• Obama Outraised his Republican Opponents in February
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[QUOTE]WASHINGTON – [B]President Obama raised more campaign money last month than any of the Republicans vying to replace him, but leading Republican outside groups are outstripping Democratic-aligned super PACs in fundraising[/B], new figures show. Obama collected $21.3 million in his campaign account in February, not counting millions more he has raised for the Democratic National Committee. [B]No Republican candidate came close.[/B] Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who has led GOP candidates in fundraising, collected nearly $12 million last month, but spent even more and ended the month with $7.3 million available in the bank as he headed into a round of expensive primaries. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum also spent heavily, ending February with even less spare cash than Romney — $2.6 million and more than $900,000 in debt. [B]Super PACs aligned with the GOP candidates and funded by a handful of wealthy interests have sustained their campaigns. Some of the Republican Party's most established donors increased their support in February to the pro-Romney Restore Our Future super PAC,[/B] reports filed Tuesday show. The super PAC, run by former Romney aides, has blistered his opponents with millions of dollars in negative advertising in early voting states. Houston homebuilder Bob Perry,[B] a Republican financier who helped fund Swift Boat attack ads against 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, donated $3 million to Restore Our Future last month, nearly half the amount the super PAC raised.[/B] Republican donors "are either trying to resolve the nomination fight faster by helping Romney knock out his opponents or they consider the nomination fight resolved and they are aligning behind the person they think is the winner," said Richard Briffault, a campaign-finance expert at Columbia Law School. [B]Restore Our Future collected $6.4 million in February alone[/B], according to a report filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission. [B]A super PAC aiding former House speaker Newt Gingrich raised $5.7 million, with $5 million coming from casino mogul Sheldon Adelson[/B] and his wife, Miriam. By contrast, [B]the super PAC created to help President Obama, Priorities USA Action, announced that it took in $2 million last month — half of which came from a single donor, television host Bill Maher.[/B] Texas Rep. Ron Paul reported raising $3.3 million in February. Gingrich raised $2.6 million and had more debt than leftover cash. Santorum raised $9 million in February. He repaid himself for a $20,000 personal loan to the campaign. Obama has collected more than $172.7 million since January of last year — a sum that swamps his Republican challengers, but falls shy of the $193.7 million he had raised at this point in the 2008 election, federal data show. The president's campaign has implored donors to give. In a recent e-mail to supporters last week, campaign manager Jim Messina warned that Republicans "have groups ready to spend hundreds of millions of dollars." [B]Obama's "challenge is to persuade his financial supporters that it's not too early to give money," [/B]Briffault said. Obama's team said it is working to register voters and encourage 2008 supporters to turn out again. The campaign had $84.7 million in the bank. The Obama campaign reported spending nearly $3 million on online advertising, its biggest February expense, and another $2.1 million on salaries. [B]Restore Our Future has raised more than $43.2 million since the start of last year. In all, 14 donors gave more than $100,000 each to the super PAC.[/B] Those big donors include Univision television network founder Jerry Perenchio, who gave $500,000, along with Dallas industrialist Harold Simmons and Chicago hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin, who each donated $100,000 in February. Earlier this month, Griffin told the Chicago Tribune that the wealthy have an "insufficient influence" on politics and should play a bigger role in elections to protect "economic freedom." Simmons hedged his bets, also donating $100,000 to the pro-Gingrich super PAC Winning Our Future. [B]Major payday lending companies and their owners also contributed nearly $250,000 to Restore Our Future[/B] in February, a USA TODAY analysis shows. Romney, who has taken heat for touting his friendships with the owners of NASCAR and NFL teams, saw another team owner support the super PAC backing his campaign. J. Wayne Weaver, CEO of the Jacksonville Jaguars football franchise, donated $25,000 to the committee last month, filings show. [highlight]Super PACs, which can raise unlimited sums from wealthy individuals, unions and corporations, have been big players in the 2012 election, spending more than $78 million in last-minute advertising and automated calls to influence contests.[/highlight] The Republican National Committee, which will aid the eventual nominee with advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts, said it raised $11.3 million in February and has $26.7 million in the bank. [/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-03-20/obama-gop--fundraising-february/53676854/1"]Source.[/URL] [B]OH LAWDY THOSE FACEBOOK COMMENTS![/B]
Obama has already won. GG Republicans. Have another happy 4 years with your communist secret Muslim Kenyan president.
