Obama raises record $150 million in September
And the campaign is moving into West Virginia. Good.
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Comrade Jake
I think McCain just crapped in his Depends.
TR
Are they moving into West Virginia, or the real West Virginia?
ppcli
How long will it be before McCain puts his "Obama has been palling around with Rich Rodriguez" ads into heavy rotation on the Mountaineer football channel?
Conservatively Liberal
This has to have the McCain campaign and the Repubs in a cold sweat. Obama has over 3.1 million donors and while the average amount is small it sure adds up to a huge wave of support. They keep telling everyone how evil and untrustworthy Obama is and it ain’t working.
Obama is the roadrunner of fundraising and McCain is the poor coyote who just can’t win no matter how much he cheats.
4tehlulz
@ppcli: That would be an effective ad, so it won’t happen.
kommrade jakevich
@TR: W.I.N.
magisterludi
I call it the Palin Effect.
Michael D.
matt
But how much of that is from REAL Americans?
Comrade Peter J
Elwyn Tinklenberg raised $488,000 in 24 hours thanks to Michele Bachmann.
El Cid
The Republicans are free to weep now.
Josh Huaco
Effect:
Today we salute you, mister grab the door knocker by the hair and slap her in the face guy…
(Via)
matt
On a serious note, dividing the country, strictly as a political strategy, isn’t necessarily a bad move, you just might want to make sure that, you know, your half is bigger than the other guys. Oops.
Atanarjuat
Considering that Nobama and his America-hating wife are used to an upper-crust, liberal elitist lifestyle, all of your adorable little contributions are needed to keep them comfortable and well-fed. You wouldn’t want them to starve, would you?
It would be inhumane if they couldn’t keep ordering lobster hors d’oeuvres and platterfuls of Iranian caviar, washed down with vintage champagne. Indeed, it’s hard out here for a Waldorf-Astoria pimp.
And you Ayers apologists wonder why real Americans are disgusted with your tax-first, tax-always, socialist Leader, right?
Country First.
Dulcie
And Colin Powell has just endorsed Barak!
(posted in the right thread this time)
Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s
Maybe all those Acorn workers felt guilty and donated their pay to him?
magisterludi
Oh frabjous day! calloo, callay!, I chortled in my schadenfreude!
I’m sure it BURNS.
I loves me some Colin Powell right now.
rob!
$150 million in September, AND Powell endorses him? THAT’S A HELLUVA WAY TO START THE DAY, TEAM OBAMA!
Comrade Scrutinizer
@rob!:
Not to worry. The McCain campaign is already saying that the endorsement is meaningless, because McCain is teh awesome.
This has to be good for John McCain.
kommrade jakevich
@Dulcie: Cue the screams of Afrocentric Radical Islahomo Terrist Coddler!!
That’s great, I bet he feels relieved to get something right for once.
Now let’s hope Rumsfilled will endorse McPOW. Heh, heh.
Jay C
So I guess, despite John’s reluctance to answer the question, that this means West Virginia really IS in play?
4tehlulz
Oh God the right-wing RAAAAAAAGE is going to be epic.
Natascha
Tina Fey + Charlie Gibson + Katie Couric + "can I call you Joe?"= $150 million for Obama
Dulcie
@Comrade Scrutinizer: I just saw McCain’s spokesman tell MSNBC that Old Spice was the most qualified candidate BEFORE Powell’s endorsement, and he’s STILL the most qualified candidate.
What a way to start a Sunday!
Digital Amish
Let the swiftboating of Powell begin. Any bets on how long it takes for RedState et. al. to start trashing Mr. Powell?
Stuck in the Funhouse
I’ll call your Ayers and raise one Powell. Your move Magoo.
Dulcie
@kommrade jakevich: Indeed!
I wasn’t expecting him to endorse anyone, and I don’t know how much of an effect Powell’s endorsement will have on the race. I haven’t held Powell in very high esteem since his visit to the U.N., and this endorsement hasn’t changed my feelings on his behavior in the lead up to the Iraq war.
I am happy and relieved that he came out on the right side of history.
