Does anyone else see the problem with pandering for cash in foreign nations? Kind of has to do with loyalty. The Osama's ain't all they are cracked up to be. As much as I hate Hillary, she is definitely the lesser evil of the two.

I wonder how the Pakistani community will welcome Obama. The future invader of their country.

Mrs. Obama needs to stay home. These folks giving the cash to her in England are wasting their money and she is wasting her time. Obama is never going to win anything. He is so far removed from the race that you would think if a person had any intelliggence at all he would get out of the race and quit taking peoples money! But egotism and pride get in the way! The man hasn't got it, can't manage a ice cream stand much less be a Senator or President! I am so amazed that people will vote for most anything these days. If you can smile, shake hands and speak well you can be a Presdient, Huh????

Poor little Drudgies. By the time Nov 08 rolls around, there won't be a single Republican who hasn't been caught in lewd behavior, taking bribes, or abused children. For a party that screams so loudly about values, you sure are lacking in them. Some example you set for our children.

A Clinton? Lesser evil?

I don't like politicians getting money from overseas, but I dislike politicians getting money from criminals even less.

Another smart move by the Obama's. The enthusiam he generates worldwide is refreshing. Senator Obama will be a great president. Being affable is a good thing.

Little Austin Travis does not evidently know of the crooks running the Democrat party now in power. There is not room on this site to list all the crooked democrats, but a few would not hurt. We have Jefferson with the freezer bribe money. We have the scummy money grubbers for Hillary now first coming to light. We have a practicing homo Rangle who had a prostitution ring operating from his apartment. And every one is upset over Craig merely charged for an alleged "SIGNAL". A charge he knew would be blown all over the liberal news of ABC, NBC,CBS and CNN. Pleading guilty to a lesser charge would make sense. The democrats however have people like Travis Austin to laud and praise the democrat misdeeds and make excuses why they should stay in office and get away with more crooked activity all with the help of the MEDIA. ATTACK, ATTACK, that is all the democrats can do. 600 plus investigations and nothing done for the people. HIDE, HIDE any allegations of misdeeds of the democrats.

Is it possible that Mrs. Oboma will be selling some missle secrets for campaign cash like Clinton did with the Chinese army. It would be a terrible tragedy if she gave some American secret to the Pakistani rebels for campaign cash. Is that possible? Selling secrets happened once before. She and her husband are democrats like Clinton. I think we better watch out.

Lets comapare the parties

Republicans:Mark Foley, sent e-mails to Pages - NO PHYSICAL CONTACT. Was forced out by HIS PARTY

Sen. Craig - Immediate action from Republican leaders -strip him of Committee assignments and Ask him to resign.

Democrat: Gary Studds, HAD sex with Pages - Given several standing ovations from House Democrats.

Barney Frank - Homosexual prostitution ring run out of his appartment. Still serves as a Leader in the Democrat House.

WHICH PARTY DO YOU ENDORSE? WHICH PARTY DO YOU WANT TO REPRESENT YOU?

NOT A DIFFICULT DECISION FOR ME.

Jake, I think you meant to whine to me, not your fellow Drudgie, Austin. And I think you meant Barney Frank, not Rangel. So besides being all confused, all your whining doesn't change the fact that your party is lost. You can bring up the ONE corruption investigation against the Democrats, or decades old sex scandals all you want. The fact is, your Party's major campaign slogan revolves around Republicans having higher values than Democrats. Now your voters are seeing that is untrue and will stay home on election day. Our voters are being energized watching the GOP provide so much material for Leno/Letterman. Pretty soon, the GOP will have less power than the Green Party.

The American Presidency should not be for sale overseas. I'd rather vote for Hillary.

To:
Posted by: Chris | Aug 31, 2007 10:46:40 AM

Chris, what you really have is a bunch of crooked people and gay people who are hiding behind the Republican face. I, for one am starting to wonder if they
are plants to take down the Republican party???

Also, if there is a gay in the Democrat party he or she is lauded. If there is a gay HIDING in the Republican party the person is a hack, a criminal, a pervert. Why the double standard for gays??????

The Republican party has the Log Cabin Repulicans (if I remember right), so why would a gay hide? And don't give me that crap about discrimination. Barney Frank is the poster boy for how far the envelope can get pushed.

p.s. I am anticipating harsh words coming my way through cyberspace!

