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	<title>Left Watch &#187; american government</title>
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		<title>Democracy Alliance and big money politics</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric Odom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Public Integrity has an interesting column out titled Stealth Campaigns. 
While the article does a good job of making sure it includes reality&#8230; specifically that left wing factions of American politics are spending massive amounts of money, I disagree with a lot of its base argument. 
For example:
Financed by many of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://leftwatch.blogivists.com/files/2008/05/cashcow.jpg" align="left" alt="Cash Cow" /><strong>The Center for Public Integrity</strong> has an interesting column out titled <a href="http://www.buyingofthepresident.org/index.php/stories/stealth_campaigns">Stealth Campaigns</a>. </p>
<p>While the article does a good job of making sure it includes reality&#8230; specifically that left wing factions of American politics are spending massive amounts of money, I disagree with a lot of its base argument. </p>
<p>For example:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Financed by many of the nation’s wealthiest investors and business leaders, as well as millions of small donors, these organizations are responsible for a flood of political attack advertising. <strong>Their work threatens to drown out the traditional voices of the Republican and Democratic parties and undercut the presidential candidates’ efforts to control their own messages.</strong></em></p></blockquote>
<p>For one, I believe the &#8220;message&#8221; is as diluted as possible in order to ignore the real issues and flood the public with non-essential BS. I also believe the two party system has corrupted American politics, and reform is badly needed. </p>
<p>There for, I&#8217;m personally not against the idea of American entrepreneurs spending money on reforming the political landscape. However, I am against the constant attacks from the left screaming that &#8220;the right is rich and we are not&#8221;, when the left is spending just as much, if not far more than the right.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.buyingofthepresident.org/index.php/stories/stealth_campaigns">Stealth Campaigns</a>, it is made clear that far left groups such as Democracy Alliance are pumping huge amounts of money in to American politics. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.buyingofthepresident.org/index.php/stories/stealth_campaigns">Read the rest here</a>.</p>
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