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President Obama on Super PACs: We Will Not Play by Two Sets of Rules

Seeded on Tue Feb 7, 2012 4:36 PM EST
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This is rather unfortunate, but what other choice does Obama have? If he doesn’t deploy his own Super PACs (while never actually coordinating with them, wink), the gargantuan amounts of money the Republicans will throw into the race would give them an overwhelming advantage: We Will Not Play by Two Sets of Rules — Blog — Barack Obama.

The President opposed the Citizens United decision. He understood that with the dramatic growth in opportunities to raise and spend unlimited special-interest money, we would see new strategies to hide it from public view. He continues to support a law to force full disclosure of all funding intended to influence our elections, a reform that was blocked in 2010 by a unanimous Republican filibuster in the U.S. Senate. And the President favors action—by constitutional amendment, if necessary—to place reasonable limits on all such spending.

 

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With so much at stake, we can’t allow for two sets of rules in this election whereby the Republican nominee is the beneficiary of unlimited spending and Democrats unilaterally disarm.

Therefore, the campaign has decided to do what we can, consistent with the law, to support Priorities USA in its effort to counter the weight of the GOP Super PAC. We will do so only in the knowledge and with the expectation that all of its donations will be fully disclosed as required by law to the Federal Election Commission.

There’s nothing else he can do. The Citizens United decision launched a political arms race among super-wealthy donors, to see who could control the US political system by writing the biggest check.

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Reply#1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 4:36 PM EST
hard2port

Finally. I've been advocating this for years and years. To effectively deal with this vermin you have to stoop to their level. It's like war, there are no rules, sad but true.

Citizens United will make corporations and the ultra-wealthy waste their money on RWNJ candidates and then also require the realists and pragmatists, that can now begin to read the writing on the wall, to hedge their bets by writing big checks for Democratic Party Super-PAC's in consideration of the inevitable outcome of the general elections in November.

Ego overrules common sense for candidates in the teapublican primaries and this will cost their backers large amounts of cash. Large donors to Super-PAC's may be a secret kept from the average voter, but they are well known to the people that accept the checks.

The American economic recovery will yield big contracts in the near future. Why do you think the rightwing has been stalling it for so long? They want more than anything to take credit for it as well as receive the graft involved with the awarding of all the no-bid contracts, rigged bidding, and chrony contracts that have rewarded their cadre of corporate supporters for decades and decades.

As soon as the general corporate consensus about the winning prospects of teapublicans in house, senate, and the white house is reached, astute business minds will soon forsake past political affiliations for a ticket on that gravy train. Teapublicans love money more than they will ever love each other, and business is business.

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#1.1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 6:03 PM EST
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PoliticoMan-1635309

When you see how Romney is out spending his competitors in an effort to buy the nomination, the President would be an idiot not to engage Romney on the same playing field.... Romney is willing to say and do anything to win and as Newt said, you can't unilaterally disarm when dealing with Romney...

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Reply#2 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 4:45 PM EST
jwc2blue

Considering that the Teapublicans simply try to legislate away the rules that they don't like, I can't fault Obama at all.

Just look at all the effort the Fright Wing is putting into combating "voter fraud" which is about as real a WMD's in Iraq!.

Don't you worry about passing an actual jobs bill, Teahadists! Obama's doing alright without you!

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Reply#3 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 5:18 PM EST
Joe-4296906

Wow, going on national TV and stooping to a level of un-American slander in front of a nation of different generations to give the illusion that this type of behavior is OK? If we continue to do things that destroy our morality on what's right is going to have a much bigger negative effect on the youth learning how to compete at any level of deception. I think it's a step in the wrong direction for a nation that is trying to grow out of the cloud of twisted truth that deception has built causing uncertainty to divide a nation. America has been down that road and we have been trying to change that direction and regain our country through sharing truth to allow better decisions and not a pissing contest that takes America back to putting on a show rather then an a chance to present a better direction for America. More evidence for the need of a third party. Don't make the mistake of thinking that making sacrifices on the qualities that makes right wrong is OK, because that's how what's right disappears and the further destruction of what America stood for will continue to errode

    Reply#4 - Wed Feb 8, 2012 12:08 PM EST
    PoliticoMan-1635309

    Well, Joe, the President isn't taking your advice, nor should he.... As far as third parties are concerned, there are plenty of them out there, they are not part of our political fabric nor will they ever be as long as they produce candidates who has no serious chance of winning an election because serious voters know, elections have consequences....

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    Reply#5 - Wed Feb 8, 2012 7:53 PM EST
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