Students Lose Zeal for Aiding Obama Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/us/politics/students-lose-enthusiasm-to-fight-for-obama-again.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine 
Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:13 AM
Subject: re: Students Lose Zeal for Aiding Obama Again
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  When senator Obama was building an outsider's campaign on small donations to challenge the entrenched powers, America's youth embraced him as one of their own. Now that he is wooing big donors in the banking, insurance, energy and defense sectors, their ardor has cooled. In each case, the channels of money are the channels of power. If we are to have a government truly of the People, by the People and for the People, it has to be divorced from this courtship of donors, large or small. Until we have public financing for campaigning, "one man one vote" is an empty slogan.

Barry Haskell Levine