Quote Originally Posted by Ozarks
Only in your mind.
My mind only sees real things, like orcs and elves and hobbits:stoned:



So it's only "special interests" if it's business/Conservative, talk about the typical liberal "double standard"
I'm hardly a hardcore lefty or anti-conservative (I vote conservative here btw). Pretty much my entire (extended) family is conservative in fact. I take ideologies from both sides and try to figure out the rest, personally.

I would have thought conservatives and liberals alike would agree that corporations in political pockets is a problem. Hollywood, evengelical Christians, and many more influence political ideologies. That's inevitable and representative of the population. Corporate sponsorship is far more problematic as their motivations aren't about left/right values, they're about profitting off biased legislation that affects workers, economy, environment, and free market.
You don't think right-wing/religious public figures are influencing votes the other way?

All the lefties supporting Obama have their own "special interests" thats who gave Obama 35 million dollars (so far)

What do you call "special interests" then? Millions of supporters donating their funds? Corporations? churches? Atlantians on a hidden island? Just the fact that money has been risen isn't necessarily pandering to special interests, unless you want to expand the term to anybody who supports their political ideology; and that covers fundraising for any politician.


So far all I see here is complaining that Obama supporters are publicly supporting Obama. Good God.... I'm much more worried about them taking payouts from corporations, political extremist groups, foreign governments, paramilitary organizations etc. Groups who's power, and competition, will be directly affected by government legislation, not just lefties getting their lefty legislation by their lefty governments (and vice versa).