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Obama’s registered lobbyist bundlers »

“While pledging to turn down donations from lobbyists themselves, Senator Obama raised more than $1 million in the first three months of his presidential campaign from law firms and companies that have major lobbying operations in the nation’s capital,” Dan Morain wrote April 23, 2007, in the Los Angeles Times.
Stephen Weissman of the nonpartisan think [...]

Where was Obama? »

(I am a citizen journalist at SourceWatch (Disinfopedia)/Congresspedia.)
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has made much on the presidential campaign trail of his opposition to the war in Iraq, particularly his October 26, 2002, speech in which he said he did not oppose all wars but what he did oppose is a “dumb war”.
Yesterday, Andrew Stephen wrote [...]