Posted on 03/29/2008 12:16:00 PM PDT by mdittmar
Barack Obama has donated more money to superdelegates in the last three years than his Democratic U.S. presidential campaign rival, Hillary Clinton.
The Illinois senator's political action committee has donated $710,900 to superdelegates since 2005, compared to his New York colleague's PAC donations of $236,100, McClatchy Newspapers reported Saturday.
The report of the donations by the two candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination comes as a study has indicated a link between such funds and superdelegates' voting.
The Center for Responsive Politics study found that 82 percent of those superdelegates who have backed a candidate since Feb. 25 supported the candidate who donated to them in the past.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who received a donation from Obama and voted for him, denied any wrongdoing takes place in such matters.
"The fact of the matter is that while Senator Obama's support was extremely helpful, Senator and President Clinton raised well over $1 million for Claire's Senate campaign in 2006," spokeswoman Adrianne Marsh said. "After looking at the whole picture it's clear that Claire's support of Senator Obama is based on no other motivation than her firm belief that he is the right choice to move our country forward."
Democracy at work. Vote for the person who gives you more money. Democrats have to have the most corrupt nomination scheme of all time.
I would guess that 90% of the “TYPICAL” Democrats don’t even know of this corrupt process in their wonderful party.
Just exactly where the hell did he get the money to donate? I sure thought he is a man of moderate means!
This past week when the Democrats are beating each other up, McCain has barely a lead in the polls. Speaks badly for him. He will have serious money problems thanks to CFR and he has a crummy TV ads that reinforce what an old egomaniac he is. No shocker if he chooses Hillary or Lieberman for VP. He will need somebody to whisper answers to him.
OBAMA is a crypto-muslim.
Was Obama Ever a Muslim?
“I’ve always been a Christian,” said Obama, focusing on his own personal lack of practice of Islam as a child to deny any connection to Islam. But Muslims do not see practice as key. For them, that he was born to a line of Muslim males makes him born a Muslim. Further, all children born with an Arabic name based on the H-S-N trilateral root (Hussein, Hassan, and others) can be assumed to be Muslim, so they will understand Obama’s full name, Barack Hussein Obama, to proclaim him a born Muslim.
More: family and friends considered him as a child to be Muslim. In “Obama Debunks Claim About Islamic School,” Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press wrote on January 24, 2007, that
Obama’s mother, divorced from Obama’s father, married a man from Indonesia named Lolo Soetoro, and the family relocated to the country from 1967-71. At first, Obama attended the Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim, the religion of his stepfather. The document required that each student choose one of five state-sanctioned religions when registering Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant.
Asked about this, Obama communications director Robert Gibbs responded by indicating to Pickler that
he wasn’t sure why the document had Obama listed as a Muslim. “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim.”
Two months later, Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times (available online in a Baltimore Sun reprint) reported that the Obama campaign had retreated from that absolute statement and instead issued a more nuanced one: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim.” The Times looked into the matter further and learned more about his Indonesian interlude:
His former Roman Catholic and Muslim teachers, along with two people who were identified by Obama’s grade-school teacher as childhood friends, say Obama was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended. That registration meant that during the third and fourth grades, Obama learned about Islam for two hours each week in religion class.
The childhood friends say Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local mosque. “We prayed but not really seriously, just following actions done by older people in the mosque. But as kids, we loved to meet our friends and went to the mosque together and played,” said Zulfin Adi. Obama’s younger sister, Maya Soetoro, said in a statement released by the campaign that the family attended the mosque only “for big communal events,” not every Friday.
Recalling Obama’s time in Indonesia, the Times account contains quotes that Obama “went to the mosque,” and that he “was Muslim.”
Summarized, available evidence suggests Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father. At some point, he converted to Christianity. It appears false to state, as Obama does, “I’ve always been a Christian” and “I’ve never practiced Islam.” The campaign appears to be either ignorant or fabricating when it states that “Obama never prayed in a mosque.”-Daniel Pipes
OBAMA WAS BORN MUSLIM AND PRAYED TO MECCA AS A BOY
Money talks, and Bull$it walks!
Dems, ya gotta love ‘em! No! Wait! I take that back!
Of course, that would be Bull$hit! Where’s my spell check for bad language?
Ahhh yes. The candidate of change. The outsider. The man who will end politics as we know it.
Meet the new boss. The same as the old boss.
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