Baracky’s so beholden to the proles that he will never sell them out, right?
Nearly 100 wealthy families and power couples contributed at least $100,000 each to help Barack Obama over the past two years, creating an elite set of donors to whom the president-elect repeatedly turned in financing his campaign, transition and inauguration, a Washington Post analysis shows.
As inaugural donations become public, a list of Obama’s most loyal backers has emerged, pointing to his success with a system that allows supporters to give maximum amounts on several occasions and to multiple committees.
The families gave to as many as five committees, records show, and 27 of the 94 families also bundled money from others, collecting millions of dollars on top of their personal donations.
Among the supporters were well-known families such as the Rockefellers, as well as lesser-known backers such as New Yorker Frank Brosens, a leader in the hedge fund industry, who raised $500,000 for Obama’s campaign and inauguration in addition to the $182,000 he gave with his wife, parents and three sons.
“I told them it’s going to be a passion for me, and I’d like for them to get involved,” Brosens said.
The $100,000 group stands in stark contrast to the grass-roots campaign that Obama’s team has waged over the Internet, through which small donors, giving $200 or less, made up about a quarter of Obama’s campaign revenue. Small donors are still receiving e-mails directing them to the inaugural Web site, where they are asked for contributions of $5 and where 10 people just won free trips to the inauguration in an essay contest.
Don’t forget, though, that it was a groundswell of small donors in heretofore never seen numbers that provided The One with victory. And if you say that some of those foreign donations were illegal, Joe Conason’s going to sue your ass off in the UK.
More Grassroots.
Best durn politics money can buy, Abe Snake for President.
Who would have thought a quirky song from the past would be a Prophecy?
And the number of small donors was reduced even further by conservatives testing the AVS, probably not by a lot, but still, that small donor freight train is looking more like a Lionel….
But, remember, Campaign finance reform has taken the money out of politics.
Thanks, John McCain!
If it was a Republican they would take the amount that the most generous family contributed and imply that all did a similar amount. This makes it look like each of the 100 contributed $100,000.
It would read,
“Nearly 100 wealthy families and power couples contributed” up to 5 gazillion dollars each to _____s campaign.
100 families donating $100,000 each =
$10,000,000
Obaman’s total fundraising =
$700,000,000+
With math skills so bad, no wonder you right wing extremists thought John Sidney McCain was going to win.
Keep up the good work!
but.. but… there are contribution limits and he was funded with small donors mostly…
What parts of “at least” and campaign finance contribution limits don’t you get, snippy?
Again, are there a worst set of “winners” than our trolls?
Also, I thought that the EVIL RICH(tm) were all Rethuglicans.
We’re all Democrats now? Even all those evil 50percenters? Remember, we were/are the scum of the world? And you’ll have us?
Dude, sweet.
Snippy’s not ready to handle the truth about his Obama.
Besides you being wrong about the math, and being wrong about us 1)supporting McCain and 2)thinking he was going to win – this comment is MUCH better than that one you left on the other thread.
GOOD JOB!
veggie of pallor totally skipped the phrase “at least”.
Parsnip, you’re not being comical in this thread. Try harder, will you?
Techie,
Just because we don’t gloat over your cracker butts about our overwhelming victories doesn’t mean we’re not happy.
We’re just trying to use our good manners.
“…our overwhelming victories doesn’t mean we’re not happy.”
*Over*whelming? 52.7% is far closer to whelming.
Cordially…
I think a lot of the small donations were $100,000 donations split up into $200 increments, the latter sent by committed virtual donors such as “I.P. Freely” and “Don Winslow of the Navy.”
Kimberly Kindy and Sarah Cohen should be embarrassed I think. Seriously, sort of like how Ralph’s workers what work on holidays get paid extra, these two patsies should have definitely asked for something extra for being put in such an obviously day late dollar sort and transparently subservient to Baracky situation. They fear his rod and his staff is what this reeks of.
Dammit, Parsnip! You’re not paid to be boring! Get funny, now! Make some awesomely hilarious comment about the UN if you must, but do it!
Amuse me, monkey.
Or, he could tell us where Randa is.
What’s the matter, ushie?
No funny right wing comedians?
I heard that, too.
All the foreign donations by non-US citizens were illegal. If I were sued in England, I’d have a laugh at them trying to collect. Sue me in England. My first car was a MG. We’ll see who owes whom.
Besmirching the good reputation of a Chicago politician, right? That’s not a crime, that’s an impossibility.
All these people got John McCain lawn jockeys for their yards. It’s how they spot each other.
Our strong suspicion that the port side’s protestations about profligate spending, money-soaked campaigns and opulent inauguration prodeedings were all so much opportunistic claptrap is now confirmed. We know it with metaphysical certitude these days. Sneering southpaws will happily suck at the teat of shabby lucre.
{Bam}
The preceding sound was brought to you courtesy of John “Maverick” McCain’s atrophying brain. On the plus side, I was just doing some finances and realized that starting Tuesday, none of it matters. Unicorns and piles of cash in every pot from then on. Dope.
John McCain is like that sitcom you kinda heard about at the office in like September from someone who was really enthusiastic about it and you really meant to watch it, well, kind of, but it got canceled and so when this person told you hey my show got canceled I’m so bummed you told them that you’d be sure to look and see if it came out on Netflix and you’d for sure watch it then but you knew that was a lie when you said it.
I received a gold embossed invitation to the inauguration from Barack Obama. I, of course, earned lots of points through volunteering, donating, etc… These points I could keep track of on my mybarackobama.com web page. You could say I scored.
