Names of the DC Lobbyists Obama “Doesn’t” Take Money From
By Uppity Woman on April 6, 2008 at 9:25 PM in Barack Obama, Federal Lobbyists
I would like to follow up on Barack Obama’s TV spot about how he doesn’t take money from lobbyists. First let’s take a look at his ad again.
Now let’s take a look at known Federal Lobbyists who are referred to as Bundlers For Barack Obama. You see, unlike the other candidates in this race, Barack Obama is far more surreptitious about his relationships with lobbyists, so that you might be able to see a sweet lovable TV commercial like the one we just saw. He is very clever. Known lobbyists collect “bundled” money for him so that the money doesn’t actually “look” like it came from the lobbyist himself. Now why would a lobbyist do this? Two reasons:
1) So Barack Obama could pretend he doesn’t take money from lobbyists
and
2) So the lobbyist will still later get “credit” for collecting all this cool cash for their “Man”.
Barack Obama appears to have mastered many old tricks for a man who claims to be “different”. Here is a most recent list of Registered Federal Lobbyists who have bundled money for Barack Obama. Click on the links to see bundling and lobby information from White House For Sale.
Robert S. Litt - $ Not Revealed
Thomas J. Perrelli - $200,000+
Total: $1,700,000+ dollars in bundled money from known registered Federal Lobbyists.
Let me clarify here before we get into a pissing match. Right or wrong, just about every presidential candidate who ever lived has collected money from lobbyists either directly or via bundling. The only difference here is Barack Obama denies it. And that is just plain unacceptable.
And this will be a media talking point about how untrustworthy Obama is for how many days? Nevermind.
They’re still pounding Clinton on her income. This will have to wait until after the primaries, I’m afraid.
Did you notice in the ad he claims not to take money from oil companies? Not true! The Center for Responsible Politics claims he has taken over $200,00 from oil and gas companies. Also the ideas he mentions in the ad, such as 5 million new jobs are Hillary’s ideas.
All of his good ideas are Hillary’s ideas.
For some reason the word HYPOCRISY keeps bouncing off (Ten foot tall and Bullet proof Action Hero) OBAMESSIAH’s specially designed super armor.
If you put Hillary’s name everywhere that Obama’s appears in the ad and commercial, she’d be the subject of all the men’s talk shows, MSNBC, CNN etc.
She’d be fried for days. What happens to Obama?
NOTHING.
You left out some key ones Uppity, Rowe of Exelon, the company Obama shelved a nuclear bill over, Crown of Maytag fame and also a $2 billion shareholder of General Dynamics, both major bundlers Exelon a major importer of Natural gas from Canada(thus Goolsbee talk with Canada over NAFTA) and Crwon milking the war, General Dynamics sales have increased by $8billion since the Iraq war with $43 billion in back orders and profits have gone from Tripled since the war, paying shareholders last year $5.89 per share dividen, so you think Obama will stop the war, Powers was right in her BBC exposure, it is rhetoric! So Obama becomes President, all those college kids backing him who are in military reservists and such will be going to war in 2 years, nice going kids! Hope, Change and Unite, Bush words from Obama’s mouth!
Oh one other thing, Rowe is a major donor to the U of C hospital, and Crown, well he is chair of the U of Chicago Trustees, so do the math as to Michelle Obama’s big promotion! And don’t forger Priezker, of Superior bank fame, with her $460 million in fines to pay, her being cochair of Obama’s finace commitee, and a major donor to the U of C hospital, give Michelle a big raise, buy a President and get an Executive Order releasing her of the $460 million fine!
Reported, nope!
They weren’t listed at the time I got the information, Mel. Can you give me some links please? I will happily update! With Pleasure! Thanks!
Mel, I was just listing the lobbyists though. Because he says he doesn’t take money from lobbyists.
I know Uppity, here is another list, trying to find the lobbyist one also, but these are lobbied moneys http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?CID=N00009638
This is one great example that support my theory that Obama is a pathologic liar. He lies with ease and without conscious. Even simple thing as how his parents met he lied about it to spice up his story with MLK.
NAFTA - lied
Wright - lied
Rezko - lied
Kennedy flied his dad - lied and the list goes on.
these lies are intentional, to keep the distraction away from the truth of Obama, Obama is in the big leagues of corporate influence and no one notices because the little things like Rezko and NAFTA keep from people looking!
Dig into Obama’s record, the war will continue under Obama, credit cards will increase rates under Obama, nuclear power plants will thrive under OBama, healthcare will go no where under Obama, his record reflects every thing Obama has done supporting his major contributors!
Rezko was a set up tear down by General Electric, they needed him out of the way for scamming in Iraq and faulty nuclear plants and credit card protection for them not the people! Connect the dots to the real Obama, it is all out there!
Pathological is the right word for his lying.
Yes, and don’t think the Republicans don’t know about it. I saw Rove on Fox last week, reeling off a list of lies and exaggerations of Obama’s with ease. They are prepping for a full assault. Pathetic media panderers have allowed this to go on for months. Hillary gives money to charity, and somehow that is construed as nefarious activity so she “can get something in return.”
I wonder if the media are just setting things up for McCain.
That is the million dollar question. McCain also lies with impunity and the media will have to choose whether to stay with their old flame macho “Straight Talk” McCain or their new, crush, Mr. Cool.
How sad for our democracy that so many of us know that who wins will have nothing to do with the candidates’ qualities, but with the preferences of our emotionally retarded media, who are still stuck in junior high school. I know people who are voting for Obama just because they think the media will sink Hillary!
Uppity Woman
You mentioned Gaza and over seas donation to day.
what was that about?
There’s a video rolling around about a guy in Gaza city who has gathered something like 17 other citizens and they have a computer setup and make campaign calls for Barack Obama.
