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According to an analysis of campaign contributions by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Democrat Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has Republican John McCain, and the fiercely anti-war Ron Paul, though he suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination months ago, has received more than four times McCain's haul
Wanna hear something really ironic? Obama is outspending McCain 3 to 1, and he still can't put this thing away.
In Florida, Obama's already spent something like $15 million, and McCain's spent zero. How are things going for Obama there in Florida? Oh, right, he's losing.
McCain opposed veterans' benefits... and they don't want someone in office talking about blowing up Iran.
Better us bombing them than them bombing us.
I thought "they" wanted to bomb Israel?
If Israel goes through with an attack against Iran's nuclear facilities - in which they use American supplies (planes), they will view it as an act of aggression by Israel and the U.S, regardless of actual American involvement.
So it might as well be us that does it then, huh?
I am pretty sure Obama has been topping McCain in donations in every single category there is. It's actually pretty upsetting to see the veterans also favoring Obama; maybe they just want to go home sooner? Either way, if Obama is elected, they're going to be back on the battlefield pretty soon afterwards.
Maybe they just realize Obama will be a great president.
Obama will bring the troops home from Iraq, develop American energy independence, and join the rest of the civilized world by having universal healthcare.
Three things that make sense outside of the right wing nut world.
How about winning the war in Iraq, develop American energy independence through more drilling, more nuclear power and alternative energy that actually produces energy as well as leading the world in health care through a true free market.
Sounds good to me.
So you like giving the oil companies your money, nuclear waste, and 47 million Americans without healthcare?
Yes, though I don't like giving the government 3X the profit that oil companies make when I fill up. Nuclear waste is fine when disposed of right and I prefer the energy I get to use to school "useful idiots" on the interwebs and keep my beer cold. I do prefer Americans to be able to buy cheap health care though. It's a shame the government inflates the cost so drastically by raping the public with medicare cost, unnecessary regulation and trial lawyer induced malpractice cost. Health care cost would fall greatly if the government would just butt out. I guess I'll just have to console myself with the fact that we have the greatest health care in the world despite government interference in the market.
No, actually healthcare costs will fall when we have a single payer representing all patients.
Every other Western industrialized country in the world has universal healthcare, and they pay half per capita what we pay for healthcare. Universal healthcare is a better system, that is why everyone else used it.
I don't know why, but this made me laugh.
Obama Tops in Donations from Troops | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
So you like giving the oil companies your money, nuclear waste, and 47 million Americans without healthcare?
I agree that efforts should be made to get those uninsured insured. Unfortunately, things aren't as easy as you claim them to be. If universal health care is such a simple solution, then it would have been implemented long ago.
Socializing health care has its own drawbacks as well. For example, the actual treatment will decline, higher taxes, among other things.
Sure. Nothing makes prices fall like a monopoly.
In the meantime, they get less than half the care, Nice tradeoff.
