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unite! Who wants a piece of this action!?!?!
Hope Fever. Catch it. Spread it.
by blueinks on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 01:43:39 AM PDT
not to be picky, but just wanted to provide some quick suggestions (to not annoy the other picky folks like me) - could you reduce the use of caps and restructure the header and the body of the diary so that it looks a little neater? (after all, we want it on the rec list all day...)
... Obama helps us track $17,550,300,000,000 of federal spending ...
by barath on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 01:46:18 AM PDT
[ Parent ]
I took out all of the stupid caps and tried to tidy up the header and body.
by blueinks on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 01:50:14 AM PDT
Though the title is in caps, and I recall that being frowned upon in the DKos FAQ, not that that's the law or anything.
by barath on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 01:57:12 AM PDT
So your donation will be matched by someone else:
https://donate.barackobama.com/...
Barack Obama: STEADY to lead on Day One.
by Vinz Clortho on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 02:32:06 AM PDT
my matching donor:
Hello, my name is Rebecca and I want to let the individual know, who is matching my contribution, that what he or she is doingg is amazing and a true gift. This is my first year that I have had the chance to vote. I am 19 and a freshman in college and in all my life I have never been so inspired and felt so empowered by another person. Obama is truly such an inspiration and I don't think there is a better candidate or better individual that can do teh job of President of the United States better than this man can. I am interracial just as Obama is and I have never in my life had an interracial role model to look up to. I have found my role model and hero in Barack Obama and I am thankful every day to have such an amazing candidate running for president. Again thank you for matching my donation, change is near and I believe we have the chance to make a dream a reality.
Truly inspiring!
Barack Obama Respects Your Opinion
by DJShay on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:22:19 AM PDT
It'll be a great day when we put a woman in the White House. But it still has to be the *right* person, period.
by BlueInRedCincy on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:13:21 AM PDT
... with more cries of victimhood and "poor Hillary, attacked by the venomous Obama lemmings" appeals for sympathy:
Some Obama supporters are demeaning Senator Clinton by referring to her, not in her own right, but as "President Clinton’s wife." That’s the only phrase they use to describe her, and won’t even call her by name. I hope you will join me in contributing $10.44 (or more, if you can afford it) to Hillary Clinton’s campaign today. (The 44 is indicative of making her the 44th president, and can help the campaign identify our contributions.)
This was received from a blogger supporting Clinton.
Nothing but negativity in that Clinton appeal, nothing specific, nothing of substance -- gee, aren't those their complaints about Obama supporters?
"Animals are my friends. And I don't eat my friends." -- George Bernard Shaw
by Hudson on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 11:09:03 AM PDT
I always call her Senator Clinton.
She's the one who keeps bringing up the Clinton brand with her whole lame "Clinton after a Bush" thing.
The Obama Donor Bomb
by Michael Lawrence Gallagher on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 11:14:05 AM PDT
John McCain: A weak old man. | Hillary Clinton: A monstrous liar whose hubris and bigotry destroyed her reputation.
by The Dead Man on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 01:42:06 PM PDT
love it.
by strengthANDwisdom on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:26:10 AM PDT
I'm from Argentina. I'm 14 years an American citizen .And Barack Obama reminds me of the great historical thinkers, and particularly he reminds me very much of President John F. Kennedy. Thank you for your generosuty. Roberto
by mainecabinfever on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:25:16 AM PDT
You have to be 16 to donate. (yes, I read every word on the form.) I just sent my $25.01 and I announce it on my radio show today. We, we we, all the way home.
by ZenTrainer on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 10:32:42 AM PDT
probably much older. There goes one of Hillary's latino votes!!
Naam!! Tunaweza!!
by bogbud on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 01:55:22 PM PDT
Thanks for posting the donor-matching link! I was just about to click "send" on the normal page when I noticed your link. A nice person in Seattle has matched my donation!
by vjlaqem on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 08:00:54 AM PDT
What a great feeling it is to invest in hope.
Read the Day of Affirmation Address by RFK!
by Common Cents on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:38:24 AM PDT
I should have read that more carefully. I thought that was a link to pledge to match a donor, which is what I did the last time. I was surprised that when I clicked the "submit" button I got a message from from a donor who was matching my donation.
