Obama's Line On Lobbyists is Misleading

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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Richard Soenneker
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by Richard Soenneker - Oct. 1, 2008

not a very well explained story. lots of statements without much backup, a number of statistics and numbers without enough background to make them really meaningful.

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