The three causes have nothing to fear. After Barack is elected, all wars will cease, all environmental problems will be solved, all news outlets and blogs will be controlled and there will be utopian justice for all.
— Struggling Americans Forced To Work Extra-Dimensional 4th Shift
— CIA: Syria Harboring More Than 15 Million Known Arabs
Plus these brief items:
– – – Plane Also Decides To Go Skydiving
– – – Procrastinating Egg Farmer Packs Carton With Dozen Baby Chicks
– – – Landlord Explains Difference Between Bad Roaches, Kind You Have
– – – One-Woman Show Makes Audience Hate All Women
This is all good fun, but it doesn’t address a reality. The fund-raising website for Sen. Obama (and a group of other Democrats) has deliberatley turned off basic security checks on credit card donations. There’s no checking for contributions from outside the US, contributions exceeding the legal maximum, or contributions from non-existent donors (Mickey Mouse has supposedly given, as documented on several websites.)
Considering the massive number of commercials, informercials, the “Obama” cable channel, and other expensive promotions, one can’t help but wonder where all the money is coming from. It’s totally unprecedented – and the stock answer along the lines of “millions of people gave a little bit” falls flat on its face when the actual costs involved are added up.
And remember one other thing. Under a government operating as Sen. Obama has described his administration would operate, money will be taken in large quantities from those typically most generous to charitable causes (the “rich”) to be redistrubted to others. This can’t help but have an effect on donations to charities – and unless I’m very much mistaken, an Obama govenment isn’t intending to take replace those charities with government entities. So things are likely to get much worse – almost making this humorous item a reality.
#6 “taken in large quantities” = same amount of taxes paid during the Clinton administration. [url=http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/spread_the_tax_hooey.html]factcheck.org[/url]
I gave about $200 total to Obama’s campaign, $25 at a time. So did my wife (typical discussion – me: I gave more money to Obama today. her: Hey, me too!) Most people we know gave between $25 and $500. Is it really so hard to believe that people would give what they could afford to something they believe in?
I find this amusing. I also find it amusing that Democrats (and before you shout me down, let me stress that I am an independent who finds a lot of warts on both Bodies Politic) have for years railed for campaign finance reform, and now that their contender is finally making the most money (in vast quantities), the party is suddenly completely silent on the moral and ethical issue. I find that telling.
#8 Just so you know that money you gave to Obama paid for stacks of fliers that came to our PA address over the last 2 months that went right in the trash. Not a few of which stated clear lies; i.e. “Seniors, John McCain wants to take your social security money and put it in the stock markets.” Your money also paid for telemarketers to call our house every other day assuring us that Obama is a “life-long committed Christian who will lower our taxes.”
So I guess in light of this tongue in cheek article, the money is better wasted that way than given to the ACLU etc.
“The fund-raising website for Sen. Obama (and a group of other Democrats) has deliberatley turned off basic security checks on credit card donations” —Clint [#6]
Irenaeus – the fact that basic security checks on credit card donations to the Obama campaign have been turned off has been documented (the default is that the security checks are on, so they would have to be deliberately disabled) in the Washington Post, Mark Steyn, and Powerline.
The three causes have nothing to fear. After Barack is elected, all wars will cease, all environmental problems will be solved, all news outlets and blogs will be controlled and there will be utopian justice for all.
Fear not! If Obama is elected, the National Rifle Association’s membership will soar, as it did during the Clinton Administration.
But with Cheney out of the picture, ACLU fundraising will become more difficult.
If the NRA and ACLU issued derivatives, you could probably use one to hedge the other.
While reading the Onion, don’t miss:
— Struggling Americans Forced To Work Extra-Dimensional 4th Shift
— CIA: Syria Harboring More Than 15 Million Known Arabs
Plus these brief items:
– – – Plane Also Decides To Go Skydiving
– – – Procrastinating Egg Farmer Packs Carton With Dozen Baby Chicks
– – – Landlord Explains Difference Between Bad Roaches, Kind You Have
– – – One-Woman Show Makes Audience Hate All Women
I knew that it was a spoof when I saw the organizations involved.
If it was legitimate, they would have been NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the Lambda Legal Defense Fund.
I know someone who thought this was real because they were unfamiliar with the Onion!
This is all good fun, but it doesn’t address a reality. The fund-raising website for Sen. Obama (and a group of other Democrats) has deliberatley turned off basic security checks on credit card donations. There’s no checking for contributions from outside the US, contributions exceeding the legal maximum, or contributions from non-existent donors (Mickey Mouse has supposedly given, as documented on several websites.)
Considering the massive number of commercials, informercials, the “Obama” cable channel, and other expensive promotions, one can’t help but wonder where all the money is coming from. It’s totally unprecedented – and the stock answer along the lines of “millions of people gave a little bit” falls flat on its face when the actual costs involved are added up.
And remember one other thing. Under a government operating as Sen. Obama has described his administration would operate, money will be taken in large quantities from those typically most generous to charitable causes (the “rich”) to be redistrubted to others. This can’t help but have an effect on donations to charities – and unless I’m very much mistaken, an Obama govenment isn’t intending to take replace those charities with government entities. So things are likely to get much worse – almost making this humorous item a reality.
Ralinda in #5, that’s funny
#6 “taken in large quantities” = same amount of taxes paid during the Clinton administration. [url=http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/spread_the_tax_hooey.html]factcheck.org[/url]
I gave about $200 total to Obama’s campaign, $25 at a time. So did my wife (typical discussion – me: I gave more money to Obama today. her: Hey, me too!) Most people we know gave between $25 and $500. Is it really so hard to believe that people would give what they could afford to something they believe in?
I find this amusing. I also find it amusing that Democrats (and before you shout me down, let me stress that I am an independent who finds a lot of warts on both Bodies Politic) have for years railed for campaign finance reform, and now that their contender is finally making the most money (in vast quantities), the party is suddenly completely silent on the moral and ethical issue. I find that telling.
#8 Just so you know that money you gave to Obama paid for stacks of fliers that came to our PA address over the last 2 months that went right in the trash. Not a few of which stated clear lies; i.e. “Seniors, John McCain wants to take your social security money and put it in the stock markets.” Your money also paid for telemarketers to call our house every other day assuring us that Obama is a “life-long committed Christian who will lower our taxes.”
So I guess in light of this tongue in cheek article, the money is better wasted that way than given to the ACLU etc.
“The fund-raising website for Sen. Obama (and a group of other Democrats) has deliberatley turned off basic security checks on credit card donations” —Clint [#6]
Clint: How do you know that?
Irenaeus – the fact that basic security checks on credit card donations to the Obama campaign have been turned off has been documented (the default is that the security checks are on, so they would have to be deliberately disabled) in the Washington Post, Mark Steyn, and Powerline.