The link to pledge matching funds is:
This is CLASS WAR, and the other side is winning.
by Mr X on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 10:26:28 AM PDT
OK, I'm in for $25.01
Wish I could give more (again), but I'm glad I got in and was matched! Sweet doubly goodness!
by MJ via Chicago on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 04:42:15 PM PDT
To help get the word out.
I'm in!
http://digg.com/...
by Not Brit on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:07:02 AM PDT
Phonebank Link
It's bad weather in today's primary states, and the phonebank activity will be very important to help turn out the vote!
Thanks!
Some people fight fire with fire. Professionals use water.
by Happy Days on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:36:38 AM PDT
I am a Obama supporter but these constant appeals for money must cease here. Some of us log on to discuss issues not to shaked down for money.
If you wanna solicit funds for your candidate, then join the campaign and call his donors on the list.
This is tacky beyond belief.
Hey, moderator, if Obama people can beg for dollars then it's only fair to have a posting for Clinton donors.
by wisconsin girl on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 02:03:55 AM PDT
quite awhile.
There's also a Clinton fundraiser going on today.
If you don't want to give, or can't, or simply don't want to give here then don't. But don't spread the negative feeling over something that is happening all over the net.
Its the delegates that count
by Morgan Sandlin on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 02:05:36 AM PDT
I'm doing this to support my candidate. Nothing is stopping you from doing it for Clinton. Also shaking people down for money would involve some sort of physical act, last time I checked, words can't do that.
by blueinks on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 02:06:03 AM PDT
I gave you an honest reply. There is too much candidate solicitation on this blog.
by wisconsin girl on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 02:19:04 AM PDT
I'm working on an update to my diary on wasteful federal spending (as we can now discover via USAspending.gov).
by barath on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 02:30:41 AM PDT
There are plenty of issue orientated diaries, you can start one yourself for that matter. Stop the whinning Stop the __________
by wuod kwatch on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 04:20:46 AM PDT
I have been suspect of raising money from the grassroots and spending it on the Political Industrial Complex, mostly TV ads and pollsters, and media political makers who get their big cuts.
I thought it was a waste of Dean's money. Most of the 50 million raised went to such garbage. There is no proof if you ask me (look at Romeny) that big TV ads get you more votes...
But I do think the grassroots should make sure that the money they give is going to the more alternative media and especially paid precinct captains across the country. The more grassroots organizers hired, the better the grassroots builds. A number of us have been pushing for this around the nets and I am beginning to see more and more of the money going back into the grassroots.
Obama was a grassroots organizer and he knows a little of what I am talking about. I wish he would address the problems of the Democratic Party more directly (he calls for change in a broad sense but he has not attacked their top town sensibility in a big way) but I think the people he has around him are a little more friendly to this type of use of campaign funds.
As for this person complaining on this diary about asking for money... money is one of the major issues we should be dealing with when it comes to political campaigns. How we raise it, use it and don't use it... public funding... etc. Finding ways to be more democratic in how campaigns spend money. We need more accountablility to the grassroots that donates the money.More explainations why they spend it on Ads, Salaries of top campaign officials, etc.
To just come into a blog that is trying to make a political point about raising money via small donations to attack it is really off the mark and shows that you are not thinking very clearly about the political process. Your analysis is very weak.
don't link to MSM; support your alternative grassroots media by linking to them
by john from vermont on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:20:03 AM PDT
Plus Obama's campaign, at least in the early days was really intentionally working on being an organizing movement, not just a robocall machine.
It has been written up though I don't have time to find the link.
Google Camp Obama.
Especially in SC it worked.
Cesar Chavez's lead organizer Marshall Ganz who also worked for MLK and Bobby K did the work on this.
In NH there was a mix between the organizing philosophy and the more traditional numbers and lists side of things. May explain the results.
Someday this will be all written up.
But from the start there was a clear intention of the campaign being more than a campaign, about leaving the progressive movement a stronger movement.
IMHO that is happening in a big way, even now in the rush when people can not 'organize' as well as they could with more time.
In TX and OH there may be time enough for more of a movement, which will also help in November.
I want more than solicitation, but I'm also giving.
