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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.

  • August 14, 2008 8:17 AM

    Breathe Easy, Everyone - Obama Is Now Courting the Most Critical Constituency

    Everyone rest easy - we can all breathe a deep sigh of relief, as the Obama campaign aggressively moves to court the CEO vote, according to today's Wall Street Journal:

    Jason Furman, Barack Obama's economic-policy director, is spending this weekend in the tony Hamptons outside New York, as will many top Wall Street executives. But he won't be relaxing. Instead he will be explaining the Democrat's tax policies in small business gatherings and celebrity-studded fund-raisers. Another top Obama adviser, University of Chicago Professor Austan Goolsbee, just returned from Jackson Hole, Wyo., to chat up other business executives and big donors. The campaign for the CEO vote is heating up. With increasing attention on the economy, the presidential candidates are trying to wrap themselves in business's embrace by wooing some of the best-known chief executives.

    Whew! I know I'm really relieved, because millionaire CEOs are the most important constituency that will decide the election in places in working-class bastions like Ohio.

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  • Chris V [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    David, your last two postings were attacks on Obama. It's one thing to criticize a sitting president, it's another to criticize your party's candidate. Do you want Obama to lose? Would you rather see McCain in the White House? Can we please stop the circular firing squad that the Democratic party loves to form?

    Posted on August 14, 2008 9:25 AM
  • davidsirota [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    I write about issues - and will criticize (or praise) candidates or parties around those issues. If you are looking for partisan hackery, this isn't the blog for you.

    Posted on August 14, 2008 10:02 AM
  • scottknight [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    David,

    Great post, don't let these partisan hacks get you down, keep up the great work.

    Posted on August 14, 2008 10:57 AM
  • tadowe [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    I enjoyed your presentation, because it emphasizes the lack of "Change" which is taking place in this campaign on the part of the candidate of that abstraction. In a way, it is the "nutz" of political commentary, because to satirize the truth is like having a royal flush.

    The inevitable response is never to address the point, but rather to attack the message/messenger in a blatant denial of reality for the sake of team-uber-truth partisanship.

    Unfortunately for your hack'ness, you assume the same stance in regards to the Iraq solution, which:

    1. Ended the fear of Saddam using WMD against Afghanistan, or any of his neighbors.

    2. Relieved the Afghani, UN front which was being daily endangered by Saddam's militancy and threats to his neighbors; including more threats against Kuwait and threats of attacks against Saudi Arabia and Israel.

    3. Ended Saddam's repression and genocide against both Kurds and Shiites.

    4. Ended the revealed corruption of the UN and the European Common Market in starving Shiite and the poor in order to sell oil for Saddam's military and personal gain.

    All of this an almost miraculous success for the hope of eventual peace in the ME - two new, however shakey, DEMOCRACIES in the ME!

    That's why there has been over 5 years of constant efforts to deny success and the hope it provides for an eventual peace in the ME! That is why the Democrats have hypocritically turned around and acted-out as anti-patriots in defaming this president and the military's efforts! Because Bush, a Republican, accomplished more than a Democrat did in his invasion(s) of Bosnia and Haiti, along with failure to kidnap or assassinate a Somali warlord ... in that stylish Arkansas manner ...

    You, yourself, continue to ignore the reality in order to climb over the back of the president which the Democrats have stabbed in the back for votes since the war deposed Saddam.

    Right?

    Posted on August 14, 2008 11:32 AM
  • Chris V [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    You want to talk about the issues. That's great. Compare Obama versus McCain. How many more differences in issues do you have with one candidate versus another? Shouldn't you focus against the candidate that has the greater number of more serious differences? You've written two attack posts recently on Obama. How many attack posts have you written on McCain?

    Posted on August 14, 2008 11:37 AM
  • FLGibsonJr [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    All I can say is that with chief economic advisors like Austan Goolsbee, enormous donations from the management of Goldman Sachs, the multinational corporations can feel safe that they have a true friend in Obama.

    I wondered years ago why Nader had given up on the Democratic Party, and I felt negative toward him for it. Now I realize he just figured out what was going on 10-15 years before I did.

    He is the only candidate that I trust and he has my vote in 2008.

    Regards,

    Posted on August 14, 2008 7:25 PM
  • FLGibsonJr [TypeKey Profile Page] :

    Now Reuters is reporting:

    Goolsbee and Furman said an increase in payroll taxes for wealthier Americans would be delayed for at least 10 years.

    They also said the top capital-gains rate for Americans making over $250,000 a year would be 20 percent. Obama had said previously that dividend and capital-gains taxes could increase to as much as 28 percent.

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    This is almost becoming laughable.

    Posted on August 14, 2008 8:29 PM

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