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Obama Campaign Announces Record Fundraising Haul

Oct. 6, 2012 10:51am Madeleine Morgenstern

President Barack Obama waves during a fundraiser event at the Capital Hilton Hotel Sept. 28, 2012 in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

President Barack Obama’s campaign and the Democrats had a record fundraising haul of $181 million in September, the biggest month for any campaign this election cycle.

The Obama campaign broke the news on Twitter Saturday morning, announcing that more than 1.8 million people donated, including more than half a million who had not given at all in 2008 or 2012. According to the campaign, 98 percent of September’s donations were $250 or less, with an average contribution of $53.

September’s total far outstripped Obama’s August haul of $114 million, which was higher than Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s $111 million. August was the first time in four months the Democrats beat the Republicans in fundraising.

The September result was still shy of the combined $193 million Obama and the Democrats raised in September 2008.

The news is sure to buoy the president’s re-election effort coming off a widely-panned debate performance against Romney on Wednesday. September included the Democratic National Convention and the release of a secretly recorded video of Romney talking about the “47 percent” of Americans who don’t pay income taxes.

Romney’s campaign has not yet released its September fundraising totals.

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JustPeachy
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:31am
We may not believe him (I don’t), but this is probably an attempt to try to motivate former Obama fans who aren’t quite so excited this time around into giving and voting to/for the schmuck. Not all that long ago we KNOW O and camp were DESPERATE for money–so desperate that they BEGGED for it in numerous (and stupid!) ways!

They’re trying to recreate the illusion they had in 2008 going and I don’t think it’s working out for them quite as well this time around. LOL!!!

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- crackerone
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 3:56pm
  More fuzzy math. B O couln’t count to ten, unless he was naked, and had a picture of Reggie Love.
  
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- FormerLib
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 4:32pm
  Top Obama donors, 2012
  University of California $706,931
  Microsoft Corp $544,445
  Google Inc $526,009
  Harvard University $433,860
  US Government $389,100
  Deloitte LLP $369,401
  DLA Piper $367,027
  Stanford University $327,942
  Kaiser Permanente $315,817
  Sidley Austin LLP $312,278
  Time Warner $295,030
  Columbia University $264,588
  Comcast Corp $261,274
  University of Chicago $228,925
  IBM Corp $218,761
  Skadden, Arps et al $214,766
  US Dept of State $213,906
  Wells Fargo $202,216
  National Amusements Inc $197,342
  University of Michigan $191,662
  
  I’ll bet all those students taking out loans to pay high tuition costs appreciate their money going to Obama.
  
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- db321
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 4:52pm
  That Foreign Muslim Brotherhood money put you over the top. The MB has a lot of our money to spend.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 5:20pm
  Hey Rubes what do you think Paul Ryan meant by his recent comment about making AMERICA
  a tax haven?
  Well I’ll you as you folks can’t connect the dots. Translated it means
  Let’s drop the 13% tax rate for millionaires EVEN LOWER!!!!
  Do you folks ever think?
  
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- Drives Like Jehu
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 5:29pm
  hmmm…wonder how much of this “haul” came from QE3 (Or QE1 and QE2 for that matter)???
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 6:01pm
  Romney lied for 90 minutes.
  Doesn’t phase this group.
  
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- 2gether
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:02pm
  It is as predicable as the drop in unemployment rate to below 8%. This election is Romney’s to lose. If he stays focused on the truth and has all his ducks in a row…and I am sure that he does by now…he will win and win big. I know many democrats who realize for the first time that the this is not their father’s democratic party and they don’t like it and will vote for the candidate they think loves America. That ain’t our buddy in the WH now.
  
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- RightThinking1
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 7:49pm
  Verce,
  Gosh, it has been quiet around here. All of the trolls have been hiding for the last few days. Welcome Back! Has the swelling gone down from that debate fat lip yet?
  Well, anyhow. Say what are those ‘lies’ which you mentioned? You might want to flesh out that accusation a bit.
  Also, we know how much tax Mitt has paid in the last several years, in the interest of fairness, how much have YOU paid? Let’s see which has contributed the most to U.S revenues.
  
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- crackerone
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:01pm
  @*********of reason
  
  “Doesn’t phase this group”.
  