Funny, wasn't Obama originally against using Super-PACs?
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35227197]Funny, wasn't Obama originally against using Super-PACs?[/QUOTE] Obama has no control over whether or not someone makes a Super PAC to support him.
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35227197]Funny, wasn't Obama originally against using Super-PACs?[/QUOTE] A necessary evil
Someone fill me in on what will happen in the 2016 (?) elections if Obama wins the 2012 ones? Are there going to be primaries for both the Democratic and the Republican party?
[QUOTE=Xeon06;35227254]Someone fill me in on what will happen in the 2016 (?) elections if Obama wins the 2012 ones? Are there going to be primaries for both the Democratic and the Republican party?[/QUOTE] Pretty much. It'll be the same situation the 2008 elections started off as, with over a dozen people scrambling for the open throne.
[QUOTE=King Tiger;35227217]Obama has no control over whether or not someone makes a Super PAC to support him.[/QUOTE] He was at first, then, considering how many Pacs and Super Pacs sprang up in his support he said, "Fuck it" and just went with the ball. Anyone would, necessary evil and whatnot.
[QUOTE=Xeon06;35227254]Someone fill me in on what will happen in the 2016 (?) elections if Obama wins the 2012 ones? Are there going to be primaries for both the Democratic and the Republican party?[/QUOTE] Well technically the Democrats are in their primaries as well, Obama simply has no competition.
[QUOTE=King Tiger;35227217]Obama has no control over whether or not someone makes a Super PAC to support him.[/QUOTE] He's not stopping them either. I'm just trying to make a point that Obama's just as bad as his opponents. He's not nearly as much of a paragon as his supporters glorify him to be.
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35227320]He's not stopping them either. I'm just trying to make a point that Obama's just as bad as his opponents. He's not nearly as much of a paragon as his supporters glorify him to be.[/QUOTE] How does accepting Super PAC support classify President Obama as "just as bad as his opponents."? The quality of the candidates are what make them "good" or "bad", not whether or not they choose to use the obvious advantages of a Super PAC.
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35227320]He's not stopping them either. I'm just trying to make a point that Obama's just as bad as his opponents. He's not nearly as much of a paragon as his supporters glorify him to be.[/QUOTE] Is Obama perfect? Of course not. He's a complete asshole for not stepping in on what is basically the torture of Bradley Manning. Does that make him the exact equivalent of his Republican opponents? Hell no. How can you even come to such a conclusion?
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35227320]He's not stopping them either. I'm just trying to make a point that Obama's just as bad as his opponents. He's not nearly as much of a paragon as his supporters glorify him to be.[/QUOTE] Haha. When was the last time that Obama said that Romney was going to let a foreign country shoot nuclear bombs at Iowa. Or wish indentured servitude on the female sex and death to gays.
Super PAC's are now the norm in politics since that one law expired. The meat grinder known as Congress would need to do something, not the president which cannot create laws.
[QUOTE=Hidole555;35227405]Is Obama perfect? Of course not. He's a complete asshole for not stepping in on what is basically the torture of Bradley Manning. Does that make him the exact equivalent of his Republican opponents? Hell no. How can you even come to such a conclusion?[/QUOTE] He's desperately grasping at straws along with every other Republican after they've realized that they have no chance of winning.
Those comments make me want to disembowl someone with a letter opener.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;35227467]Those comments make me want to disembowl someone with a letter opener.[/QUOTE] I prefer a potato peeler.
But somehow I doubt that 90% of Obama's donations come from billionaire donors you can count on one hand.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;35227505]But somehow I doubt that 90% of Obama's donations come from billionaire donors you can count on one hand.[/QUOTE] That's pretty unfounded.
