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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 09:37 PM
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28. Why are you a liar?
You say Obama took more money from oil company "executives."

PROVE IT.

You know better but you made the conscious decision to lie, just like Hillary.

Clinton Camp Circulates Misleading Memo About Obama Oil Company Donations

Claiming that a candidate has "taken... money from" a certain entity or industry is false and misleading.

The above Clinton campaign memo is trying to incorrectly imply that Obama is accepting money from oil and gas-funded PACs and/or lobbyists.

The problem with this is that when they make the claim that "Sen. Obama has received over $160,000 from the oil and gas companies", they are relying on reports submitted to the Federal Election Commission by their opponents, which contain a variety of details on each of their donors. Federal law requires that these donor reports contain the name of each donor's employer.

As a result, when a candidate makes a claim that their opponent "accepts money from" a certain company they are simply saying that certain employees of that company made a donation to their opponent.In other words, it could be a VP of that company, or a Secretary, or a Janitor.


http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/28/145339/267

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