From a 2006 article:

"Obama’s top contributors are corporate law and lobbying firms (Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden, Arps, where four attorneys are fund-raisers for Obama as well as donors), Wall Street financial houses (Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase), and big Chicago interests (Henry Crown and Company, an investment firm that has stakes in industries ranging from telecommunications to defense). Obama immediately established a “leadership PAC,” a vehicle through which a member of Congress can contribute to other politicians’ campaigns—and one that political reform groups generally view as a slush fund through which congressional leaders can evade campaign-finance rules while raising their own political profiles."

http://harpers.org/archive/2006/11/0081275

Obama's #1 corporate contributor has been Goldman Sachs (with Lehman Brothers not far behind). And now he has just voted in favor of giving $700 billion of our tax dollars to these corrupt institutions.

Tell me again how this represents "change"?

And Senator McBama was right there to help it along. It's no secret that McCain is a long-time corporate stooge, but Obama has sorely disappointed me.

From a 2006 article:

"Obama’s top contributors are corporate law and lobbying firms (Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden, Arps, where four attorneys are fund-raisers for Obama as well as donors), Wall Street financial houses (Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase), and big Chicago interests (Henry Crown and Company, an investment firm that has stakes in industries ranging from telecommunications to defense). Obama immediately established a “leadership PAC,” a vehicle through which a member of Congress can contribute to other politicians’ campaigns—and one that political reform groups generally view as a slush fund through which congressional leaders can evade campaign-finance rules while raising their own political profiles."

http://harpers.org/archive/2006/11/0081275

Obama's #1 corporate contributor has been Goldman Sachs (with Lehman Brothers not far behind). And now he has just voted in favor of giving $700 billion of our tax dollars to these corrupt institutions.

Tell me again how this represents "change"?

...when one comic strip can really, seriously break a grown man's heart.

First thing in the morning, no less.

It's a man, baby!

....suspending habeus corpus, imprisoning a Congressman who publicly criticized the war; despite the pablum we are fed in grade school, he certainly had no concern whatsoever for black folk. His war against the South was un-Constitutional in the extreme.

Hamilton was a notoriously anti-democratic, aristocratic-minded misanthrope, and was responsible for the institution that plagues any hope for a true American republic to this day: a Central Bank that lead directly to our modern Federal Reserve.

You know--the same Federal Reserve that now publicly acknowledges that its sole purpose is to take from the poor and give to the rich. Bailout, anyone? I read that Freddie Mac executives just followed the lead of AIG execs and took a nice, long vacation at a swanky golf resort on that taxpayer dime....no working people allowed. Hamilton would have loved it.

And your assertion that the Louisiana Purchase and a single trade embargo are enough to qualify Jefferson as a big-government imperialist on the order of Hamilton, Lincoln, or FDR is clearly absurd; it also an absolutely shameful mis-characterization of one of our greatest Americans, the author of the Declaration of Independence.

I cannot believe that you honestly believe this nonsense, therefore you must be deliberately trying to mislead people.

...if you think you've ever seen a "Jeffersonian backlash" during your strolls through the academic textbooks, get ready. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Obama voted for the bail-out, he's retaining the key players in our economic "crisis" to continue the plunder of America, he's keeping the same Secretary of Defense--who supported the Iraq "surge"--and bringing back a cavalcade of players from the Clinton administration; the same people who've walking in and out of the revolving door of private wealth and obscenely corrupt federal power since I was fourteen years old.

I was a young, naive volunteer for Obama's campaign, once upon an ignorant time. Happy thanksgiving my ass.

...for a society of individuals who share--by force, naturally, because it would be impossible by mere inclination--an absolutely uniform system of morals, priorities, values and, most importantly, a belief system that is not only uniform among the peasants but one that stays in line with the desires of an all-powerful ruling class, a class who controls the monetary and financial means with an iron fist. No room for individuals, and certainly no tolerance for dissent. Trusts and monopolies are bad, except when they are put in place by the government and exerted with sheer force on the most vital component of a functioning economy, the money supply. Wave your signs and chant your slogans freely, but you will pay your tithe to the lords of finance, your taxes will be funneled directly to the overseers of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, because they are simply too big and important to fail. Individualism is confusing and selfish--there is no room at the inn for mere particles in the economic bloodstream.

God save the king.

What's to be outraged about? Goldman Sachs was a top contributor to Obama (and McCain) before the election...Obama appointed a tax cheat as the Tresury Secretary--an incompetent tax cheat at that...and now there are a bunch of corrupt, incompetent financiers rolling in taxpayer dough (or IOU's by now) while Obama provides cover with his pop-star politician persona. There are no surprises here. If you voted for McBama or Ocain or whoever, then eat your soylent green and shut up about it already.

And I'll just go ahead and climb on the cross and brace myself for the hammer and nails before I utter my next heresy: Ron Paul was right.