president obama has been making speeches attacking the "special interests" funding this election. this is code for the us chamber of commerce and others funding political advertising and the Citizens United supreme court decision opening up corporate spending. the nastier version implies that "foreign" money is being spent. the chamber says it segregates domestic vs. foreign money. does the SEIU? a union where the I stands for international.
now i realize nerve or chutzpah is not in short supply in the democratic party, but its rather amazing for a party totally in the economic thrall of union and trial lawyer money to decry the us chamber of commerce for weighing in also
its ugly and expensive out there. the vicious ads of jerry brown vs meg whitman; carly vs barbara. the only winners are the media companies but what the hell, their stocks will go up
ps, read michael milkings wsj op ed for some clear thinking on how to get this country back to what it could and should be
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