Obama Is Trying To Buy This Election? Nope... You Are!

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 9:01 AM PDT

2008/10/30 · 09:01

With the Barack Obama campaign raising unprecedented amounts of money for his Presidential bid, it was inevitable that the charge would be made that his ad purchases would bring charges that he was trying to buy the election.

But it isn't really Senator Barack Obama that is trying to buy the Presidency at all. It is the American people. For the first time in decades (and maybe much longer) the public sees the opportunity to elect a President that hasn't already been bought by others. Others without any interest in their wellbeing at all.

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 7:01 PM PDT

2008/10/26 · 19:01

There has been so much written about the Presidential candidacy and campaign of Barack Obama, that it seems unlikely that anything has remained unsaid.

Too bad! Here's my two cents.

So much has been made of Senator Obama's race and his relatively short time in public office that few have considered that perhaps these are exactly what make it possible that he is exactly what he seems to be.

Being an African-American makes him enough of an outsider to certain centers of power to inhibit his becoming a part of the way that government and industry intertwine in this country. Not that this cannot be overcome, but the racial aspect means that it would likely take some time. And half of one term as Senator is just not enough for that to have taken place.

So newness plus at least a residue of racial divisiveness in this country means that a charismatic idealist like Barack Obama can conceivably get to this point ideals intact. And the only way that such a candidacy could ever get to the heights that this one has is to be funded by an unprecedentedly massive grass roots funding campaign.

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