We See Through You, Mr. President
by Gary Jason | Posted June 29, 2011
Reverend Obama, when he was running for the office he now decorates, preached the need for transparency and honesty in government. In particular, he derided “the cynics, the lobbyists, the special interests" who held sway in the District of Columbia. He promised to stop the practice of rewarding donors with political favors.
Well, scratch another promise. As iWatch News has reported, about 200 of Obama’s biggest contributors (each raising anywhere from 50 to 500 grand) have gotten top jobs in his holy administration, big contracts for their businesses, or various other payoffs.
Interestingly, iWatch News is a news outfit supported by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit organization whose avowed goal is to produce nonpartisan investigative journalism that will help achieve transparency in government.
And here’s the stinger. The Center for Public Integrity is funded by a number of primarily left-liberal donors, most notoriously one George Soros, the leftist billionaire and Obama booster.
That’s worth a chuckle, no?
Gary Jason is a philosopher and senior editor of Liberty, and the author of Dangerous Thoughts.
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Rodney C.
What Jason says is only too true.
I would say that it is simply an expression of the dishonesty of the electorate - that any politician's supporters would tolerate such behavior.
Wed, 2011-06-29 21:13