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And these are the "posted figures". If we actually knew how many millions were illegally funneled to the various campaigns via George Soros & friends, folks would be screaming bloody murder. It's not just the thousands of dead voters who voted, or the number of illegal voters registered by ACORN, it's much deeper than that. It's a combination of these and other actions that now have the nation converting to a socialist state. It will all come out...eventually, and when it does it will be George W. Bush's fault.

Gah! I can't believe I have a Citicard. I will remove myself of it this weekend.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA?!? How the devil is a public university making political contributions of any stripe? The budgetary situation in CA has been a trainwreck for years and yet? That stinks to high-heaven, regardless of the partisan issue.

Wait, let me check something.
(Looks in a mirror)
Nope. Absolutly no expression of surprise on my face.

Liberals, what happened to Pelosi's vow to end "the culture of coruption"? This is even WORSE and more BLATANT than the Elephants' payoffs!

A little surprised by Microsoft. They're still trembling after the Janet Reno bitchslap. I would have thought they would have contributed at least a cool million.

Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase have repaid all of their TARP funds already.

ALso you blatantly leave out the header at the top of the chart, which clearly states: "The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates."

So before you go waging a war against these companies, it was the individuals that work there that made these donations. Just like they cast the damn votes. Wake up idiots.

Funny, I just happened to have been on OpenSecrets.org today snooping to see how much my most loud-mouthed, arrogant liberal neighbors donated to Obama's campaign. One tightwad who sponsored the kids for the school walkathon 10 CENTS per lap donated $1600 to Obama, another who thinks the govt should pay her healthcare even though she doesn't work and gets trust fund money every month, donated $2100 and another nitwit who claims that "Republicans eat their young" donated over $4000.

And so your point is the people who don't agree with you should not be able to spend their money as they wish? What is your point, because I'm not seeing it?

People who have trust funds shouldn't be allowed to have opinions on public policy? Or perhaps its that people who only donate a little to the school walk-a-thon should only be allowed to donate that same amount to other causes? Or perhaps its that if someone makes an offhand comment that you don't like they shouldn't be able to donate?

Or maybe you don't have a point besides being irritated that your candidate wasn't elected.

You seem to be more concerned with the comings and goings of your neighbors than anything else.

Maybe you should get involved in the PTA or something where your local "snooping" and neighborhood machinations can do you some good.

I think Annie was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of liberals. The one was a stingy ass who barely gave a donation (where the money would do some real good like at a school) and the trust fund loon who sits at home and earns an income as a parasite off the backs of those who came before her.

Obama supporters are very hypocritical, I have found. They want loose controls on immigration but they don’t “those” people living in their neighborhood. They tend to live in gated communities insulated from the rest of us. They also hire illegal alien nannies and escape paying any payroll taxes or workers compensation.

They tell us they’re giving us new jobs with this green economy and stimulus funds yet they continue to award more and more H1 and H2B visas for Engineers to come work here from India. I highly doubt that we have NO Americans who would work as an Engineer or a nurse.

They want government run health care and they want you to pay for it. Yet we would never be able to have the same type of wonderful healthcare they are allowed to have nor would they stoop to have the type of healthcare we would have under this plan. Can you see any of these arrogant parasites standing in line at a clinic or waiting months on a critical blood test?

The uber rich like Feinstein and Boxer I’m sure use all the legal tax codes that they can find to avoid paying as much taxes as possible, but yet they want to tax the hell out of us.

Nancy Pelosi is all for this cap and trade, yet uses a government jet to jettison her and her ilk from home base to the nation’s capital. In essence do as I say, not do as I do.

Pelosi, Feinstein and Boxer are all rich women. Why in the hell are they still in office? Haven’t they earned enough money? Why not step aside and let some other younger, fresher candidates in? Seriously, why aren’t these loons retiring?

I’m a tea bagger (I love how the left use that term so loosely, I think they get off on using that term), a NRA member, a patriot, a libertarian and a woman. A hypocrite is a hypocrite and most of these Democrats in office are.

Thanks Janet, but Anonymous is probably one of my arrogant neighbors who doesn't like being called out on their hypocrisy. Funny Anonymous is critical of my "snooping", but they Anonymously snoop & post at conservative blogs they obviously disagree with.

