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Obama Goes to Hollywood (Again)Posted on May 28, 2009
Fresh off a fundraising stop in Las Vegas, where he made an appearance at Caesars Palace, President Barack Obama swung through Hollywood Wednesday evening to pitch woo to a star-studded crowd for the first time since taking office—but, as The Wrap’s Dominic Patten points out, it was a bit of a tough crowd this time around.
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By Hawkeye, May 30 at 8:54 pm #
So long as one tribe own the media, you are sheet out of luck, no matter how much money you raise. Unless you buy the damn camera and microphone and get organized, you are a mere distraction which the bought officers of the law will obey.
The man with the fiddle gets to call the dance. Cannot understand why people cannot understand.
If you cannot build your own dance hall and hire your own band, what’cha gonna do. You simply do not have any way to stop their monopoly of the airwaves, you will have to accept everybody you know is listening to their propaganda.
Not only that, they have a huge head start with their mindbending program. It didn’t start with this last election. Hell no, they have been working up to this for decades.
From shaping public education programs in Washington, D.C., to creating new heros and american idols and anti-heros, the youth are now a sad sight. Sad and hateful of their own tribe.
I guess those like Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull and many others woke up to this eerie realization long ago. The question is, is it too late, or not?
Will they somehow categorize millions of white men as bitter, clinging to their guns and destinied for a few designated reservations?
I think I can just make out that writing on the wall. How shall it end? Like Chief Joseph who saw such suffering that he finally said that he would fight no more. Are we really the bad influence like Mr. Obama says? That is his conclusion, is it your’s. Don’t say he didn’t warn you. Now do you understand what change really means?
Report thisBy ardee, May 30 at 9:47 am #
Our system is fueled by money. It is a great restriction on left wing candidates gaining office and progressive ideas and ideals coming to the fore. When you need 700 million dollars to win the White House, or a few tens of millions for a Senate seat, those who fail the test of alliance with the wealthy corporatist cannot raise the money necessary to win a place at the table.
There are many ways to control people, this system is a good one for that purpose.
Report thisBy Cathy, May 29 at 10:33 am #
There has to be something that can be done about the amount of money it takes to run. This constant fundraising is sickening, especially at this time in our history. And as this is going on Bloomberg is buying—literally buying—this third term of mayor of NYC. I truly believe he will try to buy the Presidency in the near future. I losing hope that person with less money will be able to defeat him. The same will be said of the Obama political machine.
Obama is one of the slickest politicians I’ve seen in a long time. He even got me to believe in him enough to vote and not “throw my vote away” on a third party candidate. Reagan couldn’t fool me and neither could Bush. Clinton I did vote for. But I’m through—absolutely through—with these two parties.
And if Obama fails with health care reform, as two-thirds Americans want it reformed—non-profit single player—you can bet that at least the progressive independents and Dems will stop supporting him, too. I feel that will be the last straw. If he fails on health care reform that will sink America. Right now he is depending on the for-profit corporate medical establishment “to do the right thing,” believing they really have their country’s interest at heart. I thought Obama was intelligent. Why can’t he see what BS that is?
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, May 29 at 1:27 am #
“About 1,000 people attended, with tickets running $1,000 to $2,500 each. In addition, 125 couples paid around $30,000 each for a dinner and a photo with Obama.”
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Great! While millions of families are struggling to put food on the table and to prevent their homes from subjected to foreclosure, here’s Obama having the appetite to swallow food with the few elites who can afford to pay 15,000 per plate!
I cannot find the words to describe this, but I know that this so-called American democracy has always been, and will continue to be under elitist-after-poverty Obama, all the fake democracy that only money can buy!
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