Saturday, August 11, 2007
'Simply not telling the truth'
Charley has an interesting post on Hillary's ridiculous suggestion that she's not influenced by big campaign donations from lobbyists. For the life of me, I don't understand why more politicians don't borrow a simple tactic from the late Sen. Paul Simon, who famously and effectively disarmed so many with his bluntness:
Read that last sentence again. Now think of Hillary's campaign. There's lack of soul to it. ...
Charley has an interesting post on Hillary's ridiculous suggestion that she's not influenced by big campaign donations from lobbyists. For the life of me, I don't understand why more politicians don't borrow a simple tactic from the late Sen. Paul Simon, who famously and effectively disarmed so many with his bluntness:
Anyone who has been a candidate for major public office and says "Campaign contributions don't affect you" is simply not telling the truth. In my last campaign for re-election in 1990, I spent $8.4 million dollars. I have never promised anyone a thing for a campaign contribution. But, when I was still in the Senate, if I arrived at a hotel in Chicago at midnight there might be twenty phone calls waiting for me. Nineteen of them are perhaps from people whose names I did not recognize, and the twentieth is someone who gave me a $1,000 campaign contribution. At midnight I am not going to make twenty phone calls. I might make one. Which one do you think I am going to make? You are right. It means that the financially articulate have inordinate access to policy makers. You are less than human if you do not recognize that.
Read that last sentence again. Now think of Hillary's campaign. There's lack of soul to it. ...
