Barack Obama on Lobbyists

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Uploaded by on Aug 7, 2007

Barack Obama talks about the disproportionate influence of lobbyists at Yearly Kos.

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  • Obama is full of shit. He just appointed a LOBBYIST to be deputy Secretary of Defense. You fools! He's just another politician. There's nothing different about him. Europeans love him because he's a socialist. When is Obama going to reach across the aisle?

  • Barack Obama often boasts he is "the only candidate who isn't taking a dime from Washington lobbyists," yet his fundraising team includes 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government, records show.

    Those lawyers, including 10 former federal lobbyists, have pledged to raise at least $3.5 million for the Illinois senator's presidential race. Employees of their firms have given Obama's campaign $2.26 million,

  • Amen

  • Read the NYTimes today. Barack was paid off by Energy lobbyists to dilute and defang his energy bill. Hah!

    That explains why Exelon is one of his top donors. Oh, and Axelrod, his campaign manager? Is a consultant (read: lobbyist) for a Nuclear Power company.

    OMG he is such a hypocrite!

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