Obama reaches 2 million donors

McCain continues to claim he is keeping his promises, sorry to disagree, but McCains story is changing so often that it is impossible to know what he stands for now, or will do in the future...

How can Senator John McCain claim that he is "a man of his word" by accepting federal funds in the general election? That somehow this makes him more admirable than Senator Barack Obama. It is the public that is funding the Obama campaign. I guess Senator McCain just wants us to believe that somehow Senator Obama is dishonorable because he is a better fundraiser. Senator McCain comes off as a "whining baby." This does not sound like the hero that I thought he was. I will be glad to see his defeat in the fall so we can get back to the business of making the US energy independent. Didn't Senator McCain miss the votes that would have led to energy independence?

This action demonstates the power of the people . United as such we are stronger than any politcal party. Every individual can do something for the commone good of all.

Owlhead

McCain wrote. "I am ready to lead our country as president but I won't win without your support. Beginning September 1st, we will be limited in the amount of money we can spend in this election and Senator Obama will be able to spend whatever he wants to defeat me."

Whining much, McCain? Repubs never whined before when they had more money than the Democrats, so why the whining now?

Let's see 400 million for a job that pays 400 thousand per year. Yes sir, Obama has the people at heart!! I have some great land deals in south GA if you think this is good economy.

Can anyone confirm that this is the first time that D's have more cash than R's for a presidential race? (never mind the "sneakyness" of sending McCains donors to the RNC to spend for his campaign, to have the appearance of public financing).

Obama NEVER promised he would take the government disbursed public financing, and especially "many,many times". Mac ought to be called out on this one.

Face it, EVERY decision made by Obama will be twisted and demonized by McCain. That IS their strategy...nothing more.

If he does well, he is acting "too presidential"

If he does something they don't like, he is acting "Not poresidential enough"

It all nonsense and most Americans see right through this crap.

McCain is a horrible choice for Preisdent of the United States.

You think gas prices are high now? Elect John McCain so he and Joe Lieberman can bomb Iran. And go toe to toe with the Russians... Hey America-- choose wisely.

Bit by bit, the news "between the lines" seems to get more and more ominous for the GOP... I actually would have voted for McCain in 2000, but seeing him give ther reins of his campaign over to the Rove-ian goons, whose only tactics are to swift-boat, distort, push back, smear, claw, whine, all negative, is truly sad. He's a better man and a better politician than that. I hope his "advisors" (read: character assassins and smear agents) shuffle off to well-deserved obscurity after McCain loses, and the way things are going, I don't buy the left-or-right-wing media's claims of a tight race, or dead heat, or any such nonsense. A healthy-to-landslide win seems in Obama's cards, unless he eats a baby or reveals a string of extramarital affairs (I'm sure the McCain folks are looking for it ;)

Senator McCain took the taxpayer's money and is spending it making Paris Hilton look brilliant compared to him.

Barack Obama is going to be President. McCain is, the last I heard, flying to Russia to smack Putin in the chops because "in the 21st century, nations do not invade other nations".

You gotta wonder what he was thinking about when he said that.

Yeah..a man of his words...came in 5th last in his class of over 800 students.

The unasked question: what is the historical track record for voluntary taxpayer participation in the public financing of presidential campaigns? If there has been a historic increase in participation, Senator Obama's non-participation is counter-productive to good government. If this well-intentioned government program is growing into just another taxpayer give-away that perpetuates the insider's status quo, Senator Obama's 2,000,000 contributor no-PAC money campaign is then a bright light of hope within the cynical darkness which has become American politics. From personal experience, I stopped checking that $1 donation box on my IRS 1040 form four election cycles ago.

"I am a man of my word" - John McCain

Didn't you make this promise Johnny?

"I, John McCain, promise to hold, from this day forward, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, ‘till death do you part.”

Did you keep it?

hmmmmm

We the people know that if McCain were able to raise as much money as Obama, he too, would have opted out of the so called "public financing" limit" of $84 million; instead McCain will rely on the RNC and the 527 groups to help him defeat Obama. This fake Maverick & ingenuine campaign finance reformer will rot in office if he wins the Presidency. Geez, he's already rotten and a rotting 71 yr old.

Congratulations to Obama - all 2 million (and more of us!) want to see him in the White House; to become one of the greatest presidents of the United States!!!

I'm glad McCain realizes he needs the support of the People to become President. At least there is one thing he truly understands.

