Buying The Presidency

Andrew Malcolm blogs in the LATimes:

"Having now collected more than $605 million altogether, the freshman senator shows no concern over the appearance of buying the presidency. Imagine for a moment the national political conversation that could be going on now if rich Republicans had raked in that much loot for one campaign."

As noted earlier here, big money donors are driving Obama's money edge.

This raises the concern of not only buying the presidency, but also buying the president.

Malcolm continues: "And, hey, if there's a few hundred million dollars left over in the campaign coffers...maybe Obama would like to put it toward the immense federal budget deficits...".

I doubt that will happen. Obama wants to spread the wealth around -- just not his own wealth.