Obama is the 1%

"The New York Times identified at least 15 major fund-raisers for the Obama campaign who have been involved in different aspects of the lobbying and influence industry, representing a range of corporate interests from telecommunications and high-tech software to Wall Street finance, international commerce and pharmaceuticals."

Obama promised during his last campaign (if any of you remember that far back) not to take money from lobbyists and not to hire any lobbyist to work in his administration.  Of course, the latter promise was quickly broken when he asked for exemptions for some of his appointees.  For any of you who think that because this blog is primarily, and negatively, focussed on Republicans and their Teabag affiliates, that, by elimination or otherwise, it supports Obama and his administration, you're wrong.  Obama is certainly no worse than the Republicans, and probably a bit better.   But certainly we deserve better than "a bit."

I'm waiting and hoping, not blindly I hope, for a third-party candidate to announce himself or herself (and I prefer herself--it's time we joined the rest of the modern world and had a woman president) as a candidate in the forthcoming election.  If you're tired of Frick and Frack dominating the political scene, than join me in reviewing Americans Elect, an organization that proposes to nominate a third-party candidate online, one it claims won't be affiliated with either the Democrats or Republicans.

Do I believe that?  Not really--but I've lost a great deal of my optimism after the "Yes we can" candidate added "for corporations only."  For those who go back as far as I do, Obama is about where the Republicans were in the 1970's, more actually to the right of a Jacob Javits or even, God forbid, the devil himself, Richard Nixon.  I'm too old--and tired--to occupy Wall St. but I have sufficient energy to get excited and work for any candidate who believes we deserve better than what the Democrats and Republicans have wrought in Washington.  Make your own judgment:

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