For Sale: President of the United States

Want to be President young man or lady? Well I hope you have oh...$300 million you could stand to part with. According to the Washington Post Barack Obama has just claimed that in the first quarter of this year he raised $25 million, putting him in a virtual dead heat with front-runner Hillary Clinton who claimed $26 million. Poor John Edwards with his pitiful $14 million. I mean, is he even trying?

Clinton's campaign really turned the screws toward the end of the quarter, sending out their walking-ATM and hubby, Bill Clinton to solicit donations. The figures are in actuality, a win for Obama's camp, because Clinton intended to scare off her competition and project an air of inevitability with the egregious sum of campaign contributions she raked in. But new internet strategies and the wide base of donors for Obama may make Clinton Corp. adjust their game plan.



I personally think that this is ridiculous. Look at the graph to the left. If the presidency has devolved to the point that only the richest or best favor-askers can get elected, what does that say about our democracy?

Where will it end?