I watched with nausea as Obama spoke a while back in Minneapolis and praised and praised the popular former senator from Minnesota, Paul Wellstone, who unfortunately was killed several years ago in a plane crash.
I couldn’t help but think of David Sirota’s article about Obama in The Nation, Mr. Obama goes to Washington, in which Obama refers to Wellstone as a gadfly. Gadfly is defined as; a persistent irritating critic; a nuisance.
In a similar vein and a must read is Harper’s Magazine’s, Barack Obama Inc.
ABCNews.com Analysis Shows the Campaign Still Hasn’t Returned More Than $100,000 in Questionable Contributions
By AVNI PATEL
Jan. 28, 2008—
Despite claims over the weekend from Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama that his campaign had given away all the donations connected to accused fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the campaign has not returned Read the rest of this entry »
Those were Obama’s words as he curtly walked out on a press conference earlier today, a sign of the continuing deterioration of the relationship between Obama and the press. As the Rezko trial begins and more and more evidence mounts that Obama has been rather untruthful (shocking!) with the press about his relationship with Rezko.
From Obama’s best friend in the media MSNBC;
From NBC/NJ’s Aswini Anburajan
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Led by the Chicago press corps that has covered Obama for years, the candidate today faced a barrage of questions in what turned out to be a contentious news conference. Read the rest of this entry »
Away from the bright lights and high-minded rhetoric of the campaign trail, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has quietly worked with corporate lobbyists to help pass breaks worth $12 million.
In his speeches, Obama has lambasted lobbyists and moneyed interests who “have turned our government into a game only they can afford to play.”
“It’s an entire culture in Washington — some of it legal, some of it not,” the Democratic hopeful told a New York crowd in June, rallying support for his ethics reform agenda.
But last year, at the request of a hired representative for an Australian-owned chemical corporation Nufarm, Obama introduced nine separate bills Read the rest of this entry »
Getting His Money and Raising It, Too? Washiongton Post
Friday, February 22, 2008; A10
Last week, a coalition of advocacy groups, including Common Cause and the League of Women Voters, expressed “deep concern” that Sen. Barack Obama might wriggle out of what they depicted as a “pledge” to accept public financing in the general election. The Obama campaign denies making a formal promise Read the rest of this entry »
Remember when Hillary Clinton pointed out Barack’s numerous present votes (rather than taking a stand) on abortion? As always, Barack Read the rest of this entry »
Obama and Clinton ads both claim all Americans would be covered by their health plans. Clinton’s would come close.
Summary
In television ads, Clinton’s campaign says her health care plan is the only one that will provide universal coverage, while Obama says his plan will cover all Americans, too. We find:
The media refuses to point out that for all his talk of wanting to get away from “politics as usual” Obama has been its biggest supporter. Throughout this campaign Obama has levied false charges against Clinton, using tactics that can only be compared Read the rest of this entry »
Sen. Barack Obama claimed that President Clinton “made several misleading statements about my record” on Iraq. Actually, everything President Clinton said was true: Read the rest of this entry »
Though it’s several months too late, at least it’s here. The NY Times article examines Obama’s contention, which he heavily campaigned on in Iowa, that he passed a bill in Senate to require all plant owners to notify Read the rest of this entry »
As we’ve documented here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, Obama has a loose relationship with the truth. There is an email circulating that grossly misrepresents Hillary’s legislative record, as well as the record of Sen. Obama. (Various versions appear on the Obama campaign website here, here, and here.) Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve discussed the meaningless pledge by Obama not to take money from federally registered lobbyists here. Further evidence of his disingenuousness, if not outright lying, Read the rest of this entry »
The following appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times days after Obama was elected to the senate.
Ridiculing it as “a silly question,” Democrat Barack Obama pledged Wednesday he would resist any overtures to run for president or vice president before the end of his six-year term as a U.S. senator. Read the rest of this entry »
There was a moment at Monday night’s Democratic presidential debate where Sen. Hillary Clinton expressed frustration that it was hard to have a “straight up” discussion with Sen. Barack Obama because he allegedly keeps shifting his stances on issues. (Bet that’s not the first time she’s said that to a charismatic politician.)
She said that Obama once endorsed a single-payer healthcare system. Obama said he didn’t. The reasons this did-too, did-not dispute matters are twofold.
Clinton is trying to knock Obama’s halo off. It’s hard to be the standard bearer of “change” and a different kind of politics if you’re revealed to be another politician who opportunistically takes up and drops positions like changes of clothes.
I watched with nausea as Obama spoke a while back in Minneapolis and praised and praised the popular former senator from Minnesota, Paul Wellstone, who unfortunately was killed several years ago in a plane crash.
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