Obama Takes In More Than $31 Million in April

Actually the desire to have Universal Health Care is the main reason to vote for McCain over Obama this Fall.

Obama calls his plan UHC, but the truth is his only plan is to somehow magically lower costs so more people can afford to buy it IF THEY CHOOSE. That isn't UHC, and the fact that people are still left uninsured at their own choosing only gives the insurance industry wriggle room to keep the costs higher. We will be forced to cover "the poor" under his plan; maybe he thinks that makes it UHC. Unfortunately, this plan will fail and critics will be able to say, "See, we always told you UHC wouldn't work." We've only got one shot at this and Obama's arrow is destined to miss the target.

Vote McCain now, and in 2012 Hillary can get to work enacting true Universal Health Care.

len,

I take it you have good health insurance and are VERY healthly. I hope it stays that way for you. McCain wants to "privatize" health insurance and open it up to the "free market". That is Repub speak for "screw the little guy".

Bush "privatized" student loans, saying competition would be good, let the "free market" decide. So now my kids will have to pay 25% interest on their student loans instead of the 4% my husband and I paid to attend college.

If you were for Clinton I am assuming tht you were for Universal Health Care? And now you want to vote against it? Hmmmm, good luck paying 20k for a pacemaker. Maybe you have stacks of cash like HoosierSue!

I fully agree with "Really?". I do not understand why women are so disappointed with Obama.

He is been very decent in all his engagements with Clinton. He has not pulled out her past which has so many scandals, affairs, accidental deaths, secret dealings etc.

The sweety comment has been twisted as distasteful. I cant vouch for any other person including obama but it didnt sound sexist to me. I read his book and he seems extremely respectful of michelle and the other women and girls around him.

I can only think that clinton has somehow convinced people that he is divisive and sexist especially seeing that McCain has called his wife the 'C' word and women still want to support him.

HoosierSue,

McCain USED to be a centerist. Now he will say whatever the Republican Party tells him to say.

Yep, Congress Poll #'s are in the toilet, just like Bush's. Nothing is getting done. People are fed up. They is why they want change.

You must be very wealthy to weather is ecomonic storm. Good for you. But you are the top 1% of the nation. The rest of us are struggling to say the least. Go count your stacks of cash and vote Republican. When the Dems wake up after this long and protracted battle for the Nomination, they will take a good long look at what McCain plans to do to us.

"This is exactly what I speak of. Hillary supporters will state their not voting for Obama but when the time comes, they'll probably be the first at the poll place."

We will. We will be voting Republican.

A minority President and a majority Congress work well. A far left wing weak President being manipulated by San Francisco radicals who control a money machine and threaten anyone who opposes them with smears of racism while practicing sexism doesn't.

Look carefully at those numbers from last night. The cracks are too big to ignore. I admire and respect Senator Clinton, but the support for Senator Obama only declines from this point. Delegates and money machines pick delegates. The people pick the President.

LARGE NUMBER of we Hillary supporters----especially WOMEN----will refuse to vote if obama is the Nominee. Call it what you will.....

Posted by: WOW | May 20, 2008 9:27:44 PM
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So this LARGE NUMBER of women don't mind that McCain called his wife the "C" word in fronnt of others? Or that he doesn't support your or your duaghter's right to choose?? This LARGE NUMBER of women are willing to GIVE McCain their sons lives to McCain to fight this war and other NEW wars he envisions after McCain institutes the draft. A war they oppose so adamantly now? This LARGE NUMBER of women must be indepenently wealth like John and Cindy McCain, so they must not be worried about Universal Health Care. Good for this LARGE NUMBER OF SECRETLY REPUBLICAN WOMEN!! Good for them.

I haven't voted for a Republican president since Gerald Ford, and will proudly cast my vote for John McCain this fall over Obama. McCain is a centrist who will have a Democratic congress - the best of both worlds. He has vowed to veto any bill with earmarks which will immediately get us started on the right track back to a balanced budget.

The recently elected Democrats are conservative Democrats. Bush's approval rating is at 29% - which looks bad until you discover that the Democratic-controlled Congress' approval rating is now at 18%.

Obama's chickens will come home to roost once the Republicans get hold of him and start educating the public like the fawning media failed to do. Hillary voters will put their country before their party - and McCain is just the guy to bring them into the Republican fold.

I am an asian, very well educated and voting for obama. I havent made significant donations to obama yet but will be making some more soon.

I have been disappointed with the kind of politics i have seen over the last 10 years. I think only barack can provide the inspirational leadership of a kennedy that this country now lacks. I am hungry for change!!

Barack '08

I'm glad to see that my $50 donation helped!! I've never donated to a political campaign before and to be honest, I'd laughed over the years at people that had.

Barack Obama has inspired so many, including me. I hope that our nation can embrace change, diplomacy, economic improvement, etc. Our nation is in dire times and I truly believe this will be the solution. I believe that with all my heart. It's because of Barack Obama, but as he gathers more and more people my hope is based on the volume of Americans that are getting involved. All significant changes in our American history happened not just because of a president, but because the American people rallied behind a cause.

