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Originally posted by dissention
You also can't deny the dollars going to Shrub.
Almost $3.5 million from fuel companies, $1.5 million from pharmaceutical companies, $8 mil from investment firms, and $600,000 from...Enron. 
Even if Kerry took that money, it doesn't even come close to what Shrub took.
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Sighs!!!!
In my opinion it is unfair to label any politician bad for taking PAC money, etc. THEY ALL DO IT and over the last 20 years Kerry has taken far more than W. So, I usually barring some event a la no contract bidding for Halliburton (I mean come on - even I have my limits
) - I do not consider PAC money. They all take it because they all need it. In fact, some PAC's even lobby for politicians to take their money by influencing their friends, etc. So, uintil the system is changed, I kind of do not care. That being said, I think it was somewhat perhaps foolish of Kerry to jump so hard on this issue when he is just as bad IMO. I think Kerry needs to focus on W's exxageration of the nuclear stuff to sell the war that Cheney is making money off of. I think enough people are pissed about that. But, they do go hand in hand a little. My $0.02.
Here is a mostly sensational article aboput Kerry and donations from an inciting site. Take it for what it is worth.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065673/posts
Here is an interesting and related article from another perhaps less inciting site
http://www.opensecrets.org/pressreleases/PresFR1Q2.asp