Top CEOs give 10 times more to McCain than to Obama

[babylonsister]

Top CEOs give 10 times more to McCain than to Obama
By Michael O'Brien
Posted: 08/15/08 01:15 PM


The top executives of America’s biggest companies are more willing to open their wallets for John McCain than his Democratic rival, donating 10 times as much to the Arizona senator’s campaign as to Barack Obama’s.

Obama’s campaign seized on the findings of The Hill’s review of campaign finance records to suggest that the gap was due to “special favors” McCain has given corporations.

The presumptive GOP nominee has received $208,200 from the chief executive officers of the 100 biggest Fortune 500 corporations, according to a review of campaign finance reports. Obama has taken in $20,400 from the same group of people.

“It is not surprising that a Washington celebrity like John McCain would be able to collect contributions based on 26 years of special favors provided to individual businesses,” said Jason Furman, Obama’s economic policy director.


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[gateley]

1. Yep. You donate to who you think will help you the most. Or over whom you have influence.

And I love Jason Furman referring to McCain as a "Washington celebrity" :rofl:

[SteelPenguin]

2. Not Surprising

I know a number of CEO's and have regular dealings with a number of fairly well to do ones. These are, for the most part, people who have always been very self-centered and driven. They're not dumb, but they aren't the most compassionate people. Their biggest problem is that they're managers and they like to be efficient. They dislike waste, corruption, and abuse. Therefore when they look at say, a social program, they look at the inefficiencies, the waste, the corruption. They'll see the one welfare queen as an example of why Welfare as a whole is bad. They'll point out the one adult on sChip taking advantage of the program, rather than the hundreds and thousands it helps.

The self-centered drive to create themselves, and make no mistake the majority are self-made even if they had a leg up by a good education, partnered with a lack of compassion and a dislike of corruption, create a breed of individual who hides behind their gated community walls with a "i got mine" mentality.

And yes, when the shit hits the fan they'll reach out to government and social services as quick as anyone, or quicker, because it's all about them.

These are the majority of big business CEO's. you don't get that far in those companies by being a compassionate helper. You get that far by being a uncompassionate pitbull.

So they vote their interests which consists of them, and their money, without a care for anyone else in the world.

No shock.

[barack the house]

3. Geez when will the fat cats get enough. They only are high on the shoulders of those below...

Their future is limited if they keep sticking it to the less well off.