This is a photo the fountains at the Bellagio Hotel. Despite the fact that Nevada relies heavily on Colorado River water and the dwindling Lake Mead, they continue to use water with reckless abandon. Go figure.
I read a post today by blog friend Nan Patience concerning the unrelenting demands for cash from the presidential campaigns. I feel her pain.
For a candidate of the people Obama, sure does need a lot of cash. Same for McCain. What ever happened to the people who wanted to clean up the system? Oh yeah, they got other people to stand in the sewage for them, so that they could claim the high road.
The fact is, that no matter your preference in this race, your guy is in bed with some sleazy folks, who know how to game the system. The moment we put limits on what campaigns could spend and how much we can give, the creeps came up with clever ways around it. 527s, unions, PACs and non-profits are piling hundreds of millions into this campaign in order to secure their influence in an Obama or McCain, but mostly Obama administration.
Like sheep, we go where we are led. Our ability to identify and be outraged by the crooks is limited by our biases. This list from Opensecrets.org, lists the top 527 groups and what they have collected and spent in order to get their guys elected.
When these shady groups are able to pour $20,000,000 each into influencing elections, we have reason to be afraid. Most of these organizations contribute 90% of their money to one party or the other. At the moment it is mostly Democrats getting the large bucks, but that is transient.
I had coffee with friends yesterday and a fellow happened by, stopping at our table. He was an Obama supporter, who was put off by Sarah Palins $150,000 wardrobe redo, paid for by the Republican party. Who does he thinks pays for Obama's suits? It is standard operating procedure in the slimy business of modern politics.
The federal treasury has become a giant ATM and the competition to make unlimited withdrawals is fierce. Is that cynical enough for you?
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
Oct 24, 2008
A guy up to his knees in mud is clean compared to the guy up to his knees in sewage--Merle Sneed
This is a photo the fountains at the Bellagio Hotel. Despite the fact that Nevada relies heavily on Colorado River water and the dwindling Lake Mead, they continue to use water with reckless abandon. Go figure.
I read a post today by blog friend Nan Patience concerning the unrelenting demands for cash from the presidential campaigns. I feel her pain.
For a candidate of the people Obama, sure does need a lot of cash. Same for McCain. What ever happened to the people who wanted to clean up the system? Oh yeah, they got other people to stand in the sewage for them, so that they could claim the high road.
The fact is, that no matter your preference in this race, your guy is in bed with some sleazy folks, who know how to game the system. The moment we put limits on what campaigns could spend and how much we can give, the creeps came up with clever ways around it. 527s, unions, PACs and non-profits are piling hundreds of millions into this campaign in order to secure their influence in an Obama or McCain, but mostly Obama administration.
Like sheep, we go where we are led. Our ability to identify and be outraged by the crooks is limited by our biases. This list from Opensecrets.org, lists the top 527 groups and what they have collected and spent in order to get their guys elected.
When these shady groups are able to pour $20,000,000 each into influencing elections, we have reason to be afraid. Most of these organizations contribute 90% of their money to one party or the other. At the moment it is mostly Democrats getting the large bucks, but that is transient.
I had coffee with friends yesterday and a fellow happened by, stopping at our table. He was an Obama supporter, who was put off by Sarah Palins $150,000 wardrobe redo, paid for by the Republican party. Who does he thinks pays for Obama's suits? It is standard operating procedure in the slimy business of modern politics.
The federal treasury has become a giant ATM and the competition to make unlimited withdrawals is fierce. Is that cynical enough for you?
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
This is a photo the fountains at the Bellagio Hotel. Despite the fact that Nevada relies heavily on Colorado River water and the dwindling Lake Mead, they continue to use water with reckless abandon. Go figure.
I read a post today by blog friend Nan Patience concerning the unrelenting demands for cash from the presidential campaigns. I feel her pain.
For a candidate of the people Obama, sure does need a lot of cash. Same for McCain. What ever happened to the people who wanted to clean up the system? Oh yeah, they got other people to stand in the sewage for them, so that they could claim the high road.
The fact is, that no matter your preference in this race, your guy is in bed with some sleazy folks, who know how to game the system. The moment we put limits on what campaigns could spend and how much we can give, the creeps came up with clever ways around it. 527s, unions, PACs and non-profits are piling hundreds of millions into this campaign in order to secure their influence in an Obama or McCain, but mostly Obama administration.
Like sheep, we go where we are led. Our ability to identify and be outraged by the crooks is limited by our biases. This list from Opensecrets.org, lists the top 527 groups and what they have collected and spent in order to get their guys elected.
When these shady groups are able to pour $20,000,000 each into influencing elections, we have reason to be afraid. Most of these organizations contribute 90% of their money to one party or the other. At the moment it is mostly Democrats getting the large bucks, but that is transient.
I had coffee with friends yesterday and a fellow happened by, stopping at our table. He was an Obama supporter, who was put off by Sarah Palins $150,000 wardrobe redo, paid for by the Republican party. Who does he thinks pays for Obama's suits? It is standard operating procedure in the slimy business of modern politics.
The federal treasury has become a giant ATM and the competition to make unlimited withdrawals is fierce. Is that cynical enough for you?
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
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8 comments:
Thank you, Merle.
Ross Perot!
It sure is a pretty fountain, though.
Politics tends to bring out the cynic in people.
Maybe they recycle the fountain water. Is that too much to hope for?
Ms Soup
This is the first time in my life I have ever gotten so irritated over an election...
I am soo mad at the main stream media...
they suck!
They have been so unfair to Palin/McCain...
it's sooo obvious they are in the tank for Obama....
I do NOT trust the MSM... period...
they have their own agenda.
the amount of money poured down the rat hole in u.s. elections is truly obscene and disgusting.
personally I think we need to abolish the two party system and embrace a system that will truly represent the interests of the PEOPLE....gotta stop, I feel a rant coming on.
I agree completely, Merle. Think of the good deeds that could be accomplished if you took all the advertising money from the campaign and donated it to good causes? Wow.
We live in a society dominated by advertising. Candidates used to go around and meet people, and they still do that, but they can't get all over the U.S. - it's just too big with too many people.
One good thing about the obscene advertising of Obama is that his face is being seen by many Americans, his voice is being heard. It gives people a chance to get used to the idea of this guy as their president.
But it is SO over the top. The Onion headline this week is: "Obama Purchases Ads on Side of McCain Campaign Bus."
Funny - and creepy.
...makes me want to run screaming into the night.
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