The Supreme Court recently overturned the so-called millionaire campaign finance law which placed dollar limits on candidates' contribution to their own campaigns. While Bill O'Reilly and conservative pundits don't seem to object to this decision, Mr. Bill (Desert Sun, June 29)thinks it unfair that Obama, who has millions of $10 donors, will have more campaign cash than McCain.
It seems the First Amendment protects, as "speech," anti-social, undemocratic spending; fat cat cash is speech. The court must have 1) eaten some kind of mushroom, 2) asked Alice when she's ten feet tall, 3) shared the same audio hallucination, and 4) heard money talk. Does money talk backwards like the white knight?
Bottom line for Bill and his fellow conservatives: big money is protected speech, fair and square, but grass roots, $10 donors somehow cheat the system. Oh! I've got to run, George Washington's miffed that he's worth $99 less than Ben Franklin.
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America has the best politicians money can buy. Perhaps this says something about the limitations of money?
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