Barack Obama, the candidate of change, who will banish evil lobbyists and stand up to big corporations, hasn’t exactly distanced himself from their money.
The top 10 sources of contribution to Saint Obama’s campaign coffers:
1. Goldman Sachs - $571,330
2. University of California - $437,236
3. UBS AG - $364,806
4. JPMorgan Chase & Co - $362,207
5. Citigroup Inc - $358,054
6. National Amusements Inc - $320,750
7. Lehman Brothers - $318, 647
8. Google Inc - $309,514
9. Harvard University - $309,025
10. Sidley Austin LLP - $294,245
Funny, but except for the two left wing universities and his wife’s former law firm, this looks pretty much like a list of donors for an old fashioned “non-change” candidate.
Then again, when talking about “change,” maybe he meant the legal tender type.
(Author’s note: These numbers do not indicate donations directly from the listed organizations, but rather from their PACs and/or members/employees and their families.)
(Source: Human Events)
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Definitely not small change
1. Dov
Yeah, I guess now when he says he is the candidate of “big change,” we understand him.
It should be illegal for a public institution (Univ. of Ca.) to donate to any campaign.
3. NA
Thanks for bringing that up. I need to clarify that point.
Has Obama taken any money from registered lobbyists? NOPE.
Did McCain have a lobbyist who once represented Burma’s military junta (the same one that killed, raped and violated human rights) and has worked on behalf of Exxonmobile in charge of his convention? YEP.
Just because he receives the money from big business PACs doesn’t mean the people who work at these places and contribute to the PACs have a brain.
#5 - And of COURSE ole BO won’t be hearing any policy requests or advisements from these contributors right?
Surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre!!!
5.
Have you read the WSJ’s editorial today on Barack’s, um, “associations” and his way of dealing with slimey pals?
Not flattering, to say the least.
houstondem
No Obama hangs out with racist clergy at a racist church for 20 years, Obama is friends with a terrorist who has blown up buildings in U.S. cities, and one of Obama’s largest fund raisers over the years is now a convicted felon.
But your are right Obama claims he does not take any money from those “evil” lobbyist.
#8 RickG
I wonder how much room is left under O’Bama’s magic bus? It’s getting really crowded under there with people he didn’t know as well as he thought.
Barack slipped into Chantilly, VA and said “hey” to the Bilderberg Conference (when the reporters on his plane discovered that he wasn’t with them they wuz steamed).
Looks like he impressed the good ol’ boys…
change? Yeah, more of mine and your spare change.
10 NA
Yeah, maybe we should be thankful for the lengthy campaign season after all. At this rate, by November Obama may have morphed into McGovern.
“BO” is all talk and as long as the gullible people accept him on his word then it makes no difference who he is getting his campaign funds from or who his associates do. In the eyes of the “gullible ones” “BO” can do no wrong and this is when you get into trouble. Thank goodness for a long campaign period so maybe the truth will come out. HELLary is hoping the truth comes out sooner rather than later. That is why she didn’t release her delegates. Oh, but she suspended her campaign but dah!! the primary race is over anyway. And that doesn’t keep her from badgering the “stupid delegates”.
#12 RickG
The short attention span crowd of voters that are tending to support O’Bama should also start losing interest soon, so the length of the campaign might help there as well. I know I’m getting tired of this campaign after what, a year & a half now?
In 1995, Bernadine Dohrn and her husband, William Ayres. both former Weather Underground terrorists, hosted a campaign fundraiser for Obama. Ayers contributed to Obama’s campaign. Bernadine Dohrn and both Barack and Michelle Obama were employed by the Sidley and Austin Law Firm. Bernadine, like Barack was involved with “community organizing”. Obama and Ayers have appeared on academic panels together. While Obama has tried to downplay this as coincidental, his participation with Ayers on a 1997 University of Chicago panel was actually put together by the associate Dean of Student Services, Michelle Obama. Their kids have attended the same schools, and when the Obamas moved a little more than a year ago (with the financial help of the wife of indicted Syrian National, Tony Rezko), it just happened to be in the same neighborhood as Ayers. Both Obama and Ayers served on the Woods Foundation Board, which along with funding “community organizing” agreed to give $75,000 to the Arab American Action Network, cofounded by PLO-and-Yasser-Arafat apologist, Rashid Kalidi.
Ayers and Dohrn hate capitalism. Today William Ayers is a powerful advocate for Queering Elementary Education and advancing the cause of gay, straight, transgender and lesbian rights. The gay journalist Andrew Sullivan has declared Barack Obama the dream candidate of the homosexual movement.
err, make that CONVICTED Syrian National, Tony Rezko
My thought is that if Obama gets elected he will be worse (which is hard to believe) than Jimmy Carter. The good thing about having Jimmy Carter as president was that we got Reagan in return. Maybe the same thing would happen again - another Reaganesque candidate would take us out of the ashes that Obama would put us in. Sometimes you have to sink all the way to the bottom (and that would definitely be Obama) in order to be able to rise up again.
I think a few debates without teleprompters will reveal that Obama is an idiot. Of course, McCain will apologize to Obama for the mean remarks that come from conservatives.
Debate:
Moderator: Gentlemen, we’ll start first with global warming. I’ll address the first question to Senator McCain. Senator, how do you plan to deal with global warming?
Senator McCain: Well, it’s a real problem and it’s going to affect us all dramatically. Ozone, hole, CFCs, oceans, floods, urgent, whole world, alternative energy, Vietnam, God’s children.
Moderator: Thank you senator McCain. Senator Obama?
Senator Obama: I’m about change. Changing the atmosphere. Too much pollution. Ozone, hole, CFCs, oceans, floods, urgent, whole world, alternative energy, against Vietnam, Christian, not Muslim.
Change? Please…the dim Dems use the same playbook…every year. The only thing we have to fear…is democratic change.