Obama takes six figures from Abramoff firm »
Posted by: pc25 3 months, 1 week ago112 Comments Report this Story
Barack Obama has pledged to end the influence of lobbyists, but that doesn't keep him from fundraising at the offices of one of the most notoriously corrupt lobbyists in years. Newsday reported over the weekend that Obama took about $125,000 from Greenberg Traurig employees at their Miami offices last October.
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libsRfunny3 months, 1 week ago
"However, among the broad spectrum of lobbyists and legal firms, Hillary has taken in $15.7 million and Obama $13.8 million. McCain comes in last at $4.2 million."
Whoaaaaaaaaa!!! Those are some pretty big digits there for the Dems. No wonder McCain is behind on fundraising.
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Aidenag3 months, 1 week ago
McCain also recieved six figures from this firm. Though i really wouldn't put much into the fact either of them got money from them... It's a huge firm with 1700 lawyers, 19 locations, And is the 16th largest law firm by revenue in the world, 8th largest in the US.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/12/mccain...
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libsRfunny3 months, 1 week ago
yeah, we saw your post before. Turns out Obama didn't get much less than McCain, and you railed McCain for it. Yet, this is the most damning of all ...
"However, among the broad spectrum of lobbyists and legal firms, Hillary has taken in $15.7 million and Obama $13.8 million. McCain comes in last at $4.2 million."
Nearly $10 million more than McCain. Any wonder Obama has more cash? Needless to say, every time I see a self righteous Obama article excoriating McCain for lobbyist ties and Obama pretending he has nothing to do with lobbyists - even though several work on his campaign and he has a long history of accepting lobbyist funding - that figure will resurface.
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newbie04203 months, 1 week ago
"McCain also recieved six figures from this firm."
Wow, so because McCain did it it's ok for Obama, you know the guy who preaches CHANGE in Washington all the time?
I've been saying he's a politician like the rest of them the whole time, looks like I was right, too bad you can't admit it.
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ybdogsct3 months, 1 week ago
I wonder why PC25 chose not to post the original Newsday article. Maybe, this is why.
LOL.
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/print...
"To link an attorney there to the illegal actions of Jack Abramoff simply because they worked at the same firm is ridiculous.
The attorneys held fundraisers for not only Obama, but also for McCain and Clinton. McCain, who chaired the Senate probe of Abramoff, held two events, one in the firm's New York office, another in Miami. McCain raised $138,000.
Unlike McCain and Clinton, Obama accepts money from advocates but not lobbyists. The Center for Responsive Politics said lobbyists gave McCain $590,952 and Obama $115,163, but Obama returns lobbyist funds.
Obama stated he doesn't accept money from 'currently registered federal lobbyists, registered foreign agents, PACs, or minors.' His filings show he was true to his word."
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nostalgia3 months, 1 week ago
You must have missed this:
The Boston Globe: Obama and lobbyists 2007:
PACs and lobbyists aided Obama's rise
Using campaign appearances, e-mails, and Iowa TV ads, Sen Obama has repeatedly reminded voters that his presidential campaign does not accept contributions from lobbyists or political action committees, casting his decision as a noble departure from the ways of Washington.
Behind Obama's campaign rhetoric about taking on special interests lies a more complicated truth. A Globe review of Obama's campaign finance records shows that he collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and PACs as a state legislator, a US senator, and a presidential aspirant.
Though Obama has returned thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from registered federal lobbyists since he declared his candidacy in Feb, his presidential campaign has maintained ties with lobbyists & lobbying firms to help raise some of the $58.9 million he collected through the first 6 months of 2007.
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pc253 months, 1 week ago
the newsday link is there for all to see........second of all he accepted the money didn't he...........and for someone who is accusing McCain it is hypocrisy at best because it is politics as usual and not change you can believe in........It does kind of leave open many questions and make one start to question what is his actual relationship with Rezko and how dirty is it..........
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ybdogsct3 months, 1 week ago
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/05/30/...
"McCain has more lobbyists working on his campaign staff than any other candidate."
http://www.newsweek.com/id/136321
"Doug Goodyear, McCain's selection for GOP Convention Chair, is CEO of DCI Group, which earned $3 million lobbying for ExxonMobil and GM.
DCI was paid $348,000 to represent Burma's military junta, which was condemned by the State Dept. for its human-rights record and remains in power today. His firm created a PR campaign to burnish the junta's image, denouncing 'falsehoods' by the Bush administration that the regime engaged in rape and other abuses.
Goodyear's firm also pioneered 527 groups, precisely the kind of operations that McCain, in his battle for campaign-finance reform, has denounced.
Ironically, Goodyear was chosen for the post after the McCain campaign nixed another candidate, Paul Manafort, who runs a lobbying firm with McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis."
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CHAM3 months, 1 week ago
ybdogsct
Right on.
And you didn't even have to mention that McCain was a living breathing member, actually was one of the Keating Five, the group that bilked the American public of over a Billion dollars. Robbed retirees and investors of their life savings and etc.
