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To: i-node who wrote (786961)	6/14/2014 2:03:46 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577076

>> Citizens United makes corps equal to citizens........its a direct threat to this democracy. Its not ideological........its changing the meaning of a democracy. Any person who believes in the democratic form of gov't should feel threatened by this latest interpretation of the USSC. It did nothing of the sort. On the contrary, it did: President Barack Obama stated that the decision "gives the special interests and their lobbyists even more power in Washington—while undermining the influence of average Americans who make small contributions to support their preferred candidates". [57] Obama later elaborated in his weekly radio address saying, "this ruling strikes at our democracy itself" and "I can't think of anything more devastating to the public interest". [58] On January 27, 2010, Obama further condemned the decision during the 2010 State of the Union Address, stating that, "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law [59] to open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign corporations—to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities." en.wikipedia.org