Corporate America Does Not Support Any Democratic Candidate So We Must Support Them All

[McCamy Taylor]

For all of you who just love your chosen Democratic candidate---Kucinich, Hillary, Obama, Edwards—to death, and who believe in your marrow that every other candidate is being backed by corporate America----

Corporate America does not want any of the Democratic candidates to win this fall’s presidential elections not with the Democrats in control of the House and Democrats expected to pick up more Senate seats. When they interfere with the Democratic primary, it is for one reason only. They want to make the followers of each candidate so hostile towards each other that after the convention we will refuse to back the winner. They want to tarnish the reputations of each candidate so thoroughly that their own mothers' would not vote for them. They want to make Democrats so sick of the whole election process that we stay home in November in droves.

They want to make it impossible for any Democrat to win. Why? Because they have so much to lose.

1. The War in Middle East is keeping crude prices around $100/barrel. This is a priority for the oil and gas industry, and it can only happen if the next administration continues the current senseless conflict in Iraq and continues to hurl insults at Iran. If we have a Democratic president, the price of oil will drop faster than you can say “Peace in the Middle East.”
As a corollary, the tax breaks that the last Republican Congress gave to the oil and gas industry, the ones that Bush would veto if the current Congress tried to get rid of them---those are toast if we get a Democratic president.

2. The Health Insurance Industry is fighting for its life. And so is the Republican Party. Universal health care will be the first thing that the Democratic President and Congressional majority do. The Republican President will kill that notion. Or make sure that the health insurance industry profits from any plan that is put forward and that the Republican Party is given credit for giving Americans health care.

3. The pharmaceutical industry wants to keep its corporate welfare, too, aka Medicare prescription coverage in which the federal government does not get to collective bargain for lower prices. Drug companies have selectively jacked up the prices of drugs that seniors use. A Democratic administration would put a stop to that.

4. Telecommunications (the mainstream media, Viacom-CBS, Disney-ABC, AOL-Time Warner, NewsCorp-Fox, The Tribune Co. , GE-NBC) industry execs love the way that the current FCC is recommending unlimited media expansion. No doubt all the Republican candidates have promised the media heads that they will continue to do like Martin. The Democrats, on the other hand, will start to break up the monopolies that have formed under Bush. Look no further to find out why the MSM is biased against the Democratic candidates.

5. Military industrial complex. GE again and all the other companies that make warplanes, missiles, rockets. We are heading into a recession. According to the BBC, we are already in a recession. The Democrats are going to pull us out of most foreign wars, and they will have to cut back on military spending in order to increase social spending.

6. The Mega Rich Right Wingers. The Bushes and Melon-Scaifes. The people who supported Hitler and who tried to overthrow FDR. They have worked hard to get us into this recession. The last time we had a Great Depression, FDR came along and spoiled it all. This time, if they play their cards right, they hope to force the American middle class into becoming a permanent serf class, homeless, always in debt, at the mercy of their employers. They also hope to establish American fascism. They have been stacking the courts with Federalist Judges, but their job is far from done. If a Democrat becomes president now and for the next eight years, all those Federalists will be diluted.

7. Employers who profit off the misery of undocumented alien workers. They do not want their Latino workers to have full rights, including the right to collective bargain. They want them scared and powerless. With a Republican in the executive branch, they can call INS anytime their immigrant labor starts talking union. And they never have to worry that the people who pluck their chickens might become citizens.

8. "Sin" industries such as alcohol, tobacco, gambling, drugs all do better business when people are economically and mentally depressed. Happy people do not have to drown their sorrows. Plus, a government administering universal health care will invest in smoking cessation and a sensible alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs.

The Democratic President will not write laws. Congress will. All the Democratic president will be required to do is sign them and appoint Democrats to federal agencies to administer them and appoint liberal judges. That means that the presidencies of Obama, Hillary and Edwards will be more like each other than any of them will be like the presidency of George W. Bush---or the presidencies of any of the Republicans.

Fred, Rudi, Romney, McCain would all please the special interests above, because they will be good for their business. And what is good for the special interests I have listed above is what has been killing the rest of us.

So, for the sake of this country, campaign for the best candidate, but remember that once all the votes are counted, whoever has the highest tally will still be a Great President as long as we stick together and do not let the corporations scatter us to the wind.

Solidarity

:dem:

PS Have you asked yourself why the press is demanding that the Dems anoint a nominee yesterday but the Republicans are allowed to take their own sweet time? The answer is it takes the corporate media months, up to a full year to do a bang up job of sliming a candidate for president. Gore is a liar evolved over two years. The sooner the corporations know whom the Democratic nominee will be, the sooner they can get to work Swiftboating him or her. Be in no hurry to select the nominee. Let the corporations stew. Just be civil and remember that all our candidates are better than theirs.

[sojourner]

1. You make much sense........

refreshing reminder of what the stakes are, and of how the recent "conversations" here play into the hands of those who would see us all defeated.

edited for typo...fingers and keyboard not getting along so well this evening......

[defendandprotect]

2. And that's why they've given them so much $$$ --- ???

[discman]

3. a good question: And that's why they've given them so much $$$ --- ???

