Civil War, Part II

[kandrathe]

According to your own link, the "bundlers", while raising the majority of the McCain war chest, raised barely an eighth of Obama's total campaign money, and perhaps a quarter of the quantity he got from $200-or-less donations *alone*. Those numbers pretty much speak for themselves.

McCain was limited in his fund raising efforts by taking public campaign finance money, which both candidates agreed to do, which then candidate Obama reneged upon because he would be able to raise much more when not encumbered by Campaign Finance Reform laws. (e.g. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA, McCain–Feingold Act)

I don't know where your special animus about Obama came from, but you've been throwing everything you've got at him since day one. It hasn't stuck with me, and it certainly hasn't stuck with America: "adoring" is a pretty good description of his 60%-plus approval ratings in the midst of the biggest economic clusterfrack since the great depression.

My animus comes from my proximity to Chicago. I have very good friends who've lived their entire lives there, and I do quite a bit of business there. Trust me, the glamor will fade. I stand by my earliest statement, that Barrak Obama is a very poor choice to be POTUS, but now that he is, I will respect his office and support him when I agree with him.

And he wasn't a poor Chicago boy. He was a middle-class Hawaii boy, with a little Indonesia thrown in for good measure. He didn't move to Chicago until he was 24 and already through his first degree. But, in any case, he has sweet nothing to do with old money.

What do you mean by "old"? He is well connected to the Chicago political "mafia", Richard M. Daley, as is Raum Emmanual. William M. Daley (Richard's brother), is probably the designated replacement for the seat vacated by Barrak Obama. There are ways to ingratiate yourself within the ruling class.