Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Barack's money
I'm tempted to suggest everyone read every David Brooks column, but today's is an absolute must. He provides a fascinating disection of where Obama's campaign donations are coming from, and in the bigger picture, how different population segments vote with their political donations and what that might mean for the future balance of power. You can read it here.
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Very interesting. Political money tends to flow towards a winner. If the Republican party had any semblance of a pulse, the groups giving to Obama in such great amounts would be hedging their bets with larger amounts to McCain.
Brooks makes some good points however, about old tech vs. new tech people. May have more to do with age rather than schooling. After all, the oil and Halliburtion guys didn't go to Junior College. They went to Ivys as well.
Let's not forget that the geeks that started the information age were something of the outsiders when they started.
Bill Gates would not have been skull and bones had he gone to Yale instead of dropping out of Harvard. Most of these guys were not in the Ivies as legacies, there to earn their gentleman's C.
Still, they would be feathering both parties nests if they thought any republican had shot.
I have a few big shockers.
I am a coastal professional who graduated a liberal arts college near the coast of Ohio.
Although I personally like the war hero, I fully intend to vote for the Muslim. This election is not about tax cuts; it's about direction and the Supreme Court.
As for underwriting; I'll leave that to the lawyers and GS.
Hankster -- you are not putting your dollars where your heart lies?
So much to comment on.
Thanks for the pass at Fenway. I will not take it. I am a liberal and, therefore, have principles.
Agree with birdman. Great point about age rather than schooling. On another matter, those 'older', Ivy educated Halliburton guys were somehow able to get multiple deferments from military service in the 60s.
Re The Muslim. Where did I read (must have been NYT, the paper of record) about all the young people taking Hussein as a middle name much as a generation of gays use queer and african-americans use the n word so as to make it theirs, normal and acceptable.
As a former marine, I have always taken great pride in the chicken hawks rushing our folks off to war. They never saw a war that they didn't think someone else's kid ought to fight.
I like McCain, but he is hardly a Rhodes Scholar. He only graduated from the Naval Academy, at the bottom of his class, because his Dad and Granddad were flag officers.
Obama will get my vote and I am sure that it will also make Huey Newton proud to have a black muslim as "the man".
Great writing! Maybe you could do a follow up on this topic...
-Warm regards,
Vicky
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