than you and I remember what Qadhafi looked like and the words you can understand in the video match the subtitles. Yes, he calls him brother Obama.
and the biggest flip flop…
Obama said on Tuesday he had not yet spoken to the former president, but wants him to be part of his campaign. “He’s as smart as they come. He’s a great strategist,” Obama said.
I thought that comment was over the top, considering BO is directly responsible for all the smears. Disgusting.
Someone ought to cut his fuckin tonque out!
I wish not to harm anyone…And him missing his tongue would not help with the “aahhh ummmm”.
Closing his mouth will do.
Aye you are right…. sorry…
Hey maybe we could just put a “seal” over his mouth….
Duct tape works nicely for many things.
I thought Bill Clinton was a racist? Why would BO want him involved in his campaign?
Obamabots, can you help me out here??? Why does BO want to involve that horrible, racist cracker in his campaign?? Any answers??
Bet you don’t get an answer. The O-bots are having a bad week anyway. Take it easy on the youngsters or they might quit coming around.
Hillary or McCain 08!!!!!!
I wish Bill Clinton would tell Obama that he has more important things to do and just doesn’t have the time to bail Obama’s butt out.
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NEWS UPDATE
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**OBAMA TO RECEIVE SACRED IDOL**
I am not making this up. Obama is receiving an idol bc it has been reported he is an ardent follower of Lord Hanuman.
For More Info Go To: http://www.obama-wire.com
Dude! you really need to chill with the damn advertising! Okay, we get it! You have a blog. You want us to check it out! Enough! It’s gotten irritating!
I don’t know about anyone else here but, enough is enough!
It makes me think of those children that do something to get your attention. You ackowledge them the first time, then they continue to do it until it becomes irritating. We get it! I’ve checked out your blog! Move on!
Agree with you RedDragon62. We get it, stop with the advertising already.
You want denial? Tune into Ed Schultz’s “Obama is going to win in a blowout I dont’ know why McCain is even bothering to run” Fantasy Show every afternoon on the Jones Radio Network. Today, this buffoon has Jonathan Alter on to tell us that Hillary “must” support Obama “wholeheartedly” if she wants Obama’s support in retiring her debt- “if he retires her debt, I dont see how she can’t be enthusiastic about him…” (in other words, politicians are there to be bought.)
Alter goes on to tell us that “because Obama has such a huge fundraising network, he’ll be uniquely independent from special interests when President…” which made me choke on my soda.
Then, the best part of all: a caller phones in to say that “Obama will win a HUGE MINORITY, if not a MAJORITY, of the Evangelical vote! He’s on Fire here!” Now THAT’S delusional.
I can’t wait till the debacle in November. All that’s left to ponder is, “how will it be blamed on Hillary?”
I’ve just been waiting and waiting for some Obama “supporter” to blame Tim Russert’s death on Hillary. LMAO
I don’t see why she needs him to help retire her debt after all she was able to raise over 30 million in one month while campaigning. Hillary could retire her debt simply by distancing herself from Obama and asking her supporters to help her. I think most of us would gladly help her if she told him to F-off.
I’d give her my last dime if she did!!!
Yep, I’m SURE BO is going to win the evangelicals BIG! Why we all know that evangelicals would oppose legislation like the “Born Alive Act” that guaranteed medical aid in the rare instance that a viable fetus is born alive following a botched abortion. Yep, that’ll bring them to the polls in droves…to vote for John McCain.
Is Alter on drugs? Obama not beholden to special interests–what a laugh! Alter’s one of those idiots who kept telling Hillary to quit, even as she was stomping the crap out of Obama in the real elections. His credibility is right up there with Dick Morris.
I briefly turned on Air America, wondering what they were saying about Obama’s flip flops. Spin, spin, spin. It was disgusting. They sound ridiculous. This situation would be laughable, if our country’s welfare wasn’t at stake.
Look, I admire your tenacious support of Hilary, but when she is appearing in Unity with Obama, is going to campaign for Obama, and even Bill is going to help, isnt it time to recognize that the train has left the station???
Unless you want a ill tempered, fighter jock mentality old fud who will probably bomb Iran as his first decision as president, I suggest if you cant support Obama, at least lay off??.
