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Obama Out-Raises McCain by $30 Million in June
The Mersman Political Blog | July 18th 2008 by The Mersman Political Blog
Barack Obama on the campaign trail. Photo by Flickr Barack Obama’s presidential campaign ecstatically announced on Thursday that they had raised more than $52 million dollars in the month of June. David Plouffe, campaign manager for Bara read more
Barack Obama’s “Big Mac” attack is no attack at all… If i…
Bolson on... | July 12th 2008 by Bolson on...
Barack Obama makes John Kerry look like a man of firm conviction when it comes to presidential politics. You almost need a calculator to keep up with Obama’s recent flip-flops. The biggest recent flip-flop was Barry’s about-face read more
Politico on Public Financing: Right Wing Bias, Bad Sources or La…
Roadkill Refugee | July 7th 2008 by Roadkill Refugee
When Obama rejected public financing, he noted that the system was already broken. He said to accept it would constitute unilateral disamament if the GOP was going to continue to use independent groups to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money o read more
UPDATE: “McCain Allies Find Finance Law Holes” - WSJ
Take Back the Flag | July 4th 2008 by aadaro
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday the questionable tactics used by McCain supporters to circumvent current campaign finance laws. (You may have heard of McCain-Feingold?) The story comes days after Senator Obama took some flak for opting ou read more
Tells you what he thinks
Take Back the Flag | July 4th 2008 by aadaro
John McCain says Obama’s word cannot be trusted. Yes, we saw Barack Obama adjust his campaign finance decision for this campaign, but he remains in favor of a functioning public financing system, and opted out to combat the massive fundraising read more
John McCain Consistently Falls Off the Straight-Talk Express
ObamaElectionWatch | July 1st 2008
Voters Need to Be Told How McCain Has Flip-Flopped and Backtracked on Dozens of Major Issues A candidate for high office who flip-flops on important issues signals to voters that he or she is more interested in getting elected that in advancing sound read more
Right way, wrong time
Take Back the Flag | June 30th 2008 by aadaro
I do not think Senator Obama should have said he would pursue a publicly funded general election campaign. I do not know if he ever specifically “promised” to use the public funds, but either way, it makes his recent decision all to easy read more
Talk/Talk: A Brand New Brand
The Hankster | June 25th 2008 by Nancy Hanks
Sunday, June 22, 2008Below are excerpts from this week's Talk Talk, A Brand New Brand. Every Sunday CUIP's president Jacqueline Salit and strategist and philosopher Fred Newman watch the political talk shows and discuss them. Here are excerpts from t read more
obama is the candidate of change!
The BoBo Files | June 24th 2008 by The BoBo
Yes! He IS the candidate of change! He changes his mind on everything! Remember the Kerry “flip-flop?” Isn’t it so appropriate that I found a picture of Obama with Kerry - holding a flip-flop, nevertheless! I had to flip-flop t read more
Does This Ad Come With CliffsNotes?
FamousDC | June 24th 2008 by FamousDC
Dear Team McCain, Nobody knows what the hell public financing is - so go back to cool videos featuring eagles. Although we did enjoy the fantastic music and the overuse of the “words don’t matter” clip. Only trying to help, FDC read more
Daily Tidbits: June 24, 2008
Roadkill Refugee | June 24th 2008 by Roadkill Refugee
I Got Your Bounce Right Here. New LA Times/Bloomberg national poll gives Obama a 12-point lead over McCain (49-37%); which grows to 15% when Barr and Nader are included (49-33%). Big issues are Obama leads McCain decisively on the economy and in te read more
Campaign Financing and Barack's Decision
Everyday Citizen | June 23rd 2008 by Everyday Citizen
I admit, I was disappointed when I received the email from the Obama campaign that said Barack Obama had decided to opt out of the public funding. I suppose I don't want to hear that Barack is just like any other politician. I want him to be differen read more
Public Funding of Presidential Elections and Barack Obama, Part 1
Seth and Ray's Blog | June 22nd 2008 by sethandray
Seth: Most everyone by now has heard that Barack Obama has decided not to participate in the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) program to use tax payer dollars to finance his general election campaign. The importance and effect of his “ read more
Riding on a Donkey Down the Road to Denver
Katalusis | June 21st 2008 by Virginia Bergman
The road to Denver may not be as smooth as predicted for Barack Obama, the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee, whose followers anticipate he’ll ride into town on a donkey while adoring crowds wave palm fronds and shout “Hossanah to the high read more
Obama Rejects Public Financing-- Smart Move!
