Barack Obama’s Failure to Practice What He Legislates
The Washington Post has stepped up its criticism of Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the presidency. In its latest editorial, titled “How Big Are Those Bundels? Barack Obama’s failure to practice what he legislates,” the WaPo lashes out at the senator for his, perceived, hypocrisy.
IT WASN’T so long ago — last September, to be specific — that a senator with a particular interest in campaign finance reform introduced a bill to provide important transparency in presidential campaigns. The measure, S. 2030, would require presidential campaigns to report the names of fundraisers who bring in “bundles” of individual contributions totaling $50,000 or more. The campaigns would have to report the occupations of the bundlers and the specific amounts they are credited with raising. This was a terrific idea. It’s too bad that the bill’s sponsor, Barack Obama, is failing to follow the rules he set out.
If you spend enough time hunting around on Mr. Obama’s Web site, you might be able to unearth a list of his bundlers. (Hint: go to http:/
/ barackobama.com, click on “contact us,” click on “answer center,” click on category “fundraising,” go to Answer 24.) You will see the names of those who bundle between $50,000 and $100,000 for Mr. Obama, the $100,000-to-$200,000 folks, and the $200,000-and-up crowd. Recently, prodded by a letter from campaign finance reform groups, and after the New York Times pointed out that the Obama campaign had not updated its bundler list for months, the Web site added a flotilla of names, along with each bundler’s city and state. However, the Web site does not provide the bundlers’ occupations or employers, although those should be readily available to the campaign from the bundlers’ individual contributions.
The subtitle “failure to practice what he legislates” is superb. It’s almost a work of genius. Progressives seem to believe that whenever you legislate something, it will be done (or not). Laws, they say, change people and society.
Well, one of the leading progressives seems to prove his fellow progressives wrong.
Well I couldn’t even find that list, it seems they must have hid it again, renamed it or whatever.
The Obama campaign is known for its dirty money tricks.
At one point their website forced users to donate to enter the website, the user could get in without paying but they had to figure out that they needed to click the Logo to get in, otherwise some people may have donated because they thought that was the only way to get in.