Candidates for Sale

Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi | Aug. 10, 2008 (Opinion)

The truth is that the campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain are being inundated with cash from more or less exactly the same gorgons of the corporate scene. From Wall Street to the Big Oil powerhouses to the military-industrial complex, America's fat-cat business leaders know that the Animal House-style party of the last eight years that made almost all of them rich with bonuses, government contracts and bubble profits is about to come to an end, ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The article raises most serious questions of whether we will have a democracy or a government of, by, and for the rich. Taibbi is perhaps correct in that this is how the system is, but brings in no opinions of how to fix the system The avenue of publicly financed elections has potential to reduce the problem. Taibbi mentions the effective neutering of the federal elections commission, implying that needs to be repaired eventually, even if it is too late for being effective in this election. He does not formulate the problem that anybody who runs for president and fails to pimp for big dollars will lose the election, given the other candidate successfully pimps for big dollars. Here, Darwin favors pimps for president.

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