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SamCooke Donating Member (406 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:14 AM
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Why do some idiots act like some company giving Obama 900,000$ is a lot of money?
The man raised a billion $ all together didn't he? DO they really think he would compromise himself for 900,000$ ?


Anyway this is the vid that got me thinking about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaIzrZg5cV8
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:16 AM
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1. $900,000? I PISS ON $900,000!
I wouldnt wipe a hobos ass with $900,000!
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SamCooke Donating Member (406 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:19 AM
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2. I mean its a lot of money for me and other regular people, I was speaking in regards to campaign
money
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:21 AM
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3. What's your point? nt
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:22 AM
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4. The enforcers will be around to get what they paid for . . . believe me . ..
Campaign Fund BRIBERY . . . is just that !
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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:24 AM
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5. OMG!!! THANK YOU for drawing attention to this video
as well as your lengthy dismissal of it as nothing but typical muckraking.

I applaud you sniffing this out for us. I am glad our fast reaction team is getting after controversies before they even happen so we can be all over it like white on rice.

Any Clinton-era fundraising dark waters are now seen as quaint when compared with the direct connections of Bush/Bin Ladens and Cheney/Halliburton and Condi/Chevron, etc. etc.

The one good thing about such rampant and excessive disgusting monetary incest with the Bush Crime Family is it's gonna take a lot more than a youtube video made by some crank in his basement to stir the population up much.
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EquallyExhausted Donating Member (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:26 AM
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6. people have made this same issue of industries/organizations that gave him far less
i don't get it either, but people seem to think that an amount as little as .015% (can't remember from where anymore) of what he raised in total is enough to buy a president. at a rate like that, there'd be individuals lining up to find ways to donate their entire year's earnings to get a president to do their bidding.
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lisa58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:28 AM
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7. 'cause it is...
....and politics is expensive....and most of us cannot imagine....but they do - and so they do.
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SamCooke Donating Member (406 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:34 AM
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8. Take away that 900,000$ and he still raised over a 1billion$ nt
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lisa58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 01:01 AM
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delete - apparent double-click
Edited on Thu Jun-04-09 01:03 AM by lisa58
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lisa58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 01:01 AM
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11. yeah, and if I had that $900,000 I could pay off my house and...
...make sure my nephews and grandchildren got to go to college.

It's a lot of money - it's less than more - but it's a lot.

It's not enough to take care of my disabled daughter - but I'm really hoping for a healthcare program that will keep her in mind.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:48 AM
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9. Its not the amount, its whether his actions are indicative that he knows they gave him $$
If theres no reciprocation, then theres no problem.
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DrToast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 12:57 AM
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10. That video is a straight up LIE
Edited on Thu Jun-04-09 01:08 AM by DrToast
That guy is embarrassing himself.

Goldman Sachs gave Obama exactly $0 dollars.

Employees donate money to candidates. Is this bozo suggesting that everyone else in the country is allowed to donate money to candidates, but if you work at an investment bank you shouldn't be allowed to?

By the way, the money he's talking about was part of the bailout under Bush. Obama had nothing to do with it.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 01:50 AM
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12. Why do some idiots act like some company giving Obama 900,000$ isn't a lot of money?
'cuz they're fucked up in the head, that's why.
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SamCooke Donating Member (406 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 02:08 AM
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13. PUMA
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PretzelWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 02:12 AM
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14. what is that supposed to mean?
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 03:10 AM
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16. I WAS a PUMA - accent on WAS. So fuckin' what? That was then, this is now. Get over it.
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DeltaLitProf Donating Member (459 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-04-09 02:32 AM
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15. That some company is Goldman Sachs
. . . who has been the biggest beneficiary yet of Obama's economic policies. As Cenk said in the video you linked to, it's an investment that paid off a hundredfold.

But chances are almost any Democrat running other than Kucinich would have gone with the same crew of bankers (Rubin, Geithner, Summers). And what other bank than Goldman Sachs has been left relatively intact?
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