Monday, January 25, 2010

It depends on which corporations are doing the donatin'

The Corner - National Review Online:
"Now, stung by the Massachusetts rebuke, Obama apparently has begun his makeover with a rhetorical assault against the Court's campaign-donation decision, as if he were a sort of 'Fighting Bob' Lafollette in hot pursuit of 'fat cat' bankers.

Sorry, this is transparently manufactured. Let me repeat: No presidential candidate did more to destroy the idea of public campaign financing than Barack Obama, who set a record in private donations from Wall Street, ended a three-decade-long bipartisan tradition of curbing presidential campaign expenditures, and, once elected, proceeded to nominate a number of Wall Street insiders."
Not to mention, this and other stories over the years demonstrate that the Dems rely on big donors more than does the GOP.

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