Papantonio: Obama Fails Miserably on Disclosure

[GoLeft TV]

President Obama has tools at his disposal that could pull back the curtain on big money campaign donors. But instead of forcing companies to disclose which candidates they are supporting, Obama has decided to let them continue to operate in the dark.

Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio talks about this with attorney David Haynes.

[raindaddy]

1. But, but, but the Republicans!

Thanks for posting this!

[Amonester]

2. Easy to say "Fire" but replace her by who?

They're all the same: It takes over a Billion to get elected Chief Exec. by a relatively small margin, and there are no functional Public-Funded Campaign Act on the horizon....

So?

[raindaddy]

3. If industry insiders are all Obama has available to him for key appointments

And since the system has been hijacked by the oligarchs, then why continue to pretend they represent us? If we're only going to be seeing candidates that are anointed by corporate/Wall Street billions might as well make honest minions out of them and eliminate elections all together..
At lest I won't be receiving anymore e-mails from the Democratic Party asking for donations and it'll eliminate the whining about not showing up at the polls to elect more bought off candidates to protect us from other bought off candidates.

[Amonester]

4. I think working hard to elect Democratic candidates that would propose and vote for...

a real, and badly needed Public-Funded Political Campaigns Act (or the like) is the only solution.

There are no other ways.

[raindaddy]

5. I think you're missing the point...

If the current people we worked hard to elect refuse to use the means available to them to expose big corporate donors and the politicians we work hard to elect in the future become even more dependent corporate donations what's the incentive?

[Amonester]

6. Work harder? Because I didn't hear anyone advocating for a true...

Public-Funded Campaign Act or anything the like of which...

So, blaming Obama, or anyone else will not make it come true.

Or even demonstrating in the streets for that matter (Occupy didn't work).

I mean, for a well-defined, specific law that would ban all special-interests "hidden" money, and open equal public airwaves access, and all that stuff.

I wish these guys with access to media would not just criticize for the sake of criticizing... Why would they not begin advocating for such a policy each time the subject of campaign donations surfaces?

[raindaddy]

7. The President has access to the media.

Let's at least be honest and add "electing third way Democrats" to your list, because that hasn't worked either.

"I wish these guys with access to media would not just criticize for the sake of criticizing... Why would they not begin advocating for such a policy each time the subject of campaign donations surfaces?"

What a better place to begin the conversation, fire White and hire someone interested in exposing where campaign contributions are coming from.

I disagree, I think politicians deserve our scorn when they fail to represent their constituents.

[Amonester]

8. "fire White and hire someone interested" is fine, but it will not happen...

Obama is not running for re-election, and he doesn't have the votes to pass any campaign-reform act...

[blkmusclmachine]

9. Obama says a lot of stuff I don't think he really believes. This is just more of the same. SSDD