Posted on 09/11/2008 7:36:13 PM PDT by JavaJumpy
The candidate that claims to be the only presidential contender who doesn't take money from lobbyists is in fact the biggest recipient of lobby-related contributions. Barack Obama rakes in millions from law firms serving the interests of Wall Street, including the financial institutions that gave us the subprime lending crisis. Lawyers that work for firms that earn hundreds of millions of dollars for lobbying may technically not be lobbyists, but they share in their colleagues' earnings as influencers of Congress - a legal loophole that allows Obama to claim his hands are clean of lobby loot.
The top contributors to the Obama campaign are the very Wall Street firms whose shady mortgage lenders buried the elderly and the poor and minority under predatory loans.
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Number 3 from Fraddie Mac over 100K
Number 3 from Freddie Mac over 100K
Excellent find. Of course, not many are accusing The One of talking out of only one side of his cake hole.
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