I like it. It's up-front (sort of). If you think that rich people weren't buying access to power before this, you're nuts. The art of politics is about 90% finding ways to suck money out of people who have it, and always has been. Abe Lincoln had rich political backers who expected access and got it.
Paul Constant is my hero today, for criticizing Obama's press secretary. Soon, he'll go ahead and hit the blocking sled against Jay Carney's warmongering, drone-humping, Wall-Street fellating boss.
Doesn't help that he's clearly reading from scripted response the entire damned time, and doing it about as well as a high school drama class understudy.
So the White House is saying that *they* aren't selling access to the president. They, the White House, is giving that access to OFA at no cost; they have scheduled a meeting between the President and the representatives of OFA without any money changing hands. The White House says that it is OFA who is selling participation in the meeting by allowing large donors to participate.
It takes a pretty sharp lawyer to slice the difference that thinly. The fact is that the White House knows that OFA is doing this and the White House's knowing acquiesence constitutes participation. They know that OFA is selling access to the president and they are not only endorsing it but participating in it. They aren't fooling anyone. This is not an arm's length transaction.
They're lowballing the fee. After all, we're living in a world $500K buys you less than 4 seconds of a Superbowl ad.
There's a limited number of people that Obama even has the time to see. I bet there's a waiting list even if you have money in hand. They should up the price. Screw the little people who can afford only $500K.
Is this the same press corps that barely covers all the money-drenched, glad-handing, influence peddling fundraisers that members of Congress spend more time in than they do actually WORKING in CONGRESS?
Give me a fucking break. The Washington Press Corps should all be put on ritalin and forced to spend 2 minutes reading a book for every minute they spend on Twitter.
@18 - On whose president's watch did the greatest downturn since the Great Depression happen? And which president waged a financially crippling war resulting in thousands of American casualties for a premise that turned out to be completely false?
Yours.
And whose president is pulling us out of this downturn - despite every effort of your half of Congress to tank the economy further so he wouldn't get reelected - as well as pulling us out of that pointless war?
What he meant to say is it's $50,000 -- that's right only fifty thousand to bend the President's ear. Discounts for groups. No problem.
Classic Obama: says one thing, does another.
@ 5 Wall Street flatting tell them to them they hate him. Look the man is is a centrist so the right and left wings will hate him.
It takes a pretty sharp lawyer to slice the difference that thinly. The fact is that the White House knows that OFA is doing this and the White House's knowing acquiesence constitutes participation. They know that OFA is selling access to the president and they are not only endorsing it but participating in it. They aren't fooling anyone. This is not an arm's length transaction.
There's a limited number of people that Obama even has the time to see. I bet there's a waiting list even if you have money in hand. They should up the price. Screw the little people who can afford only $500K.
fuck that shit.
he is YOUR president.
2012 was a tipping point.
there are two Americas and they shall not both survive.
the productive class is focused on protecting its families from the corruption and certain financial ruin of Obama's American't.
No.
he is YOUR president.
Give me a fucking break. The Washington Press Corps should all be put on ritalin and forced to spend 2 minutes reading a book for every minute they spend on Twitter.
Yours.
And whose president is pulling us out of this downturn - despite every effort of your half of Congress to tank the economy further so he wouldn't get reelected - as well as pulling us out of that pointless war?
Mine.
I'll own mine if you own yours.