The first election funded....by foreign governments and foreign corporations?

[IronWing]

My, my, my, the Angry Left is back! And the elections have not even kicked them out of office yet! I can hardly wait to see them froth at the mouth and paw futilely at the ground come November 3d.

 

[cubby1223]

You idiots still don't see the stupidity in your arguments.

Go back to the original post. Pretty much every person, every entity in this country you can trace to some form of international contact at some point in time. Could be even as little as selling a piece of computer hardware to someone in Canada in the AT FS/FT forum. According to the claims in the original post, in the "Think Progress" site, this is sufficient enough to call into question your political "agenda" if you ever voice any political opinion.

Get real.

 

[cubby1223]

All of you "liberals" go watch the Star Trek episode The Drumhead:
http://www.startrek.com/database_article/drumhead-the

 

[werepossum]

This is amusing as hell. The party that wants to turn us into Communist China is accusing the opposing party of being funded by Communist China. Are you guys so batshit insane that you can't even formulate a good slur anymore?

Man, I can't wait to see the left's "arguments" after drugs are legalized.

 

[lothar]

You do understand you are 100 percent wrong? The NY Times actually says Obama is correct. Some BLOGGER says that Alito is correct, not the NY Times.

Here is what the NY Times says:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/opinion/06wed1.html?_r=1&ref=editorials

For at least 44 years, it has been illegal for foreign corporations, countries and individuals to make political contributions in the United States for any election, either directly or indirectly. It is even against the law to solicit such contributions. But in this Wild West year of political money, that longstanding ban is being set aside. The United States Chamber of Commerce — one of the biggest advertisers in midterm races around the country — is actively soliciting foreign money, and government enforcers seem to be doing nothing to stop it
According to a report issued Tuesday by the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy group in Washington, the chamber is getting “dues” payments of tens of thousands of dollars from foreign companies in countries such as Bahrain, India and Egypt, and then mingling the money with its fund to advocate for or against candidates in the midterm races.

Did you even read your own link?
That's what a stupid blogger says, not the New York Times.

You didn't notice the words "editorials" and "opinion" before you clicked and posted your own link?

 

[rudder]

http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/10/obama-backs-off-charge-that-foreign-money-is-funding-chamber-ads/

 

[lothar]

The chamber is hardly the only organization playing a role in the campaign that has international affiliations and gets money from foreign institutions. Among others are groups on the political left like the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the Sierra Club.

There you go.

 

[jonks]

it's official. the "left wing biased" factcheck hammers the nails into the coffin:

http://factcheck.org/2010/10/foreign-money-really/

Not that you needed them to do this one. Anyone who saw Axelrod on Face the Nation respond to a request for any evidence of wrongdoing with the ridiculous "do you have any evidence there isn't wrongdoing?", should have known there was nothing behind this one. As Bob Schieffer said to Axelrod, "is that the best you can do?" Yikes.