WSJ: Obama Breaks Pledge on Inauguration Donations

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[jessduntno]

WSJ: Obama Breaks Pledge on Inauguration Donations Friday, January 9, 2009 12:14 PM By: Jim Meyers

A full 90 percent of donations to fund Barack Obama’s Jan. 20 inauguration have come from well-heeled fundraisers — including Wall Street executives whose companies have received federal bailout money.

A total of 207 fundraisers have collected $24.8 million of the $27.3 million in donations disclosed by Obama through Thursday, according to an analysis by Public Citizen commissioned by The Wall Street Journal.

Slightly more than 2,000 donors accounted for the $27.3 million raised, but 378 of those people each contributed the maximum $50,000 allowed by Obama, raising almost 70 percent of the total, or $18.9 million, the analysis found.

Wall Street employees have been the largest single source of private donations, and many of the contributions have been channeled through financial-services executives who have put together bundles of donations worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“The preponderance of large donors and the fact that so many come from an industry receiving government handouts comes as the president-elect has sought to keep his inauguration free of special interests,” The Journal observed.

Bundlers from the financial sector include executives from Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., two firms that have accepted billions of dollars each in bailout money from the federal government.

Obama’s presidential campaign smashed all previous fundraising records, raking in more than an astounding $650 million from some 3 million donors.

[jessduntno]

WSJ: Obama Breaks Pledge

I'm shocked...SHOCKED I tell you...

[xcamel]

There is no need fer even the semblance of propriety anymore. The Dems control it all, and are incapable of corruption.

[TheWasteLand]

The preponderance of large donors and the fact that so many come from an industry receiving government handouts comes as the president-elect has sought to keep his inauguration free of special interests,” The Journal observed.

DC is the new Chicago.

[jessduntno]

“DC is the new Chicago.”

Yes, but it is not the Chicago that I knew...

[Max in Utah]

"...not the color of their skin but the content of their character."

Judgement: F A I L

[DustyMoment]

WSJ: Obama Breaks Pledge on Inauguration Donations

Gee, what a surprise.

[HighlyOpinionated]

A full 90 percent of donations to fund Barack Obama’s Jan. 20 inauguration have come from well-heeled fundraisers — including Wall Street executives whose companies have received federal bailout money.

And this is supposed to be a 'surprise?'

If the Supreme Court doesn't act swiftly, each day of Barry O's reign will take months to years to straighten out by the next administration.

Or, we could just lose our Country to Socialism while former socialist Countries are turning to Capitalism. Go figure.

[PistolPaknMama]

Obama Breaks Pledge on Inauguration Donations

A corrupt democrat? You jest! Wonder how many more "pledges" (aka "lies up front") he will break and the MSM will just go "snicker snicker".

[PistolPaknMama]

DC is the new Chicago.

Wonder if they will give DC a Chicago zip code.

[JudgemAll]

The media knew it was going to lose money if it did not win this election.

[LeonardFMason]

Welcome to the United States of CHICAGO! LOL!

[Salvation]

**A full 90 percent of donations to fund Barack Obama’s Jan. 20 inauguration have come from well-heeled fundraisers — including Wall Street executives whose companies have received federal bailout money. **

Uh-oh — what happened to “CHANGE”?