Comrade Napoleon
@matt:
For years I have thought that the Dems. were idiots not to sharpen the differences between the parties for this very reason. I think the Dems do have the bigger half and that when you get right down to it the polarization is suicidal for the Republicans, but hey, I am willing to give them the rope if they are willing to hang themselves.
boonagain
"Those nigras stick together" will be the meme du jour at Red State and Free Republic.
that response is too easy to predict
JGabriel
@matt:
None, obviously. REAL Americans don’t give money to terrist-lovin’, stem-cell eatin’, baby murderin’, blackity-black black, liberal commie fascist muslim atheists!
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JGabriel
Matt:
What they lack in numbers, they make up for in batshit insane violence.
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Brian J
Okay, there’s absolutely no proof of this at all, but I so called this. I said the number was being held because it was truly insane, and holy mother fucking shit, it was. This is pretty goddamn incredible because it’s almost double what McCain has to spend for the entire two months after he was forced to stop holding fund raisers (a somewhat artificial standard, but still). I guess this means that the campaign has enough money to simply run McCain into the ground in any state it wants to.
I woke up feeling like crap and then just got into an argument with my mother, but this is a great way to start off the day. Holy mother fucking shit, this is pretty goddamn big (sorry, mom, for cursing on a Sunday morning).
JGabriel
Atanarjuat:
Hey, Fast Runner. I thought that film was about a guy who ran fast on ice, not a guy with fast running drool.
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Stuck in the Funhouse
@boonagain:
Yep, like predictions of tomorrow’s sunrise. And they will add that Powell was the Kommissar Of the DFH State Department that along with the DFH’s at CIA undermined Dear Leader’s grand strategy for saving the world from the unwashed rabble rousing Mooslim’s.
Brian J
Shorter John McCain campaign: Obama doesn’t have the endorsement of Jesus, so all news is good news for John McCain.
In all seriousness, though, if McCain’s campaign released a statement with saying "McCain is teh awesome," I might consider voting for him. It’d be so random that it might be worth it. (The fact that New York’s electoral votes are assured for Obama, of course, helps the matter just a little.)
Brian J
Maybe I’m wrong, but I’d bet that for everyone who doesn’t post on a blog and spend a lot of time immersed in this stuff–in other words, the majority of the country–this will mean something. At the very least, it’s not going to hurt, and if it can move just a few thousand votes in a few swing states, it’ll be worth everything.
Jeffrey
As a Muslim, that brought a tear to my eye. Fuck yeah.
JGabriel
And for those who haven’t seen last night’s SNL clips, here are the links to:
A) Palin Press Conference
B) The Palin Rap
Palin was kind of low-level pissy throughout, with good reason. SNL basically humiliated her.
Especially when Poehler kills the dancing moose. That’s never gonna get old.
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Will Hunting
Brian J – on your comment in the previous thread about talking politics at work. I am not sure what kind of office you work in, but if you can avoid being the "guy who talks politics all the time" that would be a good thing. Unfortunately I am that guy and I work in energy finance and you can probably guess where most people lean in my workplace. Most of the time, I am not the person starting the conversation; it usually starts with people directly asking me something or standing around in the open as a group and talking about the election. My advice: keep a low profile and try hard not to gloat on the 5th!
Brian J
This is very old news, but how great was it when Keith Ellison used Jefferson’s copy of the Koran to be sworn in on? That move was slick enough to probably humiliate Virgil Goode enough to send him back into obscurity forever.
Dulcie
@Brian J: I agree with you. Powell is extremely well known – even the average "low information" voter knows who he is, and they mostly have positive feelings about him. I suspect that Powell’s endorsement of Obama will provide cover for moderate republicans and independents to vote dem this year.
Deborah
I’m with Brian J–if you’re not of the blogosphere, this is news. And the timing is good, because it’s one more "Palin is unqualified, and Tinklenberg’s unhinged opponent is representative of what McCain-Palin has wrought." A theme of Republican endorsements these past few weeks, that people tried to find a reason to vote McCain and couldn’t.
