Actually, Obama recieved his money in donations from supporters (that being, people like me, as he refused to use the public financing as well as refused lobbyist money) and, according to NPR, has so much money that millions will be left over after the election. In other words, he has so much money he can't spend it all. And a great majority of ad space has been purchased/filled already so there isn't much left for him to buy. So, they decided the best way to get their message out beyond a mere 30 second or minute clip was to buy a half hour of air time on national primetime televsion. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. It was people who chose to give him that money to help him become president. So that's what he's doing with it.
I didn't intend for my rant to ignore the donations from individuals--I apologize if it sounded that way. Obviously, the personal donations are a *huge* chunk of both campaigns. But the Obama campaign also use bundlers, and let's be honest, they have a huge volunteer base but couldn't manage to list their contributions with any degree of accuracy. (it doesn't mean, of course, that there is anything wrong or shady about the campaign, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth) I have my doubts that the celebrities are keeping to the maximum donation amounts they are supposed to and for that matter, that they've been verifying that the donors are American citizens. I apologize, I wanted to hunt down some sources and things so I could explain my point better, but my computer time for the next few weeks is practically non-existent
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Well, unfortunately for me, I didn't even get to see Obama's infomercial because I was driving home from breaking up with turd-face. :( Obviously I was interested from the standpoint of being interested in him, but I also hope it's done what it intended and helped sway or encourage people to get out there and vote for him. I'm not one who's really disillusioned, though. I mean, I know there is a huge difference between Obama and McCain and most certainly believe Obama will be VASTLY better for this country (and, honestly, before Palin came around, I wasn't all the worried about McCain winning, but as time's gone on, and I've learned and seen more from/about McCain that's made me dislike him, too...even if he was hot George-Eads-look-alike stuff when he was young; he was also a slut, but now I'm really against and frightened of them winning
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