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Obama biggest recipient of BP cash

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Obama biggest recipient of BP cash

Obama biggest recipient of BP cash | Reuters


POLITICO (Washington) - While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they've taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.

BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company's political action committees — $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals.

On top of that, the oil giant has spent millions each year on lobbying — including $15.9 million last year alone — as it has tried to influence energy policy.

During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.




hmm, now isn't this interesting. Now I don't see anything inherently wrong with this, I can remember a time when certain folk called the last administration in the pockets of big oil....


Wha's different this time? :ssst:
 
hmm, now isn't this interesting. Now I don't see anything inherently wrong with this, I can remember a time when certain folk called the last administration in the pockets of big oil....


Wha's different this time? :ssst:

Well at least Ken Lay isn't advising Obama.
 
Not going to war for it...

Pretty sure we're still at war. There's not so much difference between Obama and Bush. As for this BP thing, I'm sure they've contributed heavily to both sides. That's how you buy yourself some Congressional power.
 
hmm, now isn't this interesting. Now I don't see anything inherently wrong with this, I can remember a time when certain folk called the last administration in the pockets of big oil....


Wha's different this time? :ssst:
bp spent a record amount on lobbying in 2009.....which was spread everywhere. of course, they backed the winning horse. 77k is hardly going to buy them a pass. that's laughable.
 
So Afghanistan and Iraq is no longer about oil to you guys? :lamo

Sheeesh Afghanistan was about the drugs so the CIA could corner the heroin market. Iraq was about the oil, silly billy.
 
Instead he has Communists, 60's radicals and Marxists advising him. :doh


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Communists AND Marxists

Holy Jesus Batman.

That's like saying,

National Socialists AND Nazis
 
hmm, now isn't this interesting. Now I don't see anything inherently wrong with this, I can remember a time when certain folk called the last administration in the pockets of big oil....


Wha's different this time? :ssst:

The letter "R" and the letter "D";)
 
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hmm, now isn't this interesting. Now I don't see anything inherently wrong with this, I can remember a time when certain folk called the last administration in the pockets of big oil....


Wha's different this time? :ssst:

Seriously -- you can't see the difference??

Administration 1 allows the VP to hold secret meetings with oil and energy lobbyist to determine U.S. energy policy for the next 8 years.

Administration 2 pushes for emissions legislation, unties the hands of the EPA, funds clean energy initiatives, and makes a bi-partisan effort at opening the door to safe nuclear energy and off-shore drilling (no good dead goes unpunished)

Rev -- change the channel, Fox and far-right radio is fillin' your head with spin...


BTW -- who's campaign slogan was drill baby drill??
 
hmm, now isn't this interesting. Now I don't see anything inherently wrong with this, I can remember a time when certain folk called the last administration in the pockets of big oil....


Wha's different this time? :ssst:
I guess BP isn't as crooked as Halliburton. :lol:
 
devastating

just who has whose boot on whose neck?
 
bp spent a record amount on lobbying in 2009.....which was spread everywhere. of course, they backed the winning horse. 77k is hardly going to buy them a pass. that's laughable.

Really?

The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely.

washingtonpost.com

Move along folks, nothing to see here...... move along.
 
hmm, now isn't this interesting. Now I don't see anything inherently wrong with this, I can remember a time when certain folk called the last administration in the pockets of big oil....


Wha's different this time? :ssst:

They didn't care about Goldman Sachs and Obama, so they sure as hell won't care about BP and Obama.
 
I guess BP isn't as crooked as Halliburton. :lol:

Ahh yes... Halliburton. The liberal slogan of the anti-war left of the 21st century. Gee... remember how almost ever post on every blog or forum would tout Halliburton endlessly?

Yet we have a President (not a VP), who's now got two big contributor failures around his neck without even a whisper of "British Petroleum" or "Goldman Sachs". Wonder why the bleating sheep have suddenly gone quiet? :mrgreen:
 
They didn't care about Goldman Sachs and Obama, so they sure as hell won't care about BP and Obama.

They don't care because Obama is a Democrat or because of something else?

And is "they" primarily the media or is it more encompassing?
 
Yet we have a President (not a VP), who's now got two big contributor failures around his neck without even a whisper of "British Petroleum" or "Goldman Sachs".

aig too

dead dodd and obtuse obama were #'s 1 and 2 recipients of aig money

1. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., $103,100
2. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., $101,332
3. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., $59,499
4. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., $35,965
5. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., $24,750
6. Former Gov. Mitt Romney, (R) Pres $20,850
7. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., $19,975
8. Rep. John Larson, D-Conn, $19,750
9. Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., $18,500
10. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R) Pres $13,200
11. Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., $12,000
12. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., $11,000

Will Obama, McCain, Dodd Return Contributions From AIG Employees? - ABC News

could the contributions hava anything to do with tax cheat in chief geithner's instructions to the over-leveraged megagiant to keep details of its obscene bailout SECRET from the porn-viewing sec?

Geithner's New York Fed Pushed AIG To Keep Sweetheart Deals Secret (READ THE AIG EMAILS)

change al capone could believe in

scarface was from chicago too

and this is the crowd that asks us to trust them with oversight of wall street

why are fannie and fred, for example, exempt from dead dodd's reform bill?
 
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