Special Interest Groups

To say that Obama was put over the top by special interest groups is a classic case of projection if ever I saw one!

McCain is surrounded by lobbyists of large corporations and for foreign governments, so who nominated him?

It may be true that Obama has tapped into some less orthodox money sources, such as MoveOn, but the latter is at least an advocacy group, not some corporation or foreign government with its hand out. It ain't gonna make money off the govt; McCain's allies do.

The GOP has a serious problem if they really think they can paint Obama with the special interests brush. Everyone in politics is probably affected by special interests, but Obama wasn't on the take from Savings and Loans; McCain was. And unions represent their workers; do the corporations for whom McCain is spokesman?

Democrats should push the argument hard: Republicans represent the CEO's who have paid themselves so outrageously, even when their companies are failing; if that isn't a special interest tell me another fairy tale!

by Douglas Smyth (17 articles, 4 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 55 comments) on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 1:08:27 PM
 

Conservatives

Conservatives and liberals elected Obama. Radical crooks opposed him.

by John Hanks (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1094 comments) on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 3:49:09 PM
 

Tax and spend?

Isn't taxing and spending better than borrowing and spending? 

by Ed Martin (116 articles, 0 quicklinks, 31 diaries, 133 comments) on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 3:52:51 PM
 

THOSE EVIL LIBERALS...not

Let's define "Liberal" and keep defining it everytime you hear, speak or post. Since the repubs RE-defined it to fit their agenda as they have done so many terms, we must get the accurate terminology out there.

I am a liberal. Liberal: Having, expressing or following political views or policies that favor civil liberties, democratic reforms and the use of gov't to promote social progress. I am a proud liberal. I am a moveOn member and damn proud of that as well. I am a member of media matters and damn proud of that.

You see, the repubs FEAR those groups because we have such high numbers of members and plenty of money backing. The repubs are far from "conservative". Conservatives don't want change and look at the change Bush has installed. He is Dictator now, congress has little power, the country has been turned over to the corporate class of elite, we went "global", the debt is higher than EVER in our history, and "exercising cautious restraint" is something NONE of them do or have been doing.

A real good example of a true conservative, would be the FLDS ppl. They are like Pilgrims when it comes to their life. They keep the clock back and don't progress.

It's the demonizing the repubs have done to the word Liberal and how they have defined all these other words or terms. Look them up, they are so off the mark with terminology, their followers are either sheep or very uneducated or maybe just too damn lazy to look up words.

I think Ann Coulter started the "godless liberal" crap and all these officials ran from the term, the cowards. Instead of defining it in front of the multitudes, they ran and scurried off to invent a new term for it,,,Progressives. I think Ann Coulter had a sex change and her panties are in a knot(going from briefs to panties has to be a challenge, huh, Annie?).

Obama's background is teaching constitutional law so I am sure he knows the term Liberal in definition. Is he all that liberal? I'm just not sure. Did the young ppl elect him and are they more Liberal than most, probably, yes.

by shirley reese (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 278 comments) on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 8:00:15 PM
 

Obama Liberal???

He sure seems cautious and conservative to me and also to quite a few republicans who are tired of the radical rightists masquerading as conservatives.  I'm tired of cowboys and hawks.

by macdon1 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 89 comments) on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 8:32:14 PM