Obama's Line On Lobbyists is Misleading

Columbia Journalism Review by Trudy Lieberman | Feb. 26, 2008 (News Analysis)

Obama claims that he doesn't take money from lobbyists. The truth is, he is as beholden to special interest groups as all of the other candidates.

Saturday night at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Richmond, Virginia, Barack Obama did it again. He said he hadn't taken money from lobbyists. The election, he said, was boiling down to "a choice between debating John McCain about lobbying reform with a nominee who's taken more money from lobbyists than ... Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

This analysis did inform me about the real differences in campaign contributions behind the rhetoric. I wonder why, if PAC money is so insignificant, McCain and Clinton do not take what the author essentially describes as a financially trivial stand against these interests.

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