VernaSmith.com Putting the Zip into Politics | June 20th 2008 by Vege
Senator Barak Obama fully understands that elections'2008 will be like none other and has decided to the 'dismay' of his opponent -- to opt out of the public financing system. He will be the first presidential candidate to rely on the donations of su read more
To Accept or Not to Accept Public Financing
Freedom Writing | June 20th 2008 by David
I have distressing news for you tonight.Well, maybe it won't be news for most of you. I guess it really shouldn't be. But sometimes things just don't seem real until someone puts them into words.The news is simply this: Remember the good old days? We read more
Just the Facts, Please, Sen. Obama, Just the Facts
Katalusis | June 20th 2008 by Virginia Bergman
Checking the facts during a political campaign these days seems so, well, kind of old-fashioned, don’t you think? But Michael Dobbs at the Washington Post is still carrying on the tradition and awarding Pinocchios when he decides a candidate has no read more
The New Politics: When Money Calls, Obama Answers
Katalusis | June 20th 2008 by Virginia Bergman
In Media Notes (Washington Post) this morning, Howard Kurtz assesses the media’s coverage of Obama’s broken promise to forego the flood of money flowing his way from his online donors and accept public funding.Kurtz points out:“Liberals have be read more
You Say Public Financing’s Almost Dead Like It’s A Bad Thing
Comments From Left Field | June 20th 2008 by Michael Tedesco
Full disclosure; I was once of the opinion that Obama should have kept to his pledge to use public financing for his campaign. This was not for any strategic reason, mind you; there simply wasn’t one. My only real reason for wishing Obama hop read more
An Important Campaign Announcement from Barack Obama
Make Money Online With Richard Palace | June 20th 2008 by Richard Palace
This is an important campaign announcement from Barack Obama. He talks about the decision to opt-out of the broken public financing system. By rejecting public financing, Barack Obama now faces no legal spending limits as he moves to the final stage read more
McCain Opts In For Public Fianacing
Beltway Snark | June 20th 2008 by Beltway Snark
Told you so: “We will take public financing,” McCain said, but when asked what his thinking was behind the decision he replied, “Because we decided to take public financing.” In front of about 75 donors at the fundraiser at the Minneapolis Hi read more
Obama Forgoes Public Financing
The Mersman Political Blog | June 20th 2008 by The Mersman Political Blog
On Thursday, Barack Obama told supporters in a video message that he would be forgoing more than $80 million dollars in funds by not accepting public financing for his campaign. Obama’s primary campaign was fueled by more than 1.5 million read more
Obama opts out of public financing
International Aid - Grant Montgomery | June 20th 2008 by Grant Montgomery
Daily Tidbits: June 20, 2008
Roadkill Refugee | June 19th 2008 by Roadkill Refugee
New USA Today/Gallup National Poll: Obama leads 48-42% among registered voters, 50-44% among likely voters. Obama also leads among independents 48-36%. Obama leads among women by 14% and barely trails among men by 3%. My broken record commentar read more
SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE . . . OBAMA BREAKS PUBLIC FINANCING…
Hillary and Me | June 19th 2008 by sportsone234
Well, at least he’s consistent. Now, he’s all too predictable, as well. It has become apparent, that the old joke how do you know when “fill in the blank” is lying . . . just watch his lips move fits Barack perfectly. First, Obama’s f read more
Obama Opts Out Of Public Financing
The Democratic Daily Blog | June 19th 2008
His own words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snsnqbq_OCo Reactions from First Thoughts at MSNBC: […] This move has been widely speculated, but it’s a reversal from comments he made earlier in the campaign season that he would he accep read more
Foregoing public financing could be extremely wise move for Obama
Politivine.com | Opinionated Political Analysis | June 19th 2008 by Cory Perry
Sen. Barack Obama, in a video message yesterday, officially declined to take the public financing route in order to fund his general election campaign for president. Under the public financing plan, Obama would have received $84 million for his campa read more
Why should the public purse pay for the race?
The Will Rhodes Portmanteau | June 19th 2008 by Will Rhodes
It shouldn’t - unless you are Turtle John. Barack Obama out-raised John McCain by almost 2 to 1 in the $ stakes. But McCain would want them both to have the same amount of money to play with - it means he doesn’t have to work as hard and, read more
Watch Senator Obama Talk About Not Accepting Public Financing
Let Us Talk | June 19th 2008 by Paulette
Barack Obama recorded a video message with an important announcement that he wanted you to hear. Senator Obama made a crucial decision that will impact how he’s able to compete in the general election, and it’s important that you unde read more
Obama opts out of public financing
The United States of Jamerica | June 19th 2008 by Jamelle Bouie
With more than 1.7 million donors, Obama has decided that his campaign is public enough and has decided to opt out of the public financing system: As much I as support this decision - Obama could potentially raise over a billion dollars, p read more
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