I do believe that Obama will keep pushing for campaign finance reform. The reason? He ends up better off for it. Obama has some serious high dollar backers, no doubt, but in a world of totally unfettered money from individuals and corporations, the current climate is going to benefit Republicans more than Democrats. They have more uber-rich backers than the D's do. Obama, however, has a really good ground game and does a really good job pulling in small dollar donors. So if a combination of Congress and the Judiciary is able to get campaign finance rules in place to get the big money largely out of the system, it is a (short term) advantage to Democrats. So that's why I expect him to push it. Has nothing to do with hypocrisy or altruism, it has to do with self-interest.
Long-term, of course, I don't know who real campaign finance reform would benefit most. Ideally, it would weaken the two-party system and transform the political system into something a bit more egalitarian. Would it? Can't say. Judah On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Of similar note: > > > Tavis Smiley: Obama 'One Of The Worst Hypocrites' On SuperPAC Contributions > > TAVIS SMILEY: And so now the President is playing this Super PAC game. So > when you suggest that first we win, and then we change it, suggests to me > that you believe in your heart that once Obama wins hes going to be > serious about campaign finance reform. > > But now, hes one of the worst hypocrites respectfully, if I can say that, > one of the worst hypocrites in the country is he now on campaign finance > reform and you think that once he wins hes going to get serious about > changing the system that he just benefited from? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jxZKn8RwNzA > > J > > > - > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Does it matter? Between the unions, Hollywood, Soros and GE Obama's >> going to spend a $billion. Even Romney won't be able to keep up. >> >> . >> >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > It should be everyone's right to be able to get the best politician >> > that money can buy. After all Corporations are People and Money is >> > Speech. >> > >> > http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74068.html >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348771 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
