Liar Liar: Obama’s Pants are on Fire!
By Fleaflicker on April 16, 2008 at 9:08 AM in Barack Obama, Big Oil, Current Affairs, Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton, Pennsylvania
This is Hillary’s latest Television Ad. It starts playing in Pennsylvania today. After enjoying it take a look below as the facts are examined. And revel as the truth is revealed. It is Senator Obama who has been in the pocket of the oil companies since this whole mess began. And despite what he says, he still is.
Not only did ole Mr. Hope get caught with his pants down. They are on fire too.
Announcer: You’ve seen the ad.
Barack Obama: “I don’t take money from oil companies.”
Announcer: No candidate does. It’s been against the law for 100 years.
Corporations have been prohibited from contributing directly to federal candidates since the Tillman Act became law in 1907. [Factcheck.org, 3/31/08]
But Barack Obama accepted two hundred thousand dollars from executives and employees of oil companies.
Obama has, however, accepted more than $213,000 in contributions from individuals who work for, or whose spouses work for, companies in the oil and gas industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Every gallon of gas takes over three bucks from your pocket, but Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that put six billion dollars in the pocket of big oil.
And how’s this for an ironic title?: A bill to ensure jobs for our future with secure, affordable, and reliable energy. It sure doesn’t seem today that the bill did what it claimed it would. But you knew that. Only Obama “hopes” that you will forget.
“The provision was just one example of how the energy bill, touted as a way to reduce dependence on foreign oil or moderate gasoline prices, has been turned into a piñata of perks for energy industries.” [Washington Post, 7/30/05]
Public Citizen: The Best Energy Bill Corporations Could Buy: Summary of Industry Giveaways in the 2005 Energy Bill [Public Citizen report]
Hillary voted against it.
She’ll make oil companies pay to create the new Jobs and clean energy America needs.
She’s the one who will make the oil companies pay to set up a new strategic energy fund that will cut our dependence on foreign oil. Invest in new clean energy, and create five million new jobs.
2006-2007: Hillary introduced a bill that would create a strategic energy fund.
“We need to reform our energy taxes so that large oil companies who reap huge benefits from unexpectedly high energy prices over the next two years will be required to pay a portion of their profits into the strategic energy fund.”
The fund would invest in renewable energy, accelerate the use of biofuels, utilize clean coal technology, and encourage the oil companies to invest in alternative energy. Hillary first introduced the bill that would create the Strategic Energy Fund on 5/23/06. [Remarks of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton At The National Press Club On Energy Policy 5/23/06; S.2993, 5/23/06]
Hillary Clinton: I’m Hillary Clinton and I approve this message
And we approve of your message too Hillary. Because it really is time that we had a president who takes on the oil companies in real life, not just on TV.
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