Sunday, November 14, 2010

PPD's Fred Eshelman Paid For This

Back in August 2008, PPD's Fred Eshelman started giving to defeat Obama, and today's Wilmington StarNews article by Patrick Gannon goes into some detail about his generous giving. Here's one of the videos from his website:

Obama Failed Leadership - Foreign Policy from RightChange on Vimeo.

I wonder if he was involved with such great donations to Republicans before it was evident.....well, you fill in the blank. Maybe he hated Clinton just as badly?

Check out the videos at his website, and see if you don't think this stuff is laughable paranoia, and blatant propaganda, with no effort to dig deeper than sloganeering. Another piece of the right-wing blabber machine, brought to you by a pharmaceutical company. Of course, the website doesn't mention him by name, but we do know he spent $5.5 Million in 2008 and $3.4 Million in 2010....so, almost $10 Million in 2 years. At least we know.

I don't have to, but I will mention to Fred's credit that he has also been a generous donor to UNC-Chapel Hill, and the new Pharmacy School there is named for him. Often times, I find that people I disagree with politically are fine people that I get along with and respect.

Here's a link to the cbsnews.com article they talk about (but don't link to) in the StarNews article.