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The biggest myth of the 2012 campaign? The idea that millionaire and billionaire Republican's are trying to "buy the Presidency" for rich Romney and pals and the right wing special interest verses the pure and well meaning Left wing defenders of the middle class. The truth? Millionaires and billionaires and self interested corrupt cronies abound, on both sides.
http://freebeacon.com/the-biggest-myth-of-2012/
Links and proof abound via the original link above. Below is just a taste...
And on and on and on the article goes (read more at your own leisure), from a plethora of union cronies and goons, Hollywood, utility giants and all the usual suspects. Rub elbows with the rich and famous and powerful in the Obama administration and collect your rewards be they jobs, government grants, White House access and all the rest.
From "hope and change" to "same as it ever was" at the speed of giant electronic money transfer to team Obama. What? You thought he was different?
http://freebeacon.com/the-biggest-myth-of-2012/
This foundational ideathat Republicans act out of self-interest while Democrats act out of the public interestis the keystone to the self-conceptualization and self-idealization of your everyday Democrat. Its simplistic and bogus. And it is the biggest myth of campaign 2012.
Take for example the left-wing activist Jane Mayers latest article in the New Yorker, Schmooze or Lose,
Can Obama Win Over the Billionaires? : The New Yorker
This is a question that Schmooze or Lose does not even try to answer. Instead Mayer turns to a frustrated Obama fund-raiser who tells her, Unlike Republicans, liberals have no business interest being furthered by the donationthey just like to be involved.
Links and proof abound via the original link above. Below is just a taste...
... a June fundraiser organized by billionaire investor Marc Lasry, whose financial support for Obama in 2012 must be totally unrelated to the fact that the White House was kind enough to give a prestigious job to one of his sons (a detail that is of course left out by Mayer); and whose email solicitation to his fellow superrich liberals dangled the possibility that a $35,000 donation would buy a chance to ride in the presidential motorcade.
Tom Perriello, a former Democratic congressman from Virginia who was defeated in 2010 after a flood of outside conservative spending in his districthe was trounced 51 percent to 47 percent by Rep. Robert Hurt even after President Obama intervened in the racetells Mayer, from his perch at the secretly funded Center for American Progress, that Oil, coal, and chemical companies have billions at stake, which is why these industries contribute so much money to campaigns. Not mentioned by Mayer is the identity of the largest recipient of donations from energy giant BP in the 2008 cycle: Barack Obama. Not mentioned by Mayer are the billionaire board members of Periellos organization, such as Tom Steyer, who have made millions off of investments in the clean energy firms for which the Center for American Progress so lustily flacks.
These solar, wind, ethanol, and electric car companies are almost entirely dependent on government subsidies and mandates for their very existence, and have received billions of dollars in taxpayer-financed loans since Obama became president. One investor in such enterprises is George Kaiser, an Obama bundler involved in the failed solar panel manufacturer Solyndra who discussed the company in one of his visits to the White House. His name does not appear in Mayers article. Nor does the name Peter Schweizer, who reports in his classic exposé Throw Them All Out that more than 70 percent of loans issued by the Department of Energy under Obama went to companies with ties to Democratic bundlers and donors.
And on and on and on the article goes (read more at your own leisure), from a plethora of union cronies and goons, Hollywood, utility giants and all the usual suspects. Rub elbows with the rich and famous and powerful in the Obama administration and collect your rewards be they jobs, government grants, White House access and all the rest.
From "hope and change" to "same as it ever was" at the speed of giant electronic money transfer to team Obama. What? You thought he was different?