Those Facebook comments. Bunch of stupid, uninformed, ignorant idiots. The program that funded Solyndra started in 2005. It had bipartisan support. But wait, Obama wasn't president in 2005! And obviously all he wants to do is control the country! And increase the debt, because Conservative plans are SO much better than left wing economic plans! BIRTH CERTIFICATE! Thank you, right wing media, for turning people into blabbering idiots who can't do their own research before calling out our president on things he's not even responsible for. [sp]Because if Glenn Beck says it's bad, it's bad.[/sp]
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;35227467]Those comments make me want to disembowl someone with a letter opener.[/QUOTE] some (actually pretty much all) samples for people too lazy to view the source. [QUOTE]he's a muslim from india who has been destroying America & our constitution every second he's been in office. WAKE up & realize.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]You'd think he would raise a lot of money. No one has ever had more fundraisers in the history of the U.S., and he's doing it using taxpayer-paid jets to fly himself all over the country.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]malia obama, the president’s daughter, is spending her spring break in Oaxaca, Mexico. YOU KNOW, that country south of the U.S. that the State Department has said Americans should avoid. She's taking a dozen friends, and 25 Secret Service agents. She's learned a lot from mooshell (like her trips to France, and Africa) on how to spend the American taxpayers' money on vacations with friends and secret service on Air Force One.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Whoppie Doo--He's still a Smuck--Can't wait for him to go back to Chicago gangland--[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]My leading economic indicators such as gas prices, food,and the ever increasing national debt say the hope is gone and the change will be in Nov. Chitown and Rev. Wright will welcome their (native) son home. The activist lawyer ex. pres will continue on with his left wing friend Ayers and his hefty taxpayer funded retirement. This is entirely my opinion and (withheld) has not endorsed it...et al> RAN out of Washington D.C..[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Looks like Michael Moore's money is pouring in. Won't change anything ! Liberals are liberal with everybody else's money but there own.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]hussein o'bama's "LAP DOGS" are materializing once again! can he do ANY wrong???,,,apparently not!! hussein couldnt do any wrong,if he does nothing! get obama and his family out of our WHITE HOUSE!!![/QUOTE] [QUOTE]what is that plan Khris plz lets hear it LOL all his lies have been told what else does he have left martial law. oh wait thats already 99% of the way in effect.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]You mean the crisis created situation regarding women and their right to have contraception. Just another election ploy by a running scared Democrat to deflect criticism from their failed policies. Just keep in mind we are 20 trillion dollars in debt and at 5 dollar a gallon gas that is all you need to know and that will lead you to your new Hope and Change come November in the form of a new Republican President.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]CROOK[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]We already know he's a thief. whats new.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Yeah thanks for cleaning up Bush's crap then crapping a 13 trillion dollar turd on the American People.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Considering that's his one and only talent, fund-raising, why is this a surprise. The only surprise is why people continue to donate to his cause of taking control of America. Poor misguided fools.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Oh I have not failed to see what he has accomplished. Doubling our debt. Implementing communistic/liberal failures in to our society. Destroying our Freedoms on a daily basis. Dividing our Country not seen since the civil war. Our enemies think hes as weak as his foreign policies are. Regulating businesses to the point they become defunct. Yeah hes quite the guy, whenever you put in the category of a Jimmy Carter or worse expect no matter of money is going to keep you in office.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]LMAO, HIS TAX CHEATING CZARS AND APPOINTEE'S ARE ALL ON OBAMA![/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Hey, genius, do Solyndra and "Fast and Furious" ring any bells? How about attempting to pass off a phony birth certificate as genuine? Or maybe having the Social Security number of a dead man from Connecticut? Minor issues, right?! Have another sip of the koolaid!![/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Scandal free? You don't take into consideration all of the disreputable people he appointed into office...and the czars he appointed on the sneak -none of that counts? Plus the fact that the dude probably isn't even qualified to be living in the White House. That is a colossal scandal![/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Are you smoking crack? This has been the most corrupt administration in years![/QUOTE] [QUOTE]He can raise all of the money he wants but it will be wasted. Plan on a new President come November. His policies equate to failures and the American People are wise to his lack of ability.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE] has nothing to do with birth certificate, but has Alot to do with his father was NEVER an American citizen which could be reason for disqualifing him[/QUOTE]
It starts to hurt when you see how painfully, obviously racist some of these right-wing fearmongers can be. Half of their reasons for hatred is because of his "muslim" roots or, well, his apparent color. Only in America do you have the freedom of religion, but all Muslims are terrorists.
