02-18-2012, 01:43 AM
Not just because the president can get away with sh!t like this, but because everyone in the biz does it and gets away with it.
Editorial:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...sfeed=true
When Obama's re-election campaign announced that it would begin to play nice with Super Pacs – independent groups that can raise unlimited cash in support of a political candidate – many of Obama's progressive supporters cried foul. Agreeing to send senior level administration and campaign officials to fundraising events for the pro-Obama Super Pac, Priorities USA, it seemed, was yet more evidence of Obama's willingness to sacrifice principle for pragmatic gain. And not just any principle – arguably, the principle that undergirded Obama's candidacy in 2008 and his first term as president: a determination to clean up Washington.
I'm as appalled as anyone by the degree to which money rules the American electoral process, but I was neither surprised nor disappointed by Obama's move.
My first reaction was that politics is war and the move was a tactical necessity – that, in the words of Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, refusing to cooperate with Super Pacs would have been "unilateral disarmament"...
Thanks for nothing, SCOTUS.
Editorial:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...sfeed=true
When Obama's re-election campaign announced that it would begin to play nice with Super Pacs – independent groups that can raise unlimited cash in support of a political candidate – many of Obama's progressive supporters cried foul. Agreeing to send senior level administration and campaign officials to fundraising events for the pro-Obama Super Pac, Priorities USA, it seemed, was yet more evidence of Obama's willingness to sacrifice principle for pragmatic gain. And not just any principle – arguably, the principle that undergirded Obama's candidacy in 2008 and his first term as president: a determination to clean up Washington.
I'm as appalled as anyone by the degree to which money rules the American electoral process, but I was neither surprised nor disappointed by Obama's move.
My first reaction was that politics is war and the move was a tactical necessity – that, in the words of Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, refusing to cooperate with Super Pacs would have been "unilateral disarmament"...
Thanks for nothing, SCOTUS.