Reply #89: Check the contributions from the pharmacutical industry for starters [View All]

Attorneys, insurance - the lists for both candidates are all over the place and quite easy to find.

disclaimer: I am supporting NEITHER candidate this time around, since I find them both to be sorely lacking.

We'll support Israel on the mission to wipe Palestine (and Palestinians) off the map, we'll take care of Iran if we need to, we'll support our troops.

And (drum roll) we'll do it <sigh> together!

(But don't ask about universal single-pay health care - if I say something about that the money tree dries up.)

edit: Here's a little bit of "follow the money' to get you started.

"Obama's campaign was bending with fierce plutocratic winds fanned by giant global investment firms and corporations."

Follow the money. Obama's presidential campaign has received nearly $5 million dollars from securities and investment firms and $866,000 from commercial banks through October of 2007. Obama's top contributor so far is Goldman Sachs (provider of $369,078 to Obama), identified by Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) investigators as "a major proponent of privatizing Social Security as well as legislation that would essentially deregulate the investment banking/securities industry." Eight of Obama's top twenty election investors are securities and investment firms: Goldman Sachs, Lehman Bros. (number 2 at $229,090), J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. (# 4 at $216,759), Citadel Investment Group (#7 at 4166,608), UBS AG ($146,150), UBS-America ($106,680), Morgan Stanley ($104,421), and Credit Suisse Group ($92,300). The last two firms are also known to be leading privatization advocates (Center for Responsive Politics 2007a).

Meanwhile, Obama's presidential run has been "assisted" by more than $2 million from the health care sector and nearly $400,000 from the insurance industry through October of 2007 (Center for Responsive Politics 2007b). Obama received $708,000 from medical and insurance interests between 2001 and 2006 (Center for Responsive Politics 2007c). His wife Michelle, a fellow Harvard Law graduate, was until a recently a Vice President for Community and External Affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals, a position that paid her $273, 618 in 2006 (Sweet 2007).

and this:

Obama's rise to national prominence and presidential viability, Helman discovered, depended significantly on PAC and lobbyist money."
As Los Angeles Times reporter Dan Morain explained, "some of the most influential players, lawyers and consultants among them, skirt disclosure requirements by merely advising clients and associates who do actual lobbying, and avoiding regular contact with policymakers. Obama's ban does not cover such individuals."

more at: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0712/S00181.htm