1.5 Million Americans Have Now Donated to Obama

by Jarrett Martineau | May 6, 2008 at 01:34 pm | 183 views | 2 comments

When you actually think about the fact that one and a half million people have given money to Barack Obama...it really puts his campaign into perspective: an internet perspective.

[1.5 million —] that's how many people have now donated to Obama. No one has ever come close to this in history. And it was done by the Internet, destroying the power of major donors to control a candidate, empowering so many to make a difference and altering the face of campaign finance for ever. And yet the Democrats are seriously considering rebuking this astonishing achievement in favor of an old nepotistic pol whose campaign, when it hasn't been incompetent and complacent, has been straight from the Rove playbook.

Any Democrat who spurns this achievement is destroying their own party, and its future. This has been a revolutionary campaign already. Because it has been built as much from below as from above. And because it has brought so many to believe in their country and its politics again. I don't care if I am thereby tarred as an Obama kool-aid drinker. The facts remain, and one day, the MSM will absorb them.

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tsevis

Hi all!
Happy that you like my Barack Obama portrait. Regards!

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Drew Bulman

I donated to Barack a couple of times -just a couple very small donations.  Really, all it has done is caused the campaign to send me weekly e-mails asking for more.  Don't they realize how poor I am?  Haha

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May 6, 2008 at 01:34 pm by Jarrett Martineau, 183 views, 2 comments

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