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Obama, Clinton Shower Cash on Delegates
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ABC News Rick Klein Reports: They're by far the most influential 796
Democratic voters in the country, and they're being . . . showered with
cash by the two remaining Democratic candidates?

It's not quite as unseemly as it sounds. But an eyebrow-raising study from
the Center for Responsive Politics shows that "superdelegates" have
received at least $890,000 in political contributions from Sen. Barack
Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- going back to 2005 -- with Obama
sending a larger share of cash to the influential party insiders.


Ya know, if this cash bought us worthwhile employees, it wouldn't feel so
disgusting. But, for the most part, it doesn't.


"After debacles in Iraq and New Orleans and mushrooming scandals that
exposed much of Congress and the Cabinet as a low-rent crime family hired to
collect protection money for the likes of Halliburton and Pfizer, people
simply do not trust the politicians they vote for to be anything less than
an embarrassment. You get the sense they approach the upcoming election with
the enthusiasm of a two-time loser offered a selection of plea deals."