Obama Camp Won't Pull Oil Ad That Clinton Calls Misleading

No, sorry. I meant Obama. Just like I wrote. Sorry you're so blind.

None of those links says anything about Obama's presidential campaign. He has not taken any lobbyist money in his campaign.

Again, tell your candidate Clinton to include a ban on federal lobbyist money on her
donations page as Obama has done. Go to her own website, hillaryclinton.com, and see for yourself.

Again you are avoiding the fundamental issue, which is that if you are against lobbyists, why are you supporting Clinton, who has said herself that lobbyists represent the American people?

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/32/
Obama's, " anti-lobbyist policy includes one caveat and a few loopholes that weaken his claim to be funding his political campaign in a way that's truly different from his competitors.

He almost always qualifies his statement to note that he won't take money from federal lobbyists, a distinction that allows him to accept money from well-connected state lobbyists.

For example, South Florida lobbyist Russ Klenet and his wife will host a fundraising event in Broward County for Obama on August 25. Klenet represents state groups such as the Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers, but also companies such as Match.com and Election Systems & Software.

And Obama still accepts tens of thousands of dollars from people who work for Washington firms that do substantial lobbying. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is an Obama contributor who isn't a registered lobbyist, but works as a consultant for Alston & Bird, a lobbying firm in Washington.

The Center for Responsive Politics found that Obama accepted $55,019 from employees at lobbying firms, and much more from companies that are not classified as lobbying firms but have lobbying divisions.

So we give Obama's statement a Half-True on the Truth-O-Meter. While Obama can accurately say that he does not accept money from federally registered lobbyists, he still accepts thousands from people in the influence industry."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/09/pacs_and_lobbyists_aided_obamas_rise/

A Globe review of campaign finance records shows he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and PACs as a state legislator , a US senator, and a presidential aspirant.

Obama's eight years in Illinois Senate, from 1996 to 2004, almost two-thirds of money he raised for his campaigns -- $296,000 of $461,000 -- came from PACs, corporate contributions according to Illinois Board of Elections records. He tapped financial services firms, real estate developers, healthcare providers, oil companies, and corporate interests, the records show.

Obama's US Senate campaign committee, starting with his successful run in 2004, has collected $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from PACs, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit organization that tracks money in politics. His $1.3 million from PACs represents 8 percent of what he has raised overall. Clinton's Senate committee, by comparison, has raised $3 million from PACs, 4 percent of her total amount raised, the group said.

In addition, Obama's own federal PAC, Hopefund, took in $115,000 from 56 PACs in the 2005-2006 election cycle out of $4.4 million the PAC raised, according to CQ MoneyLine, which collects Federal Election Commission data. Obama then used those PAC contributions -- including thousands from defense contractors, law firms, and the securities and insurance industries -- to build support for his presidential run by making donations to Democratic Party organizations and candidates around the country.

NO, I am not confusing employees and an industry with lobbyists. First, Opensecrets.org lists Obama's lawyer and federally registered Lobbyist donations at $13,805,333 as reported to the FEC by the Obama campaign, not me. From factcheck.org "In addition, Obama accepts donations from the employees, families and others directly tied to lobbyists. We've noted before that Obama's policy of not taking money from lobbyists is a bit of hair-splitting. It's true that he doesn't accept contributions from individuals who are registered to lobby the federal government. But he does take money from their spouses and from other individuals at firms where lobbyists work. And some of his bigger fundraisers were registered lobbyists until they signed on with the Obama campaign."

Second, as Obama keeps parsing the words so do his supporters. It has been illegal for corporations to make political donations for over 30 years, no one accusing Obama of accepting illegal corporate money. Rather, Obama is receiving millions of dollars from the executives and managers of corporations, perfectly legal, that is how the corporate executives make sure they gain a seat at the Obama table.

Yeah, right. Obama is "buying" the election, all right... only, it's with the people's money, contributed by millions of small donors. That's the very definition of public financing. You're just sore because Barack Obama is raising more money than Hillary and John McCain put together, and he's a better campaigner and money-manager than both of them put together, too.

He's built the organization that will be the model for future Presidential runs. There's no doubt that Obama is a better executive and manager than Clinton, just look at their campaigns.

We weren't hoodwinked. Millions of us gladly contributed to Obama's campaign because we know he's the superior candidate. He has rewarded our efforts by demonstrating that he's a vastly better campaigner and money-manager than John McCain (and Hillary, too, of course, but she's no longer a factor in the race).

By the way, don't worry... we won't try to convert you to our "cult." Obama supporters have been shown statistically to be better educated than Clinton and McCain supporters. It's fairly obvious that you don't fall into that category, so we'll just leave you to wallow in the mediocrity of your chosen candidate.

Susan1968, I am so glad that you learned a new word... Hoodwinked.

He's running a misleading "dirty tricks" ad. Oldest dirty trick in the book -- playing voters for idiots with his lie.

That Obama - he'll do anything to win.

you can discredit Dick Morris all you want but how about you try to do independent research, you will come to a similar conclusion to what he wrote about in this article.