Posted by: dkobalt88 | March 29, 2008

Obama Caught Lying: Yes, he DOES take money from oil companies

Once again Obama has been caught lying — like he did about NAFTA, Rev. Wright, and Rezko. And once again, much of the mainstream press seems poised to excuse his lies.

At issue is an ad in which he makes the false and simplistic claim, “I don’t take money from oil companies or lobbyists.”

The Clinton campaign called him on it, noting that he has in fact received thousands of dollars from oil companies. But Obama is sticking to the deception, lamely claiming this represents independent contributions from individual workers, not oil company lobbyists.

But according to NBC and Obama’s own website a couple of Obama’s big money bundlers are oil executives. Robert Cavnar, CEO of a Texas oil company named Mission Resources Corp., raised $50,000-$100,000 for the campaign. George Kaiser, billionaire CEO at Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, raised the same amount.

Are CEO’s of oil companies the individual workers Obama is talking about? Will the press call him on this lie? Probably not, since he has yet to even receive flak for changing his story several times about Rezko’s real fund raising role.

CLICK ON the Take Action or Stop the Presses tabs at the top of the page for tools on contacting the media. Ask them why they are not telling the truth about Obama’s lies about the money he takes from oil company executives.

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Chris Matthews, the MSNBC political pundit, recently grilled Texas State Senator Kirk Watson for supporting Obama despite knowing nothing about the candidate’s legislative record.

“Can you name any — can you name anything he’s accomplished?” Matthews pressed.

“No,” Watson, whose district includes Austin, finally admitted. “I’m not gonna be able to do that.”

“Well, that’s a problem, isn’t it?” Matthews said.
http://news.houstonpress.com/2008-02-28/news/barack-obama-screamed-at-me/

So Hillary gets caught in a flagrant lie about bullets over Bosnia, and now it’s time to displace blame? Obama’s statement and Clinton’s are apples and oranges: Hillary is either delusional or an outright liar; Obama is a spin politician carefully parsing his words. Tell me one thing that Hillary has accomplished, off the top of your head — and don’t say “Peace in Northern Ireland” or SCHIP, since those have proved to be gross exaggerations as well.

You can spin “spin” anyway you wish, but it is still a lie. Or is it if your candidate does it, it is just spin if another candidate or the president does it, it is a bold face lie. Call it like it is and stop the “spin”. It’s a bold face lie, another one that this empty suit has been caught in. When will the LSM and the empty headed Obamites stop making excuses for him and hold his feet to the fire like any other candidate.

In other words if it looks like a skunk and it smells like a skunk then it is a skunk . Now, keep poking it and see what happens!

You’re an idiot. He does not take money from oil companies or from any companies. He takes money from individuals. The FEC requires you to identify your employer when you donate. Hillary’s added up all all the money that had been donated to him by people who work for oil companies and said that was the same thing as getting money from oil companies.

She lied, in other words.

Fact check: Obama and oil http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/28/834887.aspx

And I wouldn’t be so quick to talk about looking and smelling like a skunk. Who would understand better than Carl Bernstein, whose “Woman in Charge” you must have read:

“Hillary Clinton has many admirable qualities, but candor and openness and transparency and a commitment to well-established fact have not been notable among them. The indisputable elements of her Bosnian adventure affirm (again) the reluctant conclusion I reached in the final chapter of A Woman In Charge, my biography of her published last June:

‘Since her Arkansas years [I wrote], Hillary Rodham Clinton has always had a difficult relationship with the truth… [J]udged against the facts, she has often chosen to obfuscate, omit, and avoid. It is an understatement by now that she has been known to apprehend truths about herself and the events of her life that others do not exactly share.’ ”
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/26/hillary-clinton-truth-or-consequences

I have just had the misfortune of stumbling onto this website for the first time. I must say, this is perhaps the grossest testament I’ve seen of inter-party devastation yet. Everyone who belongs to and believes in this site should be ashamed of themselves. The lower-than-low, grotesquely-spun tripe coming from these posts shows that hatred and spite still rule baby-boom politics.