El Cid
Why is Colin Powell pal’ing around with domestic terrorists? I can’t wait for Sarah Palin to ask.
JGabriel
@Deborah:
Heh. Bachmann was wrought, and overwrought, long before McCain-Palin came along.
That said, it’s so wonderful that she had one of her trademark wingnut episodes on national TV at just the right time to look like a consequence of the McCain-Palin rhetoric.
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Brian J
I try not to bring up politics in any way unless it’s with certain people. I learned that a long time ago.
And as much as I will want to gloat if Obama wins, I’d never do it, primarily because the people who have gloated to me in the past have been so goddamn annoying that it’s ridiculous. There’s a special section of Hell reserved for people that would act like that.
Comrade Napoleon
Having an undergrad degree in history I just loved it. Bonus points that Jefferson is one of the most prominent Virginians ever (Goode’s home state).
Brian J
There’s only one thing I’d like to know. In David Plouffe’s video, we see maps with different parts of the country shaded in red, blue, and white/gray in the background. Upon first glance, there’s no clear signal about what it means, so I have to wonder what they are maps of?
Comrade Napoleon
@Brian J:
Brian, the colors correspond with the timing for each state to be converted to being a socialist Muslim after Comrade Obama’s victory.
Keith
That money doesn’t count because Drudge linked to an article about a "mysterious" $2300 charge on someone’s credit card to the Obama campaign. And the money isn’t real money anyway, as it isn’t coming from public funding.
jcricket
Bingo.
For any undecided still on the fence because they can’t bring themselves to vote "Democrat" (picture in their mind of evil scary people) – a respected Republican military figure who’s viewed as "bipartisan" (or non-partisan) endorsing Obama so forecefully, and frankly, dissing McCain – is gonna shift things Obama’s way another percentage point or two.
Again, the 20-30% crazies (of various stripes) will still vote Republican no matter what. But we can afford to lose them.
The more decisive this election is, the better it is, because it sets the narrative. Just like the decisiveness of the snap polls (CBS, CNN, even Fox) after the debates prevented the false narrative of "it’s a tie" from taking hold, a decisive win, when broken down afterwards into various demographics, will prevent a "Obama barely won by playing wedge politics" narrative. I want to see the polls that show Obama winning every demographic except the racists, right-wing-religious-nuts and old white southerners.
Unlike the "mandate" Bush claimed after winning 50+1, Obama could claim a true mandate for change and start immediately spending his political capital. If he does so in a way that doesn’t sound like Bush’s "I earned political capital and intend to spend it", Congress will stay on board.
jcricket
This is what we actually need. More wingnuts on Television. More Sarah Palin interviews. Sign me up.
Comrade Jake
@jcricket:
She’s going to likely turn out to be the first VP candidate to never hold a press conference. You sort of wonder if any of the major networks will get pissy about that in the last days of the campaign. I sort of doubt they have the balls.
nicethugbert
@Michael D.:
As you’re aware , Kevin, you musint do your job.
Brachiator
@Comrade Jake:
Yeah, he must have. This probably explains why he is trying to suggest that the money that Obama has raised is not a good thing for the country.
McCain sounds particularly sad and out-of-touch here, a horse-and-buggy man who isn’t comfortable in a world with space shuttles and teh Internets.
The only thing left is for McCain to claim that terrorists are funding Obama’s campaign, and that we need to learn exactly where all this money came from.
And in the more rational universe, Obama’s fund raising success should lead to some interesting discussions about public financing, since by any measure, Obama’s ability to appeal to millions of small donors challenges the conventional wisdom that corporate and special interest money must always prevent the little guy from getting a fair chance at getting elected.
Calouste
Cough Frank Keating Cough.
nabalzbbfr
Big deal! A lot of this money is laundered money coming in from very dubious sources, likely much of it originating from implacable foes of America, both foreign and domestic. Fortunately Obama’s advertising blitz is starting to backfire bigtime, as the American people get sick and tired of wall-to-wall leftist bullshit propaganda. The more they see and hear, the less likely they are to buy it, as the polls are clearly beginning to show.
iluvsummr
3.1 million people with ownership of a campaign! That’s something I’ve never seen, ever. Has anyone in the news media stopped to really think about what this means (besides letting McCain ramble on with his talking points)?
