Obama has so much money in his coffers that he's even branching out from traditional media into online ads and video games. He has bought billboards that appear in the virtual environments of least 18 video games -- mostly sports titles like Madden NFL 09 and NBA 08.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081018/obama_vi

The link seems a little wacked out, but I found this one which may help out?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/obama-video-game-ads-feat_n_134668.html

Invasion of privacy, misuse of campaign funds - and Obama and the gaming companies should be sued.

This my friends is a preview of what an Obama presidency will mean.

It's the Obama Nation. Say that three times fast.

Yes, there are many small donors involved in the massive fund-raising. But it is obvious that this cannot account for the record monies he is spending. Who is contributing all this cash, and what will they require in return if he wins? Enquiring minds want to know.

be afraid

be very afraid

. . . and that can be safely said even if somehow John McCain beats the odds and gets in there instead.

"...and what will they require in return if he [Obama] wins?"

This is what's wrong with our election system, of course. It costs too much to "run" to begin with, starting in the primaries, so the tendency is to rely on financing from an organization that expects to be "repaid" later.
Independent candidates such as libertarians and other third party entities have little chance; thus, our corrupt two-party system prevails -- to our chagrin.
With little hope for redress, I might add.

To McCain's credit, he opted for public financing -- which made him less beholden to special interest groups. However, didn't he accept contributions when he was running in the Republican primary? If so, who financed him then?
(Not just Cindy, right?)

What Congress should have done was MANDATE public financing; i.e., not allow it to be optional. (Obama, baaad boy for opting out.)

obama is spending money like crazy what do you think hes gonna do when he gets in office.

Oh, I don't know; maybe be a big spender . . . (like GWB has been)?
[sardonic smile]

BOTH major parties tend to move toward bigger government and bigger spending.
The main difference is who they prefer to spend it on.
We need to get over the polarization stuff (dems vs. repubs) and make a serious move toward revamping our political systm; it's a fiasco.

systm = my creative way of spelling system

(in lieu of an edit button that I predict we'll never see)

UPDATE:

Yes, Obama has flip-flopped. But hear this:
Another massive flipflop for Sen. McCain. (His flipflops tend to be on a vital national issue level.) He never tires of smearing Sen. Obama for agreeing to personally meet with dictators without preconditions, which is a horrific distortion at best. Well, news just came out that apparently, in 1985, Sen. McCain had a "friendly meeting with Chile’s military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, one of the world’s most notorious violators of human rights credited with killing more than 3,000 civilians and jailing tens of thousands of others." -- Quote is from http://outfoxingkarlrove.wordpress.com/ ----------------------------------------------

Oh, and if anyone needs any examples
of how McCain will shamelessly usurp credit for something he not only had any involvement in, but actually vehemently opposed, just go back to the G.I. Bill passed in May 2008. McCain first ignored it, then tried to kill it, then went to California for a fund raiser when it came up for a vote (so he wouldn't have a NO vote on the record). After it passed with a veto-proof majority, both Bush and McCain took credit for it. McCain even had the audacity to criticize its actual author, Sen. Jim Webb of Va. for not having made it even more powerful. I hope McCain's flipflops like this, which go beyond just changing a position for political expediency, but is actually intended to steal credit for someone else's work, is made crystal clear to every voter before Nov 4.

And I realize there's crap a-plenty to allocate to both sides of the political aisles. But I just thought this information (only recently having come to my attention) might be interesting.

Okay, someone else's turn now.
Fire away.