Barack Obama's Campaign Shopping List
In a stunning acknowledgment that having more money may, in fact, be better than having less money, Barack Obama decided to opt out of public financing for his campaign yesterday, eschewing $80 million in federal funds for the $300 million in his private war chest.
At first glance, this would seem to be a betrayal of many of Obama's core principals — his commitment to campaign finance reform, tightening ethics restrictions, and not crushing John McCain between his pointer finger and pinky — but it's hard to blame the man when you realize how many items he's got on his campaign wish list, all of which cost $300 million.
Among those items:
*300,000,000 dollar store mini-detergents
*150,000,000 ironic John McCain yard signs
*300,000 purebred golden retrievers
*50,000 Vespa GRANTURISMOS
*300 pretty good yachts
*50 six million dollar men
*30 twelve-ounce jars of the world's leading mustard.
*1 feature-length campaign ad, directed by Michael Bay
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Did you see Obama's speech when he announced he wouldn't be using public funds? Just in case you didn't, here's the version with the (hilarious) closed-captioning, explaining what Barack was thinking and not saying: http://www.236.com/news/2008/06/20/conservatives_confused_mccain_7260.php
Can you tell the Wall Street Journal is now owned by Rupert Murdoch? From today's WSJ "Best of the Web"
No Excuses
By JAMES TARANTO
"Intelligence agencies in the United States and Canada are warning of mounting signs that Hezbollah, backed by Iran, is poised to mount a terror attack against 'Jewish targets' somewhere outside the Middle East," reports ABC News:
Intelligence officials tell ABC News the group has activated suspected "sleeper cells" in Canada and key operatives have been tracked moving outside the group's Lebanon base to Canada, Europe and Africa. . . .
Suspected Hezbollah operatives have conducted recent surveillance on the Israeli embassy in Ottawa, Canada and on several synagogues in Toronto, according to the officials.
Latin American is also considered a possible target by officials following Hezbollah's planning. . . .
"They want to kill as many people as they can, they want it to be a big splash," said former CIA intelligence officer Bob Baer, who says he met with Hezbollah leaders in Beirut last month.
"They cannot have an operation fail," said Baer, "and I don't think they will. They're the A-team of terrorism." . . .
Baer says his Hezbollah contacts told him an attack against the US was unlikely because Iran and Hezbollah did not want to give the Bush administration an excuse to attack.
Assuming Bear is right, everything changes if Barack Obama–who one suspects would look for an excuse not to attack–is elected president. Baer's information also implies that Iran, its theocratic ideology notwithstanding, is subject to deterrence–that it does act more restrained in the face of a credible threat of force.
Actually, that was clear more than a quarter century ago, when the Iranian regime released U.S. hostages immediately after the inauguration of that cowboy, President Reagan. Will Jan. 20, 2009, be Jan. 20, 1981, in reverse? Stay tuned.
What about his 13 Muslim virgins?
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@InDecider-Obama won't crush McCain with his pointer finger and pinky. He'll crush him with the weight of all that campaign money!
Tailored flannel shirts.