Despite attempts to portray himself as the little money guy, Barack will bring in more special interest, high roller money than any candidate ever....records show that one-third of his record-breaking haul has come from donations of $1,000 or more: a total of $112 million, more than Senator John McCain, Mr. Obama’s Republican rival, or Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, his opponent in the Democratic primaries, raised in contributions of that size.
As with everything in the Obama campaign, the money situation is not as it has been portrayed.While his campaign has cited its volume of small donations as a rationale for his decision to opt out of public financing for the general election, Mr. Obama has worked to build a network of big-dollar supporters from the time he began contemplating a run for the United States Senate. He tapped into well-connected people in Chicago prior to the 2004 Senate race, and once elected, set out across the country starting to cultivate some of his party’s most influential money collectors.
This won't matter to those who Barack tricked in order to get the nomination. But it will matter to voters looking at him for the first time in the fall campaign, trying to decide if he is the change agent he pretends to be.The Obama fund-raising operation is meticulously organized. Bundlers are assigned tracking numbers, and the finance staff sends them quarterly reminders of how they are doing in meeting their goals.
Barack's proposal for health insurance has always mentioned offering a plan for 47 million Americans. From his website:Millions of Americans are uninsured or underinsured because of rising medical costs: 47 million Americans — including nearly 9 million children — lack health insurance with no signs of this trend slowing down.
And he says he has a plan for the uninsured.Obama's Plan to Cover Uninsured Americans: Obama will make available a new national health plan to all Americans, including the self-employed and small businesses, to buy affordable health coverage that is similar to the plan available to members of Congress.
Thus, it is reasonable to assume, as most have, that his plan would not discriminate against those in the country illegally, since the 47 million number includes illegals.There are an estimated 47 million persons on the U.S. without health insurance. Illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born children make up 8.3 million of that uninsured number, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
So what's going on?Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign Friday said his universal health plans do not extend to undocumented immigrants.
