October 4th, 2010 
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Question by canam: Obama is against lobbyist and his campaign manager in New Hampshire is a drug lobbyiest, what is his position?
Just what is his position when it comes to the special interests in washington that influence the elected officials, instead of doing what is best for the voters? Obama’s new hampshire campaign manager is a lobbyist for Pfizer drug company, and yet he claims to be against lobbying.
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Answer by blue316
don’t know Obama’s position…all I ever hear from him is that he is against the war…up with hope and change…no plans…
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He’s a hypocrite & oppurtunist, critcizing money in politics.. then happily accepting contributions from PAC’s, lobbyists & corporations..
More on his current financers:
“The junior Senator from Illinois denounces the corrosive influence of private political cash on U.S. democracy while cozying up to Chicago’s notoriously corrupt Big Money Mayor Richard M. Daley (with whom he shares the same high-priced campaign consultant (David Axlerod) and raking in campaign largesse from wealthy world-capitalist interests. His top career sponsors include Goldman Sachs, Exelon (the world’s leading nuclear plant operator), the Soros Fund Management, J.P Morgan Chase & Co., leading corporate law and lobbying firms (Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden, Arps, Sidley Austin LLP and others), top Chicago investment interests (including Henry Crown & Co and Aerial Capital Management) and the like.
Obama’s reliance on such deep-pockets supporters helps explain why he voted for a business-driven “tort reform” bill that rolled back working peoples’ ability to obtain reasonable redress and compensation from misbehaving corporations. It is certainly part of why he opposed an amendment to the Bankruptcy Act that would have capped credit card interest rates at 30 percent. It is undoubtedly related to his vote against a bill that would have killed an amendment to the 2005 energy bill that Taxpayers for Common Sense and Citizens Against Government Waste called “one of the worst provisions in this massive piece of legislation.” Under the amendment, which passed with Obama’s help, U.S. taxpayers are providing millions of dollars in loan guarantees to power plant operators. They “risk losing billions of dollars if the companies default,” as Ken Silverstein wrote in the November, 2006 issue of Harper’s Magazine (“Barack Obama Inc.: The Birth of a Washington Machine”).
Special interest influence is certainly behind Obama’s constant plugging of federally subsidized ethanol (“E-85″) as an environmentally friendly “alternative fuel.” Reliance on corporate cash and power is also likely related to Obama’s opposition to the introduction of single-payer national health insurance on the curious grounds that such a welcome social-democratic change would lead to employment difficulties for workers in the private insurance industry and that “voluntary” solutions are “more consonant” with “the American character” than “government mandates.” The latter judgment is advanced despite the fact that a large U.S. majority supports government-mandated universal health insurance.
Obama, it is worth noting, received $ 708,000 from medical and insurance interests between 2001 and 2006, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. His wife Michelle, a fellow Harvard Law graduate, is a Vice President for Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals, a position that paid her $ 273, 618 in 2006. For what it’s worth, she also received $ 51,200 for attending a few board meetings of TreeHouse Foods, a giant firm where she was made a director after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate.
One day after Obama denounced Big Money control of U.S. politics in Iowa City, Iowa, the Los Angeles Times reported that Obama “raised more than $ 1 million in the first three months of his presidential campaign from law firms and companies that have major lobbying operations in the nation’s capital.” Obama has also received a combined $ 170,000 so far this year from financial giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, who together spent $ 4.6 million on federal lobbying in 2006.
“Obama received more than two-thirds (68 percent) of his first quarter 2007 fundraising total ‘from donations of $ 1000 or more.’”
The Los Angeles Times also reported that Obama received more than two-thirds (68 percent) of his first quarter 2007 fundraising total “from donations of $ 1000 or more.” Obama has “played up populist themes of [campaign finance] reform,” trumpeting his “large number of small donations” and claiming (in the Senator’s words) to be “launch[ing]a fundraising drive that isn’t about dollars.”. But his astonishing first-quarter campaign finance haul of $ 25.7 million included $ 17.5 million from “big donors” ($ 1000 and up) – a sum higher than the much more genuinely populist and remarkably pro-labor John Edwards’ total take ($ 14 million) from all donors.
According to Chicago Sun Times columnist Lynn Sweet, “Obama talks about transforming politics and touts the donations of ‘ordinary’ people to his campaign, a network of more than 100 elite Democratic ‘bundlers’ is raising millions of dollars for his White House bid. The Obama campaign prefers the emphasis be on the army of small donors who are giving – and raising – money for Obama. In truth, though, there are two parallel narratives – and the other is that Obama is also heavily reliant on wealthy and well-connected Democrats.”
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Very typical politician!!! promise! promise! promise! then broke! broke! broke!
Guys, be real! I am an outsider looking at your candidates, I think Obama is leading because of the voters who want to vote for him went to vote. Thats why he is leading. But lets face it guys whether you like it or not, majority of the voters in the USA are still white and black/hispanic/asian and etc are still the minority. These white folks will not VOTE to a person whose name they can’t even pronounce. Thats why if he will fight with a any candidate of the Republican who is white, HE WILL LOSE the election.
He is against lobbyists. Just do not expect any specifics from him. He is against lobbyists that do not give him money.
The tone may change = the rhetoric will change.
little else will.
Citizens and intellectuals of the free world,
Obama is not a muslim, though he is familiar with the religion because his father was one. Fox news created the lie that Obama attended a muslim school as a child back in february of 2007 in order to damage his image.
Oh, and he has already told everyone all about his teenage drug use.
And his middle name is Hussein, hardy har har.
Does Obama smoke cigarettes? Who knows, who cares… most likely more mud slinging.
Does he lack conventional experience in Washington? Yes, but he knows the system just as well as anyone of the democrats.
Don’t get me wrong, experience is a plus. But for all the Clinton followers, how can a 60 year old woman who’s already spent over half of her lifetime flip-floping across the political scene suddenly be expected to transform the corrupted machine in washington? This is the same woman whose campaign has been given hundreds of millions of dollars from alleged Saudis, pharmaceutical companies, and unnamed sources! I tell you the truth, she is their robot, and she appears to be on overload.
An agent of change? Hillary!?!? Get real.
For the record, for every dollar the Obama campaign may or may not have received from lobbyists, Clinton’s camp most certainly has received a thousand!
Also, Obama has the potential for worldwide appeal. If anything his experiences in Kenya and Hawaii, his familiarity with the Muslim and Catholic worlds, and his Indonesian speaking capabilities will be an asset for diplomatic relations in the future if not his name alone.
Finally, he’s not as young as people try to make him out, as a result of the “inexperience” assault. He’s 46, the same age Bill Clinton was when he took office. That means his drug usage as a teen occurred some 30 years ago.
So you can vote for Android Hillary and we can continue to be trapped in the same problems, or we can vote for the man who’s message resonates with us all, a man seeking to unite the reds, blues, and the people of America and propel them into the 21st century.