I do think their fundraising was below par. Probably $35 to $38 million in June.

I was in such a panic yesterday that I sent in a goodly part of my planned contribution to the Genghis Fundraiser!

I made a donation again yesterday.
Keep the money rolling in!

All talk, flufferwink, nothing but promises most of which will turn out to be empty. And the candidate himself has trained me not to believe that his talk will translate into action.

(I'll hold my nose and vote for him, don't worry.)

If it's "way off," they should just announce the numbers and be done with it. I hate this waiting game nonsense.

And hey, liberal whiners who are following kos's lead and acting petulant, I wish you could be forced to live with a McCain administration while the rest of us benefit from Obama's administration. Alas, only in my dreams.

Since the primaries have ended, a lot of the infighting among the Dems has died down (PUMAs and GOP trolls aside). But that shift has also come with a price – literally. Barack Obama continues to out-fundraise McCain (although not by enough, according to the WSJ), but given the MSM’s ongoing determination to ignore McCain’s repeated gaffes, memory lapses and inability to hold the same position for more than an hour at a time, Obama supporters can’t afford to rest on their laurels.

Remember the GE in 2000? I really didn’t think the election would be at all close. Bush was so plainly ignorant (and proud of it); I thought that all but the dimmest bulbs would have to vote for any other candidate, regardless of some bizarro-world idea of “charisma.” But the low-information voters made their decisions based on which guy they wanted to have a beer with, not who was actually capable of best representing the nation. As much as I’d like to believe that won’t be the case this time around, the current campaign coverage makes it clear that the MSM is most comfortable with the tried-and-true memes of Democratic flip-floppery and elitism, vs. Republican “strength” and commitment to “real Americans.”

The only way to battle this is by engaging as many people as possible in discussions about who Barack Obama is and what he stands for. We can work to get out the vote, to raise awareness of the issues on which McCain and Obama differ, and to point out the dishonesty and ugliness of the right’s efforts to paint anyone with whom they disagree as “European,” weak, and/or an arugula-eating, over-educated, condescending snob.
But Obama needs money – a lot of it - to fight the GOP, plain and simple. I urge every Obama supporter in a position to do so to make a donation (or another donation, such as the case may be), no matter how small. The lesson of 2000 is that we can’t afford to become complacent, simply because the other guy is so plainly unable to speak or think coherently. Like it or not, money matters – and we need to keep our eyes on the prize. We can’t afford another Republican administration (if for no other reason than the impact on the SCOTUS, the Justice Dept. and the rest of the judicial system). I donated another $100 last night, and will continue to do so as frequently as possible. Let’s do what we can to prevent the MSM from spinning Obama’s fundraising as “underwhelming.”

Here’s to November, and the opportunity to see one of the greatest politicians of our time finally take the reins, and begin the process of rebuilding what the current administration has spent the last two terms tearing down.

You do know who recently bought the Wall Street Journal, don't you? Now you will see it acting more like The FUX SPEWS NETWORK. This is just the first example of what you can expect from here on. Murdoch will have the Wall Street Journal making up shit like this about Obama and Democrats from now on.

As an aside, I just heard that the O Team will be sponosoring a NASCAR car. This should help with the KY and WV folks.

But, but, but, we already had the gym decorated for a good big ol' Democrat Chicken Little Dance. Invitations had gone out and people were setting up and the band was doing soundchecks and everything . . .

Easy way for him to solve this problem, report the numbers. They have the info, just report it already, one way or the other. I would have rather seen a statement of the numbers as opposed to this statement, which only leads to more handwringing.

If you really want to contribute to un-fsking the country, vote for Obama- but give your hard-earned cash to progressive Congressional candidates.

Those Congressional candidates, by the way, are hurting for cash due to all the money sucked up by the long primary campaign and Hillary's fundraising to pay the debts her stupidly mismanaged campaign accrued.

even if he did raise 30 mil its still more then the 22 mil that mccain raised. as far as the rnc and dnc, the dnc needs to get their funraising together because they should be ashamed by their numbers

McCain lies about voting record for veterans

Neither will Obama plus the current Congress.

That's the objective in this election, more Democrats in Congress and a Democratic president. Obama looks to be having a strong down ticket effect so it is possible to have both.

Whatever Obama's numbers are for the month of June, I'm sure the numbers have noticeably faded in July.

But does anyone doubt that HAD Obama maintained Sen. Dodd or Sen. Feingold position on this FISA Bill, that the netsroot money would have been flowing in like an artisan well of wealth right now?

