Why are They Spending so Much to Beat Obama?
They who have everything are spending billions - it might even add up to trillions – to defeat President Obama. Why? What’s really at stake here? Surely it’s not just some closely held belief like the sanctity of the embryo or the infallibility of the free market? In my decades as a reporter, I found the underlying motive of political initiatives was usually money.
In the case of the infamous Koch brothers, the underlying reason for their hatred of the president is – at least in part – his commitment to green energy. The Kochs own a coal and oil empire and don’t relish the prospect of alternative energy muscling in on their market. Furthermore, they want to be free to pollute at will and ravage the landscape as they please.
They also have a pecuniary motive for trying to wipe out trade unions. Without unions there would be no one to stop them from exploiting and endangering the miners who work for them.
Sure, they a lso have a fanatical commitment to Libertarianism. But if you look closer you can see they’re driven by greed not just ideology.
It’s not so easy to discover the motives of the other billionaires and multinational corporations that have been freed by the Supreme Court to invest as much as they want in this year’s election campaigns. The court has given them a cloak of secrecy to shield them from our prying eyes.
But common sense should supply the answer.
Nobody spends that kind of money without hoping for a return on their investment. Believe me, these billionaires and corporate giants aren’t opening their treasuries because of their views on abortion, contraception or same sex marriage. That kind of posturing is just theater designed to distract and divide voters.
There’s a prize at stake here. And it has to be worth trillions to justify the kind of investment that’s being made.
I can’t say for sure what it is. It could be some kind of new world order in which the very rich would reign supreme over the rest of us. But I have no hard evidence to support that suspicion.
All I know is that with those who have everything aligned against Obama, the president is the only hope for those of us who have nothing.
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No, Obama is not our only hope; the President does what he is told to do. Like I always say, it does not matter who holds the office because back room deals are always made. This is delusion of inclusion to think one man can change things. The tobacco companies fund both sides, don’t they? It does not matter to them who is in office. If their lobbyist makes a call to the White House, their phone calls are taken.
The only thing Obama did was show a Black American child that any job is possible and that is a good thing; you are not longer limited because of skin color. It is up to you as an individual to decide is it worth it. What sacrifices will you have to make (Africom, bombing African nations, killing Gaddafi)? Who will you have to throw under the bus (Pastor Wright, Farrakhan) to get mainstreams approval? Whose votes did you take for granted (Blacks) for a 95% turn out? If these things are ok, then four more years it is.
The usual bla, bla, bla that doesn’t make any sense. Let this new bunch of Republicans win this election and you’ll be more than sorry. Billy G.
Yes, yes, of course dear, killing Ghadafi was a tragedy of unheard of proportions. Anyway, think of all the money they are injecting into the economy? The print and tv ads, the ad agency, videographers, actors, editors, copy writers, and on and on. They just may provide a stimulus with unintended benefit to the economy. All that lovely money, instead of sitting in their offshore accounts, being spread around. Nothing they say will make me vote for Romney, nothing they do will convince my women’s groups to vote for the ones who would tell us to only fornicate to procreate and if we sin and want a way out of 18 years of raising a child we do not want – tough! Serves you right! So, rant on little crazy diamond, no one is listening to you hear. Go somewhere else, where they too believe that all black lives are perfect and sacrosanct and that all black leaders but ours are heroes. Please, really, go somewhere else.
Gaddhafi was more of a Black man than the house Negro. Libya had no debt and controlled its own central bank. The US is in debt at a tune of15 trillion dollars. The Federal Reserve has turned the US into a junky going after the next high. Look how the international bankers ruined Jamaica’s banking system. It is hard to believe that the island’s dollar was once stronger than the US; it is hard to believe that Lee Kuan Yeu took the blue print from Jamaica and turned Singapore into a 1st world country, while Jamaica remains a third world country. Jamaican should have used Robert Lighburn’s plan and not Lee Kuan Yeu.
I don’t mean to be rude but really look at Libya history and how it succeeded under that great leader. Look at how Patrice Émery Lumumba was treated when he was captured. You can You Tube it and compare it to Gadaffi. What were their crimes? Each loved their African homeland and wanted imperialism to stop. For that, they are treated like animals. Look how Steve Beco in South Africa was treated; I really surprise Mandela escaped that faith. African countries should not be a place to be feasted on by Western nations that are nearly bankrupt.
It is too bad Ron Paul had to drop out. He wants and end to the Federal Reserve and the nasty things those international bankers like to do with Brown and Black people. I guess it will be four more years in the house for the field is too hard of a place to work.
I am not going anywhere!
Janice you are a complete Jackass. Gaddhafi was a tyrant! He only cared for himself and would have murdered many more Libyans to stay in power. The old adage, ‘power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’, comes to mind. As for the Jamaican dollar being higher than the US dollar, that was a farce. Do you really think that brown and black people are any different from anyone else?? Billy G.
George, how about a post on Matt Kuchar or something.
Piling on Janice obviously does no good–she is not wired to think rationally. Every time she goes on about the “house Negro” I just have to wonder what sort of inferiority complex breeds that hatred.
Billy, I have never said one unkind word against you. But ok, it’s freedom of speech. Check the exchange rate of Jamaica verses the US in the 70’s. It was $0.70 cents to $1.00. Jamaica was also producing and exporting. Now run tell that! Idi Amin and Gaddafi were leaders and pro Africa for Africans. As long as Western nations could colonize Africa for their natural resources, everything was ok. When they did not go along to get along, the same media and bankers that tolerated them, then made them a buggy man and objectify them. If someone is turned into an object, then it is ok kill and humiliate them?
Liz, I do not have an inferiority complex but I have read about how slave plantations were run in the US and Jamaica. There were two types of slaves: house and field. If you look at the Black American and Black Jamaican community now, a lot of that plantation politics still exist in 2012. It is always some savior or religious leader that becomes the spokesman for the group. I don’t see that type of nonsense among other ethnic groups or races. The gays demanded that Obama stand up for their cause but not the Blacks. When people like me, Tavis Smiley or Cornell West point these things out, we are labeled as anti Black or crazy.
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