Quote Originally Posted by senorx12562
Your implication is that no one who is rich, famous, or white can be an "ordinary american," whatever that is. Do you actually believe that? If you're talking about the guy who won Kennedy's old senate seat, the people of Mass. elected him for two reasons I believe: his opponent was an idiot (her campaign actually mis-spelled "Massachusetts" in her campaign materials, among other things), and his new constituents rightly saw him as the last chance for the people of this country to tell Congress to stop trying to ramrod this health-care reform bill through over the objections of most (check the polls) of your countrymen.

What troubles me the most is your bandying about of the term "treason." You should refrain from using terms you do not understand, and you clearly do not understand that one. A corporation is nothing more than an agglomeration of individuals seeking a common goal, in most cases profits. The vast majority of corporations are owned by individuals through stock ownership, so why should they not be able to speak as one voice, through money if necessary. You make accusations of treason, but obviously think that the first amendment is only applicable if you like the content of the speech. You should try to educate your self before you go making broad pronouncements of treason and election-rigging. Oh, and I don't know your definition of famous, but I had never heard of Senator Brown (or whatever his name is, I rest my case) prior to about a week before the election.
What I was implying by my question is that why is it always the rich white narrow minded dude that never worked for nothing in his life, the person that gets the opportunity to run? Why arenā??t low or middle class people that are open minded about life by the American struggle given a chance to run?

Treason: the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith; treachery.

A corporation is surely owned by people, but can you really trust people that care nothing more than to make profit?

Do you know the extent that they can go, they could just advertise their candidate 24/7 and bad mouth others. Did you ever see those commercials that criticized Obama that made him look like an evil person?

I consider this treason because they turned their back on us by taking away the chance people have over influencing a candidate, no longer can just a organized group have as much of an impact on a candidate than other much larger corporation that are money hungry.

Looking through history, itā??s not hard to find the frightening extent corporations have gone, why welcome them to more ways to corrupt...