Comments on: Obama On The Take From Big Oil Companies

By: wesmorgan1

wesmorgan1 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:59:42 +0000

Oh, wait, the graphic in the original posting answers the question. These were individual donors who listed an oil company as their employer. So it wasn’t the corporate PACs. Yeah, that puts a different spin on things.

By: wesmorgan1

wesmorgan1 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:01:51 +0000

Well, I have to say $70,000 in proportion to how many millions ($30 mill just in March, right?) doesn’t seem a massive thing. Were these contributions from the corporate PACs, or were they individual donations from people who work for those firms?

By: stix1972

stix1972 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:11:09 +0000

When is the Left going to go after the Government’s big obscene profits it makes from oil??? They take more money than then big evil oil companies make off a gallon of gas.

Oh I forgot it is for the Children.

By: A NEWT ONE

A NEWT ONE — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:53:02 +0000

Global Cultural Jihad: Our Own CONgress Critters…

And, they are correct. The problem is not the oil companies turning a profit. It is the Leftinistra owl kissers and tree lickers and the folks that lose sleep over the amoebas and microbes. This nation hasn’t built a new refinery in 40+ years and the….

By: Fasternu426

Fasternu426 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:29:33 +0000

19% of the price of a gallon of gas is profit AND refining costs. The same as the 19% for state and local taxes. So, the government is making the same obscene profits as the EEEEVIL oil companies! They should be ashamed!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:23:33 +0000

factcheck.org is “the right”?

That’s a new one. Makes sense though since the left seems to rely on fiction rather than fact

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:16:44 +0000

Well, I think that is extremely misleading. Employees of an oil company are just as likely to donate to whatever candidate as employees of any other company and these amounts are actually tiny compared to the millions of dollars Obama gets every month. In the interest of fairness, this is an attempt to spin nothing into something. For example, lets say you have a secretary or receptionist that works for an oil company, likes Obama, and makes a donation. That doesn’t mean Obama is “on the take” from oil companies. That just means that oil companies hire Democrats … which last time I looked still wasn’t a crime.

This is pretty much a non-story and it makes the right look foolish trying to make it into one.

By: No Runny Eggs » Blog Archive » The Morning Scramble - 4/2/2008

No Runny Eggs » Blog Archive » The Morning Scramble - 4/2/2008 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:16:38 +0000

[...] know about Ted “Swimmer” Kennedy and the environment. - Hypocrisy is running amok; Scott at Flopping Aces exposes Obama’s oil-donation problem. - Mark McNally uncovered what Obama’s Secret Service [...]

By: doug

doug — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:45:53 +0000

Yep. He’s lying.

“According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Sen. Obama has received over $160,000 from the oil and gas companies. Two major bundlers for his campaign — George Kaiser and Robert Cavnar - are oil company CEOs. Sen. Obama has accepted money from Exxon, Shell, BP, Chevron and just about every other major oil company. Just last month, Sen. Obama accepted another $8,400 from ExxonMobil, $12,370 from Chevron and $6,500 from British Petroleum.”

By: bill-tb

bill-tb — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:24:04 +0000

Liberals lie, they just think people don’t care. They are probably right about not caring. In the old days the drive by parrot was able to keep it all under the covers. The parrot is near death and there are no covers. Old habits die hard.