Someone is jealous...

His argument is dumb. Obama is raising more more money than us. He most tell us how he is doing it so we can copy him. What is his secret.

The more they are pushing this line, the more offended I am, as I take it as an insult for ordinary people. And I know I'm not alone feeling this way.

Um, I smell the stench of sour grapes.

The real question, of course, is whether the press will mindlessly repeat these allegations?

Come on, Mr Davis, is this the best you can do? Really, you had better find a more effective line than that or else you might as well return to your day job. You are playing in the big leagues now; these minor league pitches you are trying to throw are not going to win the game for you.

McSlime is behaving as the young people describe " Hater"...lol

I wish they'd let me explain this to them cause I could explain it. I know somewhat how this is working since they divided up one of my donations in order to bring in 6 new matching donors at amounts of less than $100 - I got emails from 6 actual people/couples who had sent in $25 to $50 to match my 150.

If McCain really cared, I'd be happy to explain what I know about it.

Of course he's going to attack this money - what else can he do?

So allow me to get this straight. Even though we don't know who donated what as far as half of Obama's contributions go, we have reason to suspect there may be some funny activity. Why? Well, because there's bound to be something funny going on, right?

Why are we supposed to care who donates something that is so small that it's not required to be disclosed? Who the hell is going to curry favor with a small donation? Is Obama actively courting the donations of unsavory elements of society?

I have a compromise for Davis. If McCain is willing to reveal all of the people that donated to his campaign before he accepted public financing, Obama should be willing to do the same. It might take some time, but McCain himself could take up the matter. Something tells me that he'll have more time on his hands after November 4.

I do have one serious question: is the $200 threshold for total donations, or for individual donations that have gone over that limit? I've made many donations to Obama, but I believe they have all been less than $75. In total, they'd be a few hundred dollars, but I have yet to see my name pop up on any public information sites.

Hey Davis, if it helps solve the mystery at all, I confess to sending another $25 last month.

It goes towards their message of Obama is shady, he's "not who you think he is", he's cheating first with ACORN, and now with his donation numbers.

Obama seems to be crawling across the finish line again, or simply trying to run the clock out.

Folks say they don;t like negative attacks/messages, but it's also proven that they work.

When is the last time Obama personally controlled the message? Was the terse letter to Mulkasey all the "pushback" he planned over ACORN?

Why isn't he throwing bombs of his own? where if the offense?

Maybe Warren Buffett spent his September sitting at a pc donating $25 at a time until he reached $150 million.

I gave $50 bucks a month for 6 months. Does that mean since I'm a big-time influence buyer that I get to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom?

I'm going to a conference in DC in the spring and that's cheaper than the Holiday Inn so I'm glad I helped buy this election!

Russia's permanent mission to the UN has received a letter from U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain asking for financial support of his election campaign, the mission said in a statement on Monday.

"We have received a letter from Senator John McCain with a request for a financial donation to his presidential election campaign. In this respect we have to reiterate that neither Russia's permanent mission to the UN nor the Russian government or its officials finance political activities in foreign countries," the statement said.

According to Ruslan Bakhtin, press secretary of the Russian mission, the letter dated September 29 and signed by McCain, was addressed to Vitaly Churkin, Russia's envoy to the UN, and arrived on October 16.

The ambassador's title was not included in the letter, and was not clear why the letter had taken over two weeks to arrive.

Enclosed was a request for a donation of up to $5,000 to McCain's election campaign to be returned with a check or permission to withdraw the money from the donor's credit card until October 24.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081020/117842524.html

Terrific piece by David M. Green @counterpunch on why the Repugs are toast.

If you sat down with a pen and paper and tried to invent a more thorough litany of failure on the right’s watch, you’d be hard pressed to top what they’ve actually done. I suppose inadvertently nuking all the major cities of the United States would be worse, but I can’t think of much else. The simple truth is that the regressive movement took a great and proud and prosperous country and ran it into the ditch at 130 miles an hour. Worse yet, for them – and unlike the bad old years of Willie Horton, or invading Panama, or Clinton’s faux scandals – the public isn’t fooled anymore. They had already caught on to the game, in large part, a few years back, which is why Bush has been moribund in the absolute cellar of job approval ratings for almost the entirety of his second term. Things were already tough for the black hats, but then this economic crisis came and walloped people severely, right in the wallet. One thing about Americans – they’re seriously selfish. You take away their reputation and their liberties and their democracy and they might – might! – vote against you. You take away their money, they’ll rip your fucking lungs out, Bro.

