What makes this a tough thing is that every opinion express here is right, including the President's.

If a power from outside the US wishes to influence an election they will now be free to do so without all the silly subtrafuges they have had to go though in the past.

Read up on the 'Bund' movement in the US during the 1930's. Germany knew if the US came into the war too soon it was all over for them, so the Bund was created to infulence Americans of German background to prevail upon our government to not get involved in Europe's war.

The Bund was very agressive about backing political canidates, and the Bund was financined 100% by Germany.

But the McCain-Finegold law was bad in the way it was written, not in it's intentions. I think the elected officials should go back to the drawing board and craft a law that will pass Constutional muster. Apparently not everyone feels this way.