President Obama blasts GOP opposition to campaign finance bill

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Source: CNN

President Barack Obama on Monday criticized Republican opposition to a Senate campaign finance bill, calling it partisan gamesmanship that threatens to give special interests undue influence on U.S. elections.

"You'd think that reducing corporate and even foreign influence over our elections would not be a partisan issue," Obama told reporters in a White House appearance that was scheduled earlier in the day.

He accused the Republican leadership in the Senate of "using every tactic and every maneuver they can to prevent it from even coming up for an up-or-down vote."

"We can't afford these political games," Obama said, adding that "a vote to oppose these reforms is nothing less than a vote to allow" special interests and foreign interest to hold sway over U.S. elections.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/26/obama.campaign.finance/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[FirstLight]

1. keep calling them out!

...every time there is the opposition, he needs to be right out front, calling them on their shit....no more 'bipartisanship'

[JanusAscending]

4. Hi kiddo!

Did you see it?? Now that's my President!! GOBAMA!! P.S. Don't forget to catch him on "The View" this coming Thursday!!!

[FirstLight]

11. I missed seeing it...maybe on rachel later tonite

but any real smack upside the head from him is always a good thing ;)

:hug: good to see you too!

[superconnected]

2. Good one for Obama. Go Obama!

[harun]

3. Call them out on this EVERY DAY!

[madokie]

5. pukes only care about one thing and thats to get elected

by hook or by crook it matters to them not. I can't see the American voters voting them back into the majority anytime soon. If it isn't obvious where they stand on the issues then I don't know what it is.

[txlibdem]

6. Make Biden sit in the VPs chair in the senate all day every day

He's not as frightening as Darth Cheney but it'll have to do. Have him there speaking his mind and cracking heads to get a 100% Democratic agenda pushed through.

Stop adding Repudlickan "ideas" to bills. We didn't elect them into the majority - we don't want their failed ideas and policies!

Get Universal Healthcare done. Get true reforms done. Get climate change legislation done. Get Biden in his senate chair.

[truthisfreedom]

7. Accusing 'thugs of supporting foreign interest control over US elections is pretty bold and cool,

President Obama. Pretty f-in' brilliant.

[T Wolf]

8. When he says, "You'd think that reducing corporate and even foreign influence over our elections

would not be a partisan issue" the President shows his ignorance.

It is precisely because the corporate elite favor the GOP that this is a partisan issue. The corps like the Dems, just not quite as much as the pukes.

The sooner he stops trying to be a nice guy and starts dealing with the enemy as he should, the sooner he might be able to actually accomplish significant progress.

I have absolutely no faith or hope that he will do so.

Which leads me to conclude that he likes the situation exactly as it is. He can pretend to want progressive actions and achieve practically nothing of significance.

But hey - he did not veto Lily Ledbetter, so everything is wonderful, right?

[cliffordu]

9. Thanks for sharing.

:eyes:

[Iowa]

10. Well said. I agree.