RTFA The American Presidency is not for sale overseas. This visit is for US citizens and legal resident aliens living overseas. I have worked overseas several times for US companies and have wanted to continue my involvement in the political process. I am glad to see this kind of outreach.

why are there so many idiots posting on this site? THEY CAN ONLY ACCEPT MONEY FROM AMERICANS LIVING ABROAD. They can't take money from people who are not American Citizens. So Pakistanis and Saudis and anyone else you want to talk about won't be handing Michelle Obama a check.If you give these idiots half a reason to post something ignorant and hateful they will always jump on the opportunity. If we can keep the conversation to people who actually have something of value to offer we would all be better off.

Wow... Either some of you guys posting here have a remedial reading level, or they're purposely trying to spin it as a anti-American thingy. Why don't you read the article and you'll see this is to get Americans abroad involved with the political process. They vote too!!

Don't think for a minute that the Bin Ladins didn't support their friend (thru the Carylyle Group) Bush Sr or his son. Being in the construction business, they made a lot of money on this war.

See, I can spin stuff too. And it's more believable because the connection between the Bin ladins and Bush family does exist.

Bridget, I don't care if a Republican is gay. That won't make me more or less likely to vote for him. It's not the Democrats that brand homosexuals as criminals or perverts. The reason Republicans get hurt is because their hypocrisy gets exposed, and a gay Republican damages their image in the minds of the GOP base. The Log Cabin Republicans are an extreme minority. A gay Republican has the same effect as a Pro-Bush Democrat, it makes the respective base less likely to turn out for them. If Republicans supported gay rights, being a gay Republican wouldn't be scandalous.

I have always thought that most Americans irrestpective of their up-bringing, childhood, orientation and education are fairly rational in their thinking and understanding of the life around them, but that appear to be an illusion.

When I read comments from some people ., I usually wonder the sort of brain they have inside their skull. But, I have come to understand that it's people like these who lack basic common-sense and rational reasoning that keep drawing America backward.

I think it does not require an explanation to know that a child who sits on top of his father's baloon and claim to be taller than him is in for a very hard time.

Maybe this will clear things up for you folks out there who are enraged that an American citizen living abroad wants to donate money:

These are the same people who have the right to VOTE absentee. These might be people who are STATIONED overseas in our fine military! They can be celebrities who have a second home.

Stop fretting about November 2008 in August 2007. I say all these politicians should slow down. This election cycle started too early. By the time the election rolls around everyone will be so dam tired of all the mud slinging and corruption, both parties might stay home and give up on voting.

Loser for sale; fund raiser across the pond.

There will always be idiots, stupids, jealousies, no matter what. Too bad they get to post. Michelle Obama's doing the right thing, it's fantastic she's going abroad to fundraise. You go girl, keep it up!!!

Mrs. BO is out scratchin' for cash for the Obama Nation. It makes sense. Hillary takes cash from Chinese spies, how can BO's panhandling be any worse?

I applaud Mrs. Obama for having a global mindset. For example, she sent jobs to Mexico as an executive of a pickle company. Don't we all wish we could "gain business experience" by starting out as a corporate executive?

Just the title itself makes the half-brains to double sit on their skulls."Mrs Obama crosses Pond for Cash".Ever since ABC endorsed Hilary , anything with signals of beating off their candidate is toned negative.

Half-brains already brianwashed by the likes of ABC simply tow the line.These are not only half-brains but Numskulls.Cant they simply ask themselves that if a US citizen aboad votes and participates in elections why wont he/she donates for the same elections?

Washington Insiders at work!

So we have Clinton raising money from an Indian fundraiser who is no where to be found and also a Chinese fundraiser who is wanted by California's police.

Now, we have Obama's wife going abroad to raise money.

Apparently the foreigners have learned how to influence American election.

All of You Are Being Ridiculous...

It is NOT Left vs Right or Republican V Democrat

It's Us Vs Them. Them being our Government. The Government that is stripping our liberties, preparing to microchip us, joining into illegal compacts (North American Union, google or yahoo search it - the mainstream press won't tell you about the NAU or the AMERO - the currency system that is getting set to replace American Dollars within the next five to ten years), A government that is run by private Banking concerns and small groups of powerful men.

