How much money has the Obama Campaign got? by Geezer

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How much money has the Obama Campaign got?

POSTED BY: GEEZER
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 19:31
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 4:55 PM

Keep the Shiny side up

They're buying the entire 8:00-8:30pm time slot on Wednesday, 10/29 on CBS, NBC, and (maybe)Fox (depending on where you look) to run a 30 minute campaign ad.

Wonder how much this costs? Wonder who's footing the bill?

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:09 PM

OUT2THEBLACK

He's got as much as the Neo-Fascist Socialist Kleptocracy can find for him...

That's a lot...

On top of that , you can add all that the Sheeple have scraped together and thrown his way...

Folk want change...

They should be careful what they wish for...

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Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:32 PM

MALBADINLATIN

Quote:
Originally posted by Geezer: Wonder how much this costs? Wonder who's footing the bill?

Nope...because none of that shit disguised as a distraction is the reason I'm broke and the economy is fucked.

And I'm voting for Obama because he's way smarter than Mr 5th from the bottom at Annapolis McCain, and his moronic little she monkey put together.

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Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:53 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Well, they raised over $155 million in September alone.

And hey, if it doesn't work out, Obama's campaign already has an eye toward recycling. If McCain wins, we can take our "CHANGE WE NEED" signs, cut off the top half, tape it to the bottom, and have a handy "WE NEED CHANGE" sign for when we're all standing on the corner begging for pennies...

Mike

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Sunday, October 26, 2008 6:40 PM

SHINYGOODGUY

I was watching Meet the Press this morning and found out that, when all is said and done, Obama would have raised 1/2 Billion Dollars.

As Sheldon Leonard would say, "Now that's a lot of lettuce."

Haters have been saying that socialism will rear its ugly head if Obama wins. Really! Well they should know "we" just provided the largest welfare payout to the very "needy" (or is it greedy, I always forget) Wall Street firms and backstabbing banks. $800 Billion sure does buy a lot of hammer and sickles.

And the greedy bastards are still holding their sweaty hands out for more. On that same program McCain stated how General Motors and Ford were both trying to "squeeze" Congress into handing out another $15 Billion (on top of the already loaned out $25 Billion). Using the same tactic as the Wall street firms threatening massive layoffs and high unemployment. Nice!

When will it end? Socialism is already here alive and well in the pockets of the corporate elite. McCain and Palin are using the usual smoke and mirrors to get our attention toward the "elite" media still crying wolf that their receiving unfair or slanted treatment. Is it any wonder they are behind in the polls? Who wants to hear whiners?

If they would address the issues instead of building their campaign around being the Anti-Obama ticket maybe, just maybe people would actually listen and the media would take them seriously.

Country First

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Sunday, October 26, 2008 7:27 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Gee, I don't know, what does upward of a million contributions ranging from $5-$500 equal?
(I gave the campaign thirty bucks. Guess I'm footing some of the bill. What is that, thirty seconds of it? Less? Well, that sounds kinda small then. But hey, when hundreds... thousands... millions of people do it...)

You may say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one.

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Sunday, October 26, 2008 11:44 PM

FREMDFIRMA

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They should be careful what they wish for...

Agreed.

When W first came on the scene, a lot of folk voted for him cause Gore, and especially that maniac Tipper, scared the hell out of them with that "We know what's good for you" shit, and look where that got us ?

I don't trust Obama, this is eyes-wide-open and finger on the political trigger all the way.

Don't let his message blind you to his faults or mistakes, or you will surely and sorely regret it.

He gets the office, sure...
He does NOT get a free pass, ok folks ?

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Monday, October 27, 2008 3:48 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

Havnt the newspapers/news channels been feeding his campaign millions of dollars?

Must be why the media is so in love with him.

They are literally bankrolling a candidate and we get to sit here and watch.

I am so sick of this.

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Monday, October 27, 2008 4:07 AM

SHINYGOODGUY

Where did you hear this little tidbit? From Rush Limpdick? Limbaum? Limpshitz? Lipgloss? (I forget).

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Havnt the newspapers/news channels been feeding his campaign millions of dollars?
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Seems to me that for their money they would be able to pick someone who would reflect their "elitist" views. Wouldn't they be dead set against Obama since he would raise their taxes and "spread" their wealth to the unwashed poor (as so many have so blindly stated).

The above statement seems contradictory in point of fact. If they were to back a champion of the people wouldn't it be McCain?

Country First

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Monday, October 27, 2008 5:28 AM

MALBADINLATIN

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Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
Seems to me that for their money they would be able to pick someone who would reflect their "elitist" views. Wouldn't they be dead set against Obama since he would raise their taxes and "spread" their wealth to the unwashed poor (as so many have so blindly stated).

The above statement seems contradictory in point of fact. If they were to back a champion of the people wouldn't it be McCain?

Nothing personal...but that all sounds like your garden variety stump speech. McCain is beginning to sound like Bush I. "Thousand points a' light", "wouldn't be prudent"...only McCain is:

I know how the do that, MY FRIENDS

MY FRIENDS, do we need to spend that kind of money?

MY FRIENDS, we are not going to be able to provide the same benefit for present-day workers that we are going -- that present-day retirees have today

MY FRIENDS, some of this $700 billion ends up in the hands of terrorist organizations

So let's not raise anybody's taxes, MY FRIENDS

We know what the problems are, MY FRIENDS, and we know what the fixes are

MY FRIENDS, what we have to do with Medicare is have a commission, have the smartest people in America come together, come up with recommendations

Let's look at our records, MY FRIENDS

MY FRIENDS, I know you grow a little weary with this back-and-forth

I vote against them, MY FRIENDS. I vote against them

MY FRIENDS, we have gone to all four corners of the Earth and shed American blood in defense
We don't have time for on-the-job training, MY FRIENDS

Well, let me just follow up, MY FRIENDS

I'll get Osama bin Laden, MY FRIENDS.

