Posted on 10/23/2008 9:55:25 AM PDT by fightinJAG
Having hauled in a record $208,333 every hour of every day last month -- $150 million in all -- plus a few more unreported millions so far this month, Barack Obama is worried that he might come up short in the political money war with the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket.
Just to relieve himself of that $150 million before the polls open, Obama will have to spend $12.5 million a day.
But he needs some more.
And, according to an e-mail plea to supporters, tonight's the absolute deadline to donate $10 more and receive your special edition Official Obama-Biden car magnet.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Where is it coming from???
Sidenote:
CNBC is on in the background and they did a hit piece on Palin’s wardrobe expense.
But interestingly, the talking heads took the story down a notch. One guy said, wait a minute, Obama has spent over $600M so far on this election and people are worried about Palin spending $150K on clothes? And how much does it cost the campaign to take his private jet to Hawaii to visit his sick grandmother, which by the way, is a great PR move?
Another talking head said, what has Biden spent on clothes?
The point is: I was very surprised that these people didn’t pile on, but instead say the story was ridiculous and even took some shots at Obama’s spending.
These are not conservatives by any means.
From World Thugs United...
Sign of a true capitalistt - World is Not Enough!
Must have Bev Harris running that portion of the campaign...
Fraud like this:
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C. C.| New York, NY
NEW Facts from a friend of mine who was working on the Obama Campaign but just quit after this. The reason he has raised as much money as he has for example he has 130 million in the bank vs Mccains 46 million is because he is having people submit multiple small donations under false names and false addresses, but even more frightening is the over seas postage coming in from the middle east and then being re sealed into envelope and mailed again from us post office so its non traceable to the original source. This scared her so bad she quit.
And another one:
J. W.| Andover, NJ
I read your statement earlier and also have a friend who worked with the Obama campaign and also quit after being asked to take donations coming in from the middle east and having to put them in new envelope and mail them back to the campaign under fake names so it looks like it came domestically. WAY TOO FRIGHTENING.
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Nice, huh.
Special magnet that sucks dollars from your wallet and sends them to Washington. Very patriotic!
What he means is, $10 from every citizen of the world.
Here’s my question — How much has Biden spent on Botox? hahah
Well I’d love to but I’m kinda racist against whitey so I can only give $5 to his non cracker side.
SORRY BUT THEY’RE ONLY FOR THE ELITES!
Zilch, zero, nada paid by the Democrats for Barack Obama's clothing, haircuts, and makeup.
Zilch, zero, nada paid by the Democrats for Michelle Obama's clothing, haircuts, and makeup.
Go ahead, bitch away at what John Edwards paid for his haircut. When the Republicans raise these non-policy, irrelevant issues with Democrats it makes Sarahcuda and McSame fair game for any cable tv or cub newspaper reporter out to make a name for him/herself.
FReepers who live in “swing” states need to do some campaigning...Print signs...”Obama = Socialism” etc. and paste them on posts at busy intersections, etc.
Every little bit helps.
Go down fighting!!
The more “small” contributions he has, the harder it will be to investigate.
Big kitty; this excerpt from 2004 compares Kerry’s dilemma to the coming Obama one:
“Kerry aides also point out that the senator set a record for a presidential challenger by raising $249.5 million and that the campaign gave tens of millions of dollars to the Democratic Party at all levels.
Almost $24 million was transferred to the Democratic National Committee through late November, and its counterparts in the House and Senate received $3 million each, according to PoliticalMoneyLine, which tracks campaign finance. Additional money went to Democratic organizations and state parties around the country.
Campaign finance laws allow the presidential candidate to give money to other members of his party or to the party itself or to use in another federal race. Aides say Mr. Kerry will help Senate Democrats.”
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