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Obama’s Fundraising Comes Under Scrutiny »

Last week, the Obama campaign reported that it had a $52 million haul in the month of June. In releasing this information, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe wrote in an e-mail to supporters that:
“You continue to prove what ordinary Americans committed to change can accomplish, despite the Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs funding so […]

Obama and the DNC Don’t Take Lobbyists’ Money »

That’s what Tweedledum Dick Durbin said on Fox News this morning. And that’s what Howard Dean says. Every day, I think. Obama says it too. Also every blessed day. Thing is:

Ayers, Obama, Philanthropy, Corruption: What Big Media Refuses to Disclose about Obama’s Checkered Past in Chicago Machine Politics »

[Truthteller’s note:Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly broached the topic of Obama’s relationship to Bill Ayers and corrupt Chicago machine politics with a Fox News analyst and a Chicago Tribune columnist on 26 MAY. Although the panelists, who in my opinion are not very bright, provide an incomplete analysis, the Tribune columnist did mention that Leftists, Democrats […]

More About the Hypocrisy & Misleading Claims from Obama’s Campaign »

Barack Obama claimed he didn’t take oil-connected money, but he did (LA Times).  He claimed he didn’t take lobbyist-connected money, but he did (USA Today , LA Times, SourceWatch and The Hill).  He claimed he didn’t take corporate-connected cash, but he took more drug-company-connected cash than Hillary or McCain did (Newhouse News).
Both at No Quarter […]

Obama’s Credibility Gap »

Obama continues to say one thing and do another. The Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday that Obama has continued to take money from oil executives:
Sen. Barack Obama continued accepting donations from oil company executives and employees last month even as he aired ads in which he stated he took no oil company money, […]

Reality Infection Program (codename Obama) »


Dear Sen. Obama, Campaign Staff, and Your Media Cohorts: Have You No Shame? [Video Update] »

[The VIDEO UPDATE from Brother Barack is below the fold … and in that video he’s usin’ some line about Hillary actin’ like Annie Oakley. Damndest coincidence, that is. Isn’t it. That Barack would use the “Annie Oakley” line, and here we see a photo of Annie Oakley herself smack on the front […]

The Shape of Things to Come »

Sometimes things are so obvious that they pass us by without notice. Perhaps it is because they are so blatantly true that we choose not to acknowledge them. Or maybe it is that because they challenge our preheld conceptions so strongly that we choose to ignore their reality. Because otherwise we would feel bewildered, alone […]

True Environmentalists Don’t Raise Money for Obama (D-Exelon); They Support Clinton »

According to the Charlotte Observer, a group of ostensible environmentalists will hold an expensive fundraiser for Barack Obama in their posh home in the Myers Park neighborhood of Charlotte. I quote:
The invitation-only fundraisers will be at the Bonwood Drive home of environmental activists Bob Perkowitz and Lisa Renstrom. A “general reception” costs $1,000 a […]

Obama & Nuclear Power (+ Open Thread) »

Feel free to use this thread for whatever topic you’d like to bring up. But I’d just like to include this from NBC News:

There’s the seminal 2006 Harper’s article on Exelon’s influence over Obama. Then Washington Post blog reported on January 18:
Clinton has also made the topic a key point of attack against […]

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