I'm Shocked!!!

What a maverick!

Unsurprised SilentStrider is unsurprised.

Pork chop sandwiches!

Croooow!: Pork chop sandwiches!

give him the stick...don't give him the stick!

That's nothing - according to this, it's the retired folks that are sending the most money to McCain.

His single largest contributor is still citygroup, to the tune of $251,551.

In overall numbers, McCain is still far behind Obama. Obama still has the lowest debt load, and continues to outspend McCain almost 2:1. McCain did see a large spike in contributions in June, but as yet has been unable to allocate funding in any realistically effective manner to stop the Obama pain train.

This will not affect his policy positions at all in much the same way that the 12-day old house chicken from Pick Up Stix I found in the back of my fridge and ate cold last night had nothing to do with the buttocks-blistering diarrhea I experienced this morning.

What's particularly disturbing about all of this is that most of the 'big money' donations are going to McCain. That's a lot of heavy hitters going all out for the guy. And that sort of influence goes beyond mere fund raising number amounts.

At any rate, Obama has continued to raise more fundage than McCain. should trends continue, he should be well placed for the general campaign.

Obama should be well placed in Gitmo for the general campaign, he's a mooslim flip flopper and America and her oil companies need real leadership right now.

Mordant: Obama should be well placed in Gitmo for the general campaign, he's a mooslim flip flopper and America and her oil companies need real leadership right now.

Not your best work, although the spelling errors are a nice touch. Too rushed and without a build up to the final rampage.

3/10.

What that, about 100 oil executives and their spouses giving the maximum personal contribution?

Not surprising.

What's more important is, which one can out-drink the other!?

Now that's change we can believe in!

Isn't $750,000 like 10 seconds of profit to the oil companies?

Interesting post, until the final paragraph:

"I'm sure this is all that the media will be talking about this week. McCain's craven flip flop just to get financial support from oil men. Right??? Right???"

Oh COME ON. Now the media has a conservative bias? Does any group of people out there actually like what the media puts out there?

Howie Spankowitz: This will not affect his policy positions at all in much the same way that the 12-day old house chicken from Pick Up Stix I found in the back of my fridge and ate cold last night had nothing to do with the buttocks-blistering diarrhea I experienced this morning.

Did it set off the smoke alarm?

/NEVERMIND!!!!11!!!11one!
//not obscure

Mordant: Obama should be well placed in Gitmo for the general campaign, he's a mooslim flip flopper and America and her oil companies need real leadership right now.

Oh, well played, Sir! You have earned full marks... 10/10

/golf clap

panfried: What's more important is, which one can out-drink the other!?

I think it's safe to say that Michael Winslow would indeed beat Captain Stubing in a drinking contest.

I don;t know how often opensecrets.org updates their numbers behere's latest on their site.
Top Contributors

MCCAIN
Citigroup Inc $251,551
Merrill Lynch $249,960
Blank Rome LLP $188,176
Morgan Stanley $174,271
Goldman Sachs $171,945
AT&T Inc $160,930
Greenberg Traurig LLP $157,087
JPMorgan Chase & Co $148,900
Credit Suisse Group $123,225
UBS AG $110,915
Lehman Brothers $99,550
Bank of America $98,425
Blackstone Group $97,200
US Government $96,306
Wachovia Corp $96,062
Bear Stearns $94,200
Bank of New York Mellon $89,500
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $81,000
FedEx Corp $80,653
PricewaterhouseCoopers $79,720

OBAMA
Goldman Sachs $606,080
University of California $488,159
JPMorgan Chase & Co $378,357
Citigroup Inc $371,704
UBS AG $370,850
Lehman Brothers $333,310
National Amusements Inc $332,839
Harvard University $325,424
Google Inc $321,964
Sidley Austin LLP $307,345
Skadden, Arps et al $281,163
Morgan Stanley $274,463
Time Warner $268,227
Jones Day $251,250
Exelon Corp $237,311
University of Chicago $230,175
Latham & Watkins $228,276
Microsoft Corp $222,578
Wilmerhale Llp $222,080
General Electric $210,329

BARR
Ubs $2,300
Sunnyside Technical Consulting $2,300
Oosi $2,300
Fairfax County Public Schools $2,300
Smith Barney $2,300
Cramer Latham LLC $2,300
Pentennea Llc $2,300
Palmetto Gold & Pawn $2,200
Kc Solutions $1,000
Worldwide Express $1,000
Inon Cable $1,000
Eastman Chemical $1,000
Edward Block $1,000
Halcyon Search International $1,000
Verizon Wireless $1,000
Cdot $500
Paces Foundation $500
Music Conservatory of Texas $500
Mitre Corp $500
Intex Solutions $500

atlanta_ufo: I don;t know how often opensecrets.org updates their numbers behere's latest on their site.
Top Contributors

...

