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The Obama Inauguration Brought To You By Corporations and Unions

Georgia Boy Wrote: Jan 21, 2013 2:04 PM

unlike GW Bush who was brought to you only by corporations.

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Chestertonfan Wrote: Jan 21, 2013 6:46 PM

Unions were/are too political to donate to the enemy. They were free to participate but THEY chose not to. Nice attempt at misdirection.

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usmcpgw Wrote: Jan 21, 2013 3:40 PM

From Dreams Of My Father, “NEVER EMULATE THE WHITE MAN and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. IT WAS INTO MY FATHER’S IMAGE, THE BLACK MAN, SON OF AFRICA, THAT I’D PACKED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES I SOUGHT IN MYSELF..”

Charles Taylor – Liberia

Sekou Toure – Guinea

General Sani Abacha – Nigeria

Laurent Kabila – DR Congo

Kamuzu Banda – Malawi

Robert Mugabe – Zimbabwe

Mobutu Sese Seko – [Zaire] Congo

Jean-Bedel Bokassa - CAR

Idi Amin Dada – Uganda

Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier-haiti

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The Obama Inauguration Brought To You By Corporations and Unions

President Obama's 2009 inauguration was bolstered by the feelings of "hope and change" that boosted the President to electoral victory. His official inauguration committee eschewed corporate donations back then, but times have changed dramatically.

The Presidential Inauguration Committee set a goal of raising $50 million for Barack Obama's second inauguration, but have turned to big corporations and big labor unions in order to make it there. AT&T, Bank of America, FedEx, Microsoft and Coca-Cola are all on the official list of inauguration donors this year. Joining those corporations are the American Federation of Government Employees, the American Postal Workers Union,...

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