With the Republican "Swift Boat" attacks on John Kerry having set the stage for what we see now and what worse will come from the GOP it's clear that the Obama campaign will have to attack back harder. The race will become very uneven as McCain is closely scrutinized.

Since Republicans seem to hate McCain, the Party will look to set new low standards for attacking the other man. The GOP character assassination squads will take the lead in their campaign because there is not much they want to say about the "plain talker" that would be true.

GObama!

Senator McCain took the taxpayer's money and is spending it making Paris Hilton look brilliant compared to him.

Barack Obama is going to be President. McCain is, the last I heard, flying to Russia to smack Putin in the chops because "in the 21st century, nations do not invade other nations".

You gotta wonder what he was thinking about when he said that.

Owlhead, AMEN to that!

Finally a government BY THE PEOPLE - FOR THE PEOPLE!

No one forced the public to come in overwhelming financial support for Obama. There is just an overwhelming desire to move in a different direction. Whatever McCain is saying today is not the answer. When the public is asking for change we mean fundamental change, not daily change. I mean really, all of the sudden he's an environmentalist. Ya' ever heard of oil spills, or nuclear waste? A freaking battery lottery? If someone develops this super battery they won't need a prize from the government. How about a tax holiday just to get usage back up? He's another snake oil sales man. Next he'll be spending all of our R and D money on hydrogen powered hover crafts and stuff that still is a dream long after he's gone as we did the last eight years.

In contrast to Senator Obama, McCain's life is filled with mistakes. If he had not gone to Vietnan, he would not have been shotdown and costing tax payers millions of $.

Obama was a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP) with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.

Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988 and at the end of his first year was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review based on his grades and a writing competition. In his second year he was elected president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review's staff of 80 editors.

Obama's election in February 1990 as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review was widely reported and followed by several long, detailed profiles. He graduated with a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991.

Obama directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.

Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years, and as a Senior Lecturer for eight years.

Obama was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife, Michelle, became the founding executive director of Public Allies Chicago in early 1993. He served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago and served on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation from 1994-2002. Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995-2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995-1999. He also served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.

And he accomplished all of this before being elected twice as Senator.

Johm McCain served in the war and was captured and sat for 5 years in a POW camp.

Who is ready to lead?

McCain's campaign grows more pitiful by the day. It is good to see that Americans (for the most part) are finally wising up to the GOP's absurd scare-tactics and name-calling strategy. Obama is such a breath of fresh air on the Washington scene.

"I am a man of my word"........

Yeah, right. Does that include your marriage vows with your first wife? You know. The one you cheated on to be with the future beauty queen "Miss Buffalo Chip?" Or, are all of your flip flops of "I never said" such and such until they show you the video clip of actually what you did say. Oh yes, a "man of my word." Your sleezey Rovian campaign is not going to cut it this time. Is this just another in the back door sleeze attack to insinuate Sen. Obama is "dishonorable?" Not going to fly McBush. If you are so "honorable," why are you best buds with Joe LIEberman?

Your Boy BHO did, indeed, give his word to use public funding to fund his campaign. Check your facts, Jack!! Now he is changed his long time position on tax increases because he is getting heat on his stupid position. Iraq? Give me a break, the surge didn't work? Right! And his mama is just a "typical white woman. Now Barry is ready to drill for oil; now that the threat of US drilling has gas back down to $3.50/gal. Where is your common sense? This guy is nothing but smoke and mirrors. 'Change"? Just like Mass. just got "'change'ed" from their new Richard Axilrod-prep'ed, Governor Duvall! The same song and dance - different monkey! The state of MA has really gotten screwed! Now all of America is going to get screwed if they buy into this "done nothing", 'let's hope' for change, BS politician. It is OK to NOT to vote for BHO. It won't mean you’re a racist; we can drop this white-guilt trip. Not voting for Barry means you are able to think for yourself and you’re not a goffy socialist ready to redistribute yours and everyone else's money to the illegals and do-nothings feeding off the government. This is just Dem's buying votes like always. From the beginning BHO has been serving his own personal goals & selfish political interest. He puts himself first; he has never done anything to better or help the USA. It is pretty clear that neither he, or for that matter, nor his wife really give a damn about this country. The same country that has, by their own admission, helped them both become highly educated and financially successful. No way am I going to vote for this poser. Wake up America!

Obama was a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988

as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP) with

accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college

preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld

Gardens. Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel

Foundation, a community organizing institute.

Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988 and at the end of his first

year was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review based on his

grades and a writing competition. In his second year he was elected

president of the Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as

editor-in-chief and supervising the law review's staff of 80 editors.

Obama's election in February 1990 as the first black president of the

Harvard Law Review was widely reported and followed by several long,

detailed profiles. He graduated with a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard in

1991.

Obama directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter

registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its

goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in

the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list

of "40 under Forty" powers to be.

Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for

twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years, and as a Senior Lecturer for

eight years.

Obama was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in

1992, resigning before his wife, Michelle, became the founding executive

director of Public Allies Chicago in early 1993. He served on the board of

directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago and served on the board of directors

of The Joyce Foundation from 1994-2002. Obama served on the board of

directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995-2002, as founding

president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995-1999. He also

served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for

Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the

Lugenia Burns Hope Center.

And he accomplished all of this before being elected twice as Senator.

Johm McCain served in the war and was captured and sat for 5 years in a POW

camp.

Who is ready to lead?

can any confirm that when Obama applied to law school, he did NOT include his race on his law school application?

OH MY GOD, WHAT A LEFT-SLANTING BLOG. it's amazing that any ADULT can be in the tank for that empty suit OBAMA.

grow up people. he'll drive this country into the ground. but you'll all FEEL good because you elected a black president (actually, he's only half black so why doesn't he call himself white?)

NOBAMA. NO WAY

can any confirm that when Obama applied to law school, he did NOT include his race on his law school application?

It is so funny how all the liberals are attacking McCain when the article is about Obama. It is more ironic that liberals are always saying it is the conservatives slinging spin. Listen, I am no fan of McCain, although I have respect for the fact he was a POW, however, he has a proven track record in the Senate. He has voted when suppose to and has crossed the party line to join with democrats when he felt it was right to do. Obama obstained from voting more than voting. He has given 10s of thousands to racist like his Rev and has demonstrated no plan, however, has touted change... good change is great. Bad change is not. He is a phony. The democrats have very sad leaders. Bush was terrible. It is so sad this is even a race. Where is there a good liberal... oh wait there aren't any.

It is plain silly that Barack Hussein Obama is even being considered as presidential material. He was a Senator for 146 days before he began his quest. It is well documented about his associations with Socialists, Bigots and Anarchists. His policy statments and beliefs make him a Liberal Socialist. He sounded foolish and sophmoric when he was commenting on the Russian-Georgian conflict. America will be smart and reject this empty suit and elect John McCain.

Obama is left of Kennedy..Period. Go get em. He is a phoney.

Dean,

I love your line"and he accomplished ALL of this before being elected twice as a senator" (you are counting Illinois State Senator in this? Yikes...). Did you read what you wrote? I think you forgot "he was home room rep" and "he is punctual". What a weak resume for the office of POTUS.

You also forgot to include: He was born a muslim, his friends bombed the pentagon, his 20-year reverend is a reverse-racist pig, his wife hates America and he would not be in the picture if not for white guilt in liberal caucus states (ask Hiliary). Sounds like a real stand up guy with great judgement.

The good people of Ohio, PA, FLA & Michigan will save us from this unqualified con man getting his hands on our tax dollars.

YES WE CAN!

It is plain silly that Barack Hussein Obama is even being considered as presidential material. He was a Senator for 146 days before he began his quest. It is well documented about his associations with Socialists, Bigots and Anarchists. His policy statments and beliefs make him a Liberal Socialist. He certainly doesn't view himself as a proud American if you listen to his statements. He sounded foolish and sophmoric when he was commenting on the Russian-Georgian conflict. America will be smart and reject this empty suit and elect John McCain.

McCain is where he is due to privilege. As the son and grandson of Admirals, he was admitted to Annapolis ahead of better qualified candidates. His academics were horrible. He graduated 894th out of 899. With many conduct demerits. Had he not been the scion of Admirals, he probably would have never gotten in, and probably would have been thrown out.

As a Navy pilot, he was involved in the destruction of four military planes before he was finally shot down in plane number 5. The first three crashes were undoubtedly his fault, and the fourth incident involved an accidental missile firing on an aircraft carrier where there is some good reason to believe he was partly responsible. But for his family connections, he would have washed out.

I

Hey kerno, boy are you ever a bitter person! Crawl back under that rock! You sound like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons with your nastiness! Sounds to me like you are probably a racist.......doth thou protest too much????