A government that has willfully allowed our currency and economic system to become near to worthless due to the illegal Federal Reserve structure.

WAKE UP. It aint about money here or there.
All of our economies are afloat on a raft of drug profits and Credit/DEBT we will never pull ourselves from under.

That structure will sink soon.

That is, Unless we can find some new revenue streams.

Record Yields of Poppy in the world, primarily in Afghanistan... Largest amount of opium EVER HARVESTED/PRODUCED IN THE HISTORY OF THIS WORLD.

The CIA has been breaking records the past 3 years in a row.

Funny, I thought we were going to "Burn the Poppy Fields" - Former PM Tony Blair

DRUG MONEY FLOATS OUR ECONOMY.
OIL RUNS IT

WAR = GOLD
IRAQ/IRAN/SYRIA = OIL
AFGHANISTAN = DRUGS

So it IS about GOD

Just another Rockefeller controlled CFR Member wishing to finish the destruction of the US Constitution. Well, I found some old info that might help convince a few of you here that there really is a CFR Conspiracy to destroy the US Constitution, "We are about to hear a man tell us that the major tax exempt foundations have been operating to promote a hidden agenda. That agenda has nothing to do with the surface appearance of charity, good works or philanthropy. The real objective has been to influence American educational institutions and to control foreign policy agencies of the Federal Gov. The purpose of the control has been to condition Americans to accept the creation of world government. That government is to be based on the principle of collectivism, which is another way of saying socialism - and, it is to be ruled from behind the scenes by those same interests which control the tax-exempt foundations."
Norman Dodd was the staff director of the Congressional Special Committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations. Dodd was granted access to the 50 years of minutes from the Carnegie Foundation which, along with the Rockefeller Foundation, is the driving force behind the Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR is, at present, controlling our government. This is not ''Hearsay'', these are documented Congressional records.

The Chinese bought the Clinton Administration and look what that has done to our economy. I wonder who Obama is going to sell us out to. Anyone that thinks this idiot would make a good president needs to give up sniffing glue and seek professional help.

WOW!

There sure are some ignorant folks making wild accusations and statements today.

What part of AMERICANS ABROAD

Is confusing ?

THERE IS A LARGE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN ENGLAND......!!!!

Michelle O has is wrong. China is where the real money is at; just ask the Clintons.

It doesn't matter who goes overseas. The fact of the matter is that most of us Republicans are ecstatic about the prospect of a Shrillary Democratic candidacy (which undoubtedly will be the case), no matter what the hospital administrator wife of Osama does. Clinton will save the GOP. All the bitter, whiny, paranoid, pseudointellectual hypocrites on the loony left know this, and they are scared to death. Hence all the idiotic braying and insults from the lefties on this sight. Whining, sour grapes, and insults is all the adle-brained crybaby "Victimcrats" know how to do. That won't win them the presidency in 08 when they have a known corrupt candidate as thier choice.

Dear Mrs. ObamaRama,

Please stay in England for good. Oh, and take your phony pretty-boy neo-commie numbskull husband with you.

Thank you and good riddance.

It will never cease to amaze me how so-called "adults" can display such ignorance! Anyone with an IQ of a two-year old should know that foreigners cannot contribute to the American political system. However, Americans living abroad have every bit as much right (and responsibilty) to participate in our political process as do those of you who are obvilously playing with something less than a full deck. People such as Jack Carter who, in a previous post mentioned something about "Negroes". I wonder if he's racist or simply more ignorant than the rest of you who seem not to know the meaning of "American National".

Wow...I have never seen so much hatred over one little trip overseas to see...AMERICANS ABROAD. I was once an American Abroad...there are thousands such folks, most of which work for the US military, State Department, and businessmen and women who are protecting your interests abroad. I think it is great that a candidate is reaching out to those great patriotic Americans...Americans who are sacrificing far more than most who are posting on this site.

Shame on you guys!

Lots of good entertainment from the Ron Paul led, tinfoil hat wearing, North American Union scare-mongering, right wing isolationist paranoids today! And bringing back Rockefeller and the Council on Foreign Relations....wow, there's an 70's throwback!
I bet some of you still have copies of "None Dare Call it Treason" signed by John Birch himself!