BARR
Ubs $2,300
Sunnyside Technical Consulting $2,300
Oosi $2,300
Fairfax County Public Schools $2,300
Smith Barney $2,300
Cramer Latham LLC $2,300
Pentennea Llc $2,300
Palmetto Gold & Pawn $2,200
Kc Solutions $1,000
Worldwide Express $1,000
Inon Cable $1,000
Eastman Chemical $1,000
Edward Block $1,000
Halcyon Search International $1,000
Verizon Wireless $1,000
Cdot $500
Paces Foundation $500
Music Conservatory of Texas $500
Mitre Corp $500
Intex Solutions $500

Okay, there are a few reasons why that item kind of throws me off...

Bloody William:
Okay, there are a few reasons why that item kind of throws me off...

Ah, I should have put...This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

atlanta_ufo: Bloody William:
Okay, there are a few reasons why that item kind of throws me off...

Ah, I should have put...This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

Ahhhhhh. That makes more sense... sort of.

You can't make pancakes without oil.

Psychotropic: You can't make pancakes without oil.

Apple sauce is a great substitute if you want to have less fat in them. Still nice and moist, it doesn't add any sort of apple taste, and greatly reduces fat.

Lobbyists Have Donated Over $181,000 To McCain Even As He Denounces Their Profession

Holtz-Eakin: McCain may not speak for the McCain campaign on the economy.»

"Maverick" McCain wants to keep tax cuts for billionaires, but may hike payroll taxes on working people (78)

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I thought it was ridiculous that I posted 112 links the media glazes over/totally skips on McCain, whilst repetitively covering Pastor Wright for more than a year, harping on "Obama's Jewish Problem (ugh)."

Looks like there's room for three more today. TV Media... get your act together, because there isn't a whole lot of reason to consider you a quality source of information.

Bloody William: atlanta_ufo: Bloody William:
Okay, there are a few reasons why that item kind of throws me off...

Ah, I should have put...This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

Ahhhhhh. That makes more sense... sort of.

Or, you know, you could just follow the link I provided above.

That site has a lot of good, solid info. From a money perspective, McCain is getting his ass kicked. Granted, it is a bit early to really worry about fundraising but he should be doing much better than he has been to this point. And from the numbers it's also glaringly apparent that McCain is in deep with lawyers and the elderly. So don't look for meaningful tort reform or social security fixes. In light of that data McCain's newfound dedication to raising payroll taxes for Social Security makes much more sense.

OBAMA
Goldman Sachs $606,080
University of California $488,159
JPMorgan Chase & Co $378,357
Citigroup Inc $371,704
UBS AG $370,850
Lehman Brothers $333,310
National Amusements Inc $332,839
Harvard University $325,424
Google Inc $321,964
Sidley Austin LLP $307,345
Skadden, Arps et al $281,163
Morgan Stanley $274,463
Time Warner $268,227
Jones Day $251,250
Exelon Corp $237,311
University of Chicago $230,175
Latham & Watkins $228,276
Microsoft Corp $222,578
Wilmerhale Llp $222,080
General Electric $210,329


I guess it's kinda nice to see universities, tech companies and theater owners in there rather than the usual suspects. I mean the University of California gave more than everyone except Goldman Sachs

atlanta_ufo:

MCCAIN
Citigroup Inc $251,551
Goldman Sachs $171,945
JPMorgan Chase & Co $148,900
UBS AG $110,915
Lehman Brothers $99,550

OBAMA
Goldman Sachs $606,080
JPMorgan Chase & Co $378,357
Citigroup Inc $371,704
UBS AG $370,850
Lehman Brothers $333,310

Just listing some mutual contributors these guys have. It seems that any group who donates to both McCain and Obama donates more to Obama than MCain. In some cases five times as much.

Also, why has the US Government donated over $96k to McCain but nothing to Obama? Is there something Bush and his cronies are trying to tell us?

US Government $96,306

King Something:

Also, why has the US Government donated over $96k to McCain but nothing to Obama? Is there something Bush and his cronies are trying to tell us?

When the "US government" or the "University of California" is listed as making campaign donations, what it really means is that employees are making campaign donations. Unsurprisingly, UC employees tend to favor Obama, and employees of the recently-politicized federal executive agencies tend to favor Bush.

God. Are you serious? Are you serious? I mean, I take my DailyKos with a large grain of salt, but if this is why McCain has been touting "clean" coal, and now offshore drilling, I am no longer just annoyed by the man, I am disgusted.

