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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It's funny, but Josh Barro is registered with some of the speaker bureaus, and he's an active journalist not an out of office former-President. But he doesn't see the conflicts there apparently....
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I'm replying to GGG instead of TM, Ty, or Young Adder because (a) the recent posts on The Soft Corruption of Barry O from all y'all are too long, and (b) I'm too lazy to go back to find the original and shorter version of your respective positions.
I'm with TM and GGG (and Young Adder, IIRC) on this one. There's an element on the left side of of the Democratic Party (yes, Bernie is not a member of the party, but whatever, suck it, pendants) who always pisses and moans that centrists and moderates (a/k/a every Democrat who won the presidency since FDR) are just a form of GOP Lite. Beholden to the special interests. Captured by Wall Steet or the Establishment. Jimmy Carter sells out and puts a Fortune 100 CEO in his cabinet! Can you believe that Bill Clinton appointed Rubin and Summers and, oh yeah, an actual Republican! Obama rolled over for Goldman and JP Morgan during the financial crisis!
So, predictably, Obama gets slammed by the party's left for taking money from the enemy, and the non-leftist wise women/men in the party, along with a good chunk of opinion writers for the MSM and the New MSM tut about "the optics" of it. Chin in hand, they state with profound seriousness that it is unseemly of Obama to take the money, and even if it weren't, it was foolish because it somehow "allows" the GOP to attack him and the Democratic Party itself.
Bullshit. The GOP will attack on anything and everything, and to imply that they wouldn't be on the attack on the issue of big business conspiring with big government is naive at best.
