Posted on 10/19/2008 11:26:15 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
John McCain suggested Sunday that Barack Obamas record-breaking fund raising was a gateway to corruption.
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, the Republican nominee expressed concern over the amount of money his Democratic opponent was raising and spending. Obama brought in a jaw-dropping $150 million in September, eclipsing his past record of $66 million.
In talking about the news, McCain repeatedly referred to the Watergate scandal that resulted in the impeachment of former President Richard Nixon. McCain pointed to that incident, which included Republicans breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices, as an example of the kind of corruption that comes as the result of unlimited funds. (Shortly after Watergate, the federal government added amendments to the Freedom of Information Act enacting campaign finance laws.)
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ANY candidate is a gateway to big governement.
I can tell you, we're struggling right now and campaign contributions come down pretty low on my list of expenditures right now.
IF McCain wins, look for the ‘Son of McCain/Feingold/Thompson’ to rear up its ugly head.
I hope you mailed in your absentee ballot. Both sides are not equal here.
Is there any hope that McCain's misplaced idealism about "reaching across the isle" to deceitful leftists will finally be the bubble that bursts in his understanding?
Before or after the "Son of McCain-Kennedy" and the "Bastard Stepchild of McCain-Lieberman"?
But McCain isn’t the gateway to Socialism .....
BOTH? NO!
Not on the same level !
One of them is an INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST BLACK ACTIVIST FORMER MUSLIM who think USA must be blamed for everything... !
Is that clearer now?
I would like to have his donors vetted.
Wonder how he feels about McCain Feingold now?
Nixon was not impeached. He resigned.
Veiled reference to illegal contribution from overseas and non-citizens.
That needs to be said bigtime.
No, I have not.
McCain has two weeks to convince me not to drive home, spoil the absentee ballot, and pull the lever for a third-party candidate.
Both sides are not equal here.
No, but they are approximately equal.
More than double August??? $150 million????? I smell a huge rat.... huge!!!!!! The OBambi campaing has finally gotten reckless. I don’t see how anyone can look at that and not raise major eyebrows. and.... anyone who knows how to look this up, tell me did this mostly come on the 30th of September?
Veiled reference to illegal contributions from non-citizens.
That needs to be said.
This is not legal fundraising on Obama’s part... no way, no how..... this is not McCain/Feingold this is major corruption... people need to get their heads out of their rears and look at this for what it is.
I’m worried about how much of it is foreign-sourced.
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