My point was that Liberals tend to donate money to politicians who will create policy forcing others to spend their money, but tend to be tight-fisted when it comes to spending their own money on worthy causes that would directly help people. Conservatives tend to donate more money to charities that directly assist people in need.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682730&page=1

There are also studies comparing charity in European countries(where taxes are higher and people depend more on the government)which show that people there donate less of their time and money to charity than in the US. The point being, that more government reliance simply takes the humanity out of giving and receiving.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=736&print=1

ditto's Travis. I feel dirty.

My point was that Liberals tend to donate money to politicians who will create policy forcing others to spend their money, but tend to be tight-fisted when it comes to spending their own money on worthy causes that would directly help people.

You are correct, ma'am. We are also more generous than leftists. Just to cite an example, each of the tithings your dingbat neighbors paid to the Church of Obama in 2008 dwarf Joe Biden's 10 year cumulative record of charitable giving.

Also, IIRC, Rush Limbaugh not only donates vastly greater sums to charity than Nancy Pelosi; but also his charities are those that help people and ease suffering, like the Leukemia Foundation and charities involved with children's cancer. Where as Nancy "Botox" Pelosi gave her pitiful donations to "charities" like the San Francisco Symphony and arts foundations; places that stroke her ginormous ego.

Obama doesn't always act like a Black; sometimes I think he acts like an Irish politican.

Only showing support of his most loyal and obedint bootlickers

Also in reference to the Anonymous posters, I brought up the "offhand comment" from my liberal neighbor that "Republicans eat their young" because I was pointing out that Liberals love to perpetuate the myth that Republicans are a bunch of mean-ol'-meanies even though we voluntarily contribute more than they do to charity.

And why do you wrongly assume I'm not already involved with my children's PTA?

The real irony regarding my original post about snooping at opensecrets.org was that I had no idea there were websites available to look that stuff up until one of the Liberal neighbors I speak of pointed it out to me because SHE was snooping on others. Sometimes cattiness comes back to bite you.

"Sometimes cattiness comes back to bite you."
Its funny because you're the one who used the word 'snooping' in the first place, all the while completely ignorant of the fact that its not snooping at all, its public record. So its your cattiness and your behind that's been bit.

But still your word is apropos because you ARE constantly snooping on your neighbors from the sound of it. Overly concerned about where their money comes from or how much they're giving to the school lap a thon. Quit peeking out the curtains and pay attention to yourself.

"being called out on their hypocrisy"
I still say its none of your business what your neighbors do with their money. Although you seem to think that its ultimately your business and your call where they should put it. You probably know a lot less about them than you think.

Mind your own business and spend your money how you wish.

Besides, this started out with more slant on the part of this site. You're always leaving out information to try and make something seem more dire than it is.

This chart that you've posted is all about individuals donating, but Van eliminated that part, obviously in hopes that you'd think that the actual corporations donated that money. Well, since you were painfully unaware that political donations were open record, here's another tidbit for you: It is Illegal for businesses to donate to a presidential campaign.

A business can only help run a political action committe, which can collect the funds and run the committee, the business cannot actually donate. So really, Van was trying to make you believe something that isn't possible.

How's that for being a mean ol meanie?

Anonymous, I was referring to my neighbor's cattiness in my post.

How is looking up their "public record" on one occasion equivalent to "constantly" snooping on my neighbors? We interact with each other publicly, which is why know other details about their lives. Too many, in fact, since they have given their unsolicited political opinions to me on numerous occasions.

Of course it's their right to spend their money as they wish. I was giving anecdotal evidence that while many Liberals claim to be more empathic than Republicans, it doesn't really hold water when you compare their charitable giving patterns.

I was giving anecdotal evidence that while many Liberals claim to be more empathic than Republicans, it doesn't really hold water when you compare their charitable giving patterns.

"Anonymous" seems to be too dim to pick up on that nuance.

V don't be too hard on anonowuss, it sounds like he's got a bad case of diaper rash.

Conveniently passing up on the other points in my post. That's nice for you.

I still say you don't know everything about your neighbors, and your anecdotal uh "evidence" is proof of nothing except how you're willing to take a few select things that you think you know about your neighbors and spin it into a nasty tale.

You're a prize-winner. What the prize is I can't say yet.

My point is your anecdotes aren't proof of anything except your further lack of any real knowledge.

