Freakanomics, baby.  There comes a time when all the money in the world is too much money.  I imagine those PA'ers don't cotton to someone thinking their votes can be bought, either.

Secondly, if Hillary had the kind of cash and base she would be doing the same.

Is there no way that Hillary supporters will at least consider that the Obama campaign has outdone the Hillary campaign in every way? We donate to Obama so he can get his name and message out there. Of course he will buy ad time with that money. I would be upset if he didn't.

"We actually ran a terrific campaign up until the point we knew that we weren't going to have to appear on the ballot with anybody," Obama said. "I mean, we had prepared for it. We had raised money. We had tons of volunteers. There was enormous enthusiasm."

And he defended his use of ballot maneuvers: "If you can win, you should win and get to work doing the people's business."

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Little-known candidate Marc Ewell filed 1,286 names, but Obama's objections left him 86 short of the minimum, and election officials struck him from the ballot, records show. Ewell filed a federal lawsuit contesting the board's decision, but Johnson intervened on Obama's behalf and prevailed when Ewell's case was dismissed days later.

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City authorities had just completed a massive, routine purge of unqualified names that eliminated 15,871 people from the 13th District rolls, court records show.

Ewell and other Obama rivals had relied on early 1995 polling sheets to verify the signatures of registered voters -- but Obama's challenges were decided at least in part using the most recent, accurate list, records show.

Askia filed 1,899 signatures, but the Obama team sustained objections to 1,211, leaving him 69 short, records show.

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It is amazing that he could purge all 4 opponents on technicalities, especially when they had nearly double the requirements.  Someone know how this works?  Sheet not formatted correctly? Signature doesn't match exactly? I move half a block in the same district? Or are gatherers really that corrupt?

I'm tired of the disrespect that Hillary has been shown by SO many people. She's my Senator and she's done a damn good job at it. She's good on the issues I care most about. She's got experience, she's got heart -- and fire and intelligence. Perfect? No. Is she The One? No. But she's damn good.

I want her as my President. I'd be proud to have her as my President.

It's going to be another two months of primaries and she will still need money.

If you can spare $10 bucks and you believe that Hillary Clinton is the right person for the job of President of the United States, please give her a donation.  Every little bit help.

Thank you.

ROK QUOTE:Is there no way that Hillary supporters will at least consider that the Obama campaign has outdone the Hillary campaign in every way?

His successes in the Illinois Senate were largely a result of the Senate President Emil Jones, who gave Obama assignments to work on  legislation that would create sensational news headlines. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement--Obama had a long-time political figure's backing while Jones gained credibility through demonstrating he could get people elected. Anyway, without Jones's help, it is unlikely that Obama would have been elected to the U.S. Senate when he did.

Of course the Republicans are going to run with any smear they can come up with. But why should Democrats legitimize these smears.

And now, Hillary has made it painfully clear she does not want my vote. What leads me to conclude this? Her recent slam against MoveOn.

Allright, fair enough. Hillary and the rest of you, you don't have my vote, my support or my money. You might have had until just now when Hillary made it painfully clear she did not want it.

Wall-to-wall Obama on television here in Harrisburg.   This was my scene coming home.

I wonder if Howard Dean has promised Obama that if he gets a certain target, like under a 5 point loss, the DNC will try to end it?

Obama has money. We gave it to him. We expect him to spend it. Candidates should buy ads. They should buy a lot of them in contests that matter.

When has TeamObama ever shown that practice -- and I'm not even applying the expectation here set out by HIS OWN PLATFORM to introduce a new era of non-partisanship.

What I've seen from them is considerable resources applied to slamming his rival as "divisive" and "ambitious" simply for being unfairly targeted by right wing haters, and being in the running at all despite the "problem" this creates for a weak, unprepared, candidate like Obama when viewed as a potential President.

I'm not even holding Obama to the metric of neutrality here, but coming out of the gate in smear-mode.

When you post a diary at DKos asking TeamObama to spend half their resources praising Sen. Clinton in good faith, link to it. Only after you do that can you seriously demand to know why her campaign isn't stumping for him too.

Hint: just look at Talk Left's list of "Blog We Like". Start with No Quarter or Taylor Marsh; hack around other places on the list and you'll see where you can call it as you see it. IMO, the prohibition on identifying the candidate by a name that he formerly called himself, is over-protective/hyper-vigilant.  

Jeralyn, BTD, whoever, has every right to dictate the terms. However, if we were being consistent, we wouldn't want to see Hillary called HRC  or Hillary Rodham Clinton; it recalls the denigrating adage 'Hillary put the rod in Rodham'; she used to be known only by her maiden name, ergo she was a 'rabid feminist'; HRC is reminiscent of HRH (Her Royal Highness), etc.

Could some of that be from the millions that he didn't collect from the "Federally Registered" lobbyists?

He only takes money from the unregistered lobbyists, their friends and families, big oil, drug companies, subprime lenders, and the like.

It's unfortunate that Obama and the media distorted the whole "bitter" issue.

The insult is not in being called bitter. The insult is in being described as prejudicial or racist.

"or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment".

The media missed the whole reason why people are insulted by Obama's stupid and hurtful remark.

Obama has lied far too many times. He lied about Rezko - taking a little money, then taking $250,000, so far.

We're still waiting for him to admit he took millions from Auchi, the Iraqi billionaire.

He lied about his racist anti-American pastor - he didn't hear him, then he did.

He lied about Hillary's health plan, NAFTA, his stance on Iraq, and so much more. He tells us one thing and tells Canada don't listen to it, it's only political rhetoric.

I have no respect for him at all. He skated through this whole campaign with the help of the media until in one debate he was finally asked some serious questions and he couldn't handle it.

Ferraro was right, if he was white he would not be where he is because he has no record of accomplishments, only a record of shady friends.

I'm sure the GOP will portray him as a Trojan horse for black un-American radicals.  Oprah was smart enough to leave the racist preacher, but Obama wasn't.