Obama Courts Big Donor$ For Big "Change": Will Be Spending Big Time With Influence Peddlers

"Obama picks up fundraising pace" from the NY Times reports that Senator Barack Obama is going after those big buck donors with fancy fundraisers - which isn't a big change really - as reported by Andrea Mitchelle on "Meet The Press" that Obama in reality has more big donors than small ones that he advertises.

"Can Barack buy the presidency" by Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal

But Mr. Obama’s stepped-up schedule of big-money fund-raisers — the campaign has more than a dozen events planned over the next two weeks — showcases a formidable high-dollar donor network that is gaining more heft with an influx of former supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Obama campaign was initially powered last year in large part by high-dollar donors, but his schedule of traditional fund-raising events fell off this year in the face of a packed campaign schedule. Mr. Obama attended only a handful of fund-raisers, relying instead on contributions over the Internet.