Many years ago I took a course in reading comprehension and found it very rewarding in helping me to focus and internakize what I was reading. I suggest that many of the individuals responding to this article are responding to the "Headline" and not the content of the article. Read it again folks Ms. Obama is meeting with "American Citizen's" who live abroad who are interested in supporting the Senators capaign. Read the article again and this time fully and slowly then ask yourself what is you just read.

Anyone who thinks that one party is less corrupt or less anti-American-people than the other must be high on the drugs they give us. Remember, you do not have to take these drugs simply because they are on your tv and your internet and newspaper.

The law is not always obeyed and politicians (and their wives) are among the very best at finding the loop holes to avoid them. Every Muslim in the world would love to have Obama as president. They are looking for every way possible to "invest" in Obama.

Are some of you really as dense as you portray...she is not raising money from "foreigners", she is raising money from AMERICANS living abroad--that is, citizens of the United States that live in foreign countries. Get it?

If the Republicans are the party of morality, then the Dems must be the party of IMMORALITY! At least the GOP gets rid of their own bad apples, while the Democrats look the other way.

FYI: Giuliani's doing the same thing. He'll be in London on Sept. 19th.

Gay people can be and are part of the republican party. We don't have anything against gay people or black people or any minority. We just want people to be who they say they are and obey the laws. Unlike the democrats we hold our people to account for their actions.

the American government is actively involved in foreign elections with money going to either support a candidate in line with the US or to bash an opposition candidate.

crusty, power-hungry has-been machine democrats will support Hillary despite their disdain of her. Independent, forward-thinking & democracy believing people will cast a vote for Obama.

I do not support the man, or his party, but there is nothing wrong with his wife going over there and raising money if the money is coming from Americans. More power to them. It's amazing how moronic people can be with these posts. It doesn't matter what the article is about, but if they leave a comments section open you read the same garbage. Clinton this, Republicans that. No wonder you folks spew so much vile, you have let the hatred take up so much of your brain there isn't any room left for intelligence.

The whole election is scary. Obama is rumored to have muslin ties, this country is facing continuous reign by the Bush/Clinton families (28 years if Hilary wins) and a lackluster list of posibilities from both parties. There are many good people who would make a great President but they won't run because they don't want their personal lives as well as their families dredged through the mud. I can't blame them. So that leaves us with only those who have spent a lifetime preparing to hold a political office to pick from...that thought is depressing. We need someone in office who understands the people who live in this great nation...not someone who lives to run this nation.

Silly. This is all about power and status, not about money or even running for President. What we Americans accept is so, well, low to put it blandly.

Let's stop with the name calling, ok? We did read the article. We are skeptical that all the money that is donated will have been contributed by Americans with a legal right to do so.

If you wonder why we are skeptical, look at the current news on the Hillary fundraising imbroglio in California. Tell me, do you believe those people living in that house donated their own money to Hillary?

Some say Bush is tail to the Saudi's dog. Could be, I don't think any of these people are really looking out for my interests ahead of their own. It helps to keep them under close scrutiny and on a short leash.

There are not so many Americans living in England that an emissary has to go over there to collect their money.

This shows serious lack of judgment.

thank you Jon. it's very comforting knowing you have just as much the right to vote as me. wow.

Hey Cris , don't worry about our Values worry about your own . Ever heard of Barnny Frank ? D-Ma he had a teenage boy Call Boy service in his townhouse . ever heard of Gerry Studds ? D-Ma he took a 17 yr. old page to morroco for sex , evidently anal sex with boys is legal there .

Jay do you think that that woman won't take money from anybody who would give it ?

Come on folks you looking at a junior senator with no experience that wants to be president of the USA with no credentials at all, and he is a MUSLIM by birth, this guy is a ZERO, where are the real leaders? What has he acomplised as a Senator what leadership role has he played? ZERO Just like The fundraising scandal queen Hillary ZERO leadership 100% BS! This guy get us killed he is so far left of any candidate, and is running on that he is black, pure MEDIA BS! My mother told me never trust any Democrats or Muslim period!

I think it should be noted that corruption doesn't affiliate with a party... it's all over the place.