Hillary has run a good campaign and she has learned a lot from Obama about campaigning. She's learned how to build a grassroots campaign using all available media, especially the Internet. She repeats his slogans, phrases and ideas more and more - to the point that her message is sounding just like his, and it's worked for her.

I think the reason she has done so well is that Obama's campaign did not bring out all of the evidence that could have from her history. In total the evidence would have heightened people's concern about her honesty and integrity. In taking the high road, he's prevented her from being damaged.

So that's the primary. We'll all wait for her to do The Math and then begin to make our Democratic case.

NoCampaign says....Look at the ungrateful way Kerry and Richardson returned the kindness of the Clintons towards them

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The clintons sure have a long list of ungrateful people 'Nocampaign'pls update you list to include the African American community, the misogynist,The Democratic party as a whole, the Media
how dare they not bow down to clinton, dont the know there should be ETERNALY GRATEFUL

I just sent the Obama campaign another $50. I'm averaging close to $50 every month, this month closerto $100. Its a good investment.

Hillary supporters (here anyway) are more or less threatening to ruin the country by voting for McPain if they don't get their way. That's sad.

Obama has all but won the nomination by the rules. Hillary knew the rules going in, she agreed to them. Now she doesn't. So her team screams "sexism". Sore losers will do just about anything, but they only end up sore losers. I too was a sore loser in 2000 and 2004. Not this year.

I am a former Clinton supporter, I voted for Bill twice and voted twice for her to be US Senator. She's done well in NY. She should stay here. I do not support her inher nomination bid.

Her failure to know the difference between sniper fire and a little girl reading a poem convinced me she does not have sound reasoning to be commander in chief. That is the wreckless kind of thinking that got us into Iraq... which she proved when she voted in favor of going in.

I will send Obama more money, I am sure.

Its obvious that people are voting for "Change We Can Believe In" with their wallet.

Way to go!

Obama 08

It makes me sick reading through these blogs. Hillary's supporters are as delusional as she is. The media never even touched the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Clinton scandals - so WHO received a free ride? If she were to be elected, I would move to Canada.

Obama appeals to the naive as shown by the huge crowds he gets from the youngest of our population. These kids are just one or two years out of high school, have no idea what the real world is like but get turned on by the glitz and smile of a smooth talking Barack. The other group he appeals to, and gets him his crowds and votes, is black voters. They vote for him simply because he is black! Racism?
Then of course you have the educated 'eletes'. They are mainly the educators, poets, writers and those trying to be sometype of intellectual and are bent on proving they know something every one else doesnt know..including them!
On the other hand, the vast majority of working Americans..and regular college grads which run our entire country, see through all this eleteism and know what our countries values, culture and economic policies that are best for our nation. They support McCain.

White guilt donors uncle tomming for a tax/spend liberal. As every liberal function is a failure, Obama will sink our country.

It's Over...
it's between McCain-the old sweet man with Alzheimer's
and
the fresh young Senator from Illinois with a brain...
Let the fight begin

She was for the war, before being against it. (apparently being called unpatriotic is more important then following her beliefs)
She was for Nafta, before she was against it. (Though of course she lied about it to us, then again she is a Clinton)
She was under sniper fire, before she was tired and didn't remember well.
She didn't remember well because she didn't get much sleep, but of course she is a much better person to answer that 3 am phone call.
She doesn't care what economists say, because that doesn't score her political points
Anyone remember Hsu?
Anyone remember Bill's Chinese donors?
Pardons? (I mean come on, a 2 year old could figure out the pattern there)
So tell us why would anyone want to vote for a woman who is much more worried about winning elections then she is about telling the truth?
She personifies what is wrong with Washington DC on BOTH sides of the aisle.
For those who say Obama stands for nothing, well look into his Illinois work for the legislature.
Legislation reform in Illinois and Transparency in the Senate. That is why I will vote for him.
We need to change Washington.
I mean come on, the Clintons even stripped the White House of furniture. They tried to originally leave with $190,000 dollars of "gifts". This was after Bill was selling pardons for "donations" to charity. What's next?

Mandy, have you ever BEEN to the southside of Chicago? Only an intervention from God Almighty on high could rid it of crime, drugs and poverty! Obama is just a guy who has tried, very hard, to make a difference. And he did a pretty great job, which I can say because I live in his district and have closely followed his career. The guy is for real and he really can help heal this country after the past eight years of hell. Oh, and by the way, I do have a brain. And a PhD to boot.

If Hillary does not get the nomination, I, a mainly democratic voter, will vote for McCain. Since in the last 4 elections I have voted dem, that means one vote the DNC should have gotten but did not and another vote for the republican McCain. That is like losing 2 votes that could have easily been theirs (if the DNC had put up a half way decent candidate). Obama can do what he likes, even put HRC as VP, but my vote will be McCain if Obama wins the nomination. Hillary 2008 or McCain 2008

McGovern
Dukakis
Kerry
Obama
Jeez...I don't know what to do. Maybe I should vote for a winner...Clinton. Yea.
No way Obamamamam