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8/13/08 at 11:13pm
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Originally Posted by Bancroft Agee View Post
I agree but it's hard to reconcile my belief that this election is firmly rooted in class warfare and watch the candidate with the most potential (and Obama does have that. Make no mistake but it's still just potential we're talking about here) to help bring about significant change is taking money from the very people who profit from human misery and economic exploitation.
I get your point, but where we may begin to disagree is when you look at any circumstantial evidence or causality surrounding those campaign contributions. Yeah, Obama's taking money from some of the exact same people who are donating to McCain and who donated to Clinton. But unlike McCain, Obama is not allowing these more recent contributors to change his policy to the point where he withdrawing from his principles.

Obama is not perfect. He is a pragmatist first and foremost, believing in accomplishing the possible over wanting the perfect. But if he decided to follow his "new friends" to the point of abandoning the many small donors who got him the nomination in the first place, he would be in real trouble with his "base" so to speak. I don't think that would be wise politically, certainly not policy-wise.
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