You're coming to a string about political donations that's full of misinformation, that you're completely lapping up as truth, without seeking any facts.

Oh no ... that's right! You have all these impressive facts about your neighbors. Conveniently, you don't need to offer any proof about these people. Even if you did know these things about them for certain, its only proof that your particular neighbor is a jerk.

Should we start sharing stories of the jerk republicans we know? THe Conservatives who don't give a dime? Its stupid. It proves nothing except there are penny pinching jerks everywhere.

How about the fact that some of you were prepared to cut up particular credit cards based on Van's misinformation?

Does it make you wonder ... AT ALL? Does it make you wonder about the spin in this garbage that you seem to take as a reliable source of information?

I worked at a big company who had a PAC; salaried people were kind of pressured to contribute. Nobody ever asked me, and we never got to vote for, who would get the money.

My citicard has a zero balance, and I'm chopping it up.

Ghost, you're extremely tiresome. You refuse to get Annie's point. "Snoop" is an expression, like lurking on the internet. And you hit her over the head with it again and again. I check the poster name first, and if it's you, I scroll through.

"Nobody ever asked me, and we never got to vote for, who would get the money."

Then you're a fool for handing over money to an organization that you don't know where the money is going to. I guess I shouldn't be surprised since you come here to get info and don't even bother to check if its true. Spoon fed to the end. Handing over your money and handing over your brain at the same time.

I am not "Ghost" although I don;t care what you call me. As I've said repeatedly, to me this isn't about who has what handle, or winning an argument with a particular person, its about ideas.

The ideas posted here are mostly crude and many times leave out important facts. THis post is a prime example. It insinuates that Obama gave a bailout to companies that donated to his campaign. Which as I've demonstrated is disgustingly untrue.

If you choose to believe it because we're on opposite sides of the fence, then again, I guess I'm not terribly surprised. I would suggest though that you read up. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of course. But if its an uninformed opinion, its not worth much.

And please — I haven't "hit her over the head" with anything. If your skin is that thin that my challenging someone in such a way is doing them physical harm, grow up.

I read the post and I didn't "lap it up as truth". Like you, I clicked on the link and could see what it said about the funds being from individuals, but the point had already been made.

So not only are you telling me to mind my own business, but you're also telling me how I can and can't comment on this blog. Okay Ms. Anonymous Gatekeeper, I'll check with you first next time to see if my comments have been innapropriately "spun into a nasty tale" before I post them.

Let's go to OpenSecrets.org and see how much Anonymous donated to Obama's campaign!

"mind my own business"
Yes. You should not presume to pretend to know all about who your neighbors are, just because you know a few random facts about them. You pretend to be perfect the way you stand up and judge them for all of us.

"I'll check with you first next time to see if my comments have been innapropriately "spun into a nasty tale" before I post them."

Don't check with me ... check with yourself. If you feel bad now for having smeared them, then you know you shouldn't a done it.

"telling me how can and can't comment on this blog."
Man you guys are sensitive. I'm not telling you how to do anything. Do whatever you want. Just pointing out what I see. Take it or leave it. I don't care.

OK, I broke my own rule and read your first sentence, Ghost. Did I ever say I was foolish enough to hand over my money? Uh, no.

"Nobody ever asked me, and we never got to vote for, who would get the money."

It kind of follows that if you didn't get to vote for who got the money, that you gave them some in the first place.

Apologies for reading and believing what you wrote.

True, the Anonymouse above isn't the same Anonymouse with the same IP as Goatse. That's the problem with not putting people through the hassle of registration.

I guess they know a winner when they see one, because according to the same source John McCain got contributions from some of the same sources, just not as much. :-( Poor John.

http://tinyurl.com/mrdsq5

(In event of failure go to tinyurl and end it with mrdsq5 or click on the link provided in the original article, and then in the right switch to which ever candidate you want to REALLY know about.)

Also, it should be noted, that due to campaign finance laws, the individual companies are capped at how much they can directly give. The numbers reported are compiled from data that included the contributor's employer, as well as any groups those large corporations might support.

Therefore, the University of California, did not actually contribute $1.5M directly. Just the smart people that might work for them.

If you hate reading any of the above, then please write your own corrupt representatives in congress and ask them to reform campaign finance.

Really, everyone, put your knees in a brace so they can't jerk so much before you read only half of the information.