Obama has to be recognized for putting together a web and grassroots organization that beat the bejesus out of the fat, corn fed campaign organization that Hilary created. Yes, I know running a good campaign does not mean you will be a good Chief Executive (see our currnet pres, but then, I think Bush didnt run his campaign,he was a puppet of Rove and Cheney)
Please bear in mind that I was an Edwards supporter. Edwards has the best policies.. and he has endorsed Obama and will probably have a big role in an Obama administration. (HHS?) No Obama, and HHS will probably be run by some repub imbecile as bad or worse than the bushies.
Stop living in a dream.. the choice is McCain and more of the same Republican graft and corruption (remember Blackwater, Haliburton, KBR? the attorneys firing, Duke cunningham, and others? Do you really think McCain is going to investigate his own party, after he totally rolled over for Bush after 2000.) or Obama.
I know how hard it is when an ideal you worked for and supported dosent pan out, but please dont make the perfect the enemy of the good.
I think Obama will be a good president, much better than McCain.
You want more of the same Bush crap, keep it up.
I know I’ll probably get flamed for posting this, but, it’s time to face the facts.
I love how you want to convince us to accept Obama yet you cannot restrain yourself from throwing an unnecessary handful of mud at our candidate- “fat, corn-fed organization that Hillary created…”
And this is why you, and all the other Obama supporters who come here and tell us to get on board, fail. You simply cannot hold back your bile even when intellectually you know you need to win us over. It just isn’t in you.
I’m voting for McCain. I don’t feel any need to explain why to you. Now, you may feel free to call me irrational and a sore loser and anything else. I couldn’t care less. It’s my vote. It will never be cast for Obama. Eat it.
Hillary needs help to pay off her campaign debt- one doesn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. I say kudos to Hillary for ‘playing the game’. I think she knows what her supporters who will not support Obama knows..and not voting for Obama will not be the end of America: might be the end of the Democratic party and democracy but..
Can’t wait to get that “I Voted” sticker…
Well said John.
Senator Clinton may see the merits of having to do the Kaboki dance for the Dems but come the convention…
and after that…November
and oh btw, Obama “beat the bejesus” out of Hillary like Bush beat the bejesus out of Gore- with fewer votes and a rigged system. So stuff that.
Haha, amen brother.
NOBAMA!!!!
Yup–she even took south dakota from him by ten points on the last night. Obama won because he racked up a delagate lead in anti-democratic caucus sttates in Februarry. After that she won every state she was supposed to and took too of his–she also won 500K more voters in that period.
Clearly, Obama folks cannot deal with facts.
Get this:
I do not support obama because of his policies. stop with the straw men arguments already.
Do you even realize what the democratic party has done? This is not about Hillary not being the candidate, this is about an unqualified candidate with no experience and highly questionable associations that the Democratic Party shoved down people’s throats. Sadly people will go to the polls in Nov and just check off any name with a “D” next to it because that is what they do and the Dem party is counting on that. Except now there is this “fringe” element, of unknown numbers (and growing) that have opened their eyes and realized what has happened and will not vote for that “D”. And stop with the differences between Hillary & McCain’s issues, we all know what they are — fact is, we only have two choices at this point and McCain is the most qualified of those two. And most important McCain has proven his love and service to this country, which is paramount to any person for wishing to be President. Shame on the democrats for even thinking BHO has those qualities.
You waste your time PhxNickD, Obama supporters have thick heads, it’s like talking to a wall. They come here everyday with their rude, same old sorry crap about getting on board. Maybe they need reading comprehension 101. Obamabots try and tell us we should have no problem voting for Obama because he and Hillary were alike on issues. Well, one problem with that is that Obama is a schizophrenic and we really don’t know where he will stand from one day to the next. This is my country and I love it. I will not now or every risk it on someone like Obama.
Just like Obama supporters “laid off” of Hillary during the primary? I thought we were doing that already!
Please feel free to drop dead.
The only fact I will face is your inability to think critically.
Take your political blackmail and your Democratic Party talking points somewhere else.
STFU you gullible idiot! McCain, as much as you want him to be, IS NOT Bush.
Your too too f’in stupid for your own good!
I don’t know WHAT BO stands for…nobody does, he changes his mind daily. So how do you know what kind of President he will be? He votes present or doesn’t bother to show up at all. He flip-flops all over the place. He is naive about the reality of the world we live in at best, and dangerously naive at worst.
He’s quite willing to smear his opponent as racist and dreams up scenarios where she wished his assassination. He spent 20 years and tens of thousands of dollars supporting a racist church. His spiritual advisors all appear to be NUTS.
He has minimal accomplishments of any kind. He tires easily, lacks energy and becomes board about 6 months in on any job he’s ever held.