And if John McCain seems particularly short on breath of late, that’s why. There’s nothing quite like the total absence of breathing organs to put a crimp in your respiratory function.

Read the whole article:

http://www.counterpunch.com/green10202008.html

It's a beaut...

I went to a Obama fundraising party a few weekends ago...about 25 of us ponied in $20 here, $40 or $50 there (welcome to the reality-based economy). In the end we contributed around $850 to the campaign. Pretty good, almost a grand.

THAT is what's going on. People can't afford a lot, but are giving what they can - because they can't afford another four years of looking at McCain, the horse's ass.

This is another one of those totally transparent "Let's make you fearful of what you claim not to understand" concepts that the GOP is rolling out so effortlessly.

630,000 NEW donors in September.

That's no secret, Ricky, that's called gettin' your ass handed to you.

Hey Rick,
You want my name and address?? No problem - you just convinced me to donate another $100 to Obama and go over the $200 limit.

Do you know why Obama raised $150 million in Sept? Because you're running such a sleazy campaign! The McCain crap is pushing people to Obama - Keep up the good work Rick!!

Another shot from the McCain popgun. Seriously, is that all they've got? This gets more pathetic by the day.

You just don't get it. You, your candidate, Ms Palin, Ms Bachman and all those up and down the line. Every time one of you opens their mouth I, and many like me, open my wallet. Keep talking.

Yea, there's something up alright. It's McLames TIME!

How dare the American people exercise their First Amendment rights on behalf of a Democrat?!

I can't decide if this is more of their "let's throw all the mud we can think of at Obama in the hope that some of it will stick" effort, or if it's just another sign of how totally out of touch they are with what voters are thinking.

I'm thinking it's the latter, though. They seem incapable of realizing that there are hundreds of thousands of us who are so galvanized by the possibility of restoring decency and competence to the presidency that we scrape up $10 or $25 or $50 for the Obama campaign whenever we can, as often as we can, and that's how this "mysterious" fundraising success has occurred. I know I've literally lost track of how many times I've donated, despite having had gigantic expenses the past few months, and I know I'm far from alone. The problem for the McSame campaign is that no one is excited enough to do the same, no matter how many times he and Bible Spice invoke Bill Ayers or socialism or whatever the smear tactic of the week may be.

Just donated another $100, while keeping both middle fingers extended in the general direction of McPalin. Wasn't easy to type without middle fingers.

I guess, according to rat face, a donation is only valid if it's buying $12,500 a plate dinner seats.

Have we already forgotten about McCains own fundraising irregularities (which, from what I gather, have never been resolved)? Personally, I am inspired by a candidate that has managed to get enough of us to toss in 5$ or 20$ to run a huge and successful campaign. McCain's desire to limit donations to those who can afford to donate more is unsurprising.

I wonder whether it's just another case of projection (I've thought the same of the voting fraud allegations).

Wonder what the McCain books look like these days? Think he finds it easy to get any big loans?

Some insight into why that $150M in September is driving the McCain Campaign insane:

DailyKos: McCain running out of money, Part 2!!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/20/102411/64/426/636226

Numbers look bleak for McCain. And with Mitchy in trouble in KY, some of that RNC money might be needed elsewhere.

Nate at the 538 keeps pointing out that McCain needs to turn around the National Polling Numbers since he's got such bad numbers in so many states. Obama has too many firewalls at the moment for them *all* to fall even if the numbers in a few states turn around. It needs to be a "wave" heading in the direction of McCain.

How does one turn things around nationally? Other than a Big Obama Screw Up or an October Surprise, it takes massive amounts of National Spending.

Over there you have Obama and his $150M+.

Here you have McCain and the RNC with their $30 or so.

How does one turn the national tide with that gap?

Obama can double it Nationally, and then on top of it zero in on local ads for local issues - SS in Florida, Jobs in OH & MI & PA, Ethanol in Iowa, etc.

That's why the McCain campaign is bitching. They're lock into a low number. They've got to call out the 527's, but the clock is even ticking on that.

John

Every time Rick Davis opens his mouth, I send in another 'secret' donation.

Keep it up, Rick, and I'm gonna need that tax refund President Obama's gonna give me.

You won't qualify, unfortunately, as you're rich as well as being an insufferable prick.

Karma.

Another good item off Kos, this one from Markos:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/20/124441/86/287/636373

John

You know... we need to start a Rick Davis Is A Prick thread since there's an endless supply of his slime:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/20/rick-davis-were-rethinkin_n_136173.html

John

I sure will give another $ 250 this month...Probabably $ 100 in the next few days and another $150 at the end of month...

These bad seeds need to go...Enough!!!