Campaign finance
Gary Lukert Emporia
Originally published 10:00 a.m., July 5, 2008
Updated 10:00 a.m., July 5, 2008
I AM AMUSED at John McCain and the Republicans being upset that Barack Obama is not taking public campaign funds.
Republicans have never been in support of public financing, although they have taken public money for presidential runs the past however many years.
Sad to say, but the public funding is a paltry $84 Million. When running for president, that isn’t enough ... when you’re a Democrat running against the Republican Slime Machine Edge, with all of those talk shows emitting gutter hate. Also, the “Swift Boaters” who brought down John Kerry. America is better off with $10, $20, $50, $75 and $100 donations from millions of people. Republicans’ outrage of Obama’s private funding is PHONEY! As in Baloney! They apparently don’t believe McCain can match Obama.
Gary Lukert
Emporia
dalelinn (Dale Linn) says...
Who cares how these guys campaigns are financed. I just wish we had someone to vote for that might straighten things out. We have gone from the country with the greatest assets to the greatest debton nation that this world has ever seen. Our country is bankrupt, & we talk about how the Republicans (or Democrats for that matter) finance their campaigns. Get a life. Neither one of these candidates have or never will, for that matter, address something that will begin to bring our factories back, or get rid of the albatrosses (over regulation, high taxes, government intervention in all aspect of our lives, no control of our borders, and freedoms being lost every day). The controlled media has given us these two "never done anything to strengthen our nation's economy guys". How can anyone possibly get enthused over them? Ho hum, business as usual, nationalize things, give tax rebates, tax more, nationalize more (oh, did I already say that), and go deeper into debt.
. Sorry, I guess I got bored waiting for the public to wake up to the fact that we are neck deep in real trouble. Maybe we should discuss how we are going to finance our debt?
July 5, 2008 at 4:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
jayhawker (anonymous) says...
The Gazette has two, almost identical articles, on this subject in the same paper. Do you think that we figure out who they are in the tank with? Here is an entry on the other story's thread: The problem for Obama on this whole public finance matter is that it exposed him for what he is, and that is that he is just a politician, making decision based upon political gain, just like all of the others. The reason that this is such a problem for him is that, with media help, he has acquired rock star status (complete with women fainting at his rallies), maybe even Messiah status because he is the agent for CHANGE. Decisions like this point out that he is no different than the others, and that is not change. Rev. Wright said it best when asked how he felt when Obama threw him under the bus after 20 years of association, "Barak is just a politician." Women were not fainting for just a politician.
July 5, 2008 at 8:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bjnemp (anonymous) says...
Obama is just a politician; a slick one, but a slimy professional politician nonetheless. The man has never held a real job and has no track record to qualify him for president of the Optimist Club let alone President of the United States. He is a radical left-wing liberal with a wife who, by her own admission, is not proud of her country. He has not once offered sound solutions for any of our nation's problems because he doesn't have a clue. I'm sorry, but Reverend Wright's golden boy is a disaster looking for a place to happen. He is a self-proclaimed socialist who will wreck our economy, raise taxes to unprecedented levels, attack 2nd Amendent rights, open our borders to illegal immigrants and offer amnesty to those who are here, and endanger our national security. McCain isn't the perfect candidate, but he is honest, a proven patriot, and a FAR better choice than the liberal socialist Obama.
July 5, 2008 at 10:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )