[Westlander]

Maybe we should see where the cash is coming from.

First Quarter 2007 Summary
Money Raised*
$25,661,047Money Spent
$6,606,444Cash on Hand
$19,185,637First Quarter 2007 Tally Sheet Total Receipts $25,792,081

Individuals $25,700,414
PACs $3,050
Transfers $0
Candidate Loans $0
Net Contributions* $25,661,047
TYPES
For Primary $0
For General $0
Money Spent $6,606,444
Salaries $0
Refunds $42,416
Cash on Hand $19,185,637

* Net contributions are total contributions minus refunds and do not include loans or transfers. First Quarter data is for the three months preceding March 31, 2007.

Top States
California $4,161,861
Contributions 4,037
Avg. Contribution $1,030
Top Zip Codes
90210 $163,900
92037 $128,905
90049 $117,592

Illinois $3,763,553
Contributions 3,689
Avg. Contribution $1,020
Top Zip Codes
60614 $417,130
60611 $357,311
60610 $260,775

New York $2,775,722
Contributions 2,363
Avg. Contribution $1,174
Top Zip Codes
10021 $292,388
10128 $194,889
10024 $178,331

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

If Obama had had his way, a huge number of blacks wouldn’t be homeowners today.

[Westlander]

S E N A T O R (D - IL)
Barack Obama

2001-2006 Total Receipts: $16,285,394
2001-2006 Total Spent: $15,964,724
Cash on Hand: $516,153
Debts: $0
Date of last report: December 31, 2006
First elected: 2004
Next election: 2010

Fundraising by Cycle:
2006: $1,321,210
2004: $14,935,520
2002: $28,664

Individual contributions
$14,797,034
(90.9%)

PAC contributions
$1,300,378
(8.0%)

Candidate self-financing
$1,000
(0.0%)

Other
$186,982
(1.1%)

PAC Contribution Breakdown

Business
$83,389
(83.9%)

Labor
$13,400
(13.5%)

Ideological/Single Issue
$2,600
(2.6%)

Quality of Disclosure:

Full Disclosure
$1,028,651
(93.3%)

Incomplete
$0

No Disclosure
$74,390
(6.7%)

[marsh_of_mists]

The big-government-bureaucracy page or the selling-out-to-the-communists page?

[Westlander]

For the second time since signaling his plans to run for president, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is battling allegations of ethical misjudgment.

The latest incident comes courtesy of today’s New York Times, which reports that shortly after arriving in the Senate Obama bought stock in two companies whose investors included several major donors to his campaign. One of the companies — AVI Biopharma — was developing an avian flu treatment even as Obama began work to secure increased federal funding for the disease.

The controversy comes on the heels of Obama’s acknowledgment late last year that he made a “boneheaded” mistake in purchasing a property in Chicago on the same day that the Democratic fundraiser Tony Rezko bought an adjacent parcel of land. Less than a year later with Rezko under federal investigation Obama paid $100,000 to the fundraiser and his wife for a piece of the property.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/03/obamas_problems.html

[goldstategop]

Just making everything FREE. Its lunatic but at least its the liberal idea of utopia. Why not come out and say so?

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[John Semmens]

Former vice-presidential candidate, Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) repeated his call for the creation of a “home rescue fund” and a crackdown on “predatory lending.” As a show of “good faith,” Edwards promised to sell his shares in the Fortress Investment Predatory Lending Group. “I will sacrifice millions in additional profit I could’ve made from this investment,” Edwards offered. “Will my opponents do as much?”

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Fortress Investment Predatory Lending Group has been actively exploiting New Orleans homeowners struggling to overcome Katrina’s aftermath.

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm

[SkyPilot]

Obama Steals A Page From FDR

Here is the book he stole it from.

[Beckwith]

The Obama File

[untenured]

I actually came across this page by doing a blog search for The Forgotten Man, which I am currently reading. It is a terrific sketch of how the soul-crushing nanny state was built. I never really appreciated how powerful the National Recovery Administration was. The Schechter brothers, obscure Jewish poultry merchants who litigated against its predations and were vindicated by the Supreme Court unanimously, are American heroes every bit as much as Rosa Parks. I am angry that our schools tell us so little about these ordinary businessmen deceived and abused by the federal government.

That is the historical background for Sen. Obama's gluttonous invocation of the police power against mortgage lenders, most of whose business involves allowing people to buy into the American dream.

[billakay]

Retroactive prosecution is not only tyranny, it is unconstitutional.

If there are indeed no laws on the books that have currently been broken, any attempt by the Congress to pass a law criminalizing (and punishing) behavior that was legal in the past would be a direct violation of Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 3 of the U.S. Constitution:

No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

[x]

In 1960, Mort Sahl said that Americans elected Eisenhower because he was a father figure, and now with Jack Kennedy, they've got the "son figure" they want.

When I read that I thought of Obama. True, he's older than JFK was when he was elected, but the appeal's the same. People who are going to vote for Obama aren't going to be put off by boyish signs of inexperience. That's what they like about him.