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Matt Lewis: Hypocrisy Watch: Exxon [Hearts] Obama
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Jake Tapper has a good post up on the campaign cash Obama has received from Exxon employees. Again, the hypocrisy issue is what is important here. Obama has been accusing McCain of being "in the pocket of big oil..." Update : More info on the personal contributions Obama has received from the oil industry. ...

Big Oil Barack
Weekly Standard Blog — Jake Tapper reports: In Youngstown, Ohio, this week Obama said that McCain is "offering $4 billion more in tax breaks to the biggest oil companies in America -- including $1.2 billion to Exxon-Mobil...a company that, last quarter, made the same amount of money in 30 seconds that a typical Ohio worker makes in a year." In Lansing, Michigan, Obama said Exxon-Mobil "is the company that, last quarter, made $1,500 every second. That’s more than $300,000 in the time it takes you to fill up a tank with gas that’s costing you more than ...

Surprise: Obama’s taken more money from major oil company employees than McCain
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... of the public supports. Exit question via McCain himself , speaking at a town hall today in Ohio: If he’s such a tool of the oil industry, why did he vote against the 2005 energy bill that gave billions in handouts to oil companies while Obama voted for it? Surely Maverick’s not suggesting that The One is ...

Oil biggies favor Obama
Jonathan Martin's Blog — Tapper: As we close up a week wherein Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, on the stump and in a TV ad accused rival Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., of being "in the pocket of big oil," and doing the industry's bidding -- not to mention a week during which the Democratic National Committee launched an Exxon-McCain '08 website to drive home this Democratic talking point -- the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics points out that the issue is a bit more complicated than it first would appear.  McCain has received three times more money from the oil ...

XOM-Bama
TigerHawk — Here's a bit more of the change that you guys, or at least some of you guys, are and have been waiting for: As we close up a week wherein Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, on the stump and in a TV ad accused rival Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., of being "in the pocket of big oil," and doing the industry's bidding -- not to mention a week during which the Democratic National Committee launched an Exxon-McCain '08 website to drive home this Democratic talking point -- the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics points out that the issue is a bit more complicated than it first would ...

What To Do?
The Great Plains Observer — ... $11,500.” And then despite that fact that McCain has in reality received 3 times as much money from oil companies, you get led down their talking point highway to believe that Obama is the big winner in the oil money sweepstakes. And of course the McCain talking point army was quick to pounce: Exxon-Obama Obama Gets More Donations From Exxon Than McCain Time to create an Exxon-Obama site Let’ not forget the MSM - Exxon [Hearts] Obama You really got to love that political math that the McCain camp ...

Obama, McCain, and "big oil"
Power Line — Barack Obama has been attempting to portray John McCain as "in the pocket of big oil." But as Jake Tapper shows, that's a charge that can be leveled at least as persuasively against Obama himself. It is true that McCain has received significantly more money from the oil industry in general than Obama has. According to Tapper, the figures are $1.3 million for McCain compared to approximately $394,000 for Obama. However, data from the Federal Election Commission show that Obama has received slightly more campaign cash than McCain has from the employees of some of the biggest ...

More Offshore Drilling Shenanigans
The Swamp — ... Who's making it: Democrats, from Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on down, in an attempt to discredit Republicans as slaves to the whims of big oil. In Lansing, Michigan this week, Obama said "make no mistake - the oil companies have placed their bet on Senator McCain." ...