As far as lies, half truths, etc both parties are guilty. FACT (yes, fact) is we have a guy as our president that had/has no experience at all other than community organizing (Acorn, SEIU, etc). What you see happening is the result of putting someone in a position they are not qualified for. Before hating just look up his qualifications and for giggles compare them to McCain. Forget your ideology and try to just look at it as if you were hiring someone for the job. If you have an open mind you will see that McCain was well qualified, moreso than Obama. Heck, even Hillary has more experience if you want to compare from the same side. Sorry but that's a fact, don't be mad. If we were hiring a community organizer, Obama would be more qualified than McCain. Sadly, "opportunistic politicians, corporate america and other liars take advantage of uninformed voters by praying on their fears with lies and half truths to try to influence voters and elections".
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
please read brief article above:
University of California $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs $994,795
Harvard University $854,747
Microsoft Corp $833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
Time Warner $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
Stanford University $586,557
National Amusements Inc $551,683
UBS AG $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
IBM Corp $528,822
Columbia University $528,302
Morgan Stanley $514,881
General Electric $499,130
US Government $494,820
Latham & Watkins $493,835
Special interest?? Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE (wait, isn't GE a big corporation?) now is tight with Big O. Look it up, it's a fact. The same GE that got $139 billion in bail out money
NYTimes:
General Electric said Wednesday that the federal government had agreed to insure as much as $139 billion in debt for its lending subsidiary, GE Capital. This is the second time in a month that G.E. has turned to a federal program aimed at helping companies during the global credit crisis.
Fact, our president, just like the one's before him is in bed with big corporations too. Most recently about $2 Billion in Petrobras (Brazil). Ask yourself this. Why our president, who is supposedly on the "Save the earth" band wagon, has a moratorium on drilling (since it's bad for the environment, etc) is making oil deals with Brazil. I thought global warming and taking the earths resources was bad everywhere? Apparently it's only bad in the US. Well I guess we should not be surprised as he himself said that under his plan electricity prices will neccesarily skyrocket
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4 . You wanted change, there you go.