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.asp?Ind=F&cycle=2008>Open Secrets

The financial sector is far and away the biggest source of campaign contributions to federal candidates and parties, with insurance companies, securities and investment firms, real estate interests and commercial banks providing the bulk of that money. The sector contributes generous sums to both parties, with Republicans traditionally collecting a substantial amount more than Democrats. The finance sector, which has given upwards of 60 percent of its total contributions to Republicans in the past, gave just 54 percent of total donations to the GOP in 2006. This shift may suggest an effort to remain nonpartisan in order to maintain clout with the new Democratic majority in Congress. The sector donated $252 million to federal campaigns and candidates in 2006, with the National Assn. of Realtors, Goldman Sachs and the American Bankers Assn. donating the most.

2008 - Top Recipients through third quarter 2007

Rank
Candidate
Office
Amount

1
Clinton, Hillary (D)
Pres
$12,302,928

2
Giuliani, Rudolph W (R)
Pres
$10,609,778

3
Romney, Mitt (R)
Pres
$10,184,193

4
Obama, Barack (D)
Pres
$9,834,870

5
Dodd, Christopher J (D)
Pres
$5,212,168

6
McCain, John (R)
Pres
$5,208,827

7
Richardson, Bill (D)
Pres
$2,127,032

8
Edwards, John (D)
Pres
$2,046,230

9
Biden, Joseph R Jr (D)
Pres
$1,321,819

10
Thompson, Fred (R)
Pres
$1,198,735

[jackson_dem]

4. A "candidate of change" at $9,834,870?

[Mithreal]

7. The raw dollar total is less an issue than who gave it

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.asp?cycle=2008

[frog92969]

17. I see a candidate mysteriously missing from your list.

Just like he's been mysteriously missing from the media, polls, and debates. hmm.

[Demeter]

9. The Corporations and the Wealthy Are Trying to Buy a Sense of Indebtedness

Access, dependence, goodwill, whatever emotional or financial hook they can sink into any potential future political figure: that's what they are buying, make no mistake.

It's their ticket to participating in the national policy decisions. Because a vote simply has no value any more when it can be fabricated by Diebold!

[Mithreal]

5. A preference for one should not blind anyone

to the good qualities in each candidate.

[Yuugal]

6. K&R nt

[dmosh42]

8. This is completely untrue! Just follow the money!

As a matter of fact, the last two years have convinced me that very few elected Dems stand by the working people who used to be their 'bread and butter' voters. There are bills sitting in Congress that stand to protect benefits(HR1322), or assist people( prescription imports-S1022) that have died due to lack of support by the Dem leadership. Who benefits? The biggest corporations!

[MadHound]

10. Umm, the donor lists from the candidates gives lie to your assertion

In fact Dems this year are outraising 'Pugs, easily. And a great deal of it is corporate money, making all of them, excepting Kucinich(who doesn't take corporate money) corporately compromised.

[raccoon]

11. K&R. Great post. nt

[Yael]

12. Nope. No corporate backers for our candidates.

So perhaps it's significant that this July will see Hillary Clinton and Rupert Murdoch come to terms.

The New York State Democratic senator will be throwing a re-election fundraising bash that month, hosted by none other than the News Corp. chief executive and chairman himself.

http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/10/murdoch-hillary-fundraiser-cx_gl_0510autofacescan07.html

Rupert Murdoch Loves Hillary Clinton

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/09/politics/main1600694.shtml

[dmosh42]

13. Isn't that nice! Makes me feel good as a Dem voter! WTF! n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

14. Some sectors of the economy would like to see a Dem--transportation, agriculture,

certain types of manufacturing, retail sector and many others have been hit hard by the way that the Republicans and Bush have artificially inflated the price of oil and energy.

These groups will give money to Democratic candidates, especially the ones that they like.

However, these are only a small part of corporate America. They are not the big players. They are not the David Rockefellers and the Bill Gates and the Rupert Murdochs (who is bankrolling Rudi).

And all the big players will spread money around just in case ...

So, yes, you will find corporate money donated to Democratic candidates. But you will find much more corporate money being spent behind the scenes to assist the Republicans in mainstream media lies, smears, propaganda and in manipulation of the economy, designed to prop it up until November, since recession would kill a Republican's chances and in many other ways.

Do not be fooled. The amount of money that is given to Democrats is nothing compared to what is being spent behind the scenes to defeat them all. The corporate media alone has made it their mission for 2008 to prop up the pitiful GOP candidates and to cut the stellar Dems down. They will do this, even if it costs them their last shred of credibility--and their audience. Whose needs an audience when they have monopolies?

Ask yourself, before 2000, who would have predicted that Dumbya, the Village Idiot from Texas would defeat Al Gore? No one. That was the mainstream media's work. They plan to do it again, and this time, with the Dems in control of Congress, they are even more desperate.

[GOPBasher]

15. You are so right. Rec'd a million times. Thank you! n/t

[Skwmom]

16. Do you think the corporations are stupid enough to put all their eggs

in one basket? Oh yeah, that would certainly make a lot of sense.

[frog92969]

18. Sorry, full of holes.

BIG holes.

[Larry Ogg]

19. Reversive blockade at its finest…

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/political_ponerology_lobaczewski.htm"> Ponerology: term: Emphatically insisting upon something which is the opposite of the truth blocks the average person’s mind from perceiving the truth. In accordance with the dictates of healthy common sense, he starts searching for meaning in the “golden mean” between the truth and its opposite, winding up with some satisfactory counterfeit. (page 151)

Facts are that the corporations are deeply imbedded within the Democratic party itself, so if you would just modify you OP a little bit and change the word Democrat to the word Liberal – with an attribute of not being in pockets of major corporations or the economic royals, your OP would be much more fact than it is fiction…