And it's too bad that so many bloggers were so beleaguered by Obama's stance on this FISA Bill that they fell to act in time, in order to force Obama enbloc to walk back his FISA position for his own good.

I mean Josh Marshall wanted his readers to chill out and drink a brew but that's just burying your head Ostrich like to pretend it isn’t really happening.

AT this point, the fix is in, the damage is done, there isn't anyway that Obama can walk back his FISA mistake, anyway Obama is far to egotistical to ever admit he made this massive mistake, even if he loses this election due to a lack of funding because of it.

And it's certainly not like Obama can expect AT&T or Verizon to bail him out either so FISA stance makes no sense. Right now you know that Bush is laughing at Obama and saying, "Thank YOU idiot".

I agree with Steve LaBonne. Supporting candidates just because they are Democrats is no longer working for our country. We need to support the candidates who will support us. And that means more than standing up for issues. Those of you who throw out laundry lists of issues as the rationale for supporting Obama just don't get it. We must care more about the values that candidates demonstrate than the issues that they pay lip-service to. Case in point: the FISA bill that has gotten Obama into hot water with Kos and many other progressives is an instance where he showed that he was not willing to stick his neck out to protect our 4th amendment rights. This is a big red flag to progressives that perhaps Obama does not share our values. If he won't fight for us in the Senate, we won't fight for him in the fundraising arena.

The silver lining in all of this is that the 2008 election will have succeeded in an important basic mission regardless of how much more money Obama raises between now and the election, and regardless of whether he beats McCain. The fundraising success that Obama has enjoyed through the primary process, when he was undeniably the darling of us 'radical' left-wingers, sends a message loud and clear that politicians don't have to become the servants of corporations and other special interests in order to raise enough money to compete in elections. Obama has shown that if you can appear authentically liberal, there is plenty of money that middle class liberals can give to a campaign through small internet donations. This will encourage many politicians to consider weaning themselves from their corporate masters, and will also encourage many people to consider careers as honorable politicians who would otherwise shun the profession out of distaste for the need to raise money from the very powers that oppose the progressive movement.

Steve LaBonne is correct in his comment above regarding where to send our political donations. The best thing we can do is give money to candidates who we trust to fight for the progressive agenda, at all levels of government. And keep them on a short leash. When candidates demonstrate that they do not share our values, as Obama is doing lately, then we turn down the money flow and they will get the picture. If we really want change in our government, we have to care more about the behavior of the politicians than what party they identify with.

Of course Obama will be a better president than McCain. But now is the only time when we have any leverage over him to influence his behavior. He can count on all our votes, be he has to demonstrate that he deserves our money by supporting our progressive values.

Two words: Supreme Court

*against

wonder if all those reports about his monstrous fundraising made potential donors complacent

and that whole - "I'm not headed to the Center, I've been there all along" thingy combined with complacency to hurt their efforts

Plus releasing the $ tells the McC camp how much $ they have. The longer they delay the actual #s the longer they keep McC guessing.
The fact that McC is releasing his #s means he is worried - and he is trying to reassure everyone that things are just fine thank you.

Remember back in the primaries when HRC released her boffo numbers to gin up some good press and then Obama released his staggering ones and drank her milkshake. Since then Obama stopped releasing #s until he had to.

Michael A,

I don't understand your comment. I worked very hard and gave a lot of money to help Obama win the primary. I want Obama to be the next President, and I believe that the best path to the White House is for him to stand up strong and defend the Constitution, rather than falling into the trap of behaving like many of our spineless Congressional Democrats. Can't we be supportive of Obama and critical of his FISA vote at the same time? What leads you to the conclusion that Obama would get "slammed in November" if he had voted to uphold the rule of law in the FISA case?

Our constitutional professor nominee has supported the Bush administrations efforts to gut the 4th amendment, while tearing down the wall between church and state, and thinks maybe we don't use the death penalty quite enough, while musing about the limitations of Roe v Wade and re-thinking the 2nd amendment. Can anyone say, warmed-over Republican?
A must more important use of donations is to support the ACLU's efforts to stop the police state trend now.

To those everywhere that fell for hope, audacity, change, and new politics, just when do you realize you have been had? While I was not a big Bill Clinton supporter, the fairy-tale warning was there. But then who thinks, when there is hope?

What Obama takes in this month is not what is critical. What is critical is whether his ATM machine at the Internet is still working -- the folks who sent him the price of two movie tickets without giving it much more thought than that may have stopped giving.

This may account for his sudden decision to hold high dollar events.