Comments on: Surprise: Obama’s taken more money from major oil company employees than McCain; Update: New logo added

By: Obama and lobbyist money: He’d rather you forget « Fireweednectar’s Weblog

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:53:26 +0000

[...] and he’s overflowing with cash from employees of special interests, including employees of those dastardly oil companies; oh, and needless to say, he misleads voters about all of this by choosing his words very, very [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » New DNC ad: “Exxon John”; Update: DNC responds

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:32:04 +0000

[...] of course it’s brazenly dishonest in throwing stones at McCain when St. Obama’s taken more money from Exxon employees this year than Maverick has. “Chevron John” could