A Look at Obama's Top Campaign Contributor's! I'm sure you can guess some of them

Contributor--------------Total
University of California------$1,392,675
]Goldman Sachs---------$1,035,095
Harvard University-----------$831,110
Microsoft Corp----------------$809,799
Google Inc--------------------$796,564
JPMorgan Chase & Co-------$700,808
Citigroup Inc------------------$681,318
Sidley Austin LLP-------------$604,938
University of Chicago--------$599,089
Stanford University----------$584,904
Skadden, Arps et al---------$564,345
Time Warner-----------------$540,051
UBS AG-----------------------$529,869
IBM Corp---------------------$525,857
WilmerHale-------------------$525,792
Morgan Stanley--------------$513,623
Columbia University---------$507,316
National Amusements Inc---$506,751
Kirkland & Ellis---------------$501,335
US Government--------------$482,956

Source

I wish i could say i was surprised, but i'm not ... i'm disappointed/suspicious more then anything ... doesn't it throw some flags out there that these people were his top contributors?

thoughts?

let's compare obama's to ron paul's ...

Contributor-------------------Total
US Army----------------------$81,255
US Navy----------------------$60,369
US Air Force------------------$59,606
Google Inc -------------------$58,401
Microsoft Corp---------------$50,073
US Postal Service------------$28,141
Lockheed Martin------------- $24,725
Boeing Co--------------------$23,588
Verizon Communications---$20,444
Cisco Systems---------------$20,089
US Dept of Defense---------$19,498
Huffines Communities ------$18,600
Hewlett-Packard -------------$18,567
General Dynamics-----------$18,456
Northrop Grumman----------$18,157
AT&T Inc----------------------$17,596
IBM Corp---------------------$16,480
Raytheon Co-----------------$16,379
Apple Inc---------------------$16,353
Intel Corp--------------------$15,659

Source

edit to change: ran republican thanks to members pointing this out

McCain's Info Here ... A disappointing list of his top contributor's as well ... Posted by Crakeur



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reply to post by baseball101


That's crazy that RP's top 3 contributors were military...and RP is strongly against having our military around the world.

Our military has it right.

As for Obama...no surprise there...none whatsoever.

Originally posted by baseball101
Let's remember these are for someone who ran as an independent ...

No, he didn't.

why wouldn't you list McCain?

Merrill Lynch $371,295
Citigroup Inc $320,251
Morgan Stanley $271,152
Goldman Sachs $230,095
JPMorgan Chase & Co $225,557
US Government $207,829
AT&T Inc $194,913
UBS AG $182,079
Credit Suisse Group $179,053
Wachovia Corp $169,057
PricewaterhouseCoopers $167,900
US Army $162,870
Bank of America $155,251
Blank Rome LLP $154,426
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $150,396
Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,437
FedEx Corp $132,974
US Dept of Defense $131,675
Lehman Brothers $125,357
Bear Stearns $117,498

www.opensecrets.org...

oh me, oh my, looks like they covered all bases

reply to post by baseball101


Yeah man, Ron Paul ran as a Republican.
And I am not surprised at all that Ron Paul had the support of the military.....because they know that he would've gotten the troops the heck out of these 2 pointless quagmires we are involved in!

Obama on the other hand, not surprising at all....he's a corporate wh*re just like the rest of them.

reply to post by Crakeur


That's a great point you make there!
They're both a couple of corporate puppets, it would've been a win-win for special interests either way.

reply to post by Crakeur


Yeah..this was widely reported during the elections. Both sides were bashing each other on the issue.

This says quite a bit about our political parties..and who is on the take.

Crooked....

reply to post by Crakeur


i was going to but i didn't have enough time thank you for posting ... i thought obama would be the one to put up first then ron paul then mccain ... that's just my opinion thanks again!

it's still a little unsettling, even though McCain got up to around $400,000 from these companies ... obama's list doesn't even go down that far ... i'm not trying to push mccain or ron paul or obama ... just trying to raise some flags

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reply to post by Johnmike


well in my eyes he ran as an independent to the norm of what typical candidates stand for

Originally posted by baseball101
reply to post by Johnmike

 

well in my eyes he ran as an independent to the norm of what typical candidates stand for

lol...noooo... he ran as a republican...

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reply to post by king9072


ok that's my opinion and you have your statement, thanks for your input ... have any comments about the actual thread?

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reply to post by baseball101


How is that an opinion?
Not to split hairs here, but it is a known FACT that he was running for the Republican nomination.

reply to post by mpriebe81


i changed it in the post, but if you're really that bothered by it u2u me ... this is deflecting from the issue of thread

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all these contributor amounts show is that big corps know that the smart way to ensure favorable treatment is to donate to anyone who might win.

Ron Paul is the man... Enough said...