From today's New York Times, "Financial Firms Are Bush's Biggest Donors, Study Reports":
A new study released Thursday shows that employees and political action committees of brokerages, banks and credit companies make up 6 of President Bush's top 10 career contributors, a clear indicator of his increasing support from the financial sector.
In a similar study during the 2000 election, no major financial services firms were among the top 10.The study was conducted by the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity and published as a book, "The Buying of the President 2004." It looks at top contributors to Republican and Democratic presidential candidates over the course of their public careers.
"This money is not coming from backyard bake sales and barbecues," said Charles Lewis, the center's executive director. "It's coming from powerful special interests who want something."
Mr. Bush's top financial sponsor was the Enron Corporation, the bankrupt energy trader that collapsed amid an accounting scandal. The company and its employees gave almost $603,000 to Mr. Bush, said the study, which examined contributions to his campaigns for Congress, Texas governor and the presidency through the third quarter of this year.
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"The bottom line is that people vote their pocketbook," said Van B. Poole, a six-figure Bush fund-raiser from Florida. "The people on Wall Street feel like they know what direction the country is going and they feel like there's a good captain at the helm, who will keep the ship on a steady course."
I recieved the thing about Bush being a Cowboy and just HAD to alter it a little...
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It used to tick me off when the Muslim detractors in the Middle East, or the socialist
detractors in Europe, Hollywood and others called our President an idiot,
but the more I think about it, the more glad I am that he is.
When I was a kid, idiots were my heroes.
Well, I mean the fat white guys, not the black guys, who were usually the bad guys.
There was Annie "get your gun" Coulter,Tex "No Spin" O'reilly,
Hopped-up-along Limbaugh, the Lone Medved.....
there was Red Baiter, Condi"White"Rice, Sean Hanidey......
then , there was Marshall Mat Drudge,
Hoss & Li'l Joe McCarthy,
Richard "Paladin" Pearle, Dick "Maverick" Cheney and others....
Rowdy Rove and Mikie Savage
What were common attributes of these legendary Idiots?
Here are a few:
1. They were looking for trouble, money, and power!
2. When trouble came, they ran away from it and hid in various undisclosed locations.
3. They were always on the edge of being right.
4. They defended bad people against good taxes.
5. They had high morals but used them selectively.
6. They had good manners.
7. They were honest when they absolutely, under oath, in a plea bargain, with immunity from prosecution,had to be.
8. They spoke the minds of the people who owned them and they spoke the truth
regardless of whether it was really the truth or just what they wanted people to think.
9. They were beacons of incongruity in the wild, wild East.
10. They were never rejected by fawning leeches. When they walked into a saloon
(where they usually drank when no one was watching),
the place became quiet, and the bad guys bought them drinks.
11. If in a gunfight, they could outrun anyone. If in a fist fight, they could beat up anyone as long as they had help from the entire Army.
12. They always won (and wrote the history books). They always got their way. In victory, they rode off into the sunset with the cash.
Those were the days when there was such a thing as wrong,
something blurred in our modern world, and denied by many.
Now, as a senior citizen, I still like idiots
They represent something good --
something purely based on jingoistic, knee jerk, our way or we will kill you policy that America has been missing.
Ronald Reagan was a idiot.
I liked Ronald Reagan, who was not to bright, positively clueless, and who gave us a huge economic and social problem we are still living with..
He was white but not fat. To the consternation of his intelligent critics, he had the
courage to call a spade a spade and call the former Soviet Union (when he finally found it on the map)collect. Smart people hated Ronald Reagan.
They also hate bush (small caps) because he distinguishes between sane, normal, upright, thinking, freedom loving people, and his evil friends.
He calls a spade a spade, and after 9-11 he called evil and said, "Hey, thanks! Now I can ruin the country and get away with it!" without mincing any words,
to the shock of the liberal establishment. That's what idiots do, you know.
He also told Halliburton to "put their cards on the table" (old West talk),
which they did, exposing a full house, Aces over Kings.
The civilized world is wrong.
In the old West, might did not make right.
The Right made money.
Fat white idiots were always on the side of money, and that was their might.
I am glad my President is a Idiot.
He's got his man, (Karl Rove)!
Idiots do, you know.
The original "My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys" was much better. Don't understand your point of view at all. Guess it's because I retired out of the Navy and realize, unlike you, that I protected your first amendment rights just the same as the people I agree with. Reagan was great, #41 and #43 aren't too bad either. I don't agree with everything they do or have done, but they sure beat the alternative. They are politicians. Politicians have this bad habit of attempting to please everyone – never happen. If you’ll remember back to the week or two after 9-11, when we were all in shock, almost all Americans were actually civil. None of this hate-filled stuff like on this page. It saddens me that there are so many people willing to publically express this much hate. It’s not good for you or anyone that comes into contact with you. I believe in personal responsibility. Clinton besmirched the honorably office now held by W. W respects it like Ronnie did. I am told President Reagan never entered the Oval Office without his suit coat on. I can easily believe that of him. It wouldn’t surprise me to hear that President Bush does the same. (He is ours, like it or not. So was the previous one.)
Regardless, even if we as Americans disagree, sometimes vehemently, we apparently are still the greatest nation in the world. We do have our disagreements, and sometimes downright fights, but we are one. Diverse as we are, we are still one. I’m hoping you hear a little positive in this, not just pass it off as rhetoric. I think common sense can prevail. Attempt reason and get rid of the hate. Get a some common sense and grow a little. Be an independent thinker, not part of the herd.
