By The Associated Press
January 21, 2010, 9:59AM
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on business efforts to influence federal campaigns.


......facepalm

1/24/2010 9:09:01 PM

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1/24/2010 9:09:42 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU

1/24/2010 9:09:55 PM

n00b

1/24/2010 9:10:29 PM

democracy's been on the way out for a while now

1/24/2010 9:14:11 PM

1/24/2010 9:20:45 PM

democracy's been on the way out for a while now

1/24/2010 9:22:11 PM

^

1/24/2010 9:23:14 PM

prolly for the best. democracy was getting boring.

1/24/2010 9:23:45 PM

what you got a problem with corporations exercising their right to free speech?

1/24/2010 9:30:46 PM

my problem is with the average american citizen who doesn't get more information than what he got from some commercials before he votes

[Edited on January 24, 2010 at 9:33 PM. Reason : oh, and celebrity endorsements LOL]

[Edited on January 24, 2010 at 9:34 PM. Reason : if folks researched like they ought to, then the campaign $ wouldn't really matter]

1/24/2010 9:32:57 PM

ah nevermind then, I don't feel like having to explain a difficult and convoluted opinion to have a TSB discussion in CC.

[Edited on January 24, 2010 at 9:42 PM. Reason : .]

1/24/2010 9:38:42 PM

yea kind of like how newpapers are published by a single person, right? oh wait...

1/24/2010 9:40:33 PM

If you don't like who they endorse, don't give them your fucking business. Then they won't have any money to donate. Most of the time, you have a choice.

1/24/2010 9:41:56 PM

What? You mean you didn't want a US president owned by some foreign company?

1/24/2010 9:43:00 PM

I'm Barack Obama, and I approved this message -- sponsored by Bud Light! Fresh, smooth, real. It's all here.

1/24/2010 9:44:21 PM

I don't think an abstract entity created by law should be given more rights than an actual citizen. We don't have limited liability citizens, do we? We can't draft a McDonald's franchise to serve in the military during wartime.

1/24/2010 9:46:43 PM

democracy ---> corpatocracy ---> idiocracy

1/24/2010 10:01:48 PM

And now rise for the singing of the Coca-Cola (R) Star Spangled Banner

1/24/2010 10:18:17 PM

Quote :

"I don't think an abstract entity created by law should be given more rights than an actual citizen. We don't have limited liability citizens, do we? We can't draft a McDonald's franchise to serve in the military during wartime."

But like the draft in the 50's, only the poor and unsuccessful McDonald's franchises would be conscripted.

1/25/2010 12:38:21 AM