Can Barack Buy the Presidency? »
Posted By JessicaLaurie 3 months, 1 week ago in NewsOn the money front, how do Sens. Obama and McCain stack up? No contest, it seems. Since the campaign began, Mr. Obama has raised a staggering $295-plus million, versus Mr. McCain's almost $122 million. But that's misleading..
Read Full Story at online.wsj.com »
Join the Discussion 
+ Add Comment
Comments So Far: 20
-
0%
Spadecaller3 months, 1 week ago
Thanks. Article gives a better perspective into the campaign funds available to each candidate.
Reply -
0%
SunnyDays3 months, 1 week ago
campaign fund is a must for every candidate especially in the presidency.
Reply -
-
-
0%
CRYMTYPHON3 months, 1 week ago
Wow.
A Karl Rove editorial from the wall street journal, newly purchased by Fox overlord rupert murdock.
The article kinda glowed an evil green like a dead fish on a beach at night; and I don't think the fault was my old-style screen.
If there is any one person responsible for the smashing of the republican base, it is Karl. He advised the Prez to play to core republican concerns after 2000, when Bush wanted to be a 'uniter'.
This article is his try-out excuse for the november disaster that will be hung around his neck.
For lack of something better around his neck.
Can Obama buy the Presidency?
No.
Money won't do it.
Does the fact that more independent contributors have donated to Obama, than in any previous record, mean that the country is tired of Rovians?
Yes.
Can the country buy a new president?
Yes.
Will we own this new president?
Hell yes.
Reply -
0%
Radiofreeeuropa3 months, 1 week ago
Obama's funding is primarily from small donors. Actual citizens who seek to be represented over special interests.
This is a first in modern times. A candidate who owes the people for his success, not a corporation or special interest group. "We the people" are buying the presidency back by outbidding "We the corporations" and Me the oligarch. On this particular Independence day, that is a cause for celebration in itself.
We the people.... has a nice ring to it doesn't it?
Reply-
0%
bamababy3 months, 1 week ago
Exactly, for the people, by the people. Senator Onama has stated all along that this isn't HIS campaign, rather it is "OUR" campaign, togther. Together we can have our "own revolution" at the polls in November, it's already begun,with these record shattering donations. He won out over the Clinton machine and that isn't and wasn't an easy feat. They are,as we are all to well aware, very powerful and influencial people. He did, we did it, with our $$'s and support and we will catapult him into the Whitehouse come November. Perhaps Automan 909 should look into who is fund raising for Senator McCain and then throw around his little"terrorist" comments,please.
Reply -
0%
libsRfunny3 months, 1 week ago
Actually, that is a myth. Obama has accepted far more in donations from Law Firms, attorneys and other entities representing lobbyist groups than McCain.
Like most of what Obama says, the real truth is quite the opposite of what he espouses.
Reply
-
-
0%
MaFromTennessee3 months, 1 week ago
Automan says "America is not so stupid as to elect a racist loving, terrorist loving anti-American Marxist as our President
Lets see...
Racist loving? Didn't McCain seek the racist Hagee's approval?
Terrorist loving? Didn't George W. Just KISS & MAKEUP with Kim Jong IL?
Anti-American? What could be more anti American than subverting our constitution, and lying us into war so that your rich buddies can gain more wealth through War Profiteering.
Republicans have had their chance, and blew it on a village idiot. Twice.
Reply -
-
0%
CRYMTYPHON3 months, 1 week ago
There was a time when no paper with ambitions to be respectable would hire a political advisor and pretend they were a journalist.
The WSJ was always partisan, but once there were lines that were not crossed.
Now, -
it does seem that the legacy of the Bush administration is that all lines have been moved closer to the border of hell.
Reply
-
-
0%
NoWayMan3 months, 1 week ago
was about to read it and then saw who wrote this op-ed: karl rove.
no thanks.
if you want to see how much each candidate has brought in, who's giving what amounts, how much cash they have on hand, etc go here:
http://www.fec.gov/DisclosureSearch/mapApp.do
Reply -
0%
tchef3 months, 1 week ago
I have personally contributed more to Obama's campaign that I have to any presidential campaign. To me he is the candidate of the people. The Republicans have had their chance with total control of Congress and the Presidency and look at the mess that they have made. It's high time We the people were represented.
Reply
Add a Comment
Please keep your comments relevant to this story.
To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.