"...done my part"? My part as a citizen concerned with good government is to avoid endorsing the money and media machine that the presidential race has become.
Do you object to individuals giving of themselves?
If your position is that candidates should not allow themselves to be swayed by special interests and lobbyists, and should not bypass election laws by prompting the formation of questionably legal 527s to boulster their floundering campaigns... I agree with you completely.
If, however, you would go farther, and discourage individuals from donating en masse to candidates who inspire them -- that is where you and I will part.
That is what these numbers are: individual donors, each of whom is privately contributing mostly small amounts of money (the average donation to the Obama campaign, from all sources, is just over $100) to the only candidate who was refused to take money from special interests, and refused to be beholden to those who have the funds to channel hundreds of thousands of dollars through loopholes in election laws
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Er, perhaps I should apologize. Re-reading that I think it came off a bit harsher than intended. I blame having just watched the debate and gotten annoyed with the, er, opposition. Sorry bout that.
I'm not sure what you would consider a practical course of action for someone opposed to domination of campaigns by the pocketbook to be. It does seem to me that that's one fight you'll never win from the outside.
That's where I was before posting comments from Thunderbird got a little glitchy. Yeah, maybe that was a bit reactionary. I apologize as well.
I'm not going to change the system; I accept that that's not happening. So I refuse to participate, and I feel it's wrong to project the point of view that the voters have a moral responsibility to the candidate above and beyond their vote.
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If your position is that candidates should not allow themselves to be swayed by special interests and lobbyists, and should not bypass election laws by prompting the formation of questionably legal 527s to boulster their floundering campaigns... I agree with you completely.
If, however, you would go farther, and discourage individuals from donating en masse to candidates who inspire them -- that is where you and I will part.
That is what these numbers are: individual donors, each of whom is privately contributing mostly small amounts of money (the average donation to the Obama campaign, from all sources, is just over $100) to the only candidate who was refused to take money from special interests, and refused to be beholden to those who have the funds to channel hundreds of thousands of dollars through loopholes in election laws ( ... )
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I'm not sure what you would consider a practical course of action for someone opposed to domination of campaigns by the pocketbook to be. It does seem to me that that's one fight you'll never win from the outside.
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That's where I was before posting comments from Thunderbird got a little glitchy. Yeah, maybe that was a bit reactionary. I apologize as well.
I'm not going to change the system; I accept that that's not happening. So I refuse to participate, and I feel it's wrong to project the point of view that the voters have a moral responsibility to the candidate above and beyond their vote.
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