" Just a bit more my fine students, just a bit more to go."
Posted on 02/14/2008 4:22:22 PM PST by weef
Many of the superdelegates who could well decide the Democratic presidential nominee have already been plied with campaign contributions by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a new study shows.
"While it would be unseemly for the candidates to hand out thousands of dollars to primary voters, or to the delegates pledged to represent the will of those voters, elected officials serving as superdelegates have received about $890,000 from Obama and Clinton in the form of campaign contributions over the last three years," the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reported today.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Hard to tell from the silence of that specially protected class, the MSM.
Paging Sen. McCain. Paging Sen. Feingold. Pick up the red courtesy phone. When you trashed the constitution you forgot about a loophole.
I don’t think they envisaged parties. Washington was definitely against the idea.
What you aren’t being told is that there are no limits to who (including foreigners) can give, nor any limits on how large the bribes can be to each super-delegate.
This article is just citing CRP, which is getting its meager info from what the Democratic Party campaigns are reporting...but Joe Sixpack and George Soros and the Chinese Communist Party aren’t required to disclose their own gifts to super-delegates...
Quick! We need campaign finance reform! John McCain will show us the way!
Pimping just ain’t same with the DNC-Pimpforce, is it?
How come those two can dole out what they want but I’m limited to $2300?
You aren’t limited in how much you can give to Democratic Party super-delegates...they’re exempt from all campaign finance restrictions, after all.
media crickets
Imagine being the final super delegate that Hillary needs to go over the top. Why, if you held out long enough you might get...shot in the head with a civil war era family heirloom that nobody knew about.
Maybe even if you don’t have blood that runs uphill.
How is bribing superdelegates legal under the McCain Feingold act?
" Just a bit more my fine students, just a bit more to go."
Amazing!
Our famed “conservative” Republican nominee sold our free speech down the toilet to protect incumbents and to get the dirty money out of politics.
And now this.
Just damn.
Obama has more smarts than we realized. He has given much more than Hillary. He maybe saw this superdelegate fight coming sooner than Hillary did.
do I really have to say it???
Who is surprised at this? They’re DEMOCRATS, for Pete’s sake!
Who says money can’t buy you love..
Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder where Barak Obama gets all the money?
BRIBERY!! Walkin’ ‘round money to ALL!! How much did the little punk 19 year old get??
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