Ron Paul for President (take a look Drommm... there still may be hope)

It constantly amazes me to see how polarized the two major parties have managed to make the US. As long as the electorate keeps chasing their own tails, nothing will ever change. Here we have a serious lightweight candidate whose wife is going abroad to raise money, which is simultaneously the dumbest and most desperate thing a candidate could do. Then we have some Craig supporters defending his disgusting actions. Then the Democrat folks jump in with more attacks on other Republican transgressors, while failing to realize that many of their own have serious stains on their records as well. Folks, it's time for all of us to wake up, stop getting into pissing contests on blogs and realize that neither of the major political parties have any of our best interests at heart. Sadly, I cannot even recommend someone like Ron Paul as a serious alternative since he's basically just straddling the hot button issues that both major parties try to avoid and even if elected could never accomplish anything because of the lock that the two major parties still have on the rest of the political meat grinder. Sadly, we're in a spot where if we as the electorate don;t begin to take on serious activist measures to fix the political system, the phrase "Late Great America" will become reality within 30 years. And there's no amount of "My party is great...you party sucks" traditional party loyalty that can help to fix the problem. Doing such things is only wasting enormous amounts of activist energy, which is precisely what the major parties hope you'll keep doing. Please, please, please, get off you *sses and take some real action in the real world and stop wasting time parroting the taking points of whichever major party you've decided to carry the water for. The future of America is in your hands, and neither of the major parties has any of your best interests at heart, continuing to support them like so many in the blogosphere do only seals our fate.

Regardless of whether it is the Obama, Clinton, Gulliani, Thompson or whatever campaign, I find this highly disturbing.
It is simply too easy to disguise these off-shore contributions.
As we have seen with Hsu and with Tony Rezko (a major early Obama supporter who helped fund the Obama family's home purchase as well as possibly helping Mrs. Obama obtain a lucrative Board seat at TreeHouse Foods, is a naturalized citizen born in Syria and now under Federal indictment for loan fraud) as well as with several GOP'rs in the past, there are terrible temptations and fertile ground to generate divided loyalites and incentives to engage in corrupt deals with corrupt people.

I would totally agree with you MiddleClassLonely, but I would be open to any suggestions that you have for making this country move forward...
save violence... as I'm not sure I'm ready to resort to that... which is what you seem to suggest has to be done.

Harsh words for a guy with an indelible character. Many of these other politicians would like to be Barrack. But guess what they can't. So please save the bad rhetoric for another day. Mrs Obama have a nice trip to LONDON and say hello to the Queen GOD BLESS AMERICA

Another DEMOCRAT looking for foreign
money to help them get power in "..our."
country. Michelle would do well to stay
at home and take note on how other well
known and loved Democrat wives acted.
Mrs. Truman was really loved by all.
Mrs. John Kennedy was a real lady.

Then too we have the FLOOZY DEMOCRAT
WIVES LIKE HILLARY OR ROSILAND CARTER
WHO WANTED AND NEEDED THAT LITTLE SPURT
OF POWER AND THEIR WEAK HUSBANDS WERE
WILLING TO GIVE IT TO THEM

Everyone is saying the Americans living abroad have the right to contribute. Fine. But just remember it was the Democrats during the 2000 election that tried to keep military votes from being counted. Google it. Personally I believe that neither of the two party's we have now should be trusted. It is the RIGHT of the CITIZENS to grant power to the government, not the government to grant us rights.

Of course you can take money from overseas interest they don't have to be American. Just get paid a large amount to give a speech. i.e. former President Bill Clinton. It's legal bribery.

Remember people, The USA is not alone in the world. Other countries have a right to help decide who will be the leader of the only superpower. And since most people in the world are smarter than Americans, they will certainly pick either Hillary or Obama or both. The only two real leaders in the Western hemisphere are already endorsing them. And with Chavez' oil money and Castro's political wisdom, there is no way the republicans will win again. Get over it people. Your nationalistic xenophobia is pointless. It's one world.

Not an Obama fan, but someone commented that there aren't that many Americans in England. When I lived there from '02 to '04, word was there were ~250K Americans, most pure business ex-pats who make a good bit of money.

I was disappointed to be ignored by the Republican congress (which I voted for) when Grassley et al tried to remove the Ex-pat exemption (which prevents double taxation for the first $80K). I think its good that politicians don't forget about some of the best and brightest overseas.

I have always thought that most Americans irrestpective of their up-bringing, childhood, orientation and education are fairly rational in their thinking and understanding of the life around them, but that appear to be an illusion.

