(Shin-Jyuku, Tokyo)"As One That Had Authority"
I don't think that the authority of Ever-Holy Jesus Christ is supported by any money he has, if any.
Accordingly, the final purpose of the money-decorated Devil cannot be to enjoy a rich life for himself.
SECTION I: Election Money I
It is not Christian at all to buy votes with money.
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General Campaign Expense Summary
According to required campaign filings as reported by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), a total of 148 candidates for all parties had raised a collective total of $1,644,712,232 and spent $1,601,104,696 for the primary and general campaigns combined through November 24, 2008. The amounts raised and spent by the major candidates, according to the same source, were as follows:
Candidate (Party) / Amount Raised / Amount Spent / Votes = Average Spent per Vote
Barack Obama (D) / $532,946,511 / $513,557,218 / 69,447,084 = $7.39 per vote
John McCain (R) / $379,006,485 / $346,666,422 / 59,925,610 = $5.78
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2008
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Otherwise it is not a shame at all that a candidate loses an election due to a lack of money.
SECTION II: Election Money II
It is not Christian at all to collect money claiming that it is all for improving the human society.
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Obama Accepting Untraceable Donations
Contributions Reviewed After Deposits
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 29, 2008; A02
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The Obama team's disclosures came in response to questions from The Washington Post about the case of Mary T. Biskup, a retired insurance manager from Manchester, Mo., who turned up on Obama's FEC reports as having donated $174,800 to the campaign. Contributors are limited to giving $2,300 for the general election.
Biskup, who had scores of Obama contributions attributed to her, said in an interview that she never donated to the candidate. "That's an error," she said. Moreover, she added, her credit card was never billed for the donations, meaning someone appropriated her name and made the contributions with another card.
When asked whether the campaign takes steps to verify whether a donor's name matches the name on the credit card used to make a payment, Obama's campaign replied in an e-mail: "Name-matching is not a standard check conducted or made available in the credit card processing industry. We believe Visa and MasterCard do not even have the ability to do this.
"Instead, the campaign does a rigorous comprehensive analysis of online contributions on the back end of the transaction to determine whether a contribution is legitimate…"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102803413_pf.html
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What cannot be solved by money must be the true agenda for the U.S. President.
SECTION III: Internet-Leveraged Money
The Internet has been a major player behind the scene of the 2008 Presidential Election.
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Obama's Internet Money Machine and the Future
Posted June 11, 2008 | 04:31 PM (EST)
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Among Obama supporters, like myself, this has been celebrated as an Internet-driven turning of the tables on the kind of money politics that has dominated America for so long. 1.5 million people have given Obama money, and nearly half of them have made donations of $200 or less. (All these small donors -- who the campaign is in regular contact with via email -- can legally give much more, which is one reason why it might not be that far-fetched to extrapolate his current fundraising curve for 5 more months.)
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Some perspective: in 2004, GW Bush raised $367 million, a historic record. Obama will raise more than that before the convention.
Or look at it this way: just under half of Obama's contributions have been in amounts of $200 or less. For demonstration purposes, let's say that the average small donation was $100. If you do the math, that works out to small donors giving Obama $70 million, leaving big donors responsible for $200 million. With luck someone with better data than I have will respond to this blog with more detailed numbers. Whatever the actual numbers are, it will work out that the huge majority of Obama's money has come donations over, not under, $200.…
Yes, this is a wonderful thing that the Internet has democratized political financing in an unprecedented way. What is even better, the fact that the progressive guy figured out the new money regime first may catapult him from freshman senator to the White House, opening one of the most exciting chapters in American political history…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag/obamas-internet-money-mac_b_106587.html
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The Internet may have become a major player behind the scene of the Obama Administration, inevitably.
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That is all for today.
When people are united with some common positive philosophy toward money, they can even send one of their fellows to the White House.
But, can there be any couple, group, or party united with any common negative philosophy toward money so as to protest against the White House successfully?
I mean I mostly trust forever-poor comrades.
(Beside, a psychologically fatal lack of love you have ever experienced cannot be compensated at all by any amount of money. So, trust EEE-Reporter, poorer than President Mr. Barack Obama.
http://www.geocities.com/midicentral2000/beatles/_050888/AllYouNeedIsLove.mid
Source: http://www.geocities.com/midicentral2000/beatles/MagicalMysteryTour.html)
Mar 1:22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.