Go Obama
Tax Paradigms, Feed Imaginations
by jhpdb on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:40:14 AM PDT
by need pr on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:07:30 AM PDT
i think Obama is a progressive
i'd love someone more progressive but am more than happy with someone who is progressive and bringing in a LOT of new energy to the party
i do not consider the DLC to be progressive
by jhpdb on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:34:46 AM PDT
conservative. I'm tired of conservative "Democrats" hijacking this party. Look what happened in the Senate today!
by nomes on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 10:39:57 AM PDT
We are trying to get the candidate elected not make an economic statement.
by Char on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:04:36 AM PDT
I know sometimes it gets tiring to see yet another solicitation diary. Welcome to Primary Season.
And you know what? It's not going to go away once we have a nominee. There are going to be a lot of diaries asking us to dig in to make sure McCain isn't the next Commander in Chief of Amerika.
I often ignore the fundraising diaries without leaving a comment in the diary throwing feces at the author. You can do that too, you know.
Civic spirit drowns in a hurricane of mere survivalism - McKenzie Wark
by cfaller96 on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 08:16:32 AM PDT
There is too much candidate solicitation on this blog.
There are plenty of other blogs. I suggest you start your own, with different rules. It's really quite easy (see blogger.com) and you can have your own purpose, goals and rules. The goal of this site is electing more and better Democrats. Unfortunately fundraising is part of that for now, but we should all be working toward public campaign financing.
Deranged neoconservative militarism isn't the solution to nuclear proliferation; it's a cause. -- Glenn Greenwald
by factbased on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:22:17 AM PDT
Blueinks reached through the internet tubes, stole my wallet and bitchslapped me!!
True story.
by The Dead Man on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 08:33:23 AM PDT
ever since these tubes opened up all over the world, there's been far to much physical abuse of the tube users. Blueinks, please don't hit me again!
owwww..oh... owww.... Those polisci degrees are friggin heavy! OWWWWW...!!!
by YucatanMan on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:20:46 AM PDT
Stop pushing this stuff onto the rec list something worthy like http://www.dailykos.com/...
This diary gets pushed out of sight.
by Osiris on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 01:35:02 PM PDT
for clinton donors .. It's Up To You.
Those who say it can't be done should get out of the way of those doing it.
by c0wfunk on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 03:07:23 AM PDT
if you want to post a Clinton fundraising post, go right ahead.
Your comment seems much tackier than the diary
Now up: Daily Kos University
by plf515 on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 04:22:12 AM PDT
It's pretty obvious from the title that this is a fundraiser.
The real reason the Government wants to have a war in Iraq is to have a war in Iraq - Keith Olbermann
by thursdays child on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:16:55 AM PDT
That's what I don't understand about internet bulletin boards the world over.
If you don't like something, why log on and tell people you don't like it? Why don't they post their own thing?
Good grief, that's why I like the internet--I choose the content and ignore what I don't like!
In TX-32, track the voting record of Pete Sessions at SessionsWatch.
by CoolOnion on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:41:49 AM PDT
money is speech and speech is money. I think the Supreme Court decided that. At least this way, we get to play, too.
"When does the greed stop?" - Sen. Edward Kennedy
by Cory Bantic on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:30:36 AM PDT
In spite of the bad taste this equation leaves in my mouth (wow, what a bizarrely mixed metaphor--tasty equations!), I have trouble coming up with an objection to the Court's logic in Buckley v. Valleo that tastes any better. The alternative to considering political contributions as some form of protected speech makes the 1st Amendment partisan libertarian in me just cringe. (Full disclosure: my 1st Amendment prof was a hard-core Libertarian, and quite a bit of it rubbed off, at least with a small "l.") I'm not a fan of destroying metaphorical villages in order to save them. Like it or not, our pocketbooks are one of the more noticeable implements in our toolkit for getting the greedheads' attention.
"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." --MLK
by Progressive Witness on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 08:13:49 AM PDT
If you don't like the solicitations, just skip them. You control the mouse. No one is chaining you down forcing you to read them, are they?
Jeez.
The Clinton people have done the same thing here; its just that they are so far fewer....
by John Poet on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:34:14 AM PDT
(snark alert)
all the people who are tired of others who are tired of people writing blogs on this blog who don't have maps. Every time I get on this site it continually has more and more blog postings and what not, such as, that I have to read. I am tired of it.
The early worm gets eaten.
by localpol on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 12:17:32 PM PDT
"and your not going to take it anymore"
by GBCW on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 02:19:33 PM PDT
You just made the meta-meta baby Jesus cry.
