Jimmy Carter: US campaign funding is 'legal bribery'

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Former US president Jimmy Carter says the way politics is now funded in the US amounts to "legal bribery".

Speaking to John Humphrys, who first interviewed Carter when he was running for the Democratic nomination in 1976, he said almost all candidates now relied on "massive infusions of money".

President Carter suggested he would not have become US president if he were competing under the current con

video at link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hd981

[EdwardBernays]

1. Absolutely true

And the left should be leading the fight against this instead of leading in lobbyist contributions and staffers.

[B Calm]

2. We have the best government money can buy! Sick

[Yupy]

3. Bernie is the only candidate who is fighting this insanity...and is not part of it.

[Dustlawyer]

9. After this election, we need to find other candidates willing to commit to not taking the bribes.

We will need them to help eliminate this system and have Publicly Funded Elections!

Go Jimmy Carter!!!

[dragonfly301]

17. We need to tell the other candidates to

Cut It Out! That should do the trick!

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. knr

[blackspade]

5. Best ex-president ever.

[elias49]

10. Yes. He is.

[madokie]

6. Welp

We know one candidate who isn't taking in bribes unless my four contributions to his campaign for 20 bucks a pop qualifies.

[mr blur]

7. Ah, the "Today" programme!

An essential 3 hours of radio in the morning. Famed for giving politicians "a hard time" (ie not going with the party line and asking 'easy' questions).

[malaise]

8. American media won't touch this

They get lots of this money

[mountain grammy]

11. Jimmy Carter tells the truth.. as usual.

[They_Live]

12. This man should have been

a member of the Supreme Court.

[daleanime]

14. Just think how much better things could have been.....

[daleanime]

13. True talk from an honest man should always be heard.

[jalan48]

15. OMG-not Jimmy too. He's a Socialist!

[Octafish]

16. And once in office, such 'employees' do much to earn their pay.

Unfortunately, it's almost always not in the interests of the American people, but hey! Those that bought 'em gotta get paid.

[malaise]

19. Any US links to this story???

https://www.google.com/search?q=jimmy+carter+campaign+funds&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[Octafish]

20. Corporate McPravda haz a golden egg going.

Not. A. Peep. By. Design.

[kristopher]

18. Yes sir, President Carter. It is.

[awoke_in_2003]

21. He won't sell his soul

that is why he is right- he couldn't win in this political climate. Walter Cronkite couldn't work in today's "media" either

[hifiguy]

22. And President Carter is right.

AGAIN. Thank you, sir.

[AgadorSparticus]

23. It sure is!!! It is unfathomable to me that it exists at all.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. Yes, and it seems unstoppable

Congress is bought and paid for by special interests, and the Senators and Representatives have no interest in cutting their own lavish spending habits.

And our next likely president just wades in piles of cash from the banks and other big interests. She will not fly in steerage class.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/02/26/no-crudits-but-hillary-clinton-still-has-long-list-of-demands-for-speeches/?_r=0