Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Robert Schlesinger

Questions About Barack Obama's Online Fundraising Prowess

October 27, 2008 12:47 PM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print

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money money money

It's interesting how when the Republicans spend big on elections it's called crooked and dirty politics. When Obama spends big - over a half a billion dollars - it's called payback. With that kind of mentality there is no reason to believe we will ever receive the so-called change we deserve or believe in. According to some of the previous posts here, Obama's fans willfully and admittedly ignore that his fundraising is at least unethical, and could be illegal (only time will tell) because they believe that it is comeuppance for years of supposed Republican dirty fundraising. Is that really the message that Obama the Change Bringer was supposed to be sending? It doesn't sound to me like we're embracing a new way of looking at politics, that we are leaving the old ways behind. It just seems like the shoe is being taken off one foot and being put on the other.

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fagetaboutit booby, the fec couldnt find their rear-ends with both hands, let alone tackle the obooma fake contribution swindle. thanks for reporting on it though. personally, i've given up hope in anything remotely honest emanating from washington dc.

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By the time the phoney contributions to the Obama campaighn is caught the Dems will be in control and those 63 or so million known coming from such countries as Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Islamc countries will be covered up

Hillary

It ain't about Obama outspending McCain, but what about Hillary? Was he that much of a better candidate or advocate of change that people put more money on him then Clinton? Something smells funny here and I think down the road we are going to find out rules were broken.

On Line contributions

For the first time in my life, I have contributed to a campaign that was uplifting and positive. I am proud to have sent in my small contributions of $10, and $25.

PFFT

Obama is spending the money that good citizens have sent in to his campaign. If McCANT, oops, McBush, oops, McCain had that kind of money rolling in, you bet your troops life that he would be spending it. Don't be jealous RepubliCONS, your days are numbered. And maybe, just maybe this great land of America shall become the world leader it should be again.

and McCain has the GOP "war chest"...

Has anyone looked into the money raised (and spent) by the GOP during this campaign season?

Betcha it's not all squeaky clean. At least not with dirty Rove around.

BTW, any candidate will spend all of the funds at their disposal... every last penny. If you don't like a candidate or a party or a politial group, don't give them your money. If you don't like the way that they spend the money given to them, you need to talk to the Supreme Court and Congress.

DISQUIETING QUESTION....

Not much of a question, Bobby. Obama is spending 3 times more than McCain. It should be obvious to all that he is trying to buy the White House - And guess what? It looks like we're sellin'.

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Robert Schlesinger is a deputy editor at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.

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