Before, I liked him. I thought that he was a decent, moderate, conservative senator who had earned much respect by fighting in Vietnam and surviving as a POW. But this election has shown me that he is just dumb. Unethical, unintelligent, and complety unelectable.

God, the fact that this election is as close as it is makes me want to move to Europe. Any euro farkers wanna adopt me?

atlanta_ufo: I don;t know how often opensecrets.org updates their numbers behere's latest on their site.
Top Contributors

MCCAIN
Citigroup Inc $251,551
Merrill Lynch $249,960
Blank Rome LLP $188,176
Morgan Stanley $174,271
Goldman Sachs $171,945
AT&T Inc $160,930
Greenberg Traurig LLP $157,087
JPMorgan Chase & Co $148,900
Credit Suisse Group $123,225
UBS AG $110,915
Lehman Brothers $99,550
Bank of America $98,425
Blackstone Group $97,200
US Government $96,306
Wachovia Corp $96,062
Bear Stearns $94,200
Bank of New York Mellon $89,500
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $81,000
FedEx Corp $80,653
PricewaterhouseCoopers $79,720

OBAMA
Goldman Sachs $606,080
University of California $488,159
JPMorgan Chase & Co $378,357
Citigroup Inc $371,704
UBS AG $370,850
Lehman Brothers $333,310
National Amusements Inc $332,839
Harvard University $325,424
Google Inc $321,964
Sidley Austin LLP $307,345
Skadden, Arps et al $281,163
Morgan Stanley $274,463
Time Warner $268,227
Jones Day $251,250
Exelon Corp $237,311
University of Chicago $230,175
Latham & Watkins $228,276
Microsoft Corp $222,578
Wilmerhale Llp $222,080
General Electric $210,329

BARR
Ubs $2,300
Sunnyside Technical Consulting $2,300
Oosi $2,300
Fairfax County Public Schools $2,300
Smith Barney $2,300
Cramer Latham LLC $2,300
Pentennea Llc $2,300
Palmetto Gold & Pawn $2,200
Kc Solutions $1,000
Worldwide Express $1,000
Inon Cable $1,000
Eastman Chemical $1,000
Edward Block $1,000
Halcyon Search International $1,000
Verizon Wireless $1,000
Cdot $500
Paces Foundation $500
Music Conservatory of Texas $500
Mitre Corp $500
Intex Solutions $500

Bear Stearns for McCain. That's economic planning you can believe in!!!

FlashHarry: Croooow!: Pork chop sandwiches!

give him the stick...don't give him the stick!

Ahhh, you know it's funny, these people. They go to bed at night, think "everything's fine," "everything's all right"...they wake up the next morning and they're on fire.

Daily Kos is gossip. Hilarious, but still just gossip.

El_Dan: King Something:

Also, why has the US Government donated over $96k to McCain but nothing to Obama? Is there something Bush and his cronies are trying to tell us?

When the "US government" or the "University of California" is listed as making campaign donations, what it really means is that employees are making campaign donations. Unsurprisingly, UC employees tend to favor Obama, and employees of the recently-politicized federal executive agencies tend to favor Bush.

Ah, I see.

bwesb: Daily Kos is gossip. Hilarious, but still just gossip.

I never understood this. Some of it, yes. But a good chunk of it is researched and supported by good sources.

bwesb: Daily Kos is gossip. Hilarious, but still just gossip.

I had no idea gossip was so well-researched and factual.

Weird.

I stilll don't understand the public taxpayer-funded institutions being able to give money.

If it's just their employees making personal donations, why do they list the employer?

Just curious: once a person formulates a position, should it be immutable for all time regardless of any changes in circumstances, lest it be deemed 'flip-flopping'?

Where's the Waffle House donations for McCain listed? I can't find it.

that's bribery we can believe in

bwesb: Daily Kos is gossip. Hilarious, but still just gossip.

did you read the link before posting this? Because this diary is very well sourced, as many of them are. Sure, in any open forum where anyone can post a diary you get a lot of crap, but if you stick to the recommended diaries you get at least 75% solid info. There's actually some impressive journalism going on there from time to time

How is that bribery? We need to produce our own Oil. We should have done this decades ago.

Thank god we have a policy of investing in renewable energy. Oh no wait ..... our policy is to fark the consumer as hard as possible.

/wtf was I thinking?

Its like preaching to other alcoholics needing just one more drink..... Time to find something else. Time to start acting like the country that sees the future and acts on it. Off shore will just be a band-aid. But there's still sucker out there that will buy into this. There's still people out there that support Bush and think he'd doing a great job.

McCain is such a maverick...(roll-eyes)

Bloody William
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