FTA: He's now lost a big part of the national spotlight to presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama, but he remains a formidable force on the fundraising circuit, mostly at private affairs closed to the media. His total so far this year is roughly $70 million.
The singularily least liked, most loathed, least respected POTUS in living memory and he's still pulling in the the deep pocket donors.
He's even beating his take last year of 66 plus million. Of course it is an election year but the bigger point here is this...
The fact that the GOP continues to exemplify the credo of early industialist robber barons who once sed "We, who own everything, should also run everything".
Continue to support these goons and you'll just end up getting more of the same. An increasingly unfair, unjust and rigged system of government where corruption and over-influence and cronyism are the rule and not the exception.
And they try and tag Obama an elitist cos he actually speaks english and not gibberish.
The GOP are easily the most elitist, the most blood-thirsty, the most socially divisive and morally regressive of the two parties.
Obama has over 2 million individual donors to his campaign. He's a true populist candidate.
The GOP can't match him there so they stick to pulling in a coupla whales here and there like the elitists they truly are.
They should be reduced to a shadow of their former selves after all the fuckups, crimes and misdemeanors of the BushCo regime but they still manage control a large mass of the LCD genpop with fear and misinformation on RW Radio, in email smears campaigns, not to mention their babyfactory Talibaptist contingent.
Feh. Wotever happens it should be fun to watch.
Be Well.
