CNN is fullofit, again: "Analysis: Obama, McCain both have lobbyist ties"

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4th paragraph:

During this campaign, lobbyists and trade groups donated $181,000 to McCain, while Obama received $6,000...


http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/29/lobbyists/index.html

[The Stranger]

1. Wasn't John McCain FUCKING his lobbyist?

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2. well, yeah... He also packed his campaign with them .

[ProgressiveFool]

3. ha! I posted this one yesterday minutes before the Ted Stevens announcement

Such a BS article, just out to prove that Obama is "just as bad" as McCain, even though several facts in the article contradicted that stance, such as the $180,000 vs $6,000 number you cited, or the fact stated in there that 94% of Obama's donations come from people donating $200 or less. Not to mention, in order to get any sort of equivalency, they had to reclassify all lawyers as lobbyists.

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5. Sorry your post got lost yesterday...and WELCOME!

[asjr]

4. The media are playing a giant

con game on us.

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6. Obama's money came mainly from one guy who didn't even know he was a lobbyist.

The NY Times did a story on the lobbyist contributions.

But Donald J. Barry, who was executive vice president of the Wilderness Society from 2000 until early this month, reported that he had given the Obama campaign six contributions totaling $2,050 from January to June, and he was a host for an Obama fund-raiser in June.

“I did not know that I had been registered as a lobbyist since 2000,” said Mr. Barry, who was a Clinton administration official.

The Obama campaign says it returns contributions if it learns they came from lobbyists. But Mr. Barry said, “I intend to contribute the same amount of money, or maybe even more, to the Obama campaign once I am no longer registered as a lobbyist.”

Reporting that, though, might make CNN look less fairnbalanced, right.

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7. Notice that there is only that mention and the IRI meeting for McCain

for Obama they present a variety of numbers all closing linked (in space) to his name

this is complete BS to start with..LOBBYISTS????and POLITICIANS???

Hey CNN where were your reports on the K Street Project???

[Virginia Dare]

8. The McCain campaign is essentially being run by lobbyists..

The Anti-Lobbyist, Advised by Lobbyists

By Michael D. Shear and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 22, 2008; A01

For years, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has railed against lobbyists and the influence of "special interests" in Washington, touting on his campaign Web site his fight against "the 'revolving door' by which lawmakers and other influential officials leave their posts and become lobbyists for the special interests they have aided."

But when McCain huddled with his closest advisers at his rustic Arizona cabin last weekend to map out his presidential campaign, virtually every one was part of the Washington lobbying culture he has long decried. His campaign manager, Rick Davis, co-founded a lobbying firm whose clients have included Verizon and SBC Telecommunications. His chief political adviser, Charles R. Black Jr., is chairman of one of Washington's lobbying powerhouses, BKSH and Associates, which has represented AT&T, Alcoa, JPMorgan and U.S. Airways.

Senior advisers Steve Schmidt and Mark McKinnon work for firms that have lobbied for Land O' Lakes, UST Public Affairs, Dell and Fannie Mae.

McCain's relationship with lobbyists became an issue this week after it was reported that his aides asked Vicki Iseman, a telecom lobbyist, to distance herself from his 2000 presidential campaign because it would threaten McCain's reputation for independence. An angry and defiant McCain denounced the stories yesterday, declaring: "At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022101131_pf.html