kayleesgrandma
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Here's a list of the contributor's to Obama, and I'm not saying there is anything wrong...I'm just saying he is a young, ambitious politician--do you REALLY think there is no corruption of principles involved?
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">http://www.opensecrets.org/pre...trib.asp?id=N00009638
</a><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
">http://opensecrets.org/politic...le=2008&cid=N00009638
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<b>Not only that--both Obama and Clinton have been giving money to superdelegates!</b>http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/02/superdelegates.html
<i>Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the Democratic presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study shows.
"While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials serving as superdelegates have received about $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last three years," the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported today.
About half the 800 superdelegates -- elected officials, party leaders, and others -- have committed to either Clinton or Obama, though they can change their minds until the convention.
Obama's political action committee has doled out more than $694,000 to superdelegates since 2005, the study found, and of the 81 who had announced their support for Obama, 34 had received donations totaling $228,000.
Clinton's political action committee has distributed about $195,000 to superdelegates, and only 13 of the 109 who had announced for her have received money, totaling about $95,000.</i>
As someone commented:
Obama gave 228K to 34 people that have announced for him. That's an average of over $6700 per person. And Hillary gave 95K to 13 of those who announced for her. That's over $7300 per person. Wow. I'd have to have at least ten grand to vote for either of those clowns.
I don't know what you call it, but in my book, I call it BRIBES. I hate to disillusion you young people--but ALL POLITICS is the same old same old--has been since the begining. Just as Samuel Tilden said in 1876 - "the Presidency will go to the highest bidder...might as well just throw hold a raffle and pick the candiates name from a hat to pick the winner."
After McCain was caught up in his own scandal of the "Keating Five". This is why he backed the McCain-Feingold bill. He has been careful of lobbyists since then.
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/campaignfinance/index.asp
">http://www.opensecrets.org/new...aignfinance/index.asp
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<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.asp?id=N00009638
">http://www.opensecrets.org/pre...trib.asp?id=N00009638
</a><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
">http://opensecrets.org/politic...le=2008&cid=N00009638
</a>
<b>Not only that--both Obama and Clinton have been giving money to superdelegates!</b>http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/02/superdelegates.html
<i>Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the Democratic presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study shows.
"While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials serving as superdelegates have received about $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last three years," the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported today.
About half the 800 superdelegates -- elected officials, party leaders, and others -- have committed to either Clinton or Obama, though they can change their minds until the convention.
Obama's political action committee has doled out more than $694,000 to superdelegates since 2005, the study found, and of the 81 who had announced their support for Obama, 34 had received donations totaling $228,000.
Clinton's political action committee has distributed about $195,000 to superdelegates, and only 13 of the 109 who had announced for her have received money, totaling about $95,000.</i>
As someone commented:
Obama gave 228K to 34 people that have announced for him. That's an average of over $6700 per person. And Hillary gave 95K to 13 of those who announced for her. That's over $7300 per person. Wow. I'd have to have at least ten grand to vote for either of those clowns.
I don't know what you call it, but in my book, I call it BRIBES. I hate to disillusion you young people--but ALL POLITICS is the same old same old--has been since the begining. Just as Samuel Tilden said in 1876 - "the Presidency will go to the highest bidder...might as well just throw hold a raffle and pick the candiates name from a hat to pick the winner."
After McCain was caught up in his own scandal of the "Keating Five". This is why he backed the McCain-Feingold bill. He has been careful of lobbyists since then.
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/campaignfinance/index.asp
">http://www.opensecrets.org/new...aignfinance/index.asp
</a>