once in awhile i get an e-mail from news max...why i don't know..i haven't been to that site in a few years...
but received this e-mail that i found interesting & thought some others would also find interesting....
i have posted a few times that because of his inexperience i am surprised that some people find obama an attractive candidate
Disillusioned supporters of President Bush are defecting from the Republican ranks and turning to Democrat Barack Obama as the best 2008 presidential candidate for uniting a divided nation.
One of those Obama admirers is Tom Bernstein, who attended Yale University with Bush and co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with him. In 2004 he donated the maximum $2,000 to Bush?s re-election campaign and gave $50,000 to the Republican National Committee, reports Sarah Baxter, a Washington correspondent for the Times of London.
This year he is supporting Obama, and has said he admires the Democrat?s call for action on Darfur.
Another Obama fan is Matthew Dowd, Bush?s chief campaign strategist in 2004, who last month declared that he was disappointed with the president?s leadership. Dowd hasn?t yet endorsed a candidate, but he said the only one he likes is Obama.
Robert Kagan, a leading neoconservative, is an informal policy adviser to Republican candidate John McCain. But in a recent article in the Washington Post, Kagan wrote glowingly of a speech by Obama at a Chicago gathering, saying it was ?pure John Kennedy.?
In that speech, Obama called for an increase in defense spending and talked about building democracies and the right to take unilateral action to protect American interests if necessary, Baxter reported.
Financiers have also been ?oiling Obama?s campaign,? Baxter wrote, noting: ?John Canning, a ?Bush pioneer? and investment banker who pledged to raise $100,000 for the president in 2004, has given up on the Republicans. ?I know lots of my friends in this business are disenchanted and are definitely looking for something different,? he said.?
Democrat Hillary Clinton has been attracting some support from Republican defectors, too. John Mack, who helped raise $200,000 for Bush?s re-election, has said he was ?impressed? by Clinton?s expertise.
According to figures cited by Baxter, Obama and Clinton have received more than $750,000 in individual donations from former Bush donors.
but received this e-mail that i found interesting & thought some others would also find interesting....
i have posted a few times that because of his inexperience i am surprised that some people find obama an attractive candidate
Disillusioned supporters of President Bush are defecting from the Republican ranks and turning to Democrat Barack Obama as the best 2008 presidential candidate for uniting a divided nation.
One of those Obama admirers is Tom Bernstein, who attended Yale University with Bush and co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with him. In 2004 he donated the maximum $2,000 to Bush?s re-election campaign and gave $50,000 to the Republican National Committee, reports Sarah Baxter, a Washington correspondent for the Times of London.
This year he is supporting Obama, and has said he admires the Democrat?s call for action on Darfur.
Another Obama fan is Matthew Dowd, Bush?s chief campaign strategist in 2004, who last month declared that he was disappointed with the president?s leadership. Dowd hasn?t yet endorsed a candidate, but he said the only one he likes is Obama.
Robert Kagan, a leading neoconservative, is an informal policy adviser to Republican candidate John McCain. But in a recent article in the Washington Post, Kagan wrote glowingly of a speech by Obama at a Chicago gathering, saying it was ?pure John Kennedy.?
In that speech, Obama called for an increase in defense spending and talked about building democracies and the right to take unilateral action to protect American interests if necessary, Baxter reported.
Financiers have also been ?oiling Obama?s campaign,? Baxter wrote, noting: ?John Canning, a ?Bush pioneer? and investment banker who pledged to raise $100,000 for the president in 2004, has given up on the Republicans. ?I know lots of my friends in this business are disenchanted and are definitely looking for something different,? he said.?
Democrat Hillary Clinton has been attracting some support from Republican defectors, too. John Mack, who helped raise $200,000 for Bush?s re-election, has said he was ?impressed? by Clinton?s expertise.
According to figures cited by Baxter, Obama and Clinton have received more than $750,000 in individual donations from former Bush donors.
