With huge campaign chests being accumulated by top tier candidates, one who remembers the effects of a record campaign chests in 2000 and 2004, must wonder to whom these candidates will favor once the election is over and the publics eye moves on to other issues?
Before (back in 2000,2004),………… we primarily had oil, insurance, and pharmaceuticals paying for those endless commercials leading up to November. Today, it is you and I who are paying for their copious generosity. Legislation helping to increase their profits in oil, insurance, and pharmaceuticals, have all been signed into law by this administration.
So who will Hillary, Obama, Edwards favor? Are they too, so compromised that they can no longer be objective whenever one of their supporters needs a “little help”? And poor petit cardiganed McCain…….with 275,000 in the bank and 1.7 million in debt, ……should he manage to pull out of his nose dive, to whom does he owe for saving his financial ass?
America needs to know. The only candidates one can trust are those who refuse to prostitute themselves for dollars. Many small contributions, not one or two large ones, are what America needs to see in financial campaign statements.
Rhetoric like this is required:
“When you are sinking,and this country is sinking, there are only two options you got left. You can either bail like hell……..or……..throw out the dead weight……….I got a couple of CEOs ………I’m ready to throw………” (Thunderous applause for Joe Biden)
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July 14, 2007 at 2:28 am
Duffy
C’mon you’re smart enough to see this for what it is. Naked pandering to constituents. Joe Biden railing against CEOs? Please spare me.
July 14, 2007 at 2:47 pm
kavips
You flatter me with your comment, However, in this case, your flattery may be somewhat misplaced. My intellect truly lacks the capacity to see this as pandering to naked constituents. In fact, even though I am trying hard, I am having trouble mentally, even seeing it as pandering to constituents who still wear clothes.
All Fun aside, the point being made in the post above, is that we truly need an Executive who is not owned by a special interest, but is owned by the American people. That is something that I can understand.
But upon further consideration, even if your view does turn out to be correct, I would rather have a Biden rail against CEO’s, and mean it, than have a Republican do the same, and not………………………..
July 14, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Duffy
But that’s my point. Biden doesn’t mean it in the slightest. He’s wined and dined by them daily.
July 15, 2007 at 10:47 pm
kavips
Then why is his campaign chest lower than Edward’s, Clinton, or Obama. If what you say was true, there would be proof on the contributors list.
As a responsible politician, one needs to acknowledge the interests of business. Otherwise our nation slips toward Communism, where a handpicked group representative of the “people”, enforce all rules and regulations.
So being wined and dined, is good policy.
But being indebted to your contributors, is not. We are paying the price from the last president bought with campaign contributions. Perhaps it is time that we look at one who is not……………….
July 16, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Duffy
It’s lower because he has about as much chance of I do as getting the nomination let alone winning the presidency. How do you expect these politicians to be wined and dined and taking huge donations to their election efforts, “acknowledge their interests” and then, what? Do nothing about those interests?
If they act on behalf of those interests, you bay for their blood. If they do not, we’re headed for communism. You can’t have it both ways.
July 17, 2007 at 3:24 pm
kavips
No offense, but I think at this point in time, Biden has more of a chance of being elected than either you, or me, for that matter.
Who wines and dines Biden? I don’t think anyone else does but Labor.
Is that better than Enron? Who knows? But I personally believe it is.
Considering that the Middle Class needs more help than the upper echelons of our economic strata,……. being wined and dined by labor may be a good thing……
Bottom line, it is determining who is supporting the candidate that is important. Is it a special interest that secretly wants to steal from America, or is it an interest that represents a rather large group of people.
There is nothing wrong with representing a large group of people…………Especially in a democracy.