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Letter to the editor
Issue date: 10/15/08 Section: Opinion
Last week, an article was printed asking readers not to be fooled by the GOPs 'terrorist accusations' of Barak Obama. To which I wholeheartedly agree. The bigoted code words being used by the McCain campaign and some of its supporters are a petty excuse for political discourse.
However, I ask those of you going to the polls this November to vote Obama, having not been fooled by the GOPs 'terrorist accusations' to also not be fooled by the pseudo-populist propaganda surrounding the Obama campaign.
With Wall Street investment firms in finical turmoil, and the majority of American citizens (Main Street) adamantly against any government bailout, Obama voted with McCain for a bill handing over more than 700 Billion dollars of tax payer money directly into the pockets of the very Wall Street institutions which created the crisis to begin with. Furthermore, Obama opposed his own party's efforts to add bankruptcy reform to the Wall Street bailout bill, which if passed would have empowered bankruptcy judges to help homeowners (Main Street) avoid foreclosure.
Why?
Perhaps the answer has something to do with Obama's campaign financiers. Huge banking and financing firms such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup, all deeply enveloped in Wall Street economics and the growing financial crisis, compose three of Obama's top five campaign contributors. Firms which, unsurprisingly, were most in favor of the $700 billion bailout and most against reforms allowing homeowners to default on their high interest loans.
So yes, remain vigilant against the xenophobic propaganda of the right, but do not forget the Democrats have been instrumental in perpetuating the failed foreign and economic policies of the Bush Administration and are showing the same corporate and Wall Street allegiance as their conservative opponents.
Brian Witthuhn,
UW-Whitewater senior
However, I ask those of you going to the polls this November to vote Obama, having not been fooled by the GOPs 'terrorist accusations' to also not be fooled by the pseudo-populist propaganda surrounding the Obama campaign.
With Wall Street investment firms in finical turmoil, and the majority of American citizens (Main Street) adamantly against any government bailout, Obama voted with McCain for a bill handing over more than 700 Billion dollars of tax payer money directly into the pockets of the very Wall Street institutions which created the crisis to begin with. Furthermore, Obama opposed his own party's efforts to add bankruptcy reform to the Wall Street bailout bill, which if passed would have empowered bankruptcy judges to help homeowners (Main Street) avoid foreclosure.
Why?
Perhaps the answer has something to do with Obama's campaign financiers. Huge banking and financing firms such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup, all deeply enveloped in Wall Street economics and the growing financial crisis, compose three of Obama's top five campaign contributors. Firms which, unsurprisingly, were most in favor of the $700 billion bailout and most against reforms allowing homeowners to default on their high interest loans.
So yes, remain vigilant against the xenophobic propaganda of the right, but do not forget the Democrats have been instrumental in perpetuating the failed foreign and economic policies of the Bush Administration and are showing the same corporate and Wall Street allegiance as their conservative opponents.
Brian Witthuhn,
UW-Whitewater senior
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