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eschatonblog.com - 10/26/2008
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Oh noes! Small donors are threatening the fabric of democracy! Sen. Barack Obama's record-breaking $150 million fundraising performance in September has for the first time prompted questions about whether presidential candidates should be permitted to collect huge sums of money through ...

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uggabugga — Today's conservative spin: Hitler raised campaign funds from anonymous donations at beer halls, and gave speeches in Berlin to huge crowds. At the same time, FDR was doing all sorts of bad things like creating the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Social Security program - all which could have been stopped if we had a divided government. Back then, voters ignored warning signs and made a tragic mistake. Let's not make a similar one this year!

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The Sideshow — ... Right-wing bloggers heroically break the law in order to gin up a fake scandal about how ordinary Americans are breaking the law in order to give small amounts of money to the Obama campaign. More interestingly, the WaPo ...

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