When I read comments from people here called human beings, I usually wonder the sort of brain they have inside their skull. But, I have come to understand that it's people like these who lack basic common-sense and rational reasoning that keep drawing America backward.

I think it does not require an explanation to know that a child who sits on top of his father's baloon and claim to be taller than him is in for a very hard time.

American's living overseas are still american's. they can vote and contribute to their candidate. Remember, all our soldiers station abroad are overseas, as well.

Let everyone vote for and support the candidate of their choice. there is no doubt that Obama will improve our image overseas and will be the best candidate to enlist the needed international cooperation that can defeat global terrorism.

Ron Paul Supporter:

I actually would really, really like to see violence avoided. However, if folks don't wake up to how much the major parties have put us against each other to short circuit all of our own well intended efforts, I fear that an American Revolution 2.0 will have to be the ultimate outcome. The reality is that the common American doesn't have single ally from either national party at this point.

As an example, the Republicans screwed up just about everything that they could do in the last 12 years of their and the the Democrats came in, swept by a popular revolt and have failed to do anything that they promised, including fix anything at all in Iraq. Even their own folks rate them with a terrible approval rating, yet they continue to be in power, doing nothing at all for the regular guy. In a company, if us regular folks behaved that way, we'd be fired, downsized, outsourced, even if we had the strongest union in the world protecting our redundant position int eh company What does it take to wake the electorate up?!?! The folks that run our country don't give a hoot about any of us. Do we want to continue to visit Drudge Report and DailyKOS and hope for the best or do we want to take our unlimited collective energy and make a real, lasting change?

I'm sure that the founding fathers didn't think that it would take the American Revolution (1.0) to get the results they were seeking back in the day in Boston. But when the time came and they knew that there were no further options, they did what had to be done.

However, we're dangerously close to the same kind of flashpoint that they experienced in the 1770s. If the national lawmakers don't have some sort of epiphany, they will only continue to fuel the fire and bring an end to America as it should be.

It's not about being a Republican or being a Democrat like they'd like to define the discussion, it's about being a True American.

And if the major parties continue to focus all their efforts on opinion polls that drive the next elections rather than the long run future of our republic, I hope the end will be very swift and painful for them.

For the rest of us, we MUST quickly find common ground and decide that we're done with being polarized and pandered to by the parties that once served our very needs. Common ground WILL NOT be found be any of our modern political candidates, no matter what they claim. They've abandoned us by the side of the road, do we want to accept that or decide to take back power and shape our own future?

Politics in the modern era can indeed be different but if we continue to let the talking points (ie, the worthless time wasting minutiae) of the major parties drive the discussion and waste all of our efforts, we deserve the outcome that's they've already destined for all of us.

Time to choose folks, do we want to make a real difference or be "comfortable" one upping each other in the blogosphere?!?! If you decide blogging is your only outlet, then you deserve what you get. It's High Time to hold all their feet to the fire and build the future of America before it's all taken away from us.

You can always count on a drudge link to bring in the worst possible kind of human beings to a discussion.

Hahaha,

Jim is just more cannon fodder for the major political parties.

Well done Jim!

The very sad thing about our form of government (which, for those of you schooled in government schools, is NOT a democracy) is that it directly reflects the intelligence level of it's voters...the "average" american is a moron.

If Sen. Obama was white he would be a second tier candidate with people questioning his lack of experience, his puzzling statements (attack Pakistan anyone?) and his general lack of gravitas. His skin color gives him a pass on all of that because Democrats need to pander but the country at large doesn't have that same obligation and as the camapign heats up the Senator's deficits will also continue to rise.

I am constantly amazed by the pathetic attacks on drudge by the silly liberals who claim to be intelligent. You do realize that drudge links to, for the most part, mainstream sources and as I recall was rated by UCLA school of journalism (a liberal school, without a doubt) as being one of the most NON-PARTISAN news sources... yet you silly liberals just keep flapping your gums like you have some kind of a clue.

MiddleClass - you are just about dead on in as far as the sorry sacks that we have foolishly allowed to 'lead' us (regardless of party) could care less about us and have spent the better part of the last 30 years dividing this country.
The only real answer is to vote out every single incumbent, period! Start fresh in both the house and the senate. The president has very little real power, it's Congress and THEY ARE THE PROBLEM!