He is also secretive, duplicitous and arrogant. In other words, Barack Obama = George W. Bush
Leave Barak Alone!!! wah, wah, boo hoo. Poor little Barak.
Sorry, Jack he’s just a willing pawn in the DNC “Progressives” game. A shill if you like. But in no way is he presidential material. He’s a low class, low life poser, nothing more. And, if you don’t know that old saying about the silk purse…well, look it up.
Remember your own words in November…
“I know how hard it is when an ideal you worked for and supported dosent pan out,”
Then, it’ll be your turn to “Get over it.”
Hillary or McCain 08!!!!!!!
It’s also a FACT that Obama is FOR FISA, NAFTA, and PRIVATE CAMPAIGN FINANCING. Same as Bush. Obama has stated that he has the same view of Iraq as Bush does. He’s floated the idea of privatizing Social Security. He’s said he would NOT rule out attacking IRAN. So how is Obama any different from Bush?
You’d expect such things from McCain. No surprise there. But Obama has done a 180 on views he claimed he staunchly held. He’s also courting Right-wing Evangelicals, OPENLY.
How’s that for WOMENS’ rights? How’s that for GAY rights? How’s that for CIVIL RIGHTS?
Oh that’s right. Once Obama takes the Oval Office all will be fixed. Simply because of his presence. That’s called “magical thinking”.
If I wanted more of the Republican graft in the White House, I would vote for Obama. And why are you getting on McCain for having a temper when Obama has thrown some powerful hissy fits when Hillary didn’t knuckle under quickly enough? I don’t want a self-centered, big baby in the White House; I want someone who has the experience to know what to do in various pressure situations. Guess what–Obama’s not that person.
It’s very interesting how the Obama people can always come up with how he has put togather a network to raise funds. However there is no effort to tell the voter what he will do for the good of the country. Even if he wins, he will owe so many people favors that he will not have any say so in how the country is run. Who does he think he is fooling about what he will do. He will do what his money people tell him to do. That is evident in the fact that he can’t speak unless someone has written something for him to say. Without paper or teleprompter this guy is lost
Look here, Jackbot,
If you believe for one minute that Obama’s campaign contributions came from small internet donors and not big corporate bundlers, then you, my friend, are clearly delusional. But, wait, your comments prove you ARE delusional. Enough said.
Stop buying drinks at the Koolaid stands…they can be harmful to your health.
Fact is the people here besides you idiots without brains are not voting for your guy bub.
That’s the facts.
He was a AWOL Senator and corrupt on top of that. I voted for him once too many times already thank you so very much for your concern.
WP has the real details
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061903027_pf.html
He can say 90% donors are small but that says nothing about how much the big donors give. Big donors above 60 % over the long run, the latest may be anomaly due to new people including those switching to the “winner”. And of course says nothing about bundling…………
It’s assumed that the flow of cash will continue through the fall campaign. Nothing is for certain in this life. The decision might not be as good as some think because the economy is under stress. Small donors, even if not maxed out by law, may be maxed out by the price of gasoline. But we know Obama is not versed in the economics. In my opinion it was a bad move. McCain has a very wealthy wife who may be willing to help her husband by giving money to 527s.
Now that we are pretty sure the DNC and all the “fellas” running this whorror show are going to pimp out Obama, all of us will be expected to receive him. Dean & Co. have taken this prick and decided to shove him down our throats and we are expected to just kneel down before him and swallow whatever comes our way.
This is one Democrat who is not taking part in this grand Party. I have had my fill, thank you. I hope all of you will stop paying the DNC for their “services” and cut them off from funds. If we don’t pay, they can’t play!
Hillary knew the risks going into this campaign. No way I would contribute to any person, Hillary or other, who endorses or campaigns for Obama. NO DEAL!
I was an Edwards supporter, but he is NOT going to influence me to vote for Obama; I will vote Nader. The more I know about Obama the less I respect him which is why I never voted for Obama in the first place. He’s NOT a populist. He’s NOT a progressive. He is a deeply flawed candidate. No way Obama-NEVER, and I have voted Dem since Carter ran for a second term.
Ralph has started to weigh in today about Obama and he is right on target. I will vote McCain but we can’t underestimate the value of Nader this time.
I believe Nader will pick up even more Democrats this election as the fall-out begins over continued Obama flips…and just as I was about to ask: “Where is Ralph Nader now that we really need him?”
All is forgiven, Ralph.