Immanuel
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Supporting Romney
This bunch really scares me. Using the strength that comes with the office, something GWB would have NEVER done
Here's what happens when the president of the United States publicly targets a private citizen for the crime of supporting his opponent.
Frank VanderSloot is the CEO of Melaleuca Inc. The 63-year-old has run that wellness-products company for 26 years out of tiny Idaho Falls, Idaho. Last August, Mr. VanderSloot gave $1 million to Restore Our Future, the Super PAC that supports Mitt Romney.
Three weeks ago, an Obama campaign website, "Keeping GOP Honest," took the extraordinary step of publicly naming and assailing eight private citizens backing Mr. Romney. Titled "Behind the curtain: a brief history of Romney's donors," the post accused the eight of being "wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records." Mr. VanderSloot was one of the eight, smeared particularly as being "litigious, combative and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement."
Libs why do you support this guy?
Strassel: Trolling for Dirt on the President's List - WSJ.com
With no job creation
Spending to much for the public to support and 2 years wasted when we needed economic focus and not the first step towards the govt taking over totally the health care system
And now attacking American citizens whose only crime is they disagree with him. That is not good
Should I get my violin out now, or should I wait a few? Poor baby, Mr. VanderSloot doesn't like being outed for his major contribution? Awe, now isn't that a shame?
If a small donation is made to a candidate, I have no issue with it, and I would hope that most people could expect to have their names kept private under such circumstances. But when you decide to donate hundreds of thousands or millions to a Super Pac in an effort to sway the outcome of an election you damn well better believe you're going to be outed. I don't care which side you're on, I hate these Super Pacs and those who contribute to them. At no time has it been more obvious that certain individuals are trying to buy an election than when they personally donate massive sums of money to a Super Pac.
So then presumably you have the same problem with Bill Maher, Jeffrey Katzenberg and the SEIU, all million dollar donors to Obama's Super Pac.
Look, the problem with the President's official campaign naming these donors and then going on to describe their "less than reputable records" is the fact that as a sitting president he does have the power to impact both their personal and business lives in a way that a challenger does not. I think it's fine that large donors are "outed", but the President should not put himself in the position that there is an appearance that his enemies will pay the price for their constitutionally-protected free speech rights.
Actually, the one issue I have with this is can the ad be considered slander.
I mean if you are going to make the statement that these people are all, "litigious, combative and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement", you damned well better be able to prove it, or you have, in fact, committed slander.
Does the fact that this is on the political campaign trail exempt him from slander laws? I don't think it does or at least it shouldn't.
Immie