'[Obama] has treated us like adults throughout this primary, and it is time to act like adults.' - John Cole
by RichM on Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 01:11:36 PM PDT
Lincoln's on the five and the penny, like Lincoln, Obama's from Illinois...
(Oh, well. As they say in comedy, if you have to explain it...)
by CoolOnion on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:39:52 AM PDT
...all worldly possessions when they enter the cult?
/snark
For the record, we still have more than enough petroleum to trigger runaway greenhouse effects before the stuff runs out for good.
by Minerva on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:23:35 AM PDT
and I am now waiting for BHO's comet to come take me to some celestial heaven
There once was a man named mccain, who had the whole white house to gain, but he was quite a hobbyist of boning his lobbyist, so much for his 08 campaign. SC
by christomento on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:33:35 AM PDT
to the Planet Colob soon, where you would assigned "lord" of your own planet.
Obama's coming up short on planets to offer us. But he can fix this one. Or at least try to turn it in the right direction.
by YucatanMan on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:23:43 AM PDT
my last meal of rice and beetles was three weeks ago...
The rest of the cult has run off to the primary states. Must beg for food..
by YucatanMan on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:22:26 AM PDT
The prime mission for this site is to elect Democrats over Republicans, and progressive Democrats over non-progressives.
Raising money is one of our greatest functions. I can't imagine how anybody could think it is "tacky".
Keep donating, folks!
by Mr X on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:37:37 AM PDT
and you don't speak for Kos. 'nuff said?
by hey mister on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:40:13 AM PDT
"The state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation." - Pierre Trudeau
by fishhead on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:53:54 AM PDT
These are grassroots efforts. That's what this site is about. Crashing the gates. This is crashing the gates, a grassroots effort. Cold calling rich donors on the donor list isn't.
If you don't want to see the comments don't come here. That's part of the greatness of DailyKos and democracy. If Clinton supporters want a grassroots drive for money I'd gladly rec it up because we gather here for people power. If the Kos and others can raise funds via Blue Majority why can't us little users try our thing? To have a stronger voice grassroots donors must band together.
That's what this is about. I really don't get why you don't like it.
Donate to the Obamathon Netroots Fundraising Drive
by Populista on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 08:08:29 AM PDT
been one of the primary functions of this site, from diaries to the front page, for years now. If diaries like this annoy you, skip them and go on to ones that indicate an issue discussion. There were fund raising appeals from the Edwards supporters when he was in the race. If you think there should be a similar page for Hillary, write the diary instead of making a false complaint about fairness.
by Heart of the Rockies on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 08:51:37 AM PDT
can't stop clicking on those diaries! And my eyes can't stop reading the words and the dollar signs! And my hands can't possibly type up a similar diary supporting Hillary! It's all so unfair and unbearable.
How dare anyone start a diary asking for money on a political site. Absurd.
Everyone's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain. But when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh! Suddenly you've gone too far!-Futurama
by McJagger on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:04:41 AM PDT
Whether or not this is appropriate by choosing to recommend it or not. Not YOU.
This type of fundraising has ALWAYS been done on dailykos, where the hell have you been?
The Clinton supporters can damn well set up their own "money bomb" thread if they want to.
You clearly don't seem to have spent much time on this site. No one is coerced into donating anything, but it can be very effective.
by lrhoke on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:54:13 AM PDT
is that people can combine their power.
Sometimes we combine our power of activism, and sometimes we combine out power of the coin. Both of them advance the democratic cause.
I just donated my $15.01, in honor of Lincoln, in support of Obama.
Yes we can.
by nomes on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 10:38:14 AM PDT
But still working hard on our own at the Tampa Bay O Train to win all of the other primary states.
by jjackso1 on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 04:10:26 AM PDT
and a GREAT Obama supporter!
by bobnbob on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 04:39:45 AM PDT
I just did the $5.01 anyway which they will apply to the general...
(Yeah, that's right, max donor -- pretty good for a dirty f***ing hippie)
"His mind is as sharp as anybody's I've ever met," Feingold said of Obama.
by Joes username on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:06:06 AM PDT
refund? You know I'll use it all for Obama. Is this TOUGH LOVE?
by jjackso1 on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:39:52 AM PDT
I'm still in 3 digits, but with my wife still working on her Doctorate (wow, we do fit the stereotype!), that's where we'll stay for quite a long time, inching upward.
