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Obama campaign raises $25 million - Barack Obama News - MSNBC.com

Hillary, you've got some serious competition! Yippee! Obama, show her you can beat her, will you?????

talloulou

Out of curiosity why would you like to see Obama as the next president? I know tons of people love the "idea of him" but they don't seem to know why? So why aps?

Lachean

I think people support Obama because he's a black man with a shot at the Presidency. I don't know enough about him to make a judgement, but this seems to me a very contemptible reason to be the mans advocate.

Its like supporting Hillary because she is female.

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talloulou, you may be misinterpreting my post. It's more about me NOT wanting Hillary to be our nominee. There she is running around exuding confidence. It makes me want to puke. I love thinking that she thought she had this nomination in the bag until...........Obama declared his candidacy. I want her to get a serious wake-up call.

If I were to pick my favorite candidiate now, it would be Bill Richardson. I am just not sure he will be able to get the nomination. So far, I like what I see about Obama, but I need to learn more about him.

talloulou

Then start with that? What exactly do you see that you like? I'm curious.

Skip

Obama has what we need in this world. Politics are jaded following Bush & Co. He's a breath of fresh air. He's real.

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Thelost1

Because he strikes me as the only canditate who actually cares about more than getting re-elected.

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He is a Democrat first and foremost. He is VERY, VERY intelligent and has common sense. He exudes genuineness. He has stopped smoking. He is articulate, and he has charisma. He does not appear to be a partisan jerk--always looking to bash the other side.

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Obama Could Raise More Money if He Were Married to Bill Clinton


Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, whose presidential campaign raised $25 million in the first quarter from 100,000 contributors today said that he could have raised even more money if he were married to former President Bill Clinton, whose fundraising prowess is legendary.

“Even though I’m handicapped by not being married to former President Clinton,” Sen. Obama said, “I’m still in, and I’m in to win.”

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, who raised $26 million from only 50,000 donors, today tried to put the best face on her rival’s surprising success, noting that “money doesn’t matter. Votes matter. And when the primary comes, I’ll beat Obama even if I get only half as many votes.”

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talloulou

How do you know that? I mean what makes you think he's highly intelligent with tons of common sense?

I've read one of his books so I know he's no idiot. He's a fairly good writer and he appears to be a charismatic speaker but I'm not sure about the common sense? What leads you to believe he has common sense?

Now that I don't agree with. He was very candid in his book and yet seems less so now as he campaigns. Frankly I think if he said some of the things he says in his book in public speeches he'd be less liked.

You can't know that! But clearly he's stated that he is trying to quit and that's cool.

Have you read his book!!!! He bashes the other side repeatedly! He actually says in his book that liberals base their decisions on logic while conservatives don't. Plus he constantly says crap like well liberals have a problem with this but conservatives are much worse because blah blah blah. To say he doesn't bash is naive and indicative of the fact that you haven't read the man's book which is odd.

I don't support the man and yet I've read his book. You clearly support him and yet it seems you haven't read the book. Either that or you've read the book and have an extreme case of selective memory!

How do you feel about his tendency towards socialism?