Lobbyists donate to political campaigns to GAIN ACCESS to the candidate

[Clinton Crusader]

Barack Obama tells us a lot of things he will do if elected president, but that reminds us of this story:

"A woman walks into a butcher shop and asks the butcher for a pound of ground beef. He tells her it will cost $5.99 a pound. The woman, dismayed, says, "But the butcher across the street has a sign in the window saying his ground beef is only $4.99 a pound. So, the butcher asks, "Then, why don't you buy the ground beef from him?" To which the woman replies," Because he is all out of ground beef."

It is easy to advertise but it's another thing to live up to the advertising -- a lesson Nader supporters should have understood, in 2000, when Nader was promising to do so many wondrous things and even change Washington. Even if Ralph Nader had been elected, he could not have delivered on all the things he had promised to do -- and he knew it -- because he knew that it is easy to promise when one knows one will never be held accountable.

Why do lobbyists donate to political campaigns?

They donate to GAIN ACCESS to the candidate or president but, in the case of Obama's lobbyist advisors, they do NOT need to donate -- they are already on the inside with plenty of ACCESS to Barack Obama. No need to donate to gain ACCESS when one is already in direct and regular contact with the candidate. http://tinyurl.com/yssq53

On the other hand, what is Hillary's record on extending healthcare to more Americans? When Hillary Clinton, as First Lady, could not fend off the well-financed attacks of the pharmaceutical and health insurance companies and the medical doctors -- which attacks prevented us from having universal healthcare in America -- she looked for a way to at least make an inroad into providing healthcare insurance for all by first creating the S-CHIP program to cover children. In other words, she did
NOT give up -- she did NOT surrender to the healthcare lobbyists. In December 1996 First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton examined several possible such initiatives and decided expanding health care insurance to children who had none was the one toadvance. Indeed, a different variant of this approach, dubbed "Kids First", had been envisioned as a backup plan during original 1993 Task Force on National Health Care Reform meetings, as a way of gradually implementing universal health care.