Neckcarjim's Blog

Wow, is this the best you can do? Dig up some pathetic reference to some college kids overseas who support Obama in an attempt to paint him with the radical Islamist brush?

A bit of a stretch don't ya think?

What's the matter? The whole Reverend Wright thing didn't achieve the result you were looking for?

Why don't you post some positive thoughts about the candidate you support instead of trying to smear the one you don't.

Barack Obama is running an ad in Pennsylvania designed to play on the voter’s general dissatisfaction with the oil companies. He mentions Exxon’s profits but does not mention the profit margin. Then he says "I don’t take money from oil companies .... "

OK .. so that’s not a direct lie. He’s right. He doesn’t take money from oil companies. Either does John McCain. Either does Hillary Clinton. Ditto for all candidates for the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. And why not? Well, Obama hasn’t taken any contributions from oil companies because since 1907 it has been illegal for any corporation to make a direct contribution to a federal candidate. So .. let’s call BFD on this campaign ad claim.

But wait! There’s more! And you’re going to get this without paying shipping and handling. Here are two goodies from Factcheck.org:

Obama has accepted more than $213,000 from individuals who work for companies in the oil and gas industry and their spouses.
Two of Obama’s bundlers are top executives at oil companies and are listed on his Web site as raising between $50,000 and $100,000 for the presidential hopeful.
Ah ha! A bit of deception there, wouldn’t you say? Obama doesn’t take money from the oil companies. That would be illegal. But if the top oil company executives want to round up some contributions from friends and employees ...well that’s just fine.