So when the right said Barack Obama is supported by the Black Panthers, what was your reaction?
My reaction? I checked the sources (Drudge, Breitbart, et al)
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201110030013Andrew Breitbart wants you to know that he doesn't think President Obama is "a secret member of the New Black Panther Party." But he's more than willing to hide the truth in order to conjure up the ridiculous smear that sometimes, they hang out.
Under the headline "Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007," Breitbart reports that at a March 2007 march in Selma, "then-Senator Obama was joined by a group of Panthers who had come to support his candidacy."
Breitbart is providing some publicity for charges that New Black Panther Party fabulist J. Christian Adams leveled at the president in his new book Injustice: Exposing The Racial Agenda Of The Obama Justice Department, which comes out tomorrow. Breitbart provided a blurb for the back of the book, and in the acknowledgements Adams thanks Breitbart, whom he describes as his "soul brother and pied piper."
In claiming that Obama was "joined by" the Panthers, "appeared and marched with" them, and "shar[ed] the same podium" with them, Breitbart carefully avoids explaining just what the event in question was. References to Obama campaigning "in Selma, Alabama in March 2007" and a mention of how "then-Senator Hillary Clinton and Al Sharpton were also in Selma at the same event" do more to confuse the readers than explain it to them.
Being in a march of thousands and thousands of people (along with the
New Black Panthers) does not equate words taken directly out of Paul's mouth.
Ron Paul has support from some white hate groups because like them, he want less government
I believe I also said that.
Barack has been a let down and seems like the typical corporate candidate. He talks a good game but look at his appointees and history of donors, the dude is up to his ears in corporate money.
So is
Paul.
Among his GOP colleagues, only Mitt Romney raised more than Paul, R-Texas.
The Paul campaign said that most of the money from the latest Constitution Day moneybomb came from small donors contributing less than $200.
According to The Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan non-profit research group dedicated to tracking money in U.S. politics, small-dollar donations made up about half of Paul’s total donations for the period.
In fact, those $200-or-less donations added up to $2.26 million – the largest total amount among his GOP colleagues.
CRP broke down the numbers further and found that of the top 10 biggest individual contributions; three were associated with a branch of the military.
In fact, Paul’s non-interventionist philosophy helped him raise $32,089 among those who identify their employer as the U.S. military, the biggest total among his GOP colleagues.
Outside of the military, some of Paul’s biggest donations came from the financial and communications sectors.
Employees of Google, Entergy Corporation, and Lockheed Martin are some of the top companies whose employees have backed Paul. Paul currently sits on several financial services and foreign affairs committees.
So, as you are well aware, are all the candidates. Unless we reform election laws and get rid of that pesky guy named Citizens United, they always will.
