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Obama Trumps Hillary
Those who speculated Team Obama may have been holding off on announcing their fundraising totals to heighten the anticipation and give greater resonance to an eye-popping number may have had a point.
The Obamarama showed no signs of pleateauing, as measured by his first quarter fundraising, which totaled $25 million, just a hair behind her majesty's reapings. With $23.5 million of the Barry-O Funbucks being primary-eligible, he appears to have eclipsed Clinton, who has thus far declined to clarify what portion of her $26 million of Q1 contributions was primary money.
Obama also boasted twice as many supporters as Clinton, herding 100,000 paying bandwagoneers to Hillary's suddenly seemingly paltry 50,000.
The militantly, belligerently anti-war crowd over at Daily Kos - which has never forgiven the rightful heiress to the Presidency for her Iraq War vote - couldn't be more delighted that their flavor of the quarter shone so brightly.
It's time to tell the establishment to get stuffed. Embrace the Reality. Obama 08!
Except when they remember that they abhor money.
I'm sorry, but I can't find pleasure in this obscene escalation of money in politics. We are heading for the first billion dollar primary.
Or when they remember that they're totally not talking to Obama right now, after he indicated a post-presumptive-veto willingness to fund the troops, even if it means doing it without gobs of pork or without insisting on prosecuting the war from the Capitol building.
As it now stands, even Hillary is a better anti-war candidate than Obama; I will have to change my DKos posting name to reflect that.
- by anybody but hillary on Wed Apr 04, 2007
Liberalism is so confusing nuanced.
Update: Hot Air prophesies the return of the King to restore balance.
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$250 million will not be enough to trump Hillary (or more importantly, the Republican candidate) once the country knows that Obama is knowingly and willfully associating himself with what is arguably a hate organization. Obama's donors are wasting their money if Obama does not QUICKLY distance himself from the anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic MoveOn.org group. Next to MoveOn.org, gaffes like "macaca" become insignificant. In 2005, MoveOn.org published an official cartoon of Pope Benedict waving a gavel in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. There are plenty of Catholic Democrats in Pennsylvania who will give their votes to someone else once they become aware that Obama's friends are spewing "the Catholics are taking over America" hate propaganda. MoveOn's Action Forum, with the full knowledge and approval of its moderators, welcomed hate speech that used "Jew" as an epithet, called Tom Lantos (a Democrat) a "whining, arrogant Jew," and called for the arrest and imprisonment of the "Catholic Pedophiles of America." An entire dossier of the MoveOn Action Forum hate speech and 9/11 conspiracy theories--which is available online--requires three or so Web pages to display all of it. It is very important to note that it is on record that MoveOn.org's moderators (contrary to MoveOn's press release of September 2) knew about, welcomed, and tolerated the hate speech while censoring criticism of racists like Al Sharpton and also the hate speech itself. If Obama does not distance himself from this group quickly, his personal character and his fitness to hold any office (including U.S. Senator) will be open to question. Perhaps his donors should hold off until they see what he is going to do about this problem, rather than wasting their money on someone whose candidacy will be derailed by connections to a hate organization. $250 million will not be enough to trump Hillary (or more importantly, the Republican candidate) once the country knows that Obama is knowingly and willfully associating himself with what is arguably a hate organization.Posted by: Bill Levinson | Apr 4, 2007 2:46:28 PM
