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Onlooker

(5,636 posts)
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 04:27 PM Apr 2016

FDR was and Obama is not qualified to be president using Sander's reasoning

Hillary isn't qualified because she gets so much money from Wall Street? Well, FDR got 25% of his funding from Wall Street, Obama got twice as much as McCain from Wall Street and broke records in terms of Wall Street funding, and every presidential candidate has gotten enormous amounts through SuperPacs and before them through direct donations.

So, using Sanders argument, FDR, Obama, and Hillary are not qualified to be president. That's awfully arrogant of him.

Sources:

Article talks about Wall Street donations received by FDR, Obama, and others:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/08/why_its_ok_to_accept_wall_street_campaign_cash_129584.html

Article quotes Sanders as saying Hillary is not qualified to be president because she takes money from special interests and Wall Street:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/sanders-clinton-not-qualified-to-be-president-221666

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FDR was and Obama is not qualified to be president using Sander's reasoning (Original Post) Onlooker Apr 2016 OP
Hillary thought that John McCain was qualified and Obama was not virtualobserver Apr 2016 #1
I have a feeling the Wall Street of the 30's and 40's is a little different than now. n/t Dawgs Apr 2016 #2
Were are the rest of the justifications he gave? Why write OPs to be deceptive and mislead? TheBlackAdder Apr 2016 #3
We should all care about special interest money azmom Apr 2016 #4
 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
1. Hillary thought that John McCain was qualified and Obama was not
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 04:34 PM
Apr 2016

No one is in Hillary's league when it comes from Wallowing in special interest cash.....Obama didn't get rich from special interest money.

azmom

(5,208 posts)
4. We should all care about special interest money
Thu Apr 7, 2016, 04:40 PM
Apr 2016

in politics. It's corruptive and should be unacceptable.

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