Who Owns Obama?

Show me whose hand you eat from, and I'll show you whose song you sing.

That's the proverb that comes to mind when looking at Barack Obama's recent and not-so-recent flip-flops on everything from publicly financed elections to the recent FISA bill legalizing warrantless wiretapping and email snooping by the government. The bill also gives companies like Verizon that cooperated with the Bush administration's illegal wiretapping after 9/11 immunity from lawsuits.

In Obama's announcement that he would opt out of the system of public financing, he claimed that the system "is broken" because of loopholes that McCain has exploited to raise money from lobbyists and special interest groups. With public financing, Obama would have received $84 million in taxpayer money, gained from the $3 check-off on federal tax returns, which he could spend starting at the close of the Democratic Party's convention until election day.

To deflect criticism of Obama's flip-flop on the issue, apologists for Obama and the candidate himself have made much of the fact that 45 percent of his money comes from small donors (defined as those who donate $200 or less). He claims that these small donors "will have as much access and influence over the course and direction of our campaign that has traditionally been reserved for the wealthy and the powerful."

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Who Owns Obama?

Obama has raised $374 million dollars, 96% of it from individual donors. His is the largest grassroots campaign in American history.

That is why the monied interests are fighting with all their might to defeat him.

Summary data for Barack Obama | OpenSecrets

And he still can't put this election away.

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Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. -General Douglas Macarthur

It's a long way to November, my friend.

And he's made zero headway.

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Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. -General Douglas Macarthur

Even when the media is in his back pocket.

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“The living of one protective principle of the gospel is better than a thousand compensatory government programs—which programs are, so often, like ‘straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic.’ ” Neal A Maxwell

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature." -ETB

FoxNews and talk radio are in his back pocket?