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Barack Obama ‘thinking’ of backing off of no-corporate-money for Inauguration.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 23rd, 2012 at 07:30 PM  | 

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Hey, guess what? Barack Obama’s not running for anything any more! Which means that he officially no longer has to care about progressive sensibilities.

President Barack Obama’s fundraising advisers have urged the White House to accept corporate donations for his January 2013 inaugural celebration rather than rely exclusively on weary donors who underwrote his $1 billion re-election effort.

People involved in his re-election campaign said White House staff and campaign advisers have been debating whether to accept corporate money to stage the events but haven’t made a final decision.

Translation: Barack Obama is planning to accept corporate money for his second inauguration, and he’s fully expectant that the level of grumbling from progressives in response will not go above a TPM Livewire post.  Either that, or Obama has decided that the progressive reaction will be easily survivable even if it gets to the point of actual screaming.  The second is arguably more likely to be correct, but the first is certainly possible…

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  • gunnyg2002

    I still can’t believe the amount of idiots that voted for this snake oil salesman. 47%? Romney was wrong, its 51%.

  • Bill S

    There’s this thing called Google that lets you search for information. Try it some time.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/269189-report-white-house-considering-corporate-donors-for-inauguration

  • redeleven

    I’m glad the American People gave Obama a blank check…what could possibly go wrong?

  • commonsenseobserver

    If Inauguration celebrations are expensive enough to require corporate money, has anyone thought that the American government might be spending too much, too wastefully?

  • commonsenseobserver

    Well, I suppose George Bush, John Boehner, or Mitt Romney placed the ban.

  • jiminga

    I can’t wait to see the even bigger columns and an altar for the anointed one.

  • michigan

    This is simply an interview process. Take note of the “sponsors”
    as they will be immediately identified by the administration as receptive to
    leveraging. It works like the mob or cronies in the private sector but when
    government is involved it’s the foundation for Fascism and Benito would be
    proud.

    “Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and
    government power. “ – Benito Mussolini

  • Tbone

    Step right up and buy an Executive Order to benefit your business. Obama is going to make the money whore Bill Clinton look like a slack Alice.

  • Tbone

    Like it would matter to the lying traitor?

  • junglecogs

    The first president who wants to openly weaken his country; I would say that’s treason (Oh, and before some Lefty dope says that’s not true; read, ‘Dreams from my Father’. He hates this country and all it stands for.

  • raginpatriot

    He’s expecting the same reaction that Animal Farm’s pigs moved into the farmers house. The Obamazombies may grumble, but they won’t leave the collectivist farm.

  • gunnyg2002

    Wait till you see his pardon list.

  • fightnright

    oh, I’ve always thought that the Herbert Marcuse concept from Repressive
    Tolerance: “Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against
    movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left”
    also applied to the intolerance of corporate money benefiting
    administrations on the Right and tolerance of corporate money benefiting administrations on the Left.

  • grumpyKoz

    while he is at it. perhaps he should hire M. Romney to run it. I heard he did great things with and Olympics party.

  • rightlane1111

    Well…I guess we are going to have to look at those donors…aren’t we!

  • galt57

    Does anyone else think it improper for the president of a republic to have a lavish pseudo-coronation?

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