Well, it looks like I missed one good thing in the State of the Union. Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito called Mr. Obama a liar after Mr. Obama claimed that the Court had overturned 100 years of precedent with the decision in the Citizens United v. FEC.
Video from Politico here:
One problem I noticed about Mr. Obama’s speech was his claim that corporate money would control elections with this Court decision. Just how did Mr. Obama fund his last campaign? I would assume a good portion of his hundred of millions came from the very place he is criminalizing with his rhetoric.
Every penny was from individuals.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
The “other” is transfers from other campaign accounts, all of which also came from individuals. In fact, Obama is the first candidate in recent memory to turn down public money for his campaign. Compare that to John McCain who robbed $84 million from the public purse for his campaign.
So you are honestly suggesting that not one single business donated a cent to Obama in 2008?
Considering that it’s absolutely and completely illegal (until last week)? Yes, I am suggesting that.
Not only that, every penny he raises has to be reported and was thoroughly investigated by the McCain campaign which wanted to catch him doing something wrong. Don’t recall them finding squat.
So, not a single business CEO made a donation? Which would be money from the profit of a business? It’s an indirect way to move money from the business into the campaign account. You must be seriously uneducated in campaign finance techniques to not know the simple loop holes that exist to move money around.
Wow that is dumb. You are suggesting that unless you work for yourself or the government, when you give your private funds, it’s actually corporations donating money? When the Janitor at GE sends a candidate $5, thats actually GE contributing the money? Are you joking?
I never said anything about the janitor. I asked, which you cleverly chose to not respond to, how many corporate CEO’s made donations? If the CEO of a corporation, for example the CEO of GE, endorses a candidate, isn’t that almost a near explicit endorsement from the company itself? For instance, how many people do you honestly think believe that GE isn’t in the bag for the Obama administration?