Josh Huaco
@NoBallsBBFLuvr:
If you’re going to troll at least try something that can’t be disproved by a 90 second search on Snopes.
Grade: D+
Shaggy
More trolls than usual on this post – Obama raising all this money (median donation less than $100, mean donation less than $250) has really kicked some sand up into their vaginas.
You just want to pinch their cute little cheeks, they’re so adorable.
jcricket
Careful, they bite and have rabies.
But yes, power to the peope. Power to the netroots. Power to my 65 year old mom canvassing for Obama in Virginia with her other 65-year old Jewish ladies.
This is the power of an Obama win – that people will feel part of it.
Oh, btw, wingnut welfare is all that stands between Republicans and even bigger losses than they’re facing. The money laundering of the "Chamber of Commerce", Scaife, Moon, etc. is obscene and is propping up some otherwise vulnerable Republicans. This is what happens when you spend all your time as a party demonizing your enemies and not enough expanding your base.
The only thing the wingnuts get excited about is banning gay marriage (see Prop 8 and all the out-of-state Mormon donations). In fact, the wingnuts are embracing this strategy and encouraging churches to lose their tax exempt status by supporting individual politicians/political campaigns. I welcome them losing in court when they claim it’s a free speech violation. Enjoy blowing 10 million defending these people and bankrupting some right-wing churches.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Colonel Danite
I can’t believe that we are 60 comments into this post and not one of you has mentioned how Obama crushing McCain in donor, donations and supporter enthusiams is actually good news for McCain. You guys are really leting me down.
nabalzbbfr
Obama is well-versed in Chicago politics and the mechanics of laundering dirty money towards political ends. The Daley political machine has long maintained such ties with the Italian mob and more recently with black and Latino drug-dealing street gangs. Obama independently developed his own contacts with the latter during his days as a community organizer (and perhaps also as customer for his own drug habits). Working through his terrorist buddy Ayers, he has also developed ties with Hugo Chavez, FARC and various Latin American drug cartels. The government of Iran has openly expressed support and undoubtedly is delighted to subsidize his campaign. Soros and Moveon are undoubtedly on the case as well. ACORN maintains extensive lists of real and bogus voters and is ideally suited to funneling dirty money ostensibly through these voters.
Howard
Since Obama refuses to show where tens of millions of dollars in donations came from, we can only wonder if Obama could be financing a possible win of the Presidency with donations from foreign nationals … and if so, which foreign nationals ?
Palestinians phone bank for Obama
http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/05/13/palestinians_phonebank_for_obama
\Are foreign donations powering the Obama campaign?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/are_foreign_donations_powering.html
Obama’s appeal in the Muslim world
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0613/p09s02-coop.html
Pro-Obama, Muslim-led voter registration in mosques
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=2738844
boonagain
Wow, you’ve reached a whole new level of crazy.
Josh Huaco
@nabalzbbfr:
I salute you sir. Not even Oliver Stone and Art Bell on a weekend-long peyote bender could have come up with that.
/bows
Comrade Jake
I’m convinced NoBallz is a spoof. Nobody’s that stupid.
Ed Marshall
I’m convinced NoBallz is a spoof. Nobody’s that stupid.
These folks have gotten really used to winning spouting off stupid shit. He’s hitched up to the failboat, and part of his brain realizes it and it’s making him barking mad and I enjoy it :D
boonagain
I missed Iran’s endorsement.
Was it before or after that left wing rag, The Chicago Tribune’s?
