Wait…I don’t understand the big deal. I thought the people already didn’t trust corporations. If the corporations are as evil as we keep saying they are…then why would we trust a thirty-second spot they created and paid for?

If we’re really voting on our candidates based on marketing instead of their voting record and their consistency on whatever issues are important to us as voters, then do we really live in a democracy at all?

If people can’t think for themselves when they see a corporate message, is there really ANY amount of regulation that can cure us of our inability to think critically?

Classic Obama – hypocritical as ever.

I guess Obama forgot that he decided to change his mind in the campaign and take the corporate/union money instead of the set public money that McCain took. That is because Obama knew he could get the money from the Unions though, which Howard Fineman (there is a example of right-wing thinking, huh? what? No?) said yesterday during Countdown with Keith Olbermann that the Unions, in most states, have more clout and money than the corporations for political donations. Fineman went on to state that where this changes things the most is in the midwest where the majority are anti-union and have cheap media markets which would cause trouble for people like Ben Nelson.

There is another curiousity I see in all of this, a wrinkle I did not think about until I just read the President’s quote on the ruling:
President Obama calls it “a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.

Remember now that this government has a controlling interest in a number of banks, the largest insurance company, two auto companies, and a smattering of other interests in the “private” sector. Could there not be a conflict of interest if say General Motors began running ads that supported this administration? How does that wash as legal exactly? I have always asked how it was ethical that FannieMae and Freddie Mac were able to donate to candidates while they are a quasi-governmental entities for years, this now seems to be dumping pork grease on an already slippery slope.

WTF, since when did this country not understand that Unions, Banks, Insurance, Auto, Wall Street and all Big Business have for years been buying our so called leaders. In Chicago, who was Obama’s biggest supporter? Texas, Bush’s biggest? Arkansas, Clinton’s and on and on and on.
Wake up people, it time to vote out every incumbent in office and wipe the slate clean. Stop this insane vote for party and vote the person. If you see anyone running talking to and taking their money from big business or their lobbyist, don’t vote for them.

America! Don’t be fooled by Obama now. He is singing a lullaby to us to advance his “Marxist agenda”.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19254

Anybody see the elephant in the room here? It’s called General Electric.

I wonder if the regular voters Ms. Maddow seems so worried about have anything in common with the regular voters she spent Tuesday night painting as right-wing sexists for their audacity in voting for Scott Brown.

Quote: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

But Congress has been limiting the speech of people when they assemble into groups, organizations, and corporations. The Supreme Court has finally decided to take the first step (hopefully not the last step) toward returning to the original intent of the Founders.

Apparently one of the key questions asked was whether the campaign finance laws could restrict the publication of books and not just the distribution of films. Obama’s Justice Department lawyers had to argue that books could also be banned — the majority on the court was not persuaded that the Constitution permitted this.

Does anyone remember the 2008 election? Does anyone remember which candidate did not accept the spending limits in existing campaign finance laws?

Mike Huckabee had an excellant solution to this: Total transparency on canadate funding. If an canidate is getting big funding from an company or group, they can be hammered for it by the opposing canidate.

Fidoohki says:

Total transparency on canadate funding. If an canidate is getting big funding from an company or group, they can be hammered for it by the opposing canidate.

This was brought up on Countdown with Keith Olbermann yesterday by Howard Fineman in which Fineman stated that the canidates are still required to show where their money came from.

IMO, what this does is reduce the weight that Unions have in the elections because most companies will not want to get involved in the capaign for fear of the consumer lashback if they do not agree with their political stance.

This is the same reason why I do not use the same WordPress account here that I would if I were to post on a graphic design blog. I don’t want my political views to get mixed with my business.

MSNBC is nothing but a big fat campaign ad for democrats day in and day out. Who owns MSNBC? A corporation? What Rachel, Keith, etal do daily are campaign ads for democrats paid by big corporations. Whats her beef? Oh, you mean some other corporation that may disagree with HER advertisement for democrats might get some visibility?

This is FANTASTIC news!!1 FINALLY the Invisible Hand of the Market can COMPLETELY control our political discourse!!1 That’s the way it was GOING anyway, you whiny libs!!1 Keep trying to fight the FUTURE – it belongs to Right-Thinking Americans and not the SOCIOFASCISTS!!1

So now corporations can do what unions always have. And the problem with that is…?

I only caught bits and pieces of the Supreme Court decision in question so I felt I didn’t have enough information to know whether I supported said decision. However, since Madcow is against it, I am compelled to think it’s a truly wonderful verdict.