> Barack Obama, whose 2008 campaign was propelled by small donors and empowered by the internet Except he took more money from the financial industry than any

> Barack Obama, whose 2008 campaign was propelled by small donors and empowered by the internet Except he took more money from the financial industry than any other candidate before him. > The country has endured far harsher times than the present without succumbing to rank demagoguery "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. 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." -- FDR The pundit/politico obsession with branding demagogues is really wearing thin.