Accepting contriutions is one thing. Letting them run your campaign and set policy for your campaign is another. McCain's campaign is largely led by lobbyists, who set policy for him.
None of these practices are illegal, but it sure bothers me a lot more having lobbyists on the campaign of a presidential candidate than it does having the candidate simply accept money. ---------- On Sep 15, 11:42 pm, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The whole practice of accepting campaign contributions is an exercise > in buying off politicians. How can you have possibly call the US a > democracy. It is a plutocracy. Buy a poly any one? Going cheap. > > On Sep 16, 3:20 pm, Gaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hmmmm... > > > I wonder if he is going to give all that money back? > > > And this is "New Politics"?!?!?!? > > > Funny, looks like Politics as usual for the Democrats. > > > On Sep 15, 7:48 pm, "d.b.baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [Q] - Open Secrets looks at the last 10 YEARS of campaign > > > contributions from FreddiMac and FannieMae, including their PACs. > > > Barack Obama has been the 2nd highest recipient, and he has only been > > > around for 4 years. Think of how much he would have taken if he had > > > been around for > > > 10:http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/09/update-fannie-mae-and-freddie...- > > > Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
