Closing Arguments: Obama's $400-Million Edge

Are you kidding? Obama didn't stand a chance until my machine kicked into gear and started the cash tidal wave a flowin'!!! I told him to forget about that public financing he promised to take, and watch "hope and changeTM" leave McCain in the dust. Sucker!

I would love to see the list of donors. $745 Million = 70 Million Democratic votes. If 1 in 10 Democrats that voted contributed. It would require that they each give $106. I don't think 1 in 10 gave to the campaign and I don't think that they averaged $106. If so where is the bad economy. So the question is where did he get the money?

No, I do not think that Obama would have won without the $700+ million. I was very disappointed in him for not keeping his word on taking public funding.
I have felt for years that it is a shame that our Presidency is open to the highest bidder.
I think we should limit the amount of money that candidates can spend. I also think that we should limit the length of time that people have to run a campaign. Having people run for President for two years is ridiculous.

No, I do not believe Obama would have won without his $400 million. Money does a lot more than talk; it buys people and votes and that is exactly what Obama did, he bought the presidency. Doesn't the candidate with the most money always win? Maybe you should look into that. And how is it that this country is in a recession and yet that insane amount of money can be raised for one man? It would have made a very nice stimulas package; maybe Obama should bail out the auto industry!!

The more money you spend the more people you can persuade that what you are selling is the real deal.
Then after he won, to try to do what he sold his backers, he calls on many of his former opponents so that they can possibly make some of his promises came true.
One more time enough money can buy a personal ego dream.
Next question is can money buy the supreme court.

All this money proves that Obama is not a man of his word.

No win without Geo. Soros and the Hollywood elite! As far as I'm concerned, he cheated and used every trick in the book to win. So far all the campaign promises were just that! He has changed his mind on everything he said during the campaign! All hot air, no substance. We have elected an empty suit, ill prepared as a community organizer to run this country. I'd also like to see a list of those doners.
In two years, he will probably be un-electable for a second term unless he can prove he is the messiah his supporters think he is!

We all know that it takes a lot of money to win an election, but I think that it is simplistic to think that money was the only advantage Obama had in this election.
Obama's biggest advantage is that he rediscovered something that a lot of politicans have ignored for too long, mainstreet. I believe that the average person in the United States feels invisible to the government. "We the People" have become an obstacle to overcome, with regard to special interest groups. Not only does it take money to win an election it takes money to get your voice heard by legislators. I think that people hope that an Obama administration is interested in mainstreet and will make decisions that will positively effect the average person.
After eight years of Bush/Cheney Obama is a refreshing change and long overdue!

Of course he would have won. Most of the money came from grassroots because people believed in him as they should. We were ready for change and honesty and a time where all people are included to feel welcome as a part of our country and a man with extraordinary brains to lead us. If this country wasn't so prejudiced, he wouldn't have needed so much money to win. He needed a lot of exposure so that his color wouldn't feel so alien to us.

Maybe it helped... so what... if ya wanna place blame...talk to george w
...what helped more is that the moron in charge...aka bush ...screwed this country so bad and sent it so wacky right that anything in the office other than another rich white boy running this pony show is a winner...
.Thanks George !..I love it..
A black man with a muslim name..
Obama is as far from a wacko republican as we can get....

And thats the best news of the last 8 years

Adios money grubbing, paranoid, earth killn, religious fruitloops...

normal people are back in charge...!!!

I think he won because he stated his ideas, did not use public funds instead he convinced the voter to elect him by contributing to his campaign therefore being able to spread the word to other voters. Once voters saw other voters working for him by contributing more became involved. It turned out that the voters got the canditate they wanted thru personal involvement.

I am sure the money gave him a leg up, and thank Heavens for small favors! My husband and I both donated to the campaign in small sums repeatedly, totaling about $1,500 over the course of about 18 months, a big amount to us. Actually, a lot of our friends were doing the same. Everytime I heard Sarah Palin spouting off about him "palling around with terrorists", I kicked in another $25.00.

Democrats learned a hard lesson in 2000 and 2004. He who hesitates to spend big bucks is lost. It's not a pretty system and it's not fair, but if people are going to stand up and tell bold faced lies about you, you have to fight them somehow. I am glad Obama reconsidered his options and let the people of America get behind him.

The highest position in American politics went to the 'highest bidder', and if that much money came from only 'grassroots supporters', perhaps it was not necessary for flyers with the following: "Need a job? Work for ACORN-PAC! $8/hr Part-time campaign work available, Bilingual preferred, car required, must be 18 years old. Let's fight to improve our community!" I kept the flyer ;). Obama sadly was our only choice in comparing the Democratic platform to Senator McCain, but I am still leery of President-elect Obama. If he wasn't on TV all the time (with Davids Axelrod and Plouffe crafting his speech and media image- no word on how much their Public Relations firm charged Obama though!), Obama might still have won, but it would have been a tighter race. Bush is the reason the Republicans lost; it was 'crash and burn' for the past 8 years, damming America except for Big Oil, Big Business, and his closest allies (even those who took the fall for the lame duck President). MSNBC even hinted that Mount Rushmore may have an additional face...sigh. And it's not even January yet! I term this the Audacity of Arrogance.

