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The Obama BombshellPosted on Apr 4, 2007Barack Obama surpassed expectations Wednesday with the announcement that his campaign raised $25 million in the first quarter, almost as much as Hillary Clinton with her record $26 million. Though Clinton pulled in more overall, Obama had twice as many individual donors and outraised the front-runner online.
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By Los Angeles Democrat, April 5, 2007 at 6:48 pm #
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The real bombshell will be when Al Gore enters the race. It won’t matter how much money little Barry has sold himself out for. He’ll be history.
Report thisBy savanni, April 5, 2007 at 9:28 am #
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IT’S BIAS FOR NOW…
Report thisBy Steve Hammons, April 5, 2007 at 6:30 am #
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Obama seems like a fair to mediocre candidate to some people. Hillary Clinton doesn’t seem like a desirable candidate to many.
If the Democrats can’t choose a winning candidate, one that can attract moderate and centrist voters, they will be following a pattern in recent years of putting forth presidential and/or vice-presidential candidates that are not desirable to a wide range of Americans.
Republican candidates such as Fred Thompson might seem more attractive to moderates, centrists and even some with a progressive viewpoint.
Maybe it is time for third-party and independent candidates to emerge (not the Joe Lieberman type!).
Food for thought in this:
“A much needed new path: Time for independent and third-party candidates to emerge, transcend and unite?”
PopulistAmerica.com
Populist Party of America
March 5, 2007
http://www.populistamerica.com/a_much_needed_new_path_ for_2008
Report thisBy John Lowell, April 5, 2007 at 6:27 am #
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Why is it that contemplating the possibilty of Hillary Clinton as president evokes images of the personal style of Leonid Brezhnev? Think of it, its May 1st, tanks and rockets are rumbling by below and there’s stone-faced Clinton standing erect next to Andre Gromyko above Lenin’s tomb.
Barak Obama is a very pleasant fellow although, for me, too many of his view are entirely unacceptable. But he would seem to be the only possibility the Democrats have of heading off Clinton. Edwards too much resembles the door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman to interest many and to most single women - which helps us, perhaps, to understand why it is that they’re single - there is clearly a decided preference for sour-faced Clinton.
While I’d never be prepared to hand in my personal dignity by participating in this horror in the making, I can still hope that Obama prevails. I simply can’t imagine waking up one day to a January inaugural with Comrade Clinton and all of the gray men behind her taking the parade.
John Lowell
Report thisBy ROD, April 5, 2007 at 4:41 am #
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prediction : fly in the ointment— sen . barak obama assasinated today as he traveled in his motorcade , pres. bush says he’s very troubled by this :
Report thisBy Ernest Canning, April 4, 2007 at 8:20 pm #
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No surprise. Obama, like Clinton, is a corporatist. The only Democratic candidate who truly represents the middle and working classes is Dennis Kucinich, and since he refuses to be bought, he will never see anything resembling the corporate money flowing into the Clinton/Obama campaigns.
Report thisBy DennisD, April 4, 2007 at 7:56 pm #
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Cha-Ching - first one to a billion wins. We all know there aren’t any favors expected for those contributions don’t we. LOL.
Report thisThis is the same sad corrupt political system we’re trying to export around the world. LOLx2 - Campaign Finance Reform - another oxymoron for the book.