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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (1898)	4/4/2007 3:55:51 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Obama raises $25 million, challenges Clinton's front-runner status cnn.com

To: RMF who wrote (1898)	4/5/2007 10:01:16 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

My comment: Money comes when you have a message, charm and poise and you are not "anointed" Obama has it all. He does not have the anger/short fuse of McCain, he does not growl like Dean nor he is being "anointed" like Hillary and W. ========================================================== Obama Rising On Wide Grassroots Financial Support 07:19 AM, April 5th 2007 by Editorial Staff The news that US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had raised nearly as much money as presumed frontrunner Hillary Clinton has electrified the US election campaign, already running near top speed in the wide open race. Obama raised 25 million dollars in the first three months of 2007, his campaign announced Wednesday, putting the lesser-known Illinois senator only 1 million dollars behind Senator Clinton. Elections are a year and a half away, in November 2008. "Barack Obama has demonstrated to the Democratic Party he is a force and will stay in this primary game as long as he can," said Tim Russert, NBC broadcaster's top political commentator. Until Wednesday, popular wisdom said Obama's lack of experience - on the national scene for little over two years - and youth, at age 45, meant his was a trial bid meant to give him enough public exposure for a future White House run. Pundits gave more credibility to Clinton, 59, a national figure since she was first lady to former president Bill Clinton, whose popularity among financial backers and the public is an ace in the hole for her candidacy. But the revelation that Obama had raised so much money from a base of more than 100,000 individual donations, much of them for under 100 dollars, raised the image of a man building wide grassroots steam for his candidacy. "This overwhelming response, in only a few short weeks, shows the hunger for a different kind of politics in this country and a belief at the grassroots level that Barack Obama can bring out the best in America to solve our problems," Penny Pritzker, the campaign's finance chairwoman, said. Obama released the figures two days after the rest of the Democratic and Republican field announced their initial fundraising efforts - many of them shattering the previous record for donations at this period in the campaign. contd. at playfuls.com