Everybody take a long, deep breath. Forget the beer…none of us will ever, ever sit down and have even a glass of water with the next President of this great USA. Think about the last year 8 years, think about the lies uncovered about Iraq and the 4,000+ lives lost. Not to mention the bazillions of dollars this has cost YOU AND I. Think about how WE ALL will be bailing out the real elites running Lehman, AIG, Fannie Mae. We need someone who will NEVER EVER let predatory lenders back in our system of fulfilling the American Dream> Regardless if you’re a CEO, a secretary, a dayccare provider, a stay-at-home parent, blue collar worker/white collar worker-we’re Americans. Don’t we deserve better than this?? Repeat this question to yourself. Make an intelligent, well informed decision. I, personally, can only see one candidate who I feel has a better shot at helping me - GO OBAMA!!!

In your text below, you go out of your way to clear Obama, but never mention the TRASH mentioned about Gov.Palin’s daughter.
Palin has more in her resume than the D’s head of the ticket, daaaaaa.
Can’t help the facts are the facts. The fact that the Dem’s are scared, gives me a warm fuzzy.
By the way aren’t the Dem’s the majority? Think about the current public polls on the job congress is doing? Hasn’t Biden been there longer than McCain?
Speaking of Biden, remember what he said about Obama? His words are true.
I thought Hillary while the first lady had a sour mug. Take a look at Michele, OMG, you can see the BITTERness written on her face.
The post above (”WHERE DID OBAMA’S MONEY COME FROM?”) is a lie. Maureen Dowd did not write that article, and the assertions of the piece are false.

Snopes provides more information:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/don ations.asp

In an ideal world, the comment should either be removed, or the poster should acknowledge that it is incorrect. But in this slash-and-burn era of modern politics, I’m sure he’s moved on to post this nonsense on hundreds of other sites.

- Posted by Sean

It looks like we may end up with the president elected by Chinese and Saudi money. Please read the fallowing:

Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper’s Washington bureau since 1986. She has covered four presidential campaigns and served as White House correspondent. She also wrote a column, “On Washington,” for The New York Times Magazine.

Ms. Dowd joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter in 1983. She began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for The Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan re porter and feature writer. When the Star closed in 1981, she went to Time magazine.

Born in Washington D.C. , Ms. Dowd received a B.A. degree in English literature from Catholic University ( Washington , D.C. ) in 1973.

WHERE DID OBAMA’S MONEY COME FROM???????
Subject: New York Times Editorial
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: June 29, 2008
Go to Columnist Page

Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating
OBAMA’S TROUBLING INTERNET FUND RAISING
Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I have received during this election cycle came this week from one of the Obamaâ’s campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obama’s internet fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far. That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history and this was all from the internet campaign.

What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no rules that can’t be broken and no ethics that prevail.

Obama’s internet campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking , lists saved from previous party campaigns and from supporters who visited any of the Obama campaign web sites.

Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet campaign staff were more than pleased by the results.

Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security monitors began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of transmission it was clear these donations were programmed by a very sophisticated user.

While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due to firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly from individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and bank electronic funds transfers. The internet service providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia , Iran , and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia .

Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a similar pattern of limited credit card charges.

It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources other than American voters. This was discussed at length within the campaign and the decision was made that none of these donations violated campaign financing laws.

It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific credit card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of these internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative basis of many small donations. They also found the record keeping was not complete enough to do it anyway.

This is a shocking revelation.

We have been concerned about the legality of bundling contributions after the recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may have an even greater problem.

I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started to come out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so.

If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that happen?

I believe the Obama campaign’s internet fund raising needs a serious, in depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of internet fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws to insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit as well.

IS IT RIGHT FOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO HAVE AN INVESTMENT IN WHO BECOMES OUR NEXT PRESIDENT??? IF YOU ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH THIS, PLEASE PASS IT ON.

The fact that the NY Times allowed this to be printed is amazing in itself

Obama is not fit to be our commander&chief.his past friends prove that.McCAINS vp is more experinced then obama lukewrm old man of a vp