Keating is the one who slipped hundreds of thousands of dollars to McCain, his wife, and her father.
The funny thing is McCain got real hot when questioned by a reporter, asked the reporter if he was stupid, that the money was given to his wife and therefore didn't count against him! Oh the Chutzpa of it all.
Yeah - good ole boy McCain is a saint - NOT!
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TheRealizer3 months, 1 week ago
Innocent children should not be in politics, if he can't cover his tracks he should quit. Every professional politician is for sale, some are just brighter than others.
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TheRealizer3 months, 1 week ago
Innocent children should not be in politics, if he can't cover his tracks he should quit. Every professional politician is for sale, some are just brighter than others.
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TheRealizer3 months, 1 week ago
Innocent children should not be in politics, if he can't cover his tracks he should quit. Every professional politician is for sale, some are just brighter than others.
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pc253 months, 1 week ago
it's what happens when the page locks up and you don't know whats going on and then you click the submit button again....the system does get a little quirky at times
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pc253 months, 1 week ago
it's what happens when the page locks up and you don't know whats going on and then you click the submit button again....the system does get a little quirky at times
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alakazam3 months, 1 week ago
I would like to see this investigated.
Make no mistake Ladies and Gentlemen...Alakazam loves America.
Can we please elect a person of true Presidential Nature.
Is there a truly "GREAT" American that actually can unite us?
I will not vote for McCain or Hillary...Period!
Can we please have some Integrity back in Politics?
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aniokly3 months, 1 week ago
OMG, this is not a surprise to anyone. Obama is no more, and no less corrupt then any other Chicago politician. Did you believe all that stuff about no lobbyists for the Obamessiah? Do you beieve in the tooth fairy, and Santa too? With the figures above it looks to me that only McCain is not for sale. Want to bet tomorrow we get that, "I never knew a thing about this. I will give the money to Charity." blah, blah, blah. Obama is a liar, and has no credibility, no honor, and no shame.
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TOD3963 months, 1 week ago
And yet here is another issue that Obama is speaking one thing, while doing the exact opposite. If all of these issues do not open up the eyes of his supporters, then nothing will. America needs honesty, integrity, and leadership in the WH. Obama posesses none of these skills. he has honed his ability to tell people what they want to hear. That is his one true gift. he can't deliver any of those wonderful promises, but it makes people feel good to think someone can. Can we please find someone who can lead our country in the RIGHT direction?
Once again, Obama couldn't tell the truth if his soul depended on it.
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TOD3963 months, 1 week ago
What is it about you and yours that makes you so crazy about hating Bush? At every turn, regardless of content, it somehow comes back to attacking Bush.
This is what you and yours sound like.
My daughter got an A on her report card: "She would have had an A if Bush wasn't in office"
The fish just aren't biting today: "That's because Bush is President"
Charlie was just diagnosed with lung cancer after smoking 40 years: "It's all Bush's fault"
NEWSFLASH: This thread was pertaining to Obama and his promising to not accept money from Washington lobbyists, while accepting 6 figures from Wahington lobbyists. Please, please, I beg of you, don't break the chain. Please respond how Obama accepting money from firms he pledged not to, is somehow Bush's fault. I'm countin on ya, don't let me down. It might require some real grey matter, but I know you have it in you. Tell us how this is Bush's fault also...
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ningyo3 months, 1 week ago
he also seems to have directed several hundred thousands to the good rev phlecher over the years..his associations with these hard left socialist anti-american people and groups are no accident--check out his youtube video where he pledges the entire disarming and standing down of the US military..and i think his bridezilla is even more radical..scarier than hillary which i didnt think possible
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aniokly3 months, 1 week ago
I am not as alarmed about his association with the very flakey Fathet Pflager, as I am concerned about his close relationship with the anti=American Rev Wright, ACORN. an anti American, far left group, his close association with his bomber buddies, and Mr Khalidi, a PLO Sympathizer. He is much closer to Khalidi then he is admitting. Their children go to school together, the parents socialize together, and share each others babysitting cjores. That is a little to cozy for me. Makes me wonder just whose side Obama is on in the M E wars.
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CHAM3 months, 1 week ago
I read the article and then I read the comments attached to the article. Unless I am mistaken, the article said that Obama got less from the Abramowitz Firm than either McCain or Clinton.
Yet the Article seems to attack Obama for getting his and all the comments attached to the article gigged Obama for taking the money, but neither the Article nor the commenters wasted any "Hotair" ( No pun intended ) in mentioning, except in passing, that the other two got more.
At least I didn't see a complaint to that effect.
I am against taking money from Lobbyists or their Firms. I think it should be against the law.
However when Politicians do take the money, don't they always seem to be many fingers pointing to "the other guy/person ( gotta be PC ).
If we would pass a law prohibiting any elected official accepting or any Lobbyist or Firm from donating money and place into effect severe penalties, maybe we could stop this bribery ( jail for example ).
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