My father worked for the State Department and the CIA, and we spent quite a bit of my childhood overseas. Just because we didn't live in the US didn't make us any less of a citizen. Good for Mrs. Obama.

And the rest of you??

Oh, and I forgot...
Those of you supporting Obama and his wife's trip across the sea, are you not at all familiar with all of the money being poured into campaign coffers from non-US sources? Anyone, ANYONE who does a simple search going back through the last 8-10 election cycles could easily find the information. Now, of course they're going to say they are holding fund raisers for Americans abroad but please don't be so naive as to think foriegn money won't be collected. Both partys do it and to claim that 'they' are above it is foolish.

Obama is an empty suit with no chance of winning, Hillary is just a power hungry, un-qualified, poor excuse for a candidate... and having said that, you'll notice that Republicans/conservatives aren't too thrilled with our choices either. Most presidential elections are the lessor of two evils, this election will be more of the same only this time we have quite possibly the worse set of potential candidates in the history of our country. As someone mentioned above, the good people, the people who would actually represent you and I will not run because the mainstream media and the other candidates will drag up every single piece of garbage and make up a bunch more. Why put your family through the embarrassment of some mistakes you made when you were 18, 22, etc being aired in the public.

I am constantly amazed by these people who jump on a candidates bandwagon and defend them so vehemently and vigorously, they are the truly naive and foolish amongst us.

DJH

I totally agree with you. "Throw all the bums out" is the only way to go. And it's certainly a great rallying call. Either that works or things continue to fester until the point at which Revolution (2.0) is the only other choice.

Admittedly, I'd rather not have to even think about Revolution(2.0) but the current state of political affairs leaves the American electorate completely unrepresented. I only hope that something changes quickly so we can get to the path to a solution rather than continue to fester until Revolution (2.0) is the only options. The clock is ticking for all patriotic Americans.....

MiddleClass, I assume you're referring to why our country went to Hell in a handbasket so quickly after the last "election", & the "average" American morons who elected him, hmmmm?

Obama's wife going overseas for contributions. Why? Don't they have the address to send contri's to from over there?

Isn't ANYONE more than a little offended that some newbie like Obama would even ATTEMPT to run our country?

Thanks for offering, but no thanks.

Besides, ALL he is, is Operah's little toy power play for the White House, & NOTHING more.

Wake up.

yea obama:....group. listen, if brain-dead bush can be president, then anyone can.

dont forget that bush didnt even have experience when he lived in texass. everthing he did there was like everything else they do in tijuana-mexico (taco/burrito/etc) so far, he hasn't had any pain from what he has caused the american people, because he doesnt have a brain to have pain.

anyone can be president, expecially if they have good men like rumsfield/cheny/rove. they do all the thinking for the white house.......

I have always thought that most Americans irrestpective of their up-bringing, childhood, orientation and education are fairly rational in their thinking and understanding of the life around them, but that appear to be an illusion.

When I read comments from people like Jim, Jane, Austin T, James, and those like them who regard themselves as human beings, I usually wonder the sort of brain they have inside their skull. But, I have come to understand that it's people like these who lack basic common-sense and rational reasoning that keep drawing America backward.

I think it does not require an explanation to know that a child who sits on top of his father's baloon and claim to be taller than him is in for a very hard time.

Ron Paul Supporter:

I actually would really, really like to see violence avoided. However, if folks don't wake up to how much the major parties have put us against each other to short circuit all of our own well intended efforts, I fear that an American Revolution 2.0 will have to be the ultimate outcome. The reality is that the common American doesn't have single ally from either national party at this point.

As an example, the Republicans screwed up just about everything that they could do in the last 12 years of their and the the Democrats came in, swept by a popular revolt and have failed to do anything that they promised, including fix anything at all in Iraq. Even their own folks rate them with a terrible approval rating, yet they continue to be in power, doing nothing at all for the regular guy. In a company, if us regular folks behaved that way, we'd be fired, downsized, outsourced, even if we had the strongest union in the world protecting our redundant position int eh company What does it take to wake the electorate up?!?! The folks that run our country don't give a hoot about any of us. Do we want to continue to visit Drudge Report and DailyKOS and hope for the best or do we want to take our unlimited collective energy and make a real, lasting change?

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