  No you sack of ****. Buckle-up!
  
  e happy to be rid of you, for eight more years.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:15pm
  On Tuesday, Clinton will speak in Las Vegas on Obama’s behalf, CNN reports.
  CNN said Clinton has told friends he will do as much to support Obama’s re-election
  bid as his schedule allows.
  Slick Willey could care less about obama.. He’s Pimping Hillay for the 2016 election.
  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WAY Jose’ !!!!!
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:38pm
  @Verceofreason
  Romney lied for 90 minutes.
  Doesn’t phase this group. (faze)
  
  Ya’ While bame’ snoozed, AH thought he had a gimme, like he
  has had with the OBMEDIA for four years, can’t wait till Thursday
  RYAN is going to destroy the other O’BOZO, should be funny !!
  Biden is DUMBER than a F’N STUMP….
  
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- pudssweetie
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:10pm
  @VERCEOFREASON, thank you for posting all of your witty comments that you make. I so much enjoy them and copy and past them to share with my friends on other sites I go to. We have so much fun laughing at them and you should here what my friends say about you. Please keep posting your witty comments, so I can keep sharing them. SARC OFF!
  
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- guns-an-bibles
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 9:35pm
  For the record, I don’t believe anything he’ got to say. The Lier-in-chief is relying too much on his kind (liers, thieves and tax cheats) to make his numbers work. Oh, sorry… was that a racist comment?
  
  Personally, I think he needs to save every penny he hustled for his legal defense. He is going to need it for his criminal trial for treason.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:54pm
  Top Romney donors 2012
  
  Goldman Sachs $891,140
  Bank of America $668,139
  JPMorgan Chase & Co $663,219
  Morgan Stanley $649,847
  Credit Suisse Group $554,066
  Citigroup Inc $418,263
  Wells Fargo $414,750
  Barclays $403,800
  Kirkland & Ellis $393,667
  Deloitte LLP $355,390
  HIG Capital $338,000
  PricewaterhouseCoopers $333,600
  Blackstone Group $308,725
  UBS AG $308,130
  Elliott Management $281,175
  Bain Capital $268,470
  EMC Corp $257,250
  General Electric $214,450
  Ernst & Young $213,525
  Sullivan & Cromwell $197,150
  
  http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00000286
  
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- Drives Like Jehu
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 1:49am
  FORWARD!…(just like
  russia in 1917
  china in 1949
  cuba in 1959
  vietnam in 1975
  venezuela in 1998)
  
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- kat747
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 8:53am
  @FormerLib
  Thanks for that list. Made a copy of it and will NOT be purchasing anything from any of them.
  
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- Belwraith
  Posted on October 7, 2012 at 6:00pm
  Hey Verse, if you take the time to run the numbers, Romney actually ends up taxing the rich more than Obama does. It’s math…try it
  
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nattybrooks
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:29am
how many donations came in from putin and king abdullah?

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- SolitudeBliss
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:39am
  Exactly, it’s being reported that an investigation is going to break in the coming days regarding Overseas Credit Card Donations by about 1/5 million foreign donations. About as honest as counting 750,000 part time jobs (not counted before) being counted to reduce the unemployment rate when in fact 114,000 jobs were created and the rate should have stayed at 8.2
  
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- Bluebonnet
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:42am
  Scuse’ me, but who the heck would be giving this loser more money? Dam, he’s already spent almost Six Trillion Dollars of America’s money. Stop it now, or I’ll tell where it comes from.
  
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- badswing
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:43am
  we will find out on monday unless the one is successful in stopping a magazine from printing an article about where these funds are coming from
  
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- Want our country back
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:43am
  Thank God, now they can STOP with the “Mitt Romney” is outraising us BS. It will be really funny when Mitt Romney wins the election (JustAngry, we need you) and has spent half as much as obama….. obama has no problem spending other people’s money.
  
  Interesting article by JEROME R. CORSI
  http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/jesse-jackson-wright-arranged-obama-marriage/
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:45am
  Exactly. Is this the campaign fund fraud that is looming. I don’t believe anything O. and his administration says, so are we expected to believe this too??? Not a terrorist attack or the unemployment going down to 7.8% when they don’t count all the people who no longer qualify for unemployment benefits. If actual figures were put out there Americans would be stunned!!!!!!!!
  
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- lowerclassrepublican
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 1:17pm
  He is doing it with product sales on his sight. 100% of the purchased price is going as a donation. The products being sold are donated. So someone that has reached the limit on donating just needs to buy 2000 $75 sweetshirts. Put in some kind of product code and don’t even send them. They have learned that they can break all the laws. They just need to keep it out of the news until after the election after that people will go to jail, but Obama will be 100% safe and have another 4 years. This was learned from the Clinton’s. Anyone remember the Chinese scandal?
  
