Obama's #1 Contributor - 656 million from WE THE PEOPLE. [View All]

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http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

Individual contributions $656,357,572 88%
PAC contributions $1,830 0%
Candidate self-financing $0 0%
Federal Funds $0 0%
Other $88,626,223 12%

I don't know why certain people, even people that I respect and admire like Michael Moore, are experiencing such a mental moment right now over the fact that certain individuals employed by Goldman Sachs, (which employs something like 32,000 people)were among the individual contributors (that includes myself and every single DUer that contributed to the Obama campaign). Its well known that your employer gets recorded when you contribute.

Criticizing policies that you don't like is one thing. But there is ZERO merit in the insinuation that Goldman Sachs as a company somehow funded the Obama campaign in any amount of significance. The Obama 2008 campaign was the biggest, most successful, most contributed to campaign in AMERICAN HISTORY. And it was funded undeniably by a grass roots effort, in small donations, coming from individuals just like myself and YOU. This isn't disputable in the least and it use to be a well known fact back during the campaign. I can't believe how soon some forget.

Lets put an end to this silly smear job now before the facts get lost in the foamy mouthed phony outrage. All policies aside, Barack Obama ran a clean campaign and it was the most truly publically funded campaign of all time (in that general public supporters like you and me overwhelmingly funded it). If you can't take pride in having supported Obama for any other reason, this alone was and always will be something to be proud of.