McCain Campaign worried about small donations from millions of Americans

I've had enough. Now the campaign is complaining that millions of people are giving Obama a few bucks each. Micro donations through the internet should be protected, it's the best way to cut out special interests. After this election we are going to see a lot of this as the anti-political speech agenda that McCain has had for a long time. If there are agruments that micro donations should be restricted that don't disenfranchize Americans please let me know, I'd like to hear them. As it is, disenfranchizement is the only goal that limitations would gain. Here are some notes on a confrence call by McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis (Link to article) :

Obama is refusing to release any of his donors under $200.00 per person. Obviously in order to raise 150 million he's had to include hundreds of thousands possibly a million new donors.
It's important to note that this is the first campaign since the watergate era that has taken a primary fundraising effort and driven into general election. This is the first time that all primary funds could be used for general, this raises questions about whether his donors are qualified. Why isn't the Obama Campaign reporting them?
The RNC is going to update all their stuff online so you'll be able to search every donation that McCain AND RNC has ever raised.
What is Obama's excuse for not doing this? He has the technology.
During the primary Obama constantly badgered opponents. If he were the nominee and the Republican agreed, he'd take Government funds. But he didn't. His fundraising machine grew and grew; Nobody knows how or why.
He repeatedly made pledges to the public that he'd take government funds if the Republican candidate did. He looked in the camera and said, "I will call John McCain, and I will negotiate with John McCain..."
He never called John McCain, and we all learned in a blog post that he'd forgo public financing.
We need to have a public dialog about this.
We don't want to find out there has been impropriety in the donations he's received. If there's problems we need to find out about them and publish them. There have been discussions between Obama's campaign and the FEC to clean up his donations. People on the Gaza strip have been buying teeshirts. It's against the law.
We could go on with more and more examples of these and that's just from the disclosed ones.
We want sunshine and transparency on this issue. The RNC has filed a complaint with the FEC to see if they can get to the bottom of these three hundred million in "secret donations" I say secret because I have no doubt that the vast majority are probably legitimate but they are being kept secret by the Obama campaign for no good reason. I looked everywhere I could to find out why they don't disclose these and other than the explanation during the primary that there were "Technical Limitations" on doing it I can't find any explanation. They have the resources to do it.
The RNC says they can make all their donations publicly searchable in 24 hours. If the RNC can do it, why can't the Obama campaign do it?
To finish up: this pattern of non-disclosure & setting his own rules is consistent with what we've seen from Senator Obama. Doesn't answer ACORN questions. Just puts out enough information to get through each day. We dribble out information.
Where's the disclosure? RElationships. I don't want this call to devolve into a relationship call but "Just one of my friends in the neighborhood" but now we know Ayers had a much deeper much more involved relationship with Obama.
When will we learn more about the least experience Presidential nominee from the Democratic party?
One report from FEC says this could result in the largest fine ever.
Obviously Obama wants to obey the law. Obviously his campaign wants to adhere to requirements.
One other disturbing aspect of this issue is that because John McCain took funds, their campaign will be audited by the FEC. Because Obama didn't take funds, there's a "lingering question" as to whether or not there will be an audit of his fundraising. That raises "larger spectre" over voluntary cooperation that Obama isn't showing.
Congrats to Obama on money raised, but shame on them for not letting the public see where coming from.

If this comes to pass, perhaps the other party will stop genuflecting to the religulous.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke

A Liberal Supermajority
Get ready for 'change' we haven't seen since 1965, or 1933.
WSJ

If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it. Without the ability to filibuster, the Senate would become like the House, able to pass whatever the majority wants.

Though we doubt most Americans realize it, this would be one of the most profound political and ideological shifts in U.S. history. Liberals would dominate the entire government in a way they haven't since 1965, or 1933. In other words, the election would mark the restoration of the activist government that fell out of public favor in the 1970s. If the U.S. really is entering a period of unchecked left-wing ascendancy, Americans at least ought to understand what they will be getting, especially with the media cheering it all on....

Hitchens on Election. As a "one issue" voter.

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that "issue" I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. Obama is greatly overrated in my opinion, but the Obama-Biden ticket is not a capitulationist one, even if it does accept the support of the surrender faction, and it does show some signs of being able and willing to profit from experience. With McCain, the "experience" is subject to sharply diminishing returns, as is the rest of him, and with Palin the very word itself is a sick joke. One only wishes that the election could be over now and a proper and dignified verdict rendered, so as to spare democracy and civility the degradation to which they look like being subjected in the remaining days of a low, dishonest campaign.

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Early Predictions

McCain will take Alabama, but not by over 60% like Bush did.

I'll go further: he won't get over 55%. Furthermore, Obama will not hold fund-raisers here, like McCain will. Obama will hold huge rallies, forcing McCain to spend the money he doesn't have in a state he shouldn't have to.

Georgia will become a battlegroud state in the same way, only closer. McCain will take it, but it will be very, very close. Again, money he doesn't have.

Even if McCain wins overall, he will have a Congress powerful enough to enact real gridlock and oversight. I [heart] oversight. Last time I read the Constitution, it was what Congress is for...

But he won't win. Enough Republicans will vote for libertarian Bob Barr to foil the election.

I expect the debates to be interesting enough to turn off most Americans. That's a good thing too.

Finally, kegger at my place when our "elected" asshole gets into that stately Marine helicopter and gets the fuck out of my life. Don't let the door hit your lack of common decency on the way out, douche nozzle!

Via ¡No Pasarán!: Que ce foutu pays de merde aille droit dans le mur ! *

L’élection de Ségolène Royal serait un désastre
by Guy Millière @ Les 4 Vérités

The election of Ségolène Royal would be a disaster
by Guy Millière @ Hugo the Translator


"We have Ségolène, the incompetent, half-witted, and arrogant representative of a party that, along with the entire French Left, has not known how to shift with modern times and remains stuck in a mode of reasoning that seems a throwback to the time of oil lamps. Opposite, we have Sarkozy, a man whose virtues and shortcomings I have already described in these columns.

Among his virtues is an understanding of the extent of the disaster on the brink of which this country finds itself. Among his shortcomings are the elements of interventionism, of state control, and of Bonapartism, which are, alas, very French."

*What this screwed-up country of merde go straight in the wall! (This was the best translation I could get.)