Obama and Dean have changed the game and the Pubbies and DLC are pissed [View All]

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Instead of the usual corporately financed election Obama and Howard Dean have changed the rules and developed the grass roots as the major financiers of this election, at least when it comes to Obama.
This is why the pukes want Hillary, this is why those DLCers are whining about getting their money back from Dean, this is why little piddly issues like what Obama's preacher says become fodder for the 24/7 corporate cable media.

Here is a short list of the advantages of Obama's "bottom up" funded campaign:

1. It is truly Democratic, average folks who have given as little as 25 bucks now feel invested in the process, this means more participation, more oversight and a much needed increase in fostering the dying concept of citizenship.

2. The powers that be become less relevant. The usual special interest financiers of elections now give a smaller slice of the donation pie, this reduces their ability to exert influence. Whereas Bush freely admitted that his base were the wealthy and powerful Obama can truly divorce himself from doing their bidding since pulling future donation funds don't have the same impact that they would have on other traditional candidates.

3. Last but not least it teaches the nation a valuable and much needed lesson. While most people have stood on the sidelines and allowed industry and special interests to fund elections, and thus control them, an Obama victory will show that the age old complaint that the "Big money" runs the system will at the very least be shaken.

No other candidate can point to the level of true investment in the democratic process than Obama, if he wins it will rock the old boys system, if he loses it will further reinforce it.