If there’s one thing readily apparent about the far left, it’s that they seen petroleum corporate cabals at the heart of most everything wrong in America, and Vice President Cheney is their Dr Evil. As a means of pandering to that leftist base, Senator Obama has campaigned,
“I don’t take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyists, and I won’t let them block change anymore.”
Yet, he voted for the Cheney Energy Bill that gave tax cuts to oil companies at a time when their profits are at historic, record-setting highs. Could it be that he voted to get more money for the evil oil cabal so that he could get some kickbacks?
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I wonder if the left will rail against him as strongly as they do Vice President Cheney? Yeah, I know. Sorry to make you all snarf all over your monitors.
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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.
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.”
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.
factcheck.org is “the right”?
That’s a new one. Makes sense though since the left seems to rely on fiction rather than fact
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!
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.
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?
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.