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Obama Opts out of Public Funding:
Time.com ^ | 06/19/2008 | Mark Halperin

Posted on 06/19/2008 5:53:22 AM PDT by WesA

The Illinois Senator makes the announcement Thursday morning in a video sent out to his supporters.

(Excerpt) Read more at thepage.time.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; bundling; campaignfinance; commiedollars; electionpresident; fundingtheleft; fundraising; georgesoros; obama; obamalies; obamasama; obamatruthfile; osamabama; publicfunding; soros
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To: WesA

Apparently, Obama has figured out that if you are a Democrat, you can completely reverse every thing you said previously, and still get elected.


61 posted on 06/19/2008 9:17:12 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Miss Didi

I saw a fellow wearing a “Yes We Can” (with an image of the messiah on it) t-shirt last night at a restaurant on 3rd Avenue, and I politely asked him what he knew about Obama and his policies, or should I say the lack of them. Of course he said that Obama stands for “change.” I asked him to name a single accomplishment Obama has had in the senate, just one, and guess what, he couldn’t. He was clearly annoyed at my question and immediately said he didn’t want to see another Bush term. I told him that I agree with him, that I am very disappointed in Bush’s excessive spending during his two terms, and that’s why I was voting for a candidate (McCain) who doesn’t believe in earmarks and wasteful spending. He turned around and that was the end of the conversation.


62 posted on 06/19/2008 9:17:31 AM PDT by moose2004 (y)
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To: HollyB

Wonder what your friend thinks of Barry’s plan for the WOT and capturing Bin Laden.


63 posted on 06/19/2008 9:20:11 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Cboldt

I’m betting McCain stays IN public financing for the general election, gets people instead to donate for the “primary”, pre-buys ads before the nomination, and beats Obama over the head about this broken promise every day during the general election.

McCain can’t possibly take in enough extra private money to compete with Obama, better to let the republicans who support him instead give money to private organizations and to the RNC, which can spend money on party-building.

A lot of independents like Obama because he’s “different”, and this is just the issue to prove Obama isn’t “different”, but is rather a common liar.


64 posted on 06/19/2008 9:21:26 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: kabar

Oh gee, let’s see, McCain is down 3 points in today’s Rasmussen daily poll, and 4 points in the latest Washington Post poll, in fact he’s ahead of the messiah in the Washington Post poll’s Most Likely To Vote catergory. Obama should be ahead by 10 - 12 points, especially if the Repub party in such tatters as you describe. The McCain strategy of keeping the messiah on the defensive and challenging him with specifics is sound, effective and is working. Here is a link to some polls you should check out, then again I could care less if you don’t:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html


65 posted on 06/19/2008 9:23:47 AM PDT by moose2004 (y)
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To: antiRepublicrat

Thank you, I honestly didn’t know that.


66 posted on 06/19/2008 9:24:56 AM PDT by moose2004 (y)
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To: Miss Didi

I’d love to ask her, but wont at this point. She got pretty ticked with info I sent her last week. We used to be pretty much in agreement when it came to politics, so I was very shocked about her reaction. It’s all very strange.


67 posted on 06/19/2008 9:25:37 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: Red Badger

Actually, I think he used the promise of public funding as collateral for a loan to his campaign at the same time as he was opting our out, or something similar.


68 posted on 06/19/2008 9:31:35 AM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
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To: HollyB
She got pretty ticked with info I sent her...

She's emotion-based, and Barry strokes the emotions. Logic and reason, therefore, mean nothing to her.

69 posted on 06/19/2008 9:43:56 AM PDT by polymuser (Those who believe in something eventually prevail over those who believe in nothing.)
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To: HollyB

My brother’s been a Republican all his life (though he’s never voted)... He’s come to hate Bush because of the Iraq war... This year, he sees H as the messiah. He’s voting for the first time in his life... I’m disgusted...


70 posted on 06/19/2008 9:46:10 AM PDT by NYC Republican (weInfuriate the MSM---Vote McCain... John McCain- Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...oh g)
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To: HollyB

My brother’s been a Republican all his life (though he’s never voted)... He’s come to hate Bush because of the Iraq war... This year, he sees H as the messiah. He’s voting for the first time in his life... I’m disgusted...


71 posted on 06/19/2008 9:46:17 AM PDT by NYC Republican (weInfuriate the MSM---Vote McCain... John McCain- Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...oh g)
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To: weegee

I don’t get it. McCain doesn’t have any money, and he isn’t likely to GET all that much money. Why would he opt out of public funding?


72 posted on 06/19/2008 9:51:12 AM PDT by ichabod1 (If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it, and if it stops moving, subsidize it.)
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To: moose2004

Obama said Osama (or is Osama said Osama!) deserves Miranda rights? Is there a youtube of this. That’s huge!


73 posted on 06/19/2008 9:55:14 AM PDT by cw35
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To: antiRepublicrat
-- Of course the question I have to ask is why we the taxpayers are footing the bill for an internal party function --

The "public money" is the pool of voluntary checkoffs on income tax. It's not from "general fund" or FICA or some other tax/fee source.

74 posted on 06/19/2008 9:55:40 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: WesA

Is the DNC going to file charges?


75 posted on 06/19/2008 9:56:53 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: moose2004
The RCP average is 47 to 42.8 for Obama. Like I said, Obama is ahead in the polls.

Let's see what the polls look like after the Dem lovefest [aka the Dem Convention]. McCain is going to get trounced. His only hope is if there is some earthmoving revelation about Obama's personal life. This is the Dem's election to lose.

And because McCain has roughly the same positions as Obama on such crosscutting issues like immigration and global warming, the Reps will be losing some important issues on which to attack Obama.

Nominating the party's maverick and the oldest man ever to run for the first time for the Presidency as its standard bearer was a collossal mistake.

76 posted on 06/19/2008 10:00:26 AM PDT by kabar
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To: theDentist
-- Is the DNC going to file charges? --

Yes. They did, in fact. The court complaint was returned because it was premature (inside the 120 day statutory window of inaction by the FEC), but it'll be filed in Federal District Court again, tomorrow, I think.

77 posted on 06/19/2008 10:03:15 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: kabar
Nominating the party's maverick and the oldest man ever to run for the first time for the Presidency as its standard bearer was a collossal mistake.

What can we do short of a rebellion at the Convention? As far as I can tell, McCain won the nomination fair and square. And it isn't as if "true conservatives" didn't have horses in the race. At one time or another, we had people like Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Sam Brownback and others in the hunt. What happened? They lost. For whatever reasons, "true conservatives" didn't come together behind a standard bearer in sufficient numbers to keep a candidate in the race.

So what do we do now? Well, you can either be a quitter or keep fighting the libs and 'Rats by playing the best game we can with the hand we've been dealt. I for one will not willingly turn the country over to a Marxist-socialist like Obama without a fight, which is what we'll be doing if we stay home and pout or spitefully vote for some hopeless third-party candidate.

78 posted on 06/19/2008 10:08:15 AM PDT by chimera
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To: moose2004
Bravo, Moose. On the Upper East Side, I see quite a lot of Obamawear—the more chic jackets and polos pass me by every day. I would like to know—Change to what—socialism, more taxes, higher gas prices? Change from what—fighting terrorists to letting them roam free?
79 posted on 06/19/2008 10:13:34 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Islander7
The "Jackass" is really a Trojan Horse.


80 posted on 06/19/2008 10:15:01 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (Driving a Phase Two Operation Chaos Hybrid that burns both gas AND rubber.)
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