Posted on 04/25/2008 5:49:22 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
While Barack Obama starred in television ads this month claiming he doesn't take money from from oil companies he actually raked in thousands of dollars in donations from industry executives and employees. In the television commercials promoting his infamous change theme, Obama sternly assures that he doesn't take money from oil companies immediately after pointing out that Exxon is making $40 billion a year and Americans pay $3.50 for gas. As the deceiving commercials were being broadcast Obama was filling his campaign coffers with oil dollars, bringing to light serious credibility and honesty issues... The Illinois senator has accepted at least $263,000 from oil company executives. Nearly $50,000 poured in LAST MONTH ALONE, as he filmed the commercial.
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What? Obama and BIG OIL? Say it isn’t so!!
Guess that shoots his hypocritical “No Blood for Oil” stance all to hell re Iraq.
So what else is new, Mrs. Lincoln?
Hillary was saying today nobody takes money from oil companies, it has been illegal for 100 years.
The Mendacity of Audacity.
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