All politicians need financial support. You use bought and then helped. Insinuations of corruptness. You remind me of the progressive do-gooders who rant and rave about the appearance of corruption to the point we now go after local pols for accepting tickets to sports venues or friggin meals at McDonalds.Pleeeeeeease !! I'm really not interested in this game of tag. I answered your questions. Mr. Obama was bought. He had many that put up the money to get him elected. All politicians are helped. All politicians owe favors. All politicians repay those favors. It's well publicized and noted. Free trips, kick-backs, etc. etc. etc.that was NOT the challenge. lying againI answered the challenge. Go back and read. I said that he didn't pay his own way to the oval office.You were challenged on statements you made. You went sophomoric and ignorant.Your silly immature name calling, and school yard mouth, really does nothing to support your argument. Why not try to discuss and debate in a civil and adult manner? Are you intelligent enough to have civil and adult conversations? Just curious.You're also revealed to be a loser loudmouth with nothing to back up your sophomoric rantings.
Any candidate you name had to work their way into the corridors of local party groups in order to get through the primary process. We have a party system. Join a party and get your ignorant lazy arse edumacated, Jethro
Lots of donors think they will get favors they do not. There are tons of examples where donors squawked as if a donation was supposed to be a quid pro quo (which is illegal).
People (also called lobbyists) will always WANT access and influence. That is NORMAL. It has been that way since the beginnings of government. That is not evil, it is human nature and it is how things work.
an interesting tidbit: a man named Michael Dukakis ran for Governor of Massachusetts and got elected on a platform of hiring the best, no lobbyists, no favors, clean government -- squeaky clean. The people threw his arse out 4 years later. Every single constituent group hated him. His opponent was exact opposite. Next time around Dukakis promised the world to everyone. He was beat the man who beat him last time. He made the Massachusetts Miracle -- we went into deep debt. It is what happens when people get what they want