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IowaGirl Donating Member (539 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:23 PM
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"Follow the Money"
Have you read this article at Savagepolitics.com? excerpt: “It appears top financial contributors to the Obama campaign are the same Wall Street companies whose mortgage lenders cheated the the elderly, the poor and especially African American’s under predatory loans.”
http://savagepolitics.com/?p=165#comments
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:25 PM
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1. hence his reluctance to cap the interest, mebbe?
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:46 PM
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2. barack is not a choir boy-people act like he's totally pure
and without prominent, $$ connections and backers. He could never have just strolled in and get this far without powerbrokers.
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libbygurl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 07:41 PM
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3. Exactly! I'm frustrated at the naivete (giving them benefit of doubt) of many who think....
...of him and his candidacy as pure and innocent, and he's come to save politics from the old style game of others - I keep saying, do you think someone like him from nowhere can rise this fast without big money and connections?

Oh, I forgot, it's all from his grassroots supporters, isn't it? Yeah, like they were there when he began his sprint to the presidency. Gimme a break, as Big Dog said.
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 08:43 PM
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4. people are naive, politics is a hard, dirty business - and
it is better to have a 'blank screen' (as Obama wrote of himself..?) so your powerbrokers can control you when you attain the WH. Hillary at least has a fighting spirit and will take people on--she is not a coward, she a real person not a 'screen'.
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LadyVT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-06-08 01:00 AM
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5. Up until January, his top contributors were Wall Street banking firms
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