Comments on: Woman Bites Candidate on CNN http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2008/10/woman-bites-candidate-on-cnn.html ... for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:43:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kirk Petersen http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2008/10/woman-bites-candidate-on-cnn.html/comment-page-1#comment-82 Kirk Petersen Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:49:00 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2008/10/woman-bites-candidate-on-cnn.html#comment-82 carol, the Web Goddess and I agree on more than we disagree, even though we wound up with <a HREF="http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/search/label/His%20and%20Her%20Candidates" REL="nofollow">his-and-her candidates</a>. Thanks for checking out her site. carol, the Web Goddess and I agree on more than we disagree, even though we wound up with his-and-her candidates. Thanks for checking out her site.

]]> By: carol http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2008/10/woman-bites-candidate-on-cnn.html/comment-page-1#comment-80 carol Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:58:00 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2008/10/woman-bites-candidate-on-cnn.html#comment-80 Man, I HATE to concede points to conservatives. What can I say, I'm a competitive sort of girl. But I think you are right. I need to shift from trying to limit the money to trying to regulate the money -- at least to make sure there is real transparency, on both sides, about who is giving money to whom. Then perhaps I need to rely on the blogosphere to point out when elected officials are acting to benefit large donors. And I agree that Obama's success shows that the small donations of us little folk, in sufficient numbers, can compete with a smaller number of high rollers.<br/><br/>By the way -- tell the Web Goddess that I liked the pix on her website. You must be a nice guy, even though conservative, if a creative blue-tinged gal like her watches political TV with you. OK, maybe that's the Friday evening martini's talking, but Happy Halloween to you and yours. Man, I HATE to concede points to conservatives. What can I say, I’m a competitive sort of girl. But I think you are right. I need to shift from trying to limit the money to trying to regulate the money — at least to make sure there is real transparency, on both sides, about who is giving money to whom. Then perhaps I need to rely on the blogosphere to point out when elected officials are acting to benefit large donors. And I agree that Obama’s success shows that the small donations of us little folk, in sufficient numbers, can compete with a smaller number of high rollers.

By the way — tell the Web Goddess that I liked the pix on her website. You must be a nice guy, even though conservative, if a creative blue-tinged gal like her watches political TV with you. OK, maybe that’s the Friday evening martini’s talking, but Happy Halloween to you and yours.

]]> By: Kirk Petersen http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2008/10/woman-bites-candidate-on-cnn.html/comment-page-1#comment-76 Kirk Petersen Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:20:00 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2008/10/woman-bites-candidate-on-cnn.html#comment-76 carol, I don't think there's really any way TO remove the "oceans of money" from the political system. There may be better ways to regulate it, but I think the oceans of money are always going to be there in one form or another. When you get down to it, money DOES = speech -- people and companies need to be able to advocate for their positions. And through his success Mr. Obama has undermined the traditional Democratic argument that common people can't hope to compete with big business. carol, I don’t think there’s really any way TO remove the “oceans of money” from the political system. There may be better ways to regulate it, but I think the oceans of money are always going to be there in one form or another. When you get down to it, money DOES = speech — people and companies need to be able to advocate for their positions. And through his success Mr. Obama has undermined the traditional Democratic argument that common people can’t hope to compete with big business.

]]> By: carol http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2008/10/woman-bites-candidate-on-cnn.html/comment-page-1#comment-73 carol Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:20:00 +0000 http://blog.kirkpetersen.net/2008/10/woman-bites-candidate-on-cnn.html#comment-73 Kirk -- I totally agree. No dog whistles from Ms. Brown. By the way -- I agree with her. I understand the strategic decision to forego public financing, but I fear we may seeing the end of a noble idea -- removing the corruption of oceans of money from our political system.<br/><br/>Its a bit ironic to me that the idea of public financing is getting the one-two from a conservative Supreme Court (money = speech) and a liberal presidential candidate (only chumps pass up more money for less). Trust me, many of us will be watching Mr. Obama, whether he's in the White House or the Senate, to see if he keeps his word(s) . . . :) Kirk — I totally agree. No dog whistles from Ms. Brown. By the way — I agree with her. I understand the strategic decision to forego public financing, but I fear we may seeing the end of a noble idea — removing the corruption of oceans of money from our political system.

Its a bit ironic to me that the idea of public financing is getting the one-two from a conservative Supreme Court (money = speech) and a liberal presidential candidate (only chumps pass up more money for less). Trust me, many of us will be watching Mr. Obama, whether he’s in the White House or the Senate, to see if he keeps his word(s) . . . :)

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