Democratic nominee sets tight limits on lobby donations for election campaign
"If a million of his 1.5 million donors contributed the legal amount of $2,300 each, he would have a war chest of $2.3bn - far in excess of anything ever seen in US political history."
*starts thinking about ideas for a massive bake sale*
Yes, I think it's this important to donate to a candidate this time around. If McCain wins the presidency, I really think we're really and truly screwed for all time. Not only will this country be subject to his policies and who he picks for SCOTUS for the next 20+ years (adios, Roe v. Wade), but the rest of the world will look at us and say, "No, they chose the evil son of a bitch for the 3rd time in a row. They really are just as evil and stupid as we thought they were."
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filkertom, everything I've been thinking about Bush's presidency rolled into one speech. Countdown Special Comment to President Bush: “Shut the hell up.”
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lukeski's journal)I don't think [Obama's shot at the presidency] is hopeless. As a matter of fact, I think the reason Wright is in the news so much is that Obama has a strong chance, and the neo-conservative pundits are terrified of this - so much so that they're blowing all of this way out of proportion in order to hurt Obama's campaign. From the latest polls, it's not really working. People are seeing Wright as another Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton/Louis Farrakhan - so his overall impact, small as it is now, is shrinking daily.
(And why would the neo-cons rather have Clinton? Well, because her politics are closer to parallel with theirs than she'd ever admit.)
The groups putting out campaign smear ads are the ones we have to worry about - but since the Federal Election Commission is useless right now because it's missing 4 of its 6 members, these smear ads are playing with no repercussions to the groups funding them. Let's hope they have the reverse effect and people get sick of seeing Clinton putting out ads bashing her opponents so that she loses credibility.
PS These are pretty cool: http://www.obamain30seconds.org/
