Nice video, too bad McCain and Clinton are right... Now I'm off to watch some more cats-falling-over videos.

A thought just occurred to me while watching this video. Obama talks a lot about breaking out of the Washington politics and changing the system. No more lobbying, pandering, etc. I suspect he is the most popular candidate on the internet (barring Ron Paul?). I wonder if we could assume changing Washington is a popular idea to those who connect about politics on the net.

That's why I'm voting for him. I would have voted for Ron Paul because I know he would stick to his ideals, but since he is not viable I'm voting for Obama. The single most important thing we have to do as a nation is break the hold that special interest groups have over the government. Every single major problem we have can be traced to a group of people giving ridiculous amounts of money to politicians. It may not be possible, but I will vote for the person I think is most likely to fight special interests and promote what is best for the nation as a whole. That's not Hillary, and it's certainly not McCain.

>> ^Aemaeth:
No more lobbying, pandering, etc. I suspect he is the most popular candidate on the internet (barring Ron Paul?). I wonder if we could assume changing Washington is a popular idea to those who connect about politics on the net.


Sen. Obama is NOT trying to stamp out lobbying. Professional lobbyist are the most vocal and successful campaigners for and against public policy and the allocation of funds, sometimes to the detriment of the public, but usually not.

The general ideas; Obama's campaign is attempting to not accept money from lobbying groups (political action committees) to show that his administration would not be unduly influenced by 'special interests', Obama argues for greatly increased transparency as to where money is going and why, and Obama calls for an increased role for representation from outside parties (effected by the legislation) to have a seat at the table when awarding governmental contracts and negotiating policy. In other words, the goal is to take any sort of back-room-deal operations and thrust them into the light of day.

These ideas are anti-lobbyist in the same way that videotaping the police beating someone is anti-police. Carrying that analogy further, bad police officers would oppose you videotaping them just like bad Washington politicians would oppose increased transparency in how they do their job.

>> ^Bleedingsnowman:
Nice video, too bad McCain and Clinton are right...


No.

"It's a pander": what JFK said when he saw a panda.

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