When Barack Obama destroyed the previously held record for funds raised in one month of campaigning in September of this year, most assumed he now would have enough money to campaign until November 4, and then possibly have millions left.

Not so, the man who raised more than any other candidate in history, also spends significantly more: he has now called on his supporters to donate $10 more per person. That would, of course, mean many more millions he can spend in key battleground states.

One has to wonder where all this money goes. If you raised $650 million in total, and $150 million in the month of September, and you still need more, you’re doing something horribly wrong. Either you are trying to win in a landslide seldom seen before, or you have so much trouble convincing people to vote for you that you need to spend three or four times as much on advertising as your opponent.

Then there is the third option, which bodes ill of Obama as commander, and thus spender, in-chief: spending more than $150 in less than one month time indicates he’s not very good with money, and does not know how to spend his money effective. That is, if he truly believes he needs many millions more in order to win the election November 4.

The amount of money this man has spent on his campaign has been astonishing. The entire world is in an economic mess, while the man who is likely to become president of the United States spends like a drunken sailor. That should give pause…

And it does. Here in Europe people wonder why it is that the American presidency is for sale, and why the one who behaves most like a drunk woman with the creditcard of her ex-husband wins, especially when normal Americans fear they may not be able to pay off their mortgage in 2009.