On 4/27/07, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What *I* want is someone honest... even if the person IS a war pig, at least we'd know they are...
Unfortunately, Obama seems to be doing extremely well in fund raising. He would be the least likely among all candidates to arouse opposition from Americans if he decides to keep the existing wars going, expand them, escalate the Iran sanctions, and/or launch a missile strike or something like that against Iran. <http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/04/16/big_fund_raisers_shifting_support_to_obama_camp/> Big fund-raisers shifting support to Obama camp Clinton trails in 1st quarter fund-raising By David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times News Service | April 16, 2007 WASHINGTON -- As Senator Hillary Clinton has stepped up her presidential campaign, a number of fund-raisers long associated with her and her husband have shifted their loyalties to Senator Barack Obama. Among the biggest fund-raisers for Obama's campaign are as many as a half dozen former guests of the Clinton White House. At least two are close enough to the Clintons to have slept in the Lincoln bedroom. At minimum, a dozen were major fund-raisers for President Clinton. At least four worked in the administration and one, James Rubin, is the son of a former Clinton Treasury secretary. About two dozen of the top Obama fund-raisers have contributed to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaigns or political action committee, some as recently as a few months ago. A list of about 130 of Obama's top fund-raisers, released by the campaign yesterday, showed the extent to which the Democratic Party establishment, once aligned with Hillary Clinton, has drifted into her rival's camp, lending the early stages of the Democratic primary campaign the feeling of a family feud. Those donations helped propel Obama above Clinton in fund- raising for the Democratic primary. Clinton, once the presumed heir to the party structure her husband built, trailed Obama by $5.7 million in primary fund-raising, according to reports filed yesterday with the Federal Election Commission. -- Yoshie
