Presidential hopeful Barack Obama set a new fundraising record in the second quarter by pulling in $32.5 million, bringing his total for the year to $58 million.
Since Democrats are forever gloating about all the lefty goodies they could’ve bought with the money spent on the War on Terror, I think it’s only fair to remind them of all the things they could’ve bought with those Obama campaign donations:

Is Obama REALLY worth not having this?

• 116,000 kevlar helmets for baby seals
• 3,411,000 metal spikes to put in trees for wrecking lumberjack chainsaws
• 10,000 new roofs for Palestinian ambulances with perfectly circular holes from Israeli rocket attacks.
• 252,000 giant paper-maché Bush puppets for burning at protests.
• 19,000,000 gallons of gas for Harry Reid’s SUV so he doesn’t have to walk across the street.
• 29,000 sensitivity training classes to help cure blacks of their homophobia.
• 210,000 shopping carts for the homeless.
• 2,857,000 inner tubes for illegal aliens.
• 145,000 haircuts for John Edwards.
• 400 if you include the cost of hair spray.
• 4500 face lifts for ugly feminists.
• 18,770,000 jars of urine for NEA art projects.
• 263,000 wedding cakes with two grooms on top.
• 1,300,000 bongs (strictly for medicinal purposes, of course)
• 116 TV commercials to promote a concert that’ll raise $10 million dollars for AIDS research.
• 830,000 acoustic guitars for playing “Kumbaya” while setting fire to giant paper-maché Bush puppets.
• Enough carbon offsets to cancel out 3 days worth of Al Gore jetting around the country to discuss the perils of Global Warming.

Then again, there’s the one thing that liberals want that NO amount of money can buy (see extended entry):

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands,
one nation under God,
indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.

That was just to see if I could still recall the pledge. I said it every morning as a child, but I’ve encountered it quite rarely as an adult — since the country has really meant something to me. That’s a shame, because I’m a firm believer in daily reminders of what’s important in life. So often we tend to dwell on the negative while forgetting all we have to be grateful for.
We have the greatest nation on earth, and it’s because of all the individuals who have fought for it. There are those who have shed their blood on foreign soil — those who without their work and sacrifice we would have nothing. There are the innovators, those who have the courage to follow their dreams. All the technology, all the modern conveniences we have, we owe to their initiative. It’s hard to believe that we were able to put a man on the moon using a fraction of the computing power found on an iPod, but there’s no question which nation was capable and still is.
Most importantly, there are people in this nation who simply fought to bring their families a good way of life, to open opportunities for their children. They worked hard day in and day out with no national recognition to keep the American Dream alive. That’s the backbone of this nation.
That’s what we need to remember: Too many people have fought too hard for us to settle for mediocrity from ourselves. We were given the opportunity that is this country, and it our duty to do with it what we can. That’s how we keep the American Dream alive. That’s how we keep the country alive. Whatever negatives there are in this country can easily be outweighed by the positives if we believe in them and act like we believe in them.
Every day, remember your pledge. Happy Independence Day.