http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/opinion/09eggers.html?_r=1&ex=1198040400&en=ddf27ea516e002b0&ei=5070&oref=slogin
Dave Eggers, author of "What is the What," and "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," has an excellent op-ed in the NY Times about money in politics that references politicians from Ron Paul to Barack Obama. It is a short read that is very well written. Definitely check it out.
"We can try to clean it up (money in politics), like oil spilled in a bay, but as long as we use the substance in the first place, it will ooze its way into every aspect of our lives. There will be compromised decision-making abroad; there will be the growth and misappropriation of corporate influence; there will be the opting-out of millions of disillusioned youth, the void filled by the cynical and self-interested; and, in the most benign manifestation, there will be a very good man taking thousands of photos, with progressives who wish their support did not have a price tag, in exchange for the maximum personal donation allowed by law."
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