The PLO guy I am referring to is Rashid Khalidi who was director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, the time during which the PLO committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terror group. He held a fundraiser for Barry the Uniter.
I found the video on Aljeezera youtube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g
Barack Obama blew his chance to have an honest-no-BS conversation with the voters the day he threw his grandma under the bus. His campaign is one that is built on lies and obfuscation. He does not deserve being considered a candidate for the highest office of the land!
His “typical white grandmother”. Another one I’m working on.
Cripes. I could write about this jerk full time if I had the time. There is just no end to his bullshit.
better to do now than in the GE when the GOP does Uppity!
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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=5363589
He’s back in SF “just visiting” his slicon valley bundeler…Add him to the list
The list I posted is just for lobbyists. I plan to do the non lobby bundlers in the future. All 361 of them. That’s right. 361 bundlers for Mister-I-Only-Take-Money-From-YOU.
We need to be careful about bashing all Middle Easterners. I personally know Iranians who came here to get away from the religious fanatics that took over in the 70’s and are big Clinton supporters.
That being said, these kinds of connections - especially with the PLO - will be fodder for the Republican attack machine.
As for the Auchi connection - if this can be proven, Obama will be toast.
Thank you for exposing the fraud. Great blog you got here. I was thinking about voting for him. Guess not now.
You know it’s almost as if the lies are not as important as the fact that the media is just pissing away their chance to call him on this stuff. Lies are only important in an election if voters are made AWARE of them in a big way. Just as advertising has to achieve a certain impression rate to be effective, so fact checking groups, hillarys’ fact check on her website, and the blogs, are just not effective in calling him on this. The truth has to be put out there repeatedly. That’s why you see something inconsequential thrown at Hillary, and you see 3 days of 24/7 coverage of it. It’s why there are talking points circulated to the media, and the surrogates. The media MANAGEMENT knows these things. They’re versed in the psychology of consumers (and voters.)
The media knows this. They know that malignant neglect of the lies swirling around his entire image is implied endorsement of an Obama vs. McCain ticket. They want him to run against McCain. They let the Rev. Wright thing die, when it should have and would have disqualified any other candidate.
Al Gore and Bill Clinton both have spoken out on the dangerous new conglomeration of media in America. Obama should be exposed for these lies, but he is not. He is getting millions from bundlers and others to run 5 times the ads that Hillary can, the media won’t do their job for the most part, and he takes it all. And we.. the People.. get screwed.
With all his lies, I won’t be surprised if he also he also takes money from foreign nationals; from the Saudi,and all over Africa.
check out the “non-negotiable commitment” to Africa he pledged when he joined that church of his… its part of their “who we are” statement.
thats why he does so much for Africa
Maybe he should run for president of Africa then. He sure hasn’t done much here.
He could help out his cousin Odinga. The guy has a bit of a problem what with being accused of ethnic cleansing and all.
regarding what this says about obama’s personality and character -
i don’t know.
i’m inclined to consider this possibility:
barack obama is the manchurian candidate of the democratic party -
a candidate who has been put up by wealthy individuals and corporations to, essentially, take over the democratic party, and, in particular, exercise strict control over the democratic party’s inclination to regulate corporations and to shut down and prevent war - a government activity highly profitable for corporations.
the candidate who had been supported by been-there-way-too-long, been-way-too-cozy-to-business senators like leahy, liberman, kerry, dodd, and former senator, and ineffective democratic majority leader in 2002, tom daschle.
it has always been my principle objection to obama that he come from nowhere, repeat, nowhere,
had no sustained record of accomplishment or of caring activism, as senator clinton has,
yet suddenly acquired the loving attention of the american media.
these miracles take money to accomplish;
and, while that money may well have been in $20 bills, i doubt it came from small individual donors.
while that money may well have been in $20 bills, i doubt it came from small individual donors
Spoke to a friend the other day, and know how you can turn big money into small donations, prepared visa cards and a database of supporters, can drum millions in funding from one source and untraceable unless checked into which no one will do for small donations, cost too much! but is effective by someone and easy for someone knowing their way around a computer and the net, Axelrod ring a bell?
Uppity,
Great work. powerful and succinct.
That feels really good coming from you Larry!
Thanks! This is really great info. I just shared this with Yahoo answers to inform more people. Of course the media will not cover so we each need to get this out to as many people as possible. His schemes and manipulations are endless!!
Uppity is great!
This is small potatoes compared to Uppity’s research, but maybe death by a thousand cuts works, too. Yesterday, Senator Ted Kennedy was on tv for Obama saying when elected Obama will provide the same health care coverage for all citizens that each member of Congress and their families now receive. Kennedy waved his “health care card” around in front of the camera for effect. Does Obama know his health care coverage promises have expanded?
Uppity does it again!
Uppity does a better job than:
1. The MSM. About 10000% better. But of course it’s hard to multiply anything by zero.
2. The HRC campaign. Uppity is doing more for Hill than most people.
Thank you, you uppity woman!
Geeze that fifty bucks I gave you guys to say nice things has really gone a long way for me!
Can someone explain this to me please?
If someone can only donate…$2,300…how do these
people give so much? how could the lobbyist gave so much money?
“Right or wrong, just about every presidential candidate who ever lived has collected money from lobbyists either directly or via bundling. The only difference here is Barack Obama denies it. And that is just plain unacceptable.”
Amen, Uppity!!! He’s the one sashaying around like he’s walkin’ on sunshine and his flatulence smells like fresh baked brownies. He’s a liar!
Okay, I don’t see how this helps Clinton.
We all know that candidates take money from corporations and that former lobbyists are legally allowed to work on campaigns. If your figures are a guide (who is registered as a lobbyist) are an indication, Clinton may take in more money from registered lobbyists.
Can you clarify this?
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