You could say Obama is sagging from a "Cash"tration Complex...
Posted on 07/11/2008 5:31:19 PM PDT by melt
Barack Obama’s campaign, after three straight months of fundraising decline, is pushing back against reports that donors are cooling toward his candidacy.
John McCain’s campaign announced Thursday that it had raised more than $22 million in June for his best month yet. Obama has not yet released his June figures, but The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the total haul was just over $30 million — which the paper called “underwhelming.”
The Obama campaign swiftly disputed that account.
“The Wall Street Journal report of our fundraising numbers is way off the mark,” Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said in a statement. “It appears that after 18 months, some in the press still haven’t realized that anyone who is talking about numbers doesn’t know what our numbers are.”
The Obama campaign downplayed McCain’s fundraising figures Thursday, noting that Obama has more than 1.7 million donors and that, unlike Obama, McCain is getting help from federal lobbyists.
Spokesman Bill Burton said the campaign was “not surprised” by McCain’s figures for that reason.
Despite McCain’s gains — he has increasingly upped his monthly fundraising haul since clinching the GOP presidential nomination in March — Obama has shattered fundraising records this year.
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You could say Obama is sagging from a "Cash"tration Complex...
It’s like...someone has stolen the Obamao’s nuts...
Perhaps the donors are all tapped out. Maybe people are tired of sending money to politicians.
Are you trying to imply the “nuts” that reverend jackson was referring to are the idiots that send money to hussein “shootin blanks now” obama?
The sheen is off the Anointed One, St. Barack [pbuh]
Yeah, you might be right. Its been a week since hussein obama’s supporters got their welfare check, indy.
People are using their donation money for gas and they may be opening their eyes to who is the cause of the high prices.
In a twist of nature--- the nuts are cutting off Obama.
I can’t watch TV when it is about this election. I try when I can, to avoid watching either candidate. I have seen all I can stand and I can’t stands no more.
Maybe many are starting to get sick of the messiah. He has been overexposed.
You’re not alone. I was out for cocktails tonight and told my liberal guest that I have a severe case of election rage. By November, the last inhibitions of civilization will have dropped away.
I have been checking out switch blade knives on the web.
ROTFLMAO! It takes a large dose of cocktails to deal with it;^)
Maybe Hopey Changey can translate this into English for me.
Or maybe people are using their money to buy gas because Pelosi and her morons in Congress won't allow an energy bill to come to the floor because they want us dependant on foreign oil and broke.
Very true. Pretty soon we will be driving a Flintstone mobile. Hope you have good feet.
“Now we have a hack, Chicago-style Daley politician who is picturing himself as change. When he gets done with you, all you’re going to have in your pocket is change,” Cunningham said as the audience laughed. The time will come, Cunningham added, when the liberal-leaning media will “peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama” and tell the truth about his relationship with indicted fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko and how Obama got “sweetheart deals” in Chicago. He said he envisions a future in which “the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing Kumbaya together around the table with Barack Obama.”
Gradually, the bark is being peeled away....
bttt
Newsweak may have nailed it: “A month after emerging victorious from the bruising Democratic nominating contest, some of Barack Obama’s glow may be fading. In the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, the Illinois senator leads Republican nominee John McCain by just 3 percentage points, 44 percent to 41 percent.”
Speaking of Obama donations, I received this e-mail from a friend who thought it was an actual NY Times editorial by Maureen Dowd. He was so disappointed when I informed him it had to be a fake.
Subject: Fw: Is Obama’s Money Coming From Middle East/China? [forwarded from a retired USAF Colonel]
Interesting this comes out during a holiday week. It was published on June 29, but this is the first I’ve heard about it. I know most of the talk show hosts are off at least part of this week for the Holiday, but I’m surprised it wasn’t on FOX. I’ll pass it on to news people in my address book . Amazing that this was put out by the liberal NY Times and Maureen Dowd. It will be interesting to see which members of the mainstream media pick up on this. I doubt CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN,or CNBC will.
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By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 29, 2008
OBAMA’S TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING
Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I have received during this election cycle came this week from one of the Obama’s campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obama’s internet fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far. That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history – and this was all from the internet campaign.
What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no rules that can’t be broken and no ethics that prevail.
Obama’s internet campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking , lists saved from previous party campaigns and from supporters who visited any of the Obama campaign web sites.
Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet campaign staff were more than pleased by the results.
Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security monitors began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of transmission it was clear these donations were ‘programmed’ by a very sophisticated user.
While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due to firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly from individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and bank electronic funds transfers. The internet service providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia.
Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a similar pattern of limited credit card charges.
It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources other than American voters. This was discussed at length within the campaign and the decision was made that none of these donations violated campaign financing laws.
It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific credit card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of these internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative basis of many small donations. They also found the record keeping was not complete enough to do it anyway.
This is a shocking revelation.
We have been concerned about the legality of ‘bundling’ contributions after the recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may have an even greater problem.
I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started to come out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so.
If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that happen?
I believe the Obama campaign’s internet fund raising needs a serious, in depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of internet fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws to insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit as well.
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