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WSJ: Obama Mulling Corporate Donations for Inauguration
Newsmax ^ | Friday, 23 Nov 2012 10:17 PM | Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 11/23/2012 9:54:33 PM PST by Olog-hai

President Barack Obama’s advisors say the White House should accept corporate donations for his inauguration celebration in January, rather than hit up donors who underwrote his $1 billion campaign.

Four years ago, Obama barred corporations from donating, in a bid to show he would not be beholden to big business. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
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1 posted on 11/23/2012 9:54:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I’d like to see this. I’ve never actually seen someone mull before. I’ll bet it’s hilarious if Barry Benghazi is doing it.


2 posted on 11/23/2012 9:56:52 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Criminal defense lawyers won't have the Twinkie to kick around anymore.)
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To: Olog-hai

Mulling........ definition, extorting or we will destroy you


3 posted on 11/24/2012 4:27:28 AM PST by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: ronnie raygun

It would be nice to have a list of corps that would even consider ponying up “donations”. That way I could at least try not to do direct business with them or their subsidiaries. And, isn’t the name changing to “coronation”?

Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.


4 posted on 11/24/2012 5:08:04 AM PST by rktman
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To: Olog-hai

He is giving us a ready-made boycott list. Thank you 0.


5 posted on 11/24/2012 5:16:20 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag
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To: Olog-hai

National Socialism.


6 posted on 11/24/2012 5:31:24 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (*Too many* damned conservatives in the GOP primaries split the vote for Romney. We are SO retarded!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

He must have been mulling while he was golfing yesterday.

Yes, he was really golfing whilst Moochelle and the darlings opened the WH doors for their MaoTree delivery.


7 posted on 11/24/2012 5:34:15 AM PST by dforest
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To: Olog-hai

I suspect he needs a teleprompter to mull.


8 posted on 11/24/2012 6:53:48 AM PST by Marathoner 244
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To: ronnie raygun

ronnie raygun~:” Mulling........ definition, extorting or we will destroy you”

Remember that elections have consequences,..
and re-elections have re-consequences in a Statist regieme !
( Inferring that you may contribute or we will harass you ,
or take over your business.)

How’s that “hopey - changey “ thing working out for you ?


9 posted on 11/24/2012 7:25:04 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt ("You can kill a free man,.. you can't enslave him." -Robert Anson Heinlein)
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