Posted on 01/21/2015 11:12:25 AM PST by jazusamo
A day after snubbing liberal activists who were pushing for tougher campaign-finance regulations, President Obama took a swipe at the Supreme Court Wednesday for its “wrong” ruling five years ago on the issue.
“Five years ago, a Supreme Court ruling allowed big companies – including foreign corporations – to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections,” Mr. Obama said in a statement. “The Citizens United decision was wrong, and it has caused real harm to our democracy.”
The president said it was time to “reverse” the trend of unlimited spending on political ads by third parties, but he offered no solutions.
“With each new campaign season, this dark money floods our airwaves with more and more political ads that pull our politics into the gutter,” Mr. Obama said. “Rather than bolster the power of lobbyists and special interests, Washington should lift up the voices of ordinary Americans and protect their democratic right to determine the direction of the country that we love.”
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“With each new campaign season, this dark money floods our airwaves with more and more political ads that pull our politics into the gutter,” Mr. Obama said. “Rather than bolster the power of lobbyists and special interests, Washington should lift up the voices of ordinary Americans and protect their democratic right to determine the direction of the country that we love.”
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What country does Obama love?
Amen...I wonder if this barb from BamBam might have had anything to do with Justices Scalia, Alito and Thomas not attending last night?
Funny, Not one word on Government workers UNIONS??
Please don’t give him an honorary title.
Anyone notice if any SCOTUS Justices were at the speech?
Justices Scalia, Alito, Thomas and Sotamayor were not in attendance.
” Justices Scalia, Alito and Thomas not attending last night?”
I’m proud of them. The ultimate snub : )
“Five years ago, a Supreme Court ruling allowed big companies – including foreign corporations – to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections,”
The solution is to allow individuals to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections.
Freedom of speech & press necessarily requires freedom to fund the press, as speech beyond voice range requires a press, and operating a press is not free.
I couldn’t agree more, especially good to see Alito join the other two.
One doesn’t show = must be sick
Two don’t show = aw, they are best friends.
THREE don’t show = Ruh Roh!
Correction...Sotamayor was there last night, she wasn’t there last year.
FUBO
Yep :-)
“**harm to our democracy**
A. We don’t have a democracy.”
We don’t have a Republic either. We have a dictatorship.
Well hell. Just write an Executive Order, President OTrauma.
You do for everything else.
Says the man who received untraceable foreign donations by way of the internet, with no penalties, in his campaigns, This was against campaign laws and certainly qualifies as “dark money.”
YEAH! All that fundraising is cutting into the “won’s” golf time.
He should be happy she showed up, even though she fell asleep.
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