Thanks for going "all in" for all of us who can't.
by Progressive Witness on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 08:16:36 AM PDT
to the matching funds page in the diary!
Habitat For Humanity
by x on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 04:18:18 AM PDT
I'm donating. One problem: I don't have a credit card or Paypal. Does Obama take Money orders? If so where should I send it?
by Matt Z on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 04:39:19 AM PDT
http://my.barackobama.com/...
at the bottom is an address - Attn: Jessica
by bobnbob on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 04:41:41 AM PDT
I'm going to write down the information and send some money today. I can only do $10.02 for now but I want to help.
by Matt Z on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 04:43:22 AM PDT
Thanks for your support!
by nomes on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 10:46:09 AM PDT
who lives in Richmond, Va. His girlfriend was a fence sitter until she went to the Jeff-Jack dinner and she was completely won over. She's firmly in the Obama camp now. Even my Dad, who is a Republican/Libertarian, says if Obama gets the nomination he would probably vote for him. Just made my donation this morning too!!
by DJShay on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:06:18 AM PDT
:)
by NMDan on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:31:19 AM PDT
by Lois on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:26:27 AM PDT
I will match all donors to the site to the full extent that my personal max contribution goes. If you want your money to Obama doubled over the next couple of days.. Contribute here.
Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.
by Winston Sm1th on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:32:21 AM PDT
by trivium on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 08:04:47 AM PDT
thanks
by Winston Sm1th on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:55:25 PM PDT
all I can do. But it's my first donation, so at least I'll count in the total donors number.
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by Team Slacker on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:19:19 AM PDT
Thanks so much.
500K here we come.
by Michael Lawrence Gallagher on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:27:24 AM PDT
nice to know our contributor numbers are growing
by Winston Sm1th on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:56:23 PM PDT
This is the first political contribution I've ever made; I couldn't have been happier this morning when I pulled the lever for Obama.
Let's keep this momentum going!
by eisenreich on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:33:04 AM PDT
Is the first politician i have ever given to myself. He's the first one i feel like i would trust with my money.
by Michael Lawrence Gallagher on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:45:12 AM PDT
and first one who ever won the primaries in my state but also beat the repubs in total number of votes cast. First time I have ever voted for someone who won.
"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption." --Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002-GWB
by meatwad420 on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:48:22 AM PDT
by nomes on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 10:47:03 AM PDT
in your diary? Which, given the primaries today, is just as important as donating.
Thanks for the diary, and the great idea behind it!
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by scardanelli on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:08:09 AM PDT
An Edwards man now boarding Obama's fast freight train....
by John Poet on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:30:49 AM PDT
Next stop Wisconsin and Hawaii.
Train leaves at 8PM EST.
by Michael Lawrence Gallagher on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:41:37 AM PDT
I gave $105.01.
"Make it stop. Please, make it stop."
by Democrat on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:21:46 AM PDT
They know I will use it all for the Obama campaign. Conspiracy theory?
by jjackso1 on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:36:02 AM PDT
but I donated via Obama O-Train because Floridians are people, too. We want the world to know that Florida is donating online to Obama!
"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America." Barack Obama
by thefos on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:51:31 AM PDT
...the O-Train link. ;( Oh well--as long as it's all going to the same place!
--- BE the movement. Obama for President. ---
by boofdah on Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 08:23:11 PM PDT
Demand a "voter verified paper trail" in every election, in every state. Sign Rush Holt's Petition for HR. 811.
by SeaTurtle on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:33:35 AM PDT
donation done!
Harry Taylor for Congress, Courage is Contagious
by Fredly on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:40:06 AM PDT
column in NY Times in this posting: http://pmcarpenter.blogs.com/...:
Give generously!
"The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime." Wallace Stevens
by mobiusein on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 09:55:44 AM PDT
.... I also sent a note stating why I chose to do so today.
I am voting for the Democrat in November. As such, I was holding off giving a donation until the Primary season was over. That changed with the FISA votes today.
Senator Obama stood for the citizens of America today in my opinion... Senator Clinton did not vote.
I sent him $50 and my thanks.
Like the nominee, don't like the nominee... Our nominee is still better than John McCain.
by Jen K in FLA on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 11:37:29 AM PDT
.... sent $50.10... shoot....
Oh well... The 10 cents can just be well wishes...
by Jen K in FLA on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 11:42:17 AM PDT
by
