The case for public funding for political campaigns...

I love FDR ...

"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace -- business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering," Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in a 1936 speech. "They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today.
"They are unanimous in their hate for me -- and I welcome their hatred."

Government by Organized Money ... that's what we have today, and with certain Supreme Court decisions allowing Corporations to run their own unlimited ads in political campaigns, the situation is only going to get worse.

Maybe the time has come to finally move to all publicly funded campaigns? If we did that it would eliminate the influence of the lobbyists, and put the people pack in control of the government!

--joerg