"Remember the excitement for Obama when he was campaigning. People thought he was going to pay their rent for God's sake. Corporate money can't buy that kind of following."

Bwahahaha. You've got to be kidding. Where do you think Obama got a half billion from? My man outrasied johhny mac 3:1 on wall street (the masters of embezzelment), turned off the credit card verification system for donations on his webiste (the teenagers in Gaza running a phone bank for Palistineans to contribute to the Obama campaign). How much do you think George Soros gave him? $100 million? The Obama grassroots were a corporate media myth. Yea the progressives were all amped up, but thats only 20% of the population max. Not to mention the massive in-kind donations from the NYT Corporation, Washington Post Corporation, CBS Corp, ABC Corp, General Electric (NBC), et al. Obama is the quintessential corporate candidate.

That should be a huge clue why he doesn't like this decision, because it erodes his edge with the "permitted" corporations.

Originally posted by abefrohman.

There are plenty of safeguards to keep a corporation from running for office, the simples being the old definition of citizen argument.

Those "safeguards" that you're speaking of are the exact policies that are being revised by the Supreme Court to allow corporations to buy and sell our politicians like cattle.

Secondly, if there are any remaining "safeguards" that would prevent Corporations from attaining complete control over our politics, I would suspect that the same people who sold us up the river the first time around (The Supreme Court) could unanimously vote us up the river twice.

You have a happy way of viewing things and I suppose that is good, but in this case, you're being entirely too trusting and underestimating our government's motivation to attain wealth.

[edit on 29-1-2010 by EvolvedMinistry]

Wow. If this happens, and things get worse from here, and the average Joe isn't ready to go DO something about it, I'm just gonna leave the world behind. Why help a person or people who obviously don't wanna lift their lazy behinds to help themselves? Why should I sacrafice my happiness, success, well-being, and future for the equal well being of all other souls on earth when they SIT by and let these things happen? This IS a joke, but you know what, they just MIGHT pull it off. If they do, I'm DONE. I'm packing my bags, gathering all my # (water, food, supplies, guns/ammo) and I'm hitting the WILD. Wanna join a community based on love and equal treatment? Where we can build a safe, free, equal community of Love and Peace. U2U me. Everybody would rather be enslaved and comfortable than FREE and have to work hard.

Thanks and best of luck to you and everybody else.

Guys, this is clearly a joke. If you watch the video you'll pick up on it. Very tongue-in-cheek.

I said it before and people laughed, but I'll say it again.

ALL wars now are fought for McDonalds, Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobile, etc.

The corporations have been and still are funding ALL wars.

It's not about freedom. It's about setting up a McDonalds down the street to poison the people with fast food and unhealthy steroid infected beef.

It was not long ago when Wendy's was proved to use silicone instead of their mozzarella cheese.

I'm sure it's running as a Democrat.

Can this be real?

It sure seems to me as a bad joke. How could something like this be possible!?

What next? Computer AI is recognized as a real person and granted the same rights?

LOL this has to be a hoax.

I think this might be just what our elected leaders are looking for.

Zero accountability



[edit on 30-1-2010 by In nothing we trust]

Fantastic court system in the USA to let this slip through, but the corporations have been in the back pocket of the American political system since day one. Anyhow its still upto the people to vote them in last time i checked.

The every day American reads the headline: Supreme Court for Free Speech in Elections!

We read: Supreme Court Sells Out Entire Country.

If any of these corporations have shareholders there'll be a heck of a lot of birth certificates to check ...

We're gonna need more server space ... also Jim Beam.

[edit on 30 Jan 2010 by schrodingers dog]

I always love the part where the group of so called people that care get on and say they will move out to another country but never actually do... lol. Its quite funny I actually hold myself to one of em and if they do leave I reward myself with a shot of Absolute... but to no avail the posts always show and the location never changes.

More proof that people in America are without absolution or a clue.

We the sheeple right? that's the term? ... meh

Halliburton serving two terms as president has set a dangerous precedent I'm afraid.

Originally posted by Emerald The Paradigm
It was not long ago when Wendy's was proved to use silicone instead of their mozzarella cheese.

Actually, I believe it was Pizza Hut 'cheese.' Which some people attempted to debunk... But point taken.

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