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35227320]He's not stopping them either. I'm just trying to make a point that Obama's just as bad as his opponents. He's not nearly as much of a paragon as his supporters glorify him to be.[/QUOTE] Nobody is glorifying him. I'm not sure how you got that idea.
The only people who make him seem glorified are the right-wing fearmongers who keep saying anyone who supports Obama denies all the bad things he's done. Which, if you've been on Facepunch and in any threads about the upcoming election, you'll know Obama is basically "the lesser evil."
[QUOTE=Lambeth;35227859]Nobody is glorifying him. I'm not sure how you got that idea.[/QUOTE] Any support is glorification. [editline]21st March 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Protocol7;35227927]The only people who make him seem glorified are the right-wing fearmongers who keep saying anyone who supports Obama denies all the bad things he's done. Which, if you've been on Facepunch and in any threads about the upcoming election, you'll know Obama is basically "the lesser evil."[/QUOTE] How's he a "lesser evil"? What's he done that's been really so wrong that you wouldn't vote for him given another choice?
[QUOTE=King Tiger;35227954]Any support is glorification. [editline]21st March 2012[/editline] How's he a "lesser evil"? What's he done that's been really so wrong that you wouldn't vote for him given another choice?[/QUOTE] Libya, Israel, Drug War, NDAA, Bailouts, to name a few.
[QUOTE=King Tiger;35227954] How's he a "lesser evil"? What's he done that's been really so wrong that you wouldn't vote for him given another choice?[/QUOTE] He's perfectly fine with the torture of Bradley Manning because of the documents he released, but when a soldier goes and kills 16 women and children, nothing happens. He just gets transferred to Kuwait. Obama, being the commander in chief of the army, ought to be against these injustices. Also, as I've said before the one problem I have with the Healthcare Act (though not severe enough for me to oppose it) is that people who can afford health care are required to buy it. Why? If a person wants to take a risk of no health care to save money, by all means let them. I appreciate that he's trying to help us with the Act but for crying out loud don't [B]force[/B] it on people.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35228013]Libya, Israel, Drug War, NDAA, Bailouts, to name a few.[/QUOTE] What about Libya? AIPAC has every politician in Washington by the balls, but I'll still give this one to you. It's pretty much unacceptable to be supporting Israel in the way we're supporting them. The Drug War isn't a priority for the administration at this point, and it shouldn't really be the priority for any nation. But yes, I agree that the current situation needs reworking, especially in Mexico. Obama did not support the NDAA and he was forced into signing it by the Republicans. What did he bail out? [editline]21st March 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Hidole555;35228071]He's perfectly fine with the torture of Bradley Manning because of the documents he released, but when a soldier goes and kills 16 women and children, nothing happens. He just gets transferred to Kuwait. Obama, being the commander in chief of the army, ought to be against these injustices. [/quote] The fuck? The guy is in Leavenworth Prison right now. What is this about Kuwait? And Obama has already spoken out against the massacre. [quote]Also, as I've said before the one problem I have with the Healthcare Act (though not severe enough for me to oppose it) is that people who can afford health care are required to buy it. Why? If a person wants to take a risk of no health care to save money, by all means let them. I appreciate that he's trying to help us with the Act but for crying out loud don't [B]force[/B] it on people.[/QUOTE] You obviously don't understand how the healthcare system works.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;35228013]Libya, Israel, Drug War, NDAA, Bailouts, to name a few.[/QUOTE] Despite all that I trust him more than Newt, Romney, Santorum or Paul [editline]20th March 2012[/editline] I don't really count libya as minus really, they were in and out in like 7 months [editline]20th March 2012[/editline] oh and hey Obama wasn't responsible for (most) of the bloody bailouts, how many times do I have to fucking say it
[QUOTE=King Tiger;35228079]What about Libya?[/quote] We shouldn't have been involved, neither should Europe. [quote]The Drug War isn't a priority for the administration at this point, and it shouldn't really be the priority for any nation. But yes, I agree that the current situation needs reworking, especially in Mexico.[/quote] It's still getting a whole lot of funding. [quote]Obama did not support the NDAA and he was forced into signing it by the Republicans.[/quote] And Democrats. I guess it isn't much a failure of Obama's but more of a failure of the Democratic Party as a whole. [quote]What did he bail out?[/QUOTE] The bailouts in '09.
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