Barack met with 16 Democratic Governors this morning to discuss solutions to economic problems in their states.

Barack said...

You deserve and you need a partner in the White House and a president who understands our prosperity doesn't come from Wall Street or Washington. We should be investing in the skills, the human capital, the education and well-being of your constituents.

You've gotta solve problems; ultimately the buck stops with you. You've gotta balance your budget. If you've got a badly drafted piece of legislation, you're the ones who have to live with it and as a consequence you end up spending less time posturing and trying to score ideological points and more time trying to govern. We need that same approach in Washington.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/amandascott/gG5h8F

I'm not totally anti-Obama, but I am skeptical...

Go watch the Vet speech!
Tell me what you think Troy!!

"Barack Obama is the number one recipient of hedge fund money in the '08 campaign for president." - http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=241190

"Corporate money favors Obama over McCain" - http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2008/06/16/daily62.html?jst=b_ln_hl

LMAO
Why dont you spread more lies for the Republican web sites?

Sounds like they have the blinders on you tight! LOL

Now tell us what a terrorist he is sailor!!

It's true, he has received more hedge fund money than all others. Go out and look for yourself.

"The $1.8 trillion hedge fund industry donated $50,450 to Obama last month when the Illinois senator won wide support among voters in early caucuses and primaries, new data show.

Clinton, who lost Iowa but defied pollsters by winning the New Hampshire primary, took in $18,800, the lowest donated to either party's front runners.

In comparison, hedge funds gave $26,400 to Republican front-runner Sen. John McCain in January, according to the data compiled for Reuters by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan campaign finance research group." - http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2635694020080226

I suppose Reuters is a Republican shell too? Come on.

I will not vote for McCain, he's an idiot... I am blue collar mad... Absolutely not republican, but not a straight ticket Dem. either

"Among the high-level fundraisers on a list that the Obama campaign posted on its Web site late Tuesday is Kenneth Griffin, head of the Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel Investment Group LLC and among Mayor Richard Daley's top financial patrons. Griffin's $1.4 billion pay in 2006 made him the second highest-paid hedge fund manager in the country, according to Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine." - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070725obama,1,5894874.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout

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"Gravel singled out Obama fundraiser, Robert Wolf, America's chairman for Swiss-based UBS Investment Bank, which Gravel criticized as "a foreign-owned bank" with "lobbyists in Washington." Employees of UBS have given at least $142,000 to the Obama campaign.

Obama's fundraisers include many other financial industry executives. At least 17 of his major fundraisers are managers at either hedge funds or private equity funds, two loosely regulated financial service sectors that recently have stirred political controversy because of the soaring pay of fund managers and a legal loophole that allows them to pay lower tax rates on their earnings." - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070725obama,1,5894874.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout

Now let's see you laugh Fanta, or will you just ignore the truth and go back to attacking me instead of anaylzing the information for the truth that it is and the implications of that truth?

Thats a Republican web site you are reading sailor.
Try something not quite so bias, not quite Bushie Indoctrination, the truth is out there if you'll just look past the sheeple reading material.

Ive lived through a lot of Presidents. Ive served this country. Im an independent and I read both sides in a search for truth. I see McCain flip flopping like a fish thrown on the bank, and I see him losing bad in this election.

You throw out a link for a Republican sponsored web-site, spread obvious lies accusing Obama of being a muslim and a terrorist. You throw out a bunch of sheeple propaganda straight from the Bushie Indoctrination manual and expect people to believe your studied and they are the blind!
Give me a break! Its obvious listening to you just how desperate the Republicans are!!

Now watch sailor get mad everyone!!

You cannot read any website opposing the candidate and take it for truth... that is a fact... Besides Republicans are just spinsters using the same old trite excuses as to why they suck...

Reuters is Republican website so is the Chicago Tribune? Have you been drinking koolaid? I think someone put something in there.

I heard that, and I voted for Bush the first time. I saw his BS though in the first year!
Im ready for change Troy!

Look at the author sailor, and follow some of HIS links in the article!

All of them? The Reuters author, The Chicago-Tribune article authors? Not sure which one you are talking about.

Typical republican.. They believe all of the smoke and mirrors the party always tries to put up... If it's in favor of the republican party it is gospel to them.... Republicans are still running campaigns on dead issues to try and guilt the American voters into a moral dilemma at the voting booth.

Fine, I decided to wade into the HUFFINGTON POST to prove to you that Hedge-fund managers, the VERY wealthy, are lining up to support Obama.

Here is the article on the HUFFINGTON POST, written by a NY TIMES author.

"And yet for all of this, many of the wealthiest hedge fund managers are lining up behind the Obama campaign." - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/22/obama-and-the-hedge-fund_n_97941.html

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"Many of the top 10 managers on Alpha magazine’s mind-blowing 2007 rich list, which was released last week, have put money on Mr. Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign contributions. They have each given the maximum donation allowed, $2,300. (Let’s face it, this is pocket lint to these guys.)

Mr. Obama’s hedge fund contributors include:

John Griffin, the founder of Blue Ridge Capital, who made $625 million in 2007, according to Alpha. Mr. Griffin is backing Mr. Obama after initially supporting Mitt Romney.

Kenneth C. Griffin (no relation) of the Citadel Investment Group in Chicago, who earned $1.5 billion. He contributed to the Obama campaign after the senator came to his office last year.

Stephen Mandel of Lone Pine Capital, who took home $710 million last year.

And, of course, George Soros, who earned almost $3 billion last year. It is no surprise that Mr. Soros, a Democratic stalwart, is backing Mr. Obama. Mr. Soros campaigned against President Bush in 2004, and Moveon.org, which the billionaire investor has plied with tens of millions of dollars, endorsed Mr. Obama in February." - http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/obama-and-the-hedge-fund-factor/#more-22644

Let's see how you can spin this one.