I am proud to be one of the cool kids, and to live in part of real America, one of the more patriotic parts.
And like all Barack Obama donors, I’m not that tall!
Thor was the free world’s first operational intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM). It was 65 feet long, 8 feet in diameter and weighed 105,000 pounds. Douglas Aircraft was the prime aircraft contractor. The missile utilized a single stage North American Rocketdyne LR-79 liquid oxygen rocket motor, which provided 150,000 lbs of static thrust. This gave the Thor of range of 2,000 miles. It had an inertial guidance system.
Development was rapid. The Thor entered active military service in September 1958. It was delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida, for testing less than a year after the development contract was signed. It was launched from a combination transporter-erector vehicle and was directed to its target by a self-contained inertial guidance system. It was originally designated the SM-75, but later redesignated the PGM-17A.
The Thor’s 2,000 mile range was too limited for launching from the United States, so it essentially turned the deployment over to the United Kingdom. In early 1958, the two countries entered into an agreement whereby the US would furnish the missiles and train the RAF launch crews and the United Kingdom would build four Thor missile bases and man them with RAF missile squadrons.
http://www.strategic-air-command.com/missiles/Thor/Thor_Missile_Home_Page.htm
That thick, though.
Did the US deploy Thors in Turkey prior to the Cuba missile thingy? I might have that wrong but something in the back of my head says we did.
Man would I love to libel and slander Joe Conason. In a fucking alley.
There was also a Project Thor, aka Rods from God.
The idea was to put a huge number of tungsten rods in orbit (ranging in size from crowbars to telephone poles, IIRC), each with a small rocket motor and a simple guidance system.
Someone annoys you? You fire the motors on one or more of the rods so they arrive at your target at near orbital velocity.
I’d rather leave Joe Conason to have to live with the fact that he is Joe Conason. Kind of like the best torment of James Wolcott is to point out that he remains James Wolcott to this very day.
I’d love to know just how many pre-paid debit cards were bought by Soros, Buffett, Gates, and these kind of folks and handed out to the electronic brownshirt crew to use to make multiple donations under 200 dollars…
You know, in that special Chicago way; the way that Tony Rezko already got exposed perpatrating. By giving his friens and relatives cash to donate to Obama in their names; to avoid breaking campaign finance laws..
Funny thing is, that by turning off the usual and customary security settings employed by websites that accept credit cards, not only would names and addresses not be required to make a credit card donation, but it would also be possible to use pre-paid debit cards which ordinarily aren’t accepted for internet sales…
So in addition to allowing foreigners to make illegal donations to Obama’s campaign, people were easily able to exceed the legal donation limits by using different fake names for each donantion. But even though it was made easy to fake it, the slacker electronic brownshirts did slip up a bit; resulting in the ones with the absurd in-your-face names that were publicized a bit, but not in the MSM, towards the end of the campaign…
Interestingly, in spite of all the obvious and publicized fraud, it is in fact McCain’s campaign finance record that will be scrutinized by the FEC. While the most ethical! and transparent! campaign apparatus-EVAH! will not have to release the list of all of those grassroots donors that propelled him to the hight of heights…Something deliciously ironic, in a literary sense, about all that, eh?…
Yet another con, not brought to you by the MSM, starring Chimpy ObaMussoliniSoros!…
The MSM were certainly complicit Bob, but if John McCain weren’t such a disengenuous old pussy it would have been a lot harder to cover up.
“*Over*whelming? 52.7% is far closer to whelming.”
Yeah. Jesus-Negro maxed out the SWPL vote and the black vote due to his race. Just step back and think of the obvious: two unpopular wars raging, a bad economy, and a pro-Amnesty (R) candidate aren’t exactly a recipe for GOP success. All things considered, 52.7% achieved through record expenditures is not that impressive.
It’s also worth noting that having a black president will no longer be a great novelty to the usual suspects (blacks, urban whites, latinos, etc.) Hence Jeezus-Boy can bank on lower participation rates amongst his core Leftist demographic groups in the future. Still, IMO it’s an uphill battle for the GOP come 2012 – memories of Bush will die hard.
See Jerry Lee Lewis re: what England can do.
See Jerry Lewis re: what France can do.
I am one step closer to believing that aquiring significant amounts of wealth causes brain damage. How else to explain the seemingly endless anecdotes of the ultra-wealthy tying themselves in knots to support a socialist douchebag/Chicago politician (I know, I repeat myself)?
OT, I fervently hope that the “Rods from god” project actually becomes reality. I can’t think of a more perfect system for responding to our enemies.
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How else to explain the seemingly endless anecdotes of the ultra-wealthy tying themselves in knots to support a socialist douchebag/Chicago politician
It’s easy to understand if you look at it this way:
The ideal society for both groups is one of peasants and nobles (call them proletariat and nomenklatura if you wish — it’s the same thing).
Their worst nightmare is peasants that don’t stay in their appointed place. Native ability is frightening to those who are prone to blindly accept The Rules (whether those rules are those of “polite society”, Marxism, or Islamofascism doesn’t matter — the important thing is that there ar Rules That Must Be Followed). In such a society, you can live your life by Following The Rules without intelligence, talent, or even much conscious thought.
If individual initiative can be destroyed, thus leading to a permanent underclass, they won’t have to worry about Sarah Palin showing up at the country club to them feel inadequate, or some poor kid inventing something that bankrupts their trust fund.
It’s a deeply un-American philosophy, it is.