Posted on 09/16/2008 8:53:53 AM PDT by sunmars
Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a personal appeal to Barack Obama: Help me grow the Democrats’ Senate majority by sharing some of the $77 million you’ve got in the bank.
Obama’s campaign said no. Obama says he hasnt the money.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
In rejecting a direct request from his Senate leader, Obama has put a fine point on the financial pressures he’s feeling as the presidential race turns toward the fall.
Obama raised a record-setting $66 million in August, leaving his campaign with about $77 million in cash now. Because he has turned down public financing, he can keep raising money through Election Day. John McCain, having accepted public financing, can’t do that — but he already has the $84 million in public money in his campaign coffers.
More importantly, McCain will get substantial help from the Republican National Committee — which has dramatically outraised its Democratic counterpart — and the Republican Party’s state and local committees.
Reid and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Charles Schumer had hoped at one point to get as much as $10 million from the Obama campaign. With 23 GOP seats up for grabs this year — versus only a dozen Democratic seats — Senate Democrats see a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pad their majority with as many as four to seven new seats.
Cue the infighting. Obama promised all these guys money to help them win and he’s now thrown them under the bus now he has the nomination over Hillary. Don’t say you were not warmed Dems, Obama cannot be trusted.
I can almost hear Obama saying "I hasn't the money."
"Yes, you hath!"
"Nay, I hath not! Now begone!", he dismissed the knaves with a stamp of his mighty foot.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Good point. But I bet some Democrats are running away from Obama as well by now.
Most excellent! Just makes the McCain-Palin coat-tails that much more important!!
This shows the self-centeredness and shortsightedness of Obama. Instead of campaigning, Obama needs to fundraise. Sure, Obama will probably raise more money than the $84 million, but Obama will drain all the money out of big money Democrats so there will not be any money left for the DNC. McCain will get the $84 million, plus some money from the RNC. Just like the Biden picked illustrated character flaws with Obama, so does this.
It's one thing to say I raised a record 66 million but I wonder how many come through with the actual money.
Obama is right! Trickle down economics doesn’t work.
Wonder how much in IOU's does the Obama camp have?
All those Dem superdelegates that were promised cash and help in return for supporting Obama to take out Hillary are getting a rude awakening, he got the nomination and then said “screw you all”.
Cash poor, my butt. Obama only lies when his mouth is moving.
On a happier note, Howard Dean, the leftist idiot who helped perpetrate this fraud, will soon be out of a job.
Has he paid off Hillary yet?
Der Leader only cares about himself.
Of course he can’t spare any money for his bros. He blows through $50 million a month all on his own.
Hey, 300 foreign policy advisers ain’t cheap.
it was just a matter of time before BHObama threw the entire democratic party under the bus...LOL..:D
Until recently, Bill Clinton was the biggest disaster to ever hit the Democrat Party.
Barack Obama is going to have them wishing for the Good Old Days of the ‘92 Midterm Election.
The Democrats have gone from a 15% lead in the generic congressional ballot question to neck-and-neck. This is nearly impossible to do, but Barack Obama has managed to do it. He will spend every dime and shred of goodwill in an effort to get elected, and he will lose.
It is wonderful, ins’t it?
The best thing is I’ve heard state reps are apparently getting mightily pissed off with Obama, he could lose states over this with downtickets dumping on his ass.
He won’t share, because the Democratic Party is all about B Hussein Obama.
Ha ha ha panic is setting in.
But, but, didn’t some Dim talking head on Fox say last weekend that BO was going to raise $100 million a month in September? Surely he could afford to throw a few coins to his downticket peon brethern and sistern.
He doesn’t have the money, McCain will have the dollar advantage of 2 to 1 in the last month of the campaign, because Fauxbama and his gigantic intellect turned down public funds.
Well, his funders are mostly liberal radicals, and this means he can’t moderate his message or risk losing his money.
He’s painted himself into a corner in many ways by completely incompetent management of his campaign, across the board. For such a “thinker” as his proponents like to claim, he’s made every bad conclusion out of all that thinking through this campaign. He should not be ANYWHERE near the white house.. this guy is incompetent.
Heath Schuler, and Nick Lampson about to get beat?
Mary Landreau will get beat in La.
This is a “sand bag” article. It allows moderte or conservative Dems an opportunity to distance themselves from Obama while the leftists who support Obama benefit from the top of the ticket. Article is an incosequential ruse.
Not when McCain’s raised just as much AND has matching public funds... McCain’s going to have a 2 to 1 dollar advantage over Fauxbama in the last month of the campaign, if not more.
Fauxbama didn’t think through his campaign (big suprise) he can’t moderate his message to get elected or his fund raising dries up, and most of his funds are coming from the leftists. So he’s stuck there, he can’t moderate.
He’s spent over 300 Million on his campaign so far, building up the cult of personality empty suit that was his campaign to watch it be popped by an “old worn out geiser” and a “hockey mom” from Wasilla Alaska overnight... God, I do love America.
This debate coming up is do or die for Fauxbama, if he doesn’t change the momentum soon, its over, by the next debate it will be too late.
This guy can’t deliver a stump speech to a rodeo crowd without a teleprompter, I am going to enjoy watching him umm and err... and vasilate and nuance his way through the debates.
So much for “my campaign has given me the experience for the Presidency”, we’re all screwed if thats true, he’s running it into the ground.
Im almost tempted to post this on DU but I dare say the post and lurker account will only be deleted.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Obama was expecting to be leading in the polls which would keep the dough rolling in.
I doubt Obama collects more than $20 Million in September. Afterall, why throw good money after bad!
Obama party of one?
He doesn’t give his own brother any money to supplement his $12/year income, and the DNC expected him to give them campaign money?
He barely acknowledges there’s another dem with him on the top part of the ticket, why would he even be aware of anyone else further down?
Do the laws still allow the candidate to keep the “unspent” campaign money?
I’ve thought this alot of times since Obama started, but this is showing me it is really like that old Andy Griffith movie, A face in the crowd.
Check out this and it will explain my theory. The person he relied on the most ends up outing him when he makes fun of the people supporting him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYdiUnfCVlY
If you say it with the Monty Python falsetto English accent its even funnier.
No however Bill and Hillary are going to give him the big payoff(october)
so it’s not just the girl scouts...
The question is "how much did he spend to raise 66 million"
The best thing is I’ve heard state reps are apparently getting mightily pissed off with Obama, he could lose states over this with downtickets dumping on his ass.
Well, Barry’s running mate goes around trying to heal paralyzed state senators. “Stand up Chuck and let em see you!”
Perhaps they’ll find him in tiny cellar of a farmhouse 10 miles south of his hometown, Nairobi — bearded and dishevelled, with about $750,000 in cash.
Hilarious!
Yep, he was a right wing wacko with contempt for his “people” and Barack is a left wing wacko with contempt for his “people”.
Did I miss anything?
Congressman Billybob
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