I'm sure that at least 1.2 million of his 1.5 million supporters are Rezko and his closest cohorts.  Thanks for reinforcing my preexisting viewpoint.

Come ON.  Enough with the BS hitpieces.

BS hitpieces?  This is not from a republican site and it is recent.  

I asked a question as I noticed that a) it was on the afrosphere as a news article and b) is it creditable?

you seem to think it is not.  Why?

Campaign funding is easily tracked.  Please try to verify your claims before posting blanket quotes from other blogs.  Without data, your diary comes off as a random hit diary.

Cole's right, and as I've tried to tell people for months now, Obama's been in the pocket of many "special interests"- nobody LISTENS TO ME.

Obama has take hundreds of thousands of dollars from BIG HOME IMPROVEMENT- specifically, The Home Depot. What is Obama hiding here? What is he planning? Could it be in conjunction with the homebuilding crisis? I smell a rat- one that can't be allayed by the information publicly stored at FEC.gov.

EXPOSE THIS FRAUD FOR WHO HE IS!

it is not a blanket quote from another blog.  Why don't you read the link that I posted.  My god, I gave you info on the site.  

the author is
Pam Martens worked on Wall Street for 21 years; she has no securities position, long or short, in any company mentioned in this article. She writes on public interest issues from New Hampshire.

she writes on commondreams.

I've come accorss this nonsense before and I've also seen it debunked. These supposed "lobbyist contributions" he is recieving are anything but - say a nurse gives Barack money, idiots like the one who wrote the article cited above count that as a contribution from "the healthcare industry"......LOL.

It's pathetic the lengths some people will go to to make it seem like Barack is dirty.

So, say there is some lowly teller of a bank who contributes to Obama - idiots like the one who wrote the above cited article claim that is a contribution form the "banking industry". LOL

Next smear, please. I have lots of free time to debunk BS today.

"How should we react when we learn that on the big donor list is Citigroup ..."

This shows a complete lack of understanding of how the funding process works.

Corporations cannot give donations to political campaigns.

Corporations CAN create and run Political Action Committees (PACs) that solicit donations from executives and shareholders up to $5000 each and funnel those donations to a political campaign, but Obama does not accept any money from PACs.

Obama's contributions come entirely from donations by individuals, up to just over $2000 each at a maximum.  Any time a donation over $200 is given, however, the campaign is required to release the name, address, and employer of that donor.  The employer is then used to tally how much of a candidate's donations come from a particular sector.

When you see that Obama has raised however many thousands of dollars from Citigroup, that's incorrect: he's raised that money from EMPLOYEES of Citigroup.  People just like you or me.

If you want to talk about the subprime lending industry and whose campaign it affects, look to the links between Delta Financial Corporation and Maggie Williams, Senator Clinton's campaign manager.  That's a lot more damning.

I sense the inhabitants of Taylor Marsh, Hillaryis44 and No Quarter are starting to panic.

The lies are getting more outlandish.

Please go to OpenSecrets.org each to track every donation above $200

Here are some pictures of his money "cartel."

on a Democratic site?

this doesn't help Clinton.

i read a comment from anna shane earlier, that supposedly summed up alegre's position, which was that Obama supporters should stop attacking Clinton and instead promote Obama. why doesn't that apply to Clinton supporters?

stop it! if you want to help Clinton, talk about how great she is. and Obama supporters should talk about Obama.

from the site

Seven of the Obama campaign's top 14 donors consisted of officers and employees of the same Wall Street firms charged time and again with looting the public and newly implicated in originating and/or bundling fraudulently made mortgages. These latest frauds have left thousands of children in some of our largest minority communities coming home from school to see eviction notices and foreclosure signs nailed to their front doors. Those scars will last a lifetime.

You keep saying that no one calling this a hit piece had read the whole article you linked to.  So I read the article.  Your diary is still a hit piece.  It is intentionally intellectual dishonesty.

You are asking people for their opinions on something that is cold hard math, i.e. there can be no opinion.  If you actually wanted to know the answer, you would check out data from the FEC.

I know I am fighting a lost cause here but I am still arguing which you means you actually got what you wanted.  congrats.

If he does not take lobbyist or lobbyist bundler funding than where the heck did he get the 100+ million he had at the start of the primary season. Who are all those spouses of corporate employees in the FEC reports and why do they work for companies like the Carlyle Group?

So I checked out this website, www.blackagendareport.com a little bit more......

"House Slaves, Field Slaves, and the Obama Predicament"
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.p hp?option=com_content&task=view& id=623&Itemid=1

And half of the stories on the front page are attacks on Senator Obama.

Yep, phenomenally source.  Read some of those stories.  Incredible.

"Because of contribution limits, organizations that bundle together many individual contributions are often among the top donors to presidential candidates. These contributions can come from the organization's members or employees (and their families). The organization may support one candidate, or hedge its bets by supporting multiple candidates. Groups with national networks of donors - like EMILY's List and Club for Growth - make for particularly big bundlers."

There is a difference, but then that would mean that you would have to look at the websites behind the website.

I've never liked these sorts of diaries  - if contributors are employed somewhere, it doesn't mean the employer has anything to do with the contribution. That goes for Obama/Clinton.

Check out the About Us section on that website. One of the 4 principals is a former Black Panther. It is a very good thing they don't support Obama, or you'd be joining in with your other little friends about his supposed links to radicals.

The quote you cite provides no proof what so ever for it's specious claim. Yes, the people who contribute to Obama have jobs. What a shocker.

All of the industries that Americans work for have lobbies. Obama accepts no money from PACS or lobbyists, he does accept money from citizens with jobs. Getting donations from private citizens employed as bank security guards, tellers, and bank executives is not the same as getting money from financial lobbies.

Are you suggesting that he only accept contributions from unemployed Americans? You bring no research, no back up for your claims. The only thing you have to add is "look a black person wrote nasty stuff about Obama". Try a little harder next time.

Another lame hit piece by your typical deadender.

yawn! Wake me up when this is over.

The theory that he is taking money from wall street doesn't make much sense given how fond he is of talking about raising the capital gains tax, a position that is very unpopular, especially with those on WS.