Prospective donors to the Obama campaign should save their money for paying the $2000 apiece that Obama voted to donate to Wall Street in the bail-out.

$700,000,000,000.

Every man, woman, and child in the United States now owes $2000 to the megabanks, thanks to a bail-out that hasn't even stopped the bleeding.

How much should you give Obama to thank him for voting for this stupendous give-away?

$0.00.

Your little family of four owes $8000 for this give-away that's already failing, so let the corporations pay for their own corporate whores like Obama and Biden, and if you can still afford to contribute to a politician, contribute to a real progressive like Dennis Kucinich.

Kucinich opposed this boondoggle from the beginning... http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/03-11

"The central flaw of this bill is that there are NO stronger protections for homeowners and NO changes in the language to ensure that the secretary has the authority to compel mortgage servicers to modify the terms of mortgages. And there are NO stronger regulatory changes to fix the circumstances that allowed this to happen.

We should have created a mechanism for our government to take a controlling interest in mortgage-backed securities and use our power to work out a new deal for the homeowners. We could have done this. We should have done this. But we didn't.

Now millions of Americans will face the threat of foreclosure without any help. And the numbers will soon rise for a number of reasons. Not only because of the Alt-A, jumbo mortgages which will soon be reset at higher interest rates, but because the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is pushing up rates on adjustable mortgages and more than half of the US adjustable mortgage rates are tied to LIBOR. Homeowner defaults will grow in significant numbers. Let's see if Congress will be as quick to help homeowners on Main Street as they were to help speculators on Wall Street.

Now the government will have to borrow $700 billion from banks, with interest, to give banks a $700 billion bailout, and in return the taxpayers get $700 billion in toxic debt. The Senate "improved" the bailout by giving tax breaks to people in foreclosure. People in foreclosure need help paying their mortgage, they do not seek tax breaks."

I think your avatar is giving me seizures... but I like your attitude!

Thanks!

"The alternative is unthinkable."

The real alternative is Ralph Nader, and it's only "unthinkable" for brain-dead Obamabots.

Obama isn't exactly an alternative to McCain...

Both of them favor expanded war in Afghanistan, continued adherence to the WTO and NAFTA, and literally "unthinkable" give-aways to megaBanks.

$700,000,000,000.

It used to be your money.

Bademus,

I am not certain that I would also classify Jacob Freeze as a troll. He/she is clearly angry - as a staunch opponent of the bailout legislation, I am too. However, I obviously disagree with J.F.'s assertion:

Obama isn't exactly an alternative to McCain...

when he so obviously is in many ways. I will take your advice, and make a contribution in J.F.'s name, though not as a 'troll'.

Thanks.

This was in response to MiddleClass Bill.

Understood. But tell her "enough" what we need to say to our country! There are many ways to do this, however. I'm planning on door-to-door campaigning in my community to compensate for not being able to give more money. In fact, our voices, person-to-person, are better than money.