Oh look, it's our
resident libertarian who usually waits until threads are off the homepage (when no one is reading them) before he responds!
Nice to see you back in real time. :)
Did Obama announce that he was going to stop setting records for taking donations from individual donors like you and me (well, uh, like me at least)?
Did he announce that he's opening the floodgates to rake in the cash from the healtchare and defense industries (the ones that Hillary made so much money from)?
Does this mean that Obama won't push (and push hard) for campaign finance reform once he's elected?
Look, the bottom line is, this election is too damn important to risk losing to McCain. Why? We've heard a thousand (valid) reasons, but the biggest one is the Supreme Court.
A right wing court could continue to make bullshit decisions about how public financing is unconstitutional or some other such nonsense.
Yes, in a perfect world we'd have a crystal ball and know that Obama could limit himself to public funding now (
with no 527 reform) and still kick McCain's ass. It'd be a great symbolic gesture and I would prefer it in that context, I concede that much.
But we don't so I don't. Not all money is created equal. You might bitch and cry about money from, say unions, but who cares about that? Reagan CRUSHED the unions, and they are easily 1/3 (if not less) of what they were when he took office (later presidents didn't do much to restore thier power and if anything only piled on). We have an enormous imbalance between corporate/employer power and individual/union power.
In other words, if you can start posting (credible) links that Obama is taking serious money from key industries (like Big Health care, Big Pharma, Big Oil, The Defense Industry, etc.) AND it starts effecting or eventually effects his policies in a meaningful way, THEN you can come back and repost this little snippet.
But
so far, so good.
