patterico.com - 11/12/2008
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Barack Obama, November 3, 2007:
One year from now, we have the chance to tell all those corporate lobbyists that the days of them setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race - and I’ve won. I don’t take a ...
balloon-juice.com - 11/12/2008
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Moron : As expected, the Obama Cult does
not like to read any questioning of their Dear...
Leader. They demand we all STFU . *** What I can not understand is the ridiculous Cult of Obama who believes that not a negative or questioning word ...
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We’re A Cult, And You Are A…
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/11/2008
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
President-elect Barack Obama today released a series of
ethics guidelines for those working in the transition operation,...
a continuation of the anti-lobbying policies adopted by the Illinois Senator during his primary and general election campaigns. ...
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Obama Lays Out Ethics Rules
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Change you can believe in
Sister Toldjah —
... of, whatever media hotshot he sat down to interview with, or whatever pundit he allowed an “inside look” at his campaign.
Does all this make him an evil guy? Nah. It just makes him, well, like most other politicians. And as we all know at this point, he pulled off a master acting job with the American public by making many of those who voted for him believe he was a different kind of politico.
Readers of this blog have always known better.
Related 1: Patterico documents more “change you can believe ...
Obama Plants Monsanto And CropLife Officials In Key Agriculture Posts
Wonk Room —
... Lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” President Obama assured us upon inauguration. And yet he just nominated to two key posts “Big Ag” industry power brokers, who come straight from the chemical pesticide and biotechnology sectors. While they may not be registered as lobbyists, both men come from organizations representing powerful agribusiness interests, which every year spend millions of dollars in lobbying to advance their companies’ chemical and transgenic products. ...
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