Quote:Anecdotally, there are obvious cases where the general rule does not appear to apply, but an examination of where the bulk of $656,357,572 came from shows that it is not the common people. By the way, Pres. Obama was in Las Vegas and Los Angeles the past few days at democratic fund raising $16,000 per plate dinners for the high rollers and Hollywood elite. Do you really believe the fairy tale of the poor Chicago boy who was elected by the collective $200 donations of an adoring nation? I see that the glamor has not yet worn off, but then Pres. Obama has not ended his popularity campaign either.I believe the "fairy tale" (if by "fairy tale" you mean "fact") that Obama raised historically unprecedented amounts of money ($200,000,000-plus) from very small donations. According to your own link, the "bundlers", while raising the majority of the McCain war chest, raised not even a tenth 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. 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.
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.
-Jester