Early Wins Pay Off For Obama

(AP)  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in the single month of January, matching his best three-month period last year, aides said Thursday.

The money positions Obama for the sweeping Feb. 5 primary contests, when 22 states will be in play for the Democratic nomination. Aides also announced that with their money they can now advertise in states beyond the Super Tuesday contest next week.

Obama is advertising in all but two of the Feb. 5 states and plans to begin advertising in states with upcoming contests, including Louisiana, Washington, Nebraska, Maine, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Campaign manager David Plouffe said the campaign attracted 170,000 new donors for a total of 650,000 donors overall.

"We think that the strength of our financial position and the number of donors does speak to financial sustainability if it ends up going through March and April," Plouffe said of the race. "We think we will have the financial resources to conduct vigorous campaigns in the states to come."

[akona2]

O-bama%u2026 Osama, the king of ALQAEDA,
B-arack%u2026 IRAQ, the hometown of HUSSEIN, barack%u2019s middlename,
A-llah%u2019s sign, what could this mean?
M-uslim blood into barracks vein.
A-RE WE READY FOR THE NEXT MUSLIM PRESIDENT?

barack HUSSEIN OBAMA. can not trust the name...

DO NOT FORGET 911! MUSLIM TERRORIST infiltrated america by being one of them.

[bodge62]

obama votes for war appropriations giving our money to Halliburton and Blackwater. His latest bit of posturing S 433 allows the Bush Administration to suspend any troop withdrawal!!!!Which if not suspended, still keeps the troops in Iraq for a long time to come? Obama when faced with tough choices always gave in to pressure from the Bush administration or corporate lobbyists. Such as Obama voted for Bush''s energy bill, sending more than $13 billion in subsidies and tax breaks to oil, coal, and nuclear companies. Obama voted with Republicans to allow credit card companies to raise interest rates over 30 percent, increasing hardship for families.

[bodge62]

OBAMA LOOSES JOBS FOR LATINIOS!
**Ms. Obama, vice-president at the Univ Chicago Hosp, a hospital that charges uninsured minorities 5.4 times as much for drugs isn%u2019t enough cold hearted corp experience. Plus she caused hundreds to loose their 11.hr jobs she said to be more efficient. 05, she was elected to the BOD Westchester-based TreeHouse Foods, for that, she received $12,000 and $33,000 from a subsidiary, in Nov announced closing its La Junta, Colo. plant, that claimed the jobs of 153 workers, most of them Hispanic, big blow to a rural town with only 9,500 residents. The jobs paid a starting wage of $11 an hour, good pay for the area. Companies that pay top execs like MICHELLE OBAMA tens of millions a year while squeezing the little guys off the production line destroying middle-class America. Also raises the question not about corporate values but about Mr. Obama''s own values. Specifically, while Obama bashes Wal-Mart, why does his wife, Michelle, make $45,000 a year serving on the board of Chicago company that pays executives a very hefty amount of money while laying off mostly minority workers in economically deprived areas? The companys No. 1 customer is Wal-Mart???

[hopesalive-2009]

Thanks Realpatriot1, you are correct.

So basically she failed to pass healthcare reform, with a democratic majority in congress, when she was in The White House previously. And, the Clinton regime also led to the GOP gaining both the House and Senate during the 104th Session of Congress.

Once again, what has she done that''s so great she deserves to be our President? No more Clintons, we have a better option.

Vote Obama!

[realpatriot1]

Eisenhower was elected President without ever ahving held public office. He brought about the Korean truce.

Woodrow Wilson served 2 years as Governor of New Jersey before being elected President, his only prior public experience. He guided us to victory in World War One, guided through the 1st child labor laws,and offered the vision which ultimately led to the creation of the United Nations.

Abraham Lincoln served in the same Illinois Legislature as Obama for the same amount of time. He served 2 years in Congress before serving as our greatest President.

[realpatriot1]

Hopesalive,

Actually, there was a Democratic Congress when Hillary botched healthcare. The Republican Congress was elected as a direct result of that 1994 healthcare failure.

We have Hillary to thank for the 12 year Republican
control of Congress and all that transpird as a result.

[obama1289]

Obama supporters check out this video that can bring tears to your eyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPev5sEdTjg

[akona2]

ARE WE READY FOR THE FIRST MUSLIM PRESIDENT?

the real reason why barack HUSSEIN obama did not vote for war against SADDAM is %u2026.

he CAN NOT go against his MUSLIM BROTHER!

once A MUSLIM always A MUSLIM!!!!!!!!!

DO NOT FORGET 911!

[eddynewhope]

Not to mention Abraham Lincoln, Bill Clinton, JFK all had less experience that Senator Obama when they became president. Besides, the wisdom to speak out against the war in Iraq in 2002 when it was unpopular, when it mattered speaks volumes about Senator Obama''s judgement and backbone. Senator Obama has my steadfast support.

[kansas1946]

(Why does experience really matter?
Kennedy had very little experience...Thomas Jefferson was a governor for just 2 years...but Nixon was certainly one of the most experienced (and one of the worst) presidents and so too was George HW Bush (Bush 41). Bush 43 was governor for 8 years...so much for executive experience.

Obama had great leadership qualities, education, intelligence, judgment and vision which serves as a solid basis to be a great president.

Give change a chance...Obama in 08




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Posted by jrolbin at 01:25 AM : Feb 01, 2008
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What Barack lacks in experience, he makes up for in wisdom and maturity. He will surround himself with an experienced cabinet and more importantly, he will listen to them.