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- one.dakine.howlie
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 3:55pm
  Exactly. This wasn’t the average American citizen donating, just Obama digging into the emergency coffers so he can use them to create more false ads against Romney and pay off the community organizers for their work in falsifying votes.
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 6:02pm
  Take it up with the Scalia/Thomas Supreme Court, if you think that’s the case.
  THEY opened the door.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:00pm
  ask George Bush how much he got from them.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:29am
“… including more than half a million who had not given at all in 2008 or 2012.”

And the Unions just signed up more that 450,000 new people to vote.

http://www.wqow.com/story/19747408/unions-sign-up-more-than-450000-new-voters

♫”So looook foooor… that Union returrrrn address… on the envelop with moneeey for Obama”♫

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:53am
  Hi MONK, Those Stimulus kick backs are really coming in handy now.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 12:08pm
  MONK, Almost forgot to thank you for that link. Don’t you just love those union Borg members of the collective.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 12:20pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  I have a feeling that those 450,000 “newly registered voters” are deceased Union members.
  
  I had a friend that grew up in Chicago and he told me the motto there is, “Never hold an election until AFTER the votes are counted”.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 12:23pm
  Almost forgot…..
  
  He also said that donations for the Chicago Mayor race were mostly checks for $87 and change….
  
  …the exact amount of a monthly welfare check back then. Go figure!!
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 12:32pm
  Hi MONK, Yeah, why notify the Welfare people when somebody dies. Makes for tidy little income on a monthly basis.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 12:40pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  That reminds me…. when I visited Costa Rica I learned how many people there make money. A cute young lady will find an elderly retired US citizen living there and become his girlfriend. She’ll get her name on his bank account and when he dies….. nobody is notified and the Social Security checks and retirement checks just keep rolling in.
  
  Probably happens in a lot of other Countries also. Millions or Billions of US dollars going to people who have never stepped foot in the USA.
  
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- DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 1:22pm
  After we-the-taxpayers were forced to pay to support the mob rule of the Arab spring I’m sure he is fundraising big overseas to get some payback for HIS support using our dollars.
  
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- Ghostrider8850
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 6:21pm
  Most of the contributions came from untraceable reloadable credit cards and welfare credit cards.
  
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jujulyly
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:29am
Well soros gave a million dollars, then there were the raffles. Don’t forget wedding money, birthday money and every other moneymaking scheme you could up with. Good thing election is in November or Dems would have to forgo getting any Christmas presents.

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MJaneO
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:26am
Good ole George Soros and his evil off-springs!
England is still in a mess!

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- MEANS2RESIST
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:54am
  No amount of money is going to save his scrawny, marxist ass
  
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Zcat
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:21am
Obama Raises $150M in Sept., Tries to Block ‘Blockbuster’ Donor Scandal

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/04/Report-Obama-Campaign-Trying-To-Block-Story-About-Blockbuster-Donor-Scandal-After-Raising-Over-150-Million-In-September

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 5:22pm
  Ya lost me at Breitbart.
  Too many deleted tweets after the facts.
  Why waste the time? Get a grip.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 8:12pm
  Verceofreason would be more accurate if using VoiceofAhole. Just saying you moronic troll.
  
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MCDAVE
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:21am
QE3 Kickbacks …I had predicted Obama’s money problems would be over with QE3

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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:30am
  Good will defeat evil……..Truth will defeat lies…..No matter how much money is received by the Democrats after what we have gone through these last few years will not make them any smarter. It would take integrity, honesty, goodness, not blaming others and they have a long ways to go to even start trying to do that in full……………….. so get out there and vote Romney/Ryan.
  
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HKS
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:21am
Looks like their getting your stimulus tax money recycled into Obama’s fund efficiently now.

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- MCDAVE
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:27am
  same way he has always raised money and donations from foreign countries
  
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- Hiswill
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 6:20pm
  Hugo Chavez said he would vote for Obama. Maybe he threw in a few dollars too.
  
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:21am
Soros inc. is pulling out all stops.

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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:16am
“Fools and their money are soon parted”. People should be smart enough to know what has gone on the last almost 4 years otherwise they haven’t been keeping up on politics and the failures that the President has put on us and future generation. If they want to go through the same thing the next four years then hope will be lost. . God Bless America.

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- HKS
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:22am
  That’s your tax money being cycled into the Obama fund.
  