Hatred and spite are “baby boom politics?
Uh, have you read any of the blog sites (e.g. wonkette) dominated by young Obamaphiles? The level of meanspiritness and character assasination aimed at Hillary Clinton by these “youngsters” dwarfs anything that baby boomers even dreamed about. Of course no one can say anything about Obama without a bunch of cry babies crying foul. And “inter-party devastation”??? For God’s sake. I think it is called the political process. Grow up RooneyD.

this sounds like a hate website against obama, get your stories straight…..if anyone is lying, it’s hill/bill…..there very good at it.

Is it not possible that individuals from within an Oil Company, however high in the hierarchy, support him for non-monetary or politically irrelevant (to their employer) reasons? Taking money from employees is NOT the same as taking money from the company and framing it as you have is highly disingenuous.

obama has been lying from day one. his chickens are on their way home to roost from now on. hes finished, and that is why the clinton haters are so nasty because they know hes lost. he a big phony and a closet racist liar…….obama/wright/farrahkan/auchi,ayers, the weathermen, the new black panthers party, rezko/ arab business men……connect the dots.

Susan, do you know how easy it would be to accuse Clinton of all of the things you’ve listed here? And how much more damaging the guilt-by-association chains one could build for the Clintons? Far from being “finished,” Obama has an insurmountable lead in delegates, in popular vote, in popularity ratings, and in campaign funds (Clinton’s campaign is again broke, and not paying their bills–see today’s headlines; trust her with our economy??). The superdelegates seem to understand this well: since Feb, Obama’s picked up 64, Clinton only 5. So tell us again who’s finished?

Both of them are lieing to us! what dose that say about the dems chances in nov?

Note to Steve–When the “individual” who gives you the contribution is the CEO of a company, and that donation is followed by a big bundle of donations, then in practical terms, the CEO’s company was out there scrounging money for the candidate. Who do you think the CEO’s hit up for cash? Why yes–it IS the other companies they do business with. You’re so clever. Hillary is no prize on ethics, but then your horse Obama is turning out to be a bit of a steaming turd himself on that front. You Obama people gloss over whatever may wrinkle The Show Pony’s immaculate suits.

One more thing—KEEP FIGHTING DEMOCRATS! I LOVE watching you deluded college kids who have no concept of post-college reality, you angry middle-aged white women, and you angry black men knife fight. You people are better than UFC competitions–and I don’t have to pay the cable company for watching. One thing–could you Obama people be MORE sexist and ageist, could you college broads for Obama be more self-loathing against Hillary and your mothers in general, and could you Clinton folks be more racist—I want more blood on the floor.

Obama and his snake dance. He lies like crazy and his campaign spins the race card then blames it on everyone else. REZKO, THE WEATHERMEN, AUCHI, REV WRIGHT, FARAKAN - Obama’s chickens will come home to roost. IF he is the candidate not only will I vote McCain but I’ll vote for the first time straight Republican just to make sure there is a congress to stop him from devastating this country.

Are you saying that Obama is a liar and that he’s in the pocket of the corporations? NO! That’s impossible! He’s a “Law Professor” after all. LOL

Just because someone raised money individually whether it is from people they work with, or other companies doesn’t make it a company donation. Obama is telling the truth on this one. It is from individual donors, who, in fact, have donated to his campaign due to his push for more independence on foreign forms of energy. They believe his is the best one to help transform their companies. Which is really what we all want.

Kevin, get your facts straight. Obama was never a law professor. He lectured law. BIG DIFFERENCE. Just another lie. Get your facts straight!

ACTUALLY, this is all propaganda. Do your research and follow the links in this article. ALL LIES set up to hurt Obama. That website that is set up in this article called “his website” leads you to a falsely set up website in which it shows you these names. However, if you continue to click through the website and try to register your name with zip code, it takes you to a page that says it does not exist. Hmmm….

Who is grasping for straws at this point? The republicans or Hillary? Hmm, maybe both I think it is safe to assume.
The republicans WANT Hillary to get the nomination, b/c McCain can beat her, but he CANNOT beat Barack Obama.
I wish the lies would stop. It’s getting ridiculously boring!

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