It's all a mixture of tired crap that any self respecting Republican should feel ashamed to have fallen for. And I'm not saying Democrats don't do it. It's just not as funny as it is coming from a doddering old organ grinder and his monkey

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Monday, October 27, 2008 6:39 AM

SHINYGOODGUY

I made a bad attempt playing at Devil's Advocate, Malbadinlatin.

It seems that McCain's entire campaign has been "I'm the Anti-Obama" instead of this is my platform, vote for me.

It is just regurgitated rhetoric and simplistic sound bites that are not really saying much at all.
Every once in a while he might throw in something that sounds good on the surface ($5000 to each American for medical insurance) but that is not really addressing the issue.

I just wanted to mention this: Many have questioned Obama's lack of experience (how much experience
does Palin have in politics anyway?) but JFK was the second youngest(43 y.o.) to run and be voted into office. He served a total of 13 years in both the House and Senate (Teddy Roosevelt was the youngest, he was 42 when he took office). Obama is 47 years old.

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Monday, October 27, 2008 11:08 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Shit, the truth of it is, frankly, NOBODY is qualified for it.

Just like pregnancy, raising a child, ain't no amount of training or simulation gonna compare to the real thing, and ain't nobody in the world really "ready" for it.

All that we can do is count on the character and intelligence of the berk we install to the office, cross our fingers and hope to hell they don't fuck it up.

Of course, it's pretty inexcusable to put em back into it after they did, repeatedly, but I ain't so sure we did given the amount of election fuckery they pulled - and which both sides are no doubt pulling now.

Not that I take issue with that at all, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is a fucking conspiracy.

And the Dems have apparently learned their lesson about trying to play fair and depend on the established system to protect itself from fraud.

I can't say I like it, but factually, if the other guy is gonna cheat, and there's no penalty for it - you damn well better mark some cards yourself.

A damn ugly thing, all the way around, politics is.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Monday, October 27, 2008 11:33 AM

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Shit, the truth of it is, frankly, NOBODY is qualified for it.

Just like pregnancy, raising a child, ain't no amount of training or simulation gonna compare to the real thing, and ain't nobody in the world really "ready" for it.

All that we can do is count on the character and intelligence of the berk we install to the office, cross our fingers and hope to hell they don't fuck it up.

Of course, it's pretty inexcusable to put em back into it after they did, repeatedly, but I ain't so sure we did given the amount of election fuckery they pulled - and which both sides are no doubt pulling now.

Not that I take issue with that at all, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is a fucking conspiracy.

And the Dems have apparently learned their lesson about trying to play fair and depend on the established system to protect itself from fraud.

I can't say I like it, but factually, if the other guy is gonna cheat, and there's no penalty for it - you damn well better mark some cards yourself.

A damn ugly thing, all the way around, politics is.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

Why is it that your posts always seem to depress me just a little bit

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

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Monday, October 27, 2008 11:58 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Don't let it get you down FMF, the world needs happy idealists too.

Just as it needs those willing to engage things that go bump in the night, in the dark alleys of life where they lurk - so that those happy idealists can remain so.

I play rough, dirty, smashmouth hardball when I feel my ass is on the line, and knowing historically what happens to folks like me when would-be tyrants with a side order of zealotry take power, I honestly feel that it is.

You worry about makin the world a better place.

Let ME worry about "What if?"

Just keep a ruler handy to rap that rookies knuckles a bit if he gets out of line, is all that I would ask of ya.

Keep those dreams, lady, never let them go, because those dreams, and the ability of folk to have them, and realize them, are the core reason I fight so hard against those who would crush them, even though I am incapable of such, myself.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:51 AM

SHINYGOODGUY

Goramit Fremmy, you made some good points! We're all here to do what we're all here to do.
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You worry about makin the world a better place.

Let ME worry about "What if?"

Keep those dreams, lady, never let them go, because those dreams, and the ability of folk to have them, and realize them, are the core reason I fight so hard against those who would crush them, even though I am incapable of such, myself.

-Frem
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But it was awful damn nice of ya' to give FMF that
"pick-me-up"

"Ya know Yank, I've taken quite a likings to ya"
Victor McLaglen, The Quiet Man

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:31 PM

MALBADINLATIN

Quote:
Originally posted by Shinygoodguy: I just wanted to mention this: Many have questioned Obama's lack of experience (how much experience
does Palin have in politics anyway?) but JFK was the second youngest(43 y.o.) to run and be voted into office. He served a total of 13 years in both the House and Senate (Teddy Roosevelt was the youngest, he was 42 when he took office). Obama is 47 years old

The job is a moving target that changes it's pace daily with no manual to consult. In the movie Nixon, Anthony Hopkins (Nixon), endured a comment from a hippy college student whom observed that for the President, the government alone was like handling a wild animal. And they weren't even talking about the American people, International issues, and the Media too!

No, the job defines itself and it's different and new for everyone on day one.

Experience doesn't hurt but smarts and the ability to inspire are very relevant.

The economy always adjusts itself then politicians take credit for the good times. Obama is working on his own version of "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself".

Hopefully he'll be straight with the people and not hide the fact that Americans need to change or we may loose our #1 status on everything that most take for granted.

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