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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:32am
  HKS…if they did that then they have a lot of explaining to do to the people and to God for sure.
  
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- HKS
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:46am
  They do it with the $200 and under donations that don’t have to be accounted for with union members and illegals to get the numbers. The money came from you minus say half for the service. It’s all about the money, follow it from the treasury, it always leaves tracks and you will hear about it eventually.
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:15am
Announce all you want, you lying sack o ______________. It’s ALL LIES and we know it!!!

More importantly, GOD KNOWS IT.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 5:21pm
  Romney lied for 90 minutes.
  Seems to have escaped you granny.
  
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Gary_K
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:09am
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/06/romney-camp-reports-12m-in-online-donations-after-strong-debate-performance/

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 6:03pm
  OOOOooooooo FOX news!
  Now there’s a credible source.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:07am
Mr.president we salute you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW-i1LTDxR0

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- Gary_K
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:15am
  Lol…..I added a few.
  
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Freebird
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:06am
And I’m sure these numbers are as accurate as the unemployment numbers that just came out.This guy will manipulate any numbers in his favor.

BTW,has anyone heard what the latest Friday surprise was?I know there had to be a new executive order put out yesterday,especially considering how close the election is.

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- MittensKittens
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:07am
  funny thing about that, 1 debate wiped out 1.5 million in one 90 minute night.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:11am
  Yes night is day up is down and black is white,the edict has been handed down by the Marxist mulatto POS fraud foreign exchange student in chief.
  
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SamIamTwo
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:05am
He’ll waste their money too!

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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:14am
  I wonder if it came from the 47% or the rich
  
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Psychosis
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:03am
interesting this info is released before monday

on monday a report is being released that the obammy campaign is getting donations that look to be fraudulent and illegal from over seas

AGAIN

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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 12:34pm
  There are people who are trying to track these donations and the answers they are coming up with are illegal, of course.
  
  http://www.gulagbound.com/34629/obamas-untraceable-donations-100ms-from-overseas-campaign-turns-off-avs-verification/
  
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Gary_K
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:01am
I wonder how much $ is from overseas. barry, give back the illegal $.

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Madmilo
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:00am
It still does’nt make you any smarter. Obummer is still a dumbazz.

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Anadara
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:59am
I’m sure a lot of it comes from questionable sources just like 2008. Maybe this is part of BHO’s campaign contribution scandal that seems to be simmering but ignored by the MSM.

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DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:59am
This is what those untraceable, store-bought credit cards will buy you – corruption at the highest levels.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:58am
First we get the fantasy number of 7.8% unemployment now this,I hope this number is true though because it’s nice to see idiots and their money part their ways.

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All Pro
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:57am
More anonymous fifty dollar donations from Soros and his foreign allies! They did the same thing in ’08 and nobody investigated it or even reported it!

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:12am
  Like I wrote regarding those who donated to the perennial Ron Paul campaigns…
  
  “A fool and his money are soon parted.”
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 11:50am
  Also ALL PRO… knowing you’ve been a mouthpiece for Ron Paul and his past musings… please write about Ron Paul and Barney Frank’s “Sustainable Defense Task Force” that was rolled out on The HuffPo in 2010 and it’s George Soros connection…
  
  And during the previous election (’08), Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI) ran an ad praising Ron Paul for his position against the war. AAEI was an umbrella group for MoveOn.org, the Center for American Progress, SEIU, Americans United For Change, the National Security Network and others in the progressive bestiary. A number of those beasties were Soros groups ALL PRO.
  
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- Bonnieblue2A
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 1:00pm
  As long as AG-Holder heads up the Obama Dept. of Social Justice and Harry Reid decides impeachment vote will not be allowed to get to the floor of the US Senate, the culture of corruption from this administration will make Al Capone look like a choirboy.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:57am
Largest ‘golden parachute’ in history … keep those donations coming (suckers!) … LOL.

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DADDYWOREAWHITEHAT
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:56am
And isn’t it a good thing they don’t care where it comes from. They’ll worry about who they owe political favors to later. Those guys will be paid back with taxpayer dollars anyway.

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RightUnite
Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:55am
Oh, and is this information supposed to change my mind?? How about we see who are contributing and what country the contributions are coming from? My guess is, they’re not legal, and I’m sure it’ll be coming out shortly as to who and what countries these contributors are coming from.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on October 6, 2012 at 10:59am
  The money will have hummus and crude oil stains.
  
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