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Who business is betting on (in 2008 Campaign)
CNN Money/Fortune Magazine ^ | June 25, 2007 | Nina Easton

Posted on 06/25/2007 10:34:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

One of Hillary Clinton's most important courtships began early last year, around a formal dinner table at Georgetown's Four Seasons Hotel. Her targets were Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack and his wife, Christy. Mack was already active politically - but on behalf of Clinton's political opponents. A Bush "Ranger," he had raised at least $200,000 for the President's reelection bid and was one of the most prominent business names on GOP donor lists. At one time his name had circulated as a potential Bush Treasury Secretary.

But these are strangely fluid political times, with long-held alliances shifting under the weight of an unpopular President, an unpopular war and no obvious White House heir on either side. Morgan Stanley chief administrative officer Thomas Nides, a former Clinton trade official and one of the Democratic Party's more astute strategists, understood the possibilities better than most. That's why he had invited the Macks to a fundraiser for Clinton's Senate reelection at his Washington home - and then completed the evening by taking the trio to dinner at the Four Seasons.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)

Senator Barack Obama, (D-IL)

Rudolph Giuliani, former Republican Mayor of New York City

Senator John McCain (R-AZ)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: businessvote; corporatism; election2008; electionpresident; elections; friendlyfascism; hillaryclinton

1 posted on 06/25/2007 10:34:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They make it sound like Mack is a new Hillary! convert, and that this meeting “last year” was instrumental in his decision to give to her campaign.

He’s been donating to her since 2005:

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=damcw&txtName=mack,%20john&txtState=NY&txtCand=clinton&txtAll=Y&Order=N


2 posted on 06/25/2007 10:52:55 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bill Clinton was the first President to openly associate himself with corporatism. Why shouldn’t the corporatists want Clinton II?


3 posted on 06/25/2007 10:53:44 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Business pay’s protection money in the form of “Campaign contributions” Just ask Bill Gates what happens to you if you refuse to play the game DC’s way when a Clinton is in the game. Business is just betting on who they expect to win. It has nothing to do with liking or agreeing with the person. It just a bribe. A way of telling DC, “Here now leave me alone”.
4 posted on 06/25/2007 10:54:14 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (If you will try being smarter, I will try being nicer.)
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To: oblomov
When did all the closet Marxists decide to pretend to be “Conservatives”?
5 posted on 06/25/2007 10:55:32 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (If you will try being smarter, I will try being nicer.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Since “You can trust the communist to be communists”AKA; THE BEGINNING; it’s inherent in Marxism to Lie, as is the same for Radical Islam.


6 posted on 06/25/2007 11:02:43 AM PDT by JSDude1 (Republicans if the don't beware ARE the new WHIGS! (all empty hairpieces..) :).)
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To: MNJohnnie

Heh. Corporatism is more pernicious than socialism, since it looks like capitalism, but without the limits on state power that are respected under a constitutional government.

Maybe you disagree- if so, that’s OK with me.

Since when did conservatism become a de rigeur ideology like socialism or liberalism?


7 posted on 06/25/2007 11:10:35 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: MNJohnnie

Are you implying corporations bribe? That’s impossible. Cuz if you listen to those at FR corporations are infallible and perfect beings. Capable of being the Messiah almost.


8 posted on 06/25/2007 11:13:08 AM PDT by JackDanielsOldNo7 (On guard until the seal is broken)
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To: MNJohnnie
Business pay’s protection money in the form of “Campaign contributions”

Especially with The Witch, because they know how vindictive and vicious she would be if she ever got in.

9 posted on 06/25/2007 11:30:25 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: So Cal Rocket
He’s been donating to her since 2005.

It's CNN, they never tell the truth when a lie is so much more convenient.

I'm still trying to figure out what constitutes a "popular war"...songs with lyrics about how great it is to carpet bomb groups of people who will other wise kill you? T-shirts? Arab terrorists are real big on war, with their Binny T-shirts. In other words, war is and should be popular only to psychotic murderers...you know, the animals CNN supports.

10 posted on 06/25/2007 11:34:59 AM PDT by cake_crumb (May I never live to see the day America has a 'popular war'. God bless our troops.)
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To: MNJohnnie

I don’t think so.

The first comment in the article from Hitlery, is her saying corporations cannot control healthcare costs.

I think she has promised them that nationalised healthcare will happen if she is elected and employers will be off the hook for that unknown and growing future cost.

I, personally, think employers SHOULD be relieved of providing health insurance, but not by shifting that cost to the taxpayer. Republican candidates need to start vocally addressing the issue and pressing for individual choice in health insurance and a fixed tax deduction that encourages people to choose insurance plans with higher-deductibles but lower premiums. Something like what Bush proposed, except now they have to disassociate Bush from it.

As long as health insurance is provided as tax-free compensation from employers, as it currently is, the free-market can’t work. If employers gave the employees the cash they are currently spending on insurance, and let the employee decide what kind of health insurance was appropriate for them, the free market would then push down healthcare costs.


11 posted on 06/25/2007 3:39:52 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (Liberals aren't atheists. They worship government -- including human sacrifices.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is hard to believe business doesn’t run for the exits when Hillary says things like she has about grabbing profits from the oil companies.

If I ran a business, I’d be asking what was so special about oil companies, and when my own profits would become a special target.


12 posted on 06/25/2007 3:42:03 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (Liberals aren't atheists. They worship government -- including human sacrifices.)
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To: Kellis91789

Well, when they came for the Jews, I said nothing, because I was not a Jew.


13 posted on 06/25/2007 6:43:02 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (Bush's Legacy: 100 million new Dem voters in next 20 yrs via the 2007 Amnesty Act.)
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To: MNJohnnie
Business pay’s protection money in the form of “Campaign contributions” Just ask Bill Gates what happens to you if you refuse to play the game DC’s way when a Clinton is in the game. Business is just betting on who they expect to win. It has nothing to do with liking or agreeing with the person. It just a bribe. A way of telling DC, “Here now leave me alone”.

That's true sometimes. Sometimes not. Some big investment banker, and it may well be the Morgan Stanley chap I'm thinking of, is going far beyond a token donation; he issued an endorsement and is campaigning rather vigorously for the SheDevil.

Also, there's no way anyone is "placing bets" because a clear favorite has emerged, not at this point.

Unfortunately, there are plenty corporations out there willing to strongly take the liberal side. Google and Starbucks come to mind, but they're the tip of the iceberg. Sad.

MM (in TX)

14 posted on 06/26/2007 10:22:55 AM PDT by MississippiMan (Behold now behemoth...he moves his tail like a cedar. Job 40:17)
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