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Obama Could Buy 347 Million Burgers for the Poor
What if this guy loses?
That's a lot of money, well, pretty much wasted. For all the
senator's talk about providing universal healthcare and fighting poverty, his supporters seem to be more concerned with funding his run for the White House than the actual problems. (Not like this is anything new.)And don't forget about that other Democratic senator, Hillary Clinton, who ran her campaign into debt while taking $230 million from her supporters on what was basically a lost cause after March.
Here's what else the two contenders' money (nearly $600 million) could have been spent on so far:
A year of decent health insurance for 60,000 uninsured adults.
Two weeks' worth of groceries for 6 million families of four.
150 million gallons of gas for bitter, blue-collar voters hurting at the pump.
At least three pieces of body armor per soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Joshua Sharp
2:12PM 2:12PM Jul 17th 2008
This is why the public financing system needs to be fixed and actually used. Private fundraising efforts pressure middle-income Americans to divert precious resources from other, vital expenses. It's a shame. Elections were never intended to be run this way.
You're right. This money can be better used.
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Grant06
2:42PM 2:42PM Jul 17th 2008
You might want to take a course in Economics. Just because money has been spent, that doesn't mean it disappears.
The money the candidates are spending is being used to educate the electorate. In theory, the better the elctorate is educated, the more informed their decisions.
If either candidate or their party had decided to spend their donations on burgers for the poor. First, they would have been in violation of the law, and second, they never would have received the donations in the first place.
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Gob
2:44PM 2:44PM Jul 17th 2008
Obama is probably going to take the left over money and just invest it in a mosque anyway. I dont care what he says, we all know who he really is.
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Hamburglar
7:53PM 7:53PM Jul 17th 2008
Give me back my burgers, Obama!
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ada
7:53PM 7:53PM Jul 17th 2008
yes and McCann wife can buy everyone in the USA berr that neither of them will help buy gas, health care or a place to live for the poor and the middle class so want does it matter. They only thin that matters is which one will help get us ouit of the hole bush has us in. I feel it will Obama and that is who I fight for.
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James
9:41PM 9:41PM Jul 17th 2008
oBAma!
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Jay in Austin
12:23PM 12:23PM Jul 18th 2008
In college I found out that most people are unable to explain the "logic" of any ideas they have. So if they think the world is flat, they automatically disagree with anyone who says it's round. They still cannot prove their idea is right - while all the evidence suggests the other idea is correct - so they inevitably resort to the old kindergarten tactic of calling other people bad names. Unfortunately that says nothing about the accuracy or inaccuracy of their own ideas. Hmmm . . . does that mean the loser of political campaigns should be forced to buy hamburgers for everyone else? (McCain for McDonald's, anyone?)
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Jay in Austin
12:01PM 12:01PM Jul 18th 2008
Are you suggesting that political losers should buy hamburgers for all the winners? Or only for you? Methinks thou needst to take a course in "logic" before you leave college and try to inflict your silly ideas on the electorate. . . .
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Jasmin
10:20PM 10:20PM Jul 18th 2008
Fund-Raising is a necessity when running for president. Although, John McCain has not raised as much money as Obama, he still has raised millions of dollars as well, so why don't you talk about all the sorts of stuff his millions could buy? Fund-raising is a campaigning strategy, and personally I applaud Obama for being able to raise the money he has to support his campaign. Even if he wins or not, he had the courage to run for president, in a nation which is still racially divided. I hope people can look past his race and look toward change. I also hope they choose the candidate who isn't supported by a president who has a 28% percent approval because of what a failure he has been, as Nancy Pelosi put it. Either way any of them would be a better president, but that's besides the point. Fundraising is essential, so if we're going to start counting nickels and dimes on everything we could be spending on, we should start pointing fingers at other besides Obama.
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Dennis
9:31PM 9:31PM Jul 19th 2008
How many burgers would the cost of bush's war buy?
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joechipley
12:04PM 12:04PM Jul 21st 2008
Does anybody know if he pays income tax on that 347 million?
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Don
10:45AM 10:45AM Aug 3rd 2008
No he does NOT.
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DGreene620
10:46AM 10:46AM Aug 3rd 2008
So this is what he is trying to do with the money he recieves from Hezboola and the Nation of Islam...buy the election for the arab and black world. People BE VERY CAREFUL WHAT YOU ARE DOING. He will SELL OUT this country. Make no mistake he is a very DANGEROUS Radical, Racist, Black Moslem.
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