It is a national disgrace that Obama won this amount of money and also went back on his word about campaign financing. There should be laws preventing raising this much money and buying an election.
The American people who voted for change and Obama were duped. Change is not really coming--as we are going back to people in cabinet from former administrations. Also, Obama is now back-peddling about getting out of Iraq. We are definitely not getting out of Iraq as he promised in 16 months --In other words, he did not know what he was talking about and Bush made the negotiations about staying in until 2011 or 2012. Furthermore, Obama is now back-peddling about doing away with Bush tax cuts on the wealthy --which he promised that he would change. Why did people trust this double-talker, with a liberal and inexperienced record in the Senate. Wake up Americans, you who voted for him despite his former illegal drug use, associations with questionable moral characters, are now being taken for a ride.

It is a national disgrace that Obama won this amount of money and also went back on his word about campaign financing. There should be laws preventing raising this much money and buying an election.
The American people who voted for change and Obama were duped. Change is not really coming--as we are going back to people in cabinet from former administrations. Also, Obama is now back-peddling about getting out of Iraq. We are definitely not getting out of Iraq as he promised in 16 months --In other words, he did not know what he was talking about and Bush made the negotiations about staying in until 2011 or 2012. Furthermore, Obama is now back-peddling about doing away with Bush tax cuts on the wealthy --which he promised that he would change. Why did people trust this double-talker, with a liberal and inexperienced record in the Senate. Wake up Americans, you who voted for him despite his former illegal drug use, associations with questionable moral characters, are now being taken for a ride.

The money raised by Barrack Hussein Obama is just another example of the pimpification of America. As far as I'm concerned the Presidency was sold off. They sold the presidency and cheapened the office of the presidency. When a senator spends 20 million to get elected and the presidential canidate spends 700 million it's time for change! It should be illegal to take contributions from out of the United States and Citizens of the U.S. should be the only ones who should be able to contribute. You should also have to provide absolute proof of your citizen ship and birth certificate BEFORE you run for office. The media touted big business as the villains getting Bush elected, I would argue that 700 million is pretty BIG business. The washington elite run on platforms that are targeted to the middle working class as if there was some connection between the two. They lost touch with the middle class years ago.

President-Elect Obama most certainly
would have won easily because he had by
far the bigger following and he was so
much a better candidate than McCain.
McCain didn't even know where he was
half the time. He never had a message
that he stuck by, only being nasty ttoward Pres-Elect Obama. McCain and
Palin both were just as common as they
could be.

P>E> Obama did exactly what he shuld
have done by passing up the public
funds. He got his contributions honest
by all his many small contributors like
me that had never contributed before
but I knew that there was something
special about him that was worth putting him into office to be our next
President. After 8 yrs of such hell
with Bush, we must have a President
with some smarts.

I think he is really the one that we
need eventhough he is really
inheriting a dam mess from the Rep Adm.

I think Terry M is a true Rep because
I remember him interviewing Obama before
and not being that cordial to him.

It certaily looks like Obama is off to
a good start and he hasn't even taken
his oath yet which a lot of people
can't wait along with me.

I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t watching a FOX network when I heard the question. The majority of Americans that voted for our President Elect voted for him because he stands and believes in change and America. We are a nation longing for a leader that believes that everyone contributes to the strength of our country and that with everyone working together we are the strength that is the USA. He never said it would be easy or fast, but at least now we finally have something or at least someone to believe in. Stop the nonsense and support our new president. If he falters in your expectations, please vote in another four years. Until then be a true American and support our new President Elect…. Our nation needs you to do so.

I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t watching a FOX network when I heard the question. The majority of Americans that voted for our President Elect voted for him because he stands and believes in change and America. We are a nation longing for a leader that believes that everyone contributes to the strength of our country and that with everyone working together we are the strength that is the USA. He never said it would be easy or fast, but at least now we finally have something or at least someone to believe in. Stop the nonsense and support our new president. If he falters in your expectations, please vote in another four years. Until then be a true American and support our new President Elect…. Our nation needs you to do so.

2004: Kerry-Edwards accepted the public financing money and lost the Presidential Election. Meanwhile, Obama was introduced at the DNC in Boston by Kerry (perhaps he knew if "I didn't win, I'll still have my Senate seat, plus I'd launch this individual to the national spotlight.") He wins the US Senate representing IL (with little opposition from Republicans?!). Pelosi and Howard Dean are quite pleased with this as well; Barack Obama's speeches bring dollars and votes to the Democratic Party.

2005: Washington Post reports that Obama 'has no intention to run for the 2008 Presidency'....guess Obama reneged on this as well... And,

2008: Obama reneged on public financing (I'm sure he learned from the 2004 election and his book sales!) and helps to bring in over 700 million dollars. They're still having 'Change House Parties'; perhaps it's to get the community to fuss at their state representative to help bring about the "Change to Washington" that was Obama's platform. I hope so, because I've heard enough talk from the press conferences already (talk about "on the job training"!). Obama's one man. He can't even run his own White House (the Mom-in-Law and Michelle are in charge!). Hopefully, it will be a productive 4 years in between hearing about what is going on IN the White House...