fucking clinton's big donors. what a bunch of entitled babies. what the hell is bill clinton doing twiddling his thumbs? why isn't he raising money for the dnc?

Wow....if true this a disaster. I am not exaggerating here.

McCain and the RNC have $95 million bucks at the end of June. $27 million of that has to be spent by early Sept because it is primary campaign funds that the McCain campaign cannot spend after the convention. This explains why McCain is likely outspending Obama right now in swing states like earlier reports indicated.

As for Obama, he ended May with about $43 million or so and the DNC had $4 million for a grand total of $47 million. Of course some of that was spent in June and so even with adding this reported $30 million, Obama could have as little as say $60 to $70 million.

We'll see probably around the filing deadline on July 20. But this is not good any way you spin it. Media expectations for June were around $100 million especially with Obama opting out for the fall campaign. The stories about this would be nothing short of disaster if this is true.

People needed a break. I made a $50 donation on June 1st, but I haven't given any money since. Obama is now paying the price for all the hand-wringing about how Hillary "had a right" to keep running until the very end. Of course she had a right, but it doesn't mean that she was right.

Every one calm down. The sky is not falling.
John McCain has had his nomination sowed up for months, so of course he was going to have a head start over Obama in rounding up contributions.

Hillary did a public appearance with Obama, for the first time, in Unity, just two weeks ago. Up until that point Senator Obama was not able to concentrate fully on widening his donor pool.

The June figures mean nothing. The results from July and August will provide a more realistic appraisal of how he is doing.

It was foolish for anyone to think that Obama was going to have a huge money advantage in the general election. McCain's still in the Republican party afterall, and their pockets are still very deep.

That said, Dems must keep the playing field as level as possible. Keep the money flowing!

Obama's got a real problem. I don't know about 'small donors', but I was a large donor for his primary campaign. I have not yet donated to his general election campaign, and I don't know yet that I will donate. I'm tremendously irked at his flip-flop on the FISA bill. I think it gained him nothing at all, and cost him a lot of credibility with the people who supported him when he needed it. Before the final vote, I sent his campaign site an email warning them that he was about to forfeit my donation, and I got a form letter reply restating his (stupid) justification for supporting the new law, and a request for money. I sent another email explaining that I wouldn't be donating unless I was brought to understand the FISA position, and I got no response. After the vote, I sent another email, this time inviting them to save my donation by (again) trying to explain his position in a way that made any sense at all. I got a form reply saying they couldn't answer all their email, they had so much, and would I please donate some money.

Now, just to put this in perspective, I donated $2,300 to his primary compaign, and I was offering $2,300 for his general campaign, and my wife is standing by with another $2,300. Perhaps they don't understand the value of not-so-big donors...?

Thiry million is nothing to sneeze at! he will be alright! It is summer time, people have other things on their minds. I suspect that come fall, he will kick butt!

Whiners.

The Obama campaign says the WSJ is "way off the mark"

Spokesman Dan Pfeiffer:

“The Wall Street Journal report of our fundraising numbers is way off the mark. It appears that after 18 months, some in the press still haven’t realized that anyone who is talking about numbers doesn’t know what our numbers are.”

That's relieving if it's true.

i went on their web site and didn't see this story any more............. anyone else experience this??????

Funny people here are surprised. When the RNC Victory Fund was announced and supported by McCain (months ago), I and others
predicted that the RNC would be rolling in money, and that what McCain actually had became secondary in importance. Which is why McCain could afford to play the "public finance" game. The RNC will do most of the advertising, leaving McCain to use his money on his own expenses and his team, etc. Whereas the DNC having no money on hand, can not take on that role for Obama. This is, of course, offset to some extent by the fact that the DCCC and DSCC have raised much more money than their Repub counterparts. But that's for Congress, not the White House. The RNC Victory Fund also demonstrates the hypocrisy of any existing campaign finance reform, including McCain's approach to it.

But I also want to encourage everyone here to not just talk about the cash but to make those small donations. What I've always feared about the netroots is that there will always be lots of talk but not always lots of action.

Step 1: Piss on the people who have been giving you money.
Step 2: ??????
Step 3: Profit!

The huge fundraising numbers for earlier months were precisely because the nomination contest was still going on. Competition between Obama and Clinton was causing people to make donations they wouldn't have made then otherwise.

My guess? The campaign didn't raise $100 million. While even I bought into the notion that it could, he'd have to do something just short of walking on water to raise that much. Even if he raised $70 million, which would be an outrageous sum, it'd look bad in comparison, because he'd raise less than he was expected to bring in even though he crushed his opponent. But what if the campaign is lowering expectations only to announce a great number, thus sort of taking the middle ground here by not being too high but also not being too low? That's what I am going with, if for no other reason than it'll put my mind at ease.

Of course, if the number does turn out to be low, it's not the end of the world. He still has a few months to go. He's doing the right thing now by collecting from all of the high-dollar fund raisers so he can focus on campaigning in the fall.

He's also doing the right thing by working on building or furthering his organization and infrastructure in the swing states. He's sending a lot of volunteers and especially paid staffers to all of the traditional swing states like Missouri and the ones he hopes to make competitive like Georgia. In the end, that'll probably off more than advertising right now would. He can always decide to carpet bomb the swing states with ads in September, but he can't make up for lost time in registering voters and building an operation.

Don't get me wrong - I'll vote for Obama. But I've never donated to a campaign before, and the only reason that I did this time was because I thought he was different, and it seems he's not that different, and I'm disappointed. I'm sure I'll get over it.

On the other issues you raised, I think Bush should have been the subject of impeachment proceedings years ago. I've written to Pelosi and Reid, and I've written to the DNC, but it doesn't seem to do any good. If the Democrats don't want to stop these wars (and they don't), and if the Democrats don't want to end these crimes (and they don't), and if the Democrats don't want to punish these 'evildoers' (and they don't), why the heck should I give them more of my money??

How exactly is $30 million underwhelming?! It's an amazingly large haul for an off month in between the Primary and the general election. Not to mention, summer is traditionally a low donor month for both parties. If Obama's $30 million is underwhelming than I wonder if they called McCain's $22 million pitiful or paltry?