free air time to Walker too... The Koch boys thought of everything...

We might see a stolen election, and lose the Senate.

It's hard to imagine but ... $$$$$$$$ is an issue

It's unfortunately now the American way. And when Obama's nut falls behind, instead saying, "hey we'll win w/out it", he suggests people opt out of their wedding gifts and suggest donations to his campaign instead.

Yes, Obama is certainly the only logical choice, but we should be careful with the whole pot meet kettle conundrum, imo.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/george-clooney-obama_n_1508850.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8334-503544_162-57459110-503544/obama-campaign-soliciting-birthday-wedding-gifts-in-fundraising-ploy/

I always look forward to those.

...by Kochs/KKKarl Rove/Adelson et al. thanks to Citizens United.

I'm sure the equivalency argument can be made and likely will be made, but not so sure it can be truthfully (equally for want of a better word) applied when we're discussing powerful, moneyed interests trying to buy themselves a government.

I think George Clooney probably has much less money than the Kochs. But I could be wrong.

I'm educated, smart, got the test scores and degrees (along with the student loans) to prove it. And out of the past 36 months, I've worked a total of maybe 9 months, all at or well below $10 an hour, and all temporary/seasonal/part-time. Getting tired of hearing about how people like me are dragging the economy down.

In my opinion, he's the most liberal person to have ever served in government. He was actually to the left of FDR and opposed him for being too conservative.

From Wikipedia:

The key planks of the Share The Wealth platform included:

1. No person would be allowed to accumulate a personal net worth of more than 300 times the average family fortune, which would limit personal assets to between $5 million and $8 million. A graduated capital levy tax would be assessed on all persons with a net worth exceeding $1 million.
2. Annual incomes would be limited to $1 million and inheritances would be capped at $5 million.
3. Every family was to be furnished with a homestead allowance of not less than one-third the average family wealth of the country. Every family was to be guaranteed an annual family income of at least $2,000 to $2,500, or not less than one-third of the average annual family income in the United States. Yearly income, however, cannot exceed more than 300 times the size of the average family income.
4. An old-age pension would be made available for all persons over 60.
5. To balance agricultural production, the government would preserve/store surplus goods, abolishing the practice of destroying surplus food and other necessities due to lack of purchasing power.
6. Veterans would be paid what they were owed (a pension and healthcare benefits).
7. Free education and training for all students to have equal opportunities in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions for training in the professions and vocations of life.
8. The raising of revenue and taxes for the support of this program was to come from the reduction of swollen fortunes from the top, as well as for the support of public works to give employment whenever there may be any slackening necessary in private enterprise.

Millionaires are sign of growth. Billionaires are a sign of decay.

They not only want to keep every bit of "their" stuff but now they want all of ours too and actually resent that we don't just turn it over to them.

That's why I'm a communist.

We are effected more then any other group. We have no disposable income. When OUR income goes down, or prices go up, WE feel it. Not our savings or retirement funds or our investments feeling it, WE feel it.

They would be completely beholden to them and would do any little thing they asked for.

America as fascist dictatorship.

That's exactly what we will become if Rmoney is successfully bought by these guys. And that's no over-dramatization or over-statement. We're almost that now but it's still reversible (maybe). But if Rmoney becomes their bought-and-paid-for stooge, we're done. And the United States will officially and irreversibly (at least in our or our children's lifetimes) be a true fascist dictatorship by every definition of the phrase.

The Kochs and the Adelsons and their ilk will be happy fat clams. The rest of us will be screwed to degrees we've not yet begun to imagine.

IMO, that's what's at stake here.

Oh yea we say that every election. I've seen such sentiments on DU before and I've been here since 2001 (previously under another name). But now, well, there's no turning back from a Romney "presidency". There will be no undoing insurmountable damage that would be piled on top of what GWB already did and which Obama has only begun to undo.

And there's the Supreme Court appointments to consider as well.

EDIT: I think we fully understand what's going on. All too well.

My impression is that first, when he was new, there was some naïveté so he trusted the 1% a little too much. Since then he's become more savvy but still he has to tread carefully because he needs some support from them in order to accomplish any of his goals.

The fact that many of the 1% focus on him as the devil incarnate means he's not their lacky no matter what our impressions of his policies are.

Or at least he thinks he does. I keep hoping the bankster criminals will be "hoisted upon their own petard" as the saying goes, with one of these seemingly endless scandals/criminal activities that keep surfacing. Derivatives, LIBOR, JPMorgan, etc.

And then there's Mittens and his tax evasion schemes. And the Kochs/Roves/Adelsons don't even bother trying to hide it anymore. Why should they since their criminal government purchase programs have essentially been legalized by a corporate clown court? Like Mittens said: "it's perfectly legal" - doesn't mean it's ethical or moral or that things should be done this way ie: just because you can doesn't mean you should.

But then we all know who writes the laws and runs things, don't we? The 1% - and it's all done for their own benefit.

There is no equivalent to Citizens United and the 4 to one spending going on for Republicans / Mittens - on the Dem side. There just isn't.