Colonel Danite
McCain is well-versed in GOP politics and the mechanics of laundering dirty money towards political ends. The Republican political machine has long maintained such ties with the Italian mob, the Contras, and more recently with and Afghan poppy growers who funnel drugs to street gangs. George Bush independently developed his own contacts with the former during his days as a failed businessman (and perhaps also as customer for his own drug habits). Working through his terrorist buddy Liddy, McCain has also developed ties with Musharaff, AIP (Alaskan Independence Party) and various Fascist Latin American and Asian drug cartels. The government of Georgia has openly expressed support and undoubtedly is delighted to subsidize his campaign. Scaife and RedState.Com are undoubtedly on the case as well. Karl Rove maintains extensive lists of real and bogus voters and is ideally suited to funneling dirty money ostensibly through these voters.
boonagain
nabalzbbfr is hard to decipher.
I’m guessing ‘alz’ is a reference to St Ronnie’s Alzheimers and ‘fr’ is obviously Free Republic but I’m stumped at ‘nab’ and ‘bb’.
Conservatively Liberal
Damn right that we need to stop voter registration fraud and I am glad to hear that they have finally arrested someone for doing it. I have to admit that I thought the whole story was bunk, but I have to admit that the Repubs were actually right about this fraud.
Problem for the right is that it was one of their guys who was arrested.
This is great news for ACORN!
nabalzbbfr
@boonagain:
Here you go:
Obama:More Endorsements – Castro, Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Farrakhan
Josh Huaco
@nabalzbbfr:
Here you go:
The rest of the world are obviously far-left terrorists and dictators.
Comrade Jake
I’m pretty sure Hitler has endorsed Obama too there, noballz, I’m surprised you don’t have a linky for that.
nabalzbbfr
@Comrade Jake:
Anything to please you:
Sieg Heil – Siegessäule – Obama
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
Actually, I think it’s north american ba’alzebub (another version of beelzebub) freeper.
;)
Delia
This is your brain. This is your brain on conservatism.
If you read one blogpost this month it should be this one.
Comrade Jake
@nabalzbbfr:
Awesome. I love it when NoBallz links to NoIQ.
Brian J
All Hail B. Hussein Obama!
jcricket
Not sure if this was spoof or not, but seriously!?
Having a president who isn’t laughed out of multilateral discussions with leaders in the middle east? Crazy talk! Why would we need that?
Also, someone alert the FBI! We might have a president who appeals to more than just one religion!?!?! Horror of horrors, when we have a country with only one official state religion. Oh wait…
Idiots.
jcricket
You know the only group still operating with a history of election fraud is the GOP right? From caging in the 60s to the misleading robocalls, NH phone jamming scandal (2002 – ties to white house still not disclosed), spurious voter challenges in WA in 2004/2006, illegal purge of (mostly minority) voters in Florida, etc. And we haven’t even got into their habit of underfunding vote equipment in minority areas, promoting/using untested touch screen machines, etc. The entire DOJ firing scandal was a result of career attorneys not willing to sell their soul to the GOP and pursue bogus voter fraud cases.
It’s the GOP practicing voting fraud, just in the opposite way they claim we are – they’re busy suppressing legitimate votes.
Andrew
Here is an article about the causes of the financial crisis:
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html
Anyone who votes for Obama is just helping to recreate this pyramid and defraud all Americans again and again!
No matter what your income is, you will lose under Obama. He’ll send you a $500 welfare check every year, but it will be a small consolation prize when you lose your job and our economy is completely screwed up by the same people who got us into this mess in the first place – the Democrats.
Larry
Yes, and as much as $63 million may have come from either foreign donors or illegal donors! Do any of you liberals care about that???
Larry
Why do I have to moderate this comment? Does the truth hurt?
Greggegregg
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If so, go here and sign this petition:
http://www.McCainPetition.com
Gregg
Delia
Wow, Orson Scott Card, a Mormon scifi author presenting himself as a fake Democrat and writing in an LDS online forum about why Barack Obama and the Democrats are entirely to blame for the financial meltdown. Why do I not find this convincing as an economic argument? Oh yeah, it has nothing to do with economics.
But thanks for injecting your religion into the whole mishmash.
Anticorium
Judge: Mr. Hutz, we’ve been in here for four hours. Do you have any evidence at all?
Larry: Well, Your Honor, we’ve plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence.