Obama '08?

Walter Hinteler wrote:

Meanwhile, Illinois State Senator Kirk Dillard's (Republican, and until April chairman of the DuPage County GOP, one of the party's strongest political organizations in the state) is featured prominently in a new television ad praising Senator Barack Obama ...

Link please?

By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 16 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama reported Sunday raising at least $32.5 million for his presidential campaign from April through June, a record for a Democratic candidate.
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That is more than what Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's main Democratic rival, has said she would raise for the reporting period that ended Saturday.

At least $31 million of Obama's total is for party primaries, according to campaign aides.

The first-term senator from Illinois received donations from more than 154,000 individual contributors and through the first half of the year had 258,000 donors. Obama raised $25.7 million in the first three months of the year.

Vaulting ahead of Clinton in the money race is an important achievement. Despite broad public interest in Obama's candidacy, he trails the New York senator and former first lady in national polls.

Any evidence of the KKK actually making the threat, or is this somebody's imagination?

It is important to realize that the statute criminalizes the threat, not the intent to carry it out,[10] nor the ability to carry it out. If the defendant is in jail when he makes the statement, he can still be prosecuted for threatening the President.[11] Furthermore, evidence of mental incapacity can be excluded from trial because the activity criminalized by section 871 "requires only a showing of general intent."[12]

okie wrote:

Any evidence of the KKK actually making the threat, or is this somebody's imagination?

It sounded familiar to me but when I just tried to find evidence there wasn't much. What I saw was from blog-type places rather than AP or NYT or whatever. I think it may have been speculation around why he got secret service protection rather than a documented fact. That's certainly something to come back to my bookclub with, if it didn't even happen!

Can anyone else find it?

CBS) CHICAGO Presidential candidate Barack Obama has been placed under the protection of the U.S. Secret Service, the earliest ever for a White House hopeful.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff authorized Obama's protection after consultations with the congressional advisory committee.

CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports Thursday's Secret Service protection comes at Obama's own request. With no specific threat reported, sources said increasing crowd size caused enough concern to step up security.

But Thursday night, Sen. Dick Durbin said Obama has received specific, racist threats, which may have contributed to the increased security.

"It is the sad reality this day and age that Mr. Obama's African American heritage is a cause for very violent and hated reactions from some people," Durbin said.

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But white supremacists, appalled that a black candidate may have a viable shot at the presidency, have been spewing venom across the Internet for months.

"Our world will become unbearable with him as President," wrote a typical poster on a white powerWeb site. "Maybe there will be someone who would take [a] chance and do a Lincoln on him? Is that our only hope?"
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An article in last week's edition of the rightwing Insight magazine blasted him for his lack of security, mentioned Robert Kennedy and accused Obama of "almost courting this tragic, and historically predictable, result."

"It is time for Obama to put aside his pride, or bravado, and ask for the protection he requires," the magazine said.


Source: New York Daily News, 04.05.07, page 7

Obama have been attracting too many racist comments.

Quote:
Via CBSNews.com :

Today CBSNews.com informed its staff via email that they should no longer enable comments on stories about presidential candidate Barack Obama. The reason for the new policy, according to the email, is that stories about Obama have been attracting too many racist comments.

"It's very simple," Mike Sims, director of News and Operations for CBSNews.com, told me. "We have our Rules of Engagement. They prohibit personal attacks, especially racist attacks. Stories about Obama have been problematic, and we won't tolerate it."

CBSNews.com does sometimes delete comments on an individual basis, but Sims said that was not sufficient in the case of Obama stories due to "the volume and the persistence" of the objectionable comments. Read more…

This might explain why Obama requested Secret Service protection this early in the campaign. Sadly, this is what you get when racists and bigots are given credibility and unlimited airtime on a national platform who are joined by racist politicians backed by a well funded political party. While we're on the subject, I'd like to thank the C&L site monitor team for all of their hard work.

I agree with Vietnamnurse, and disagree with okie - on most topics.

Obama is in front of all the front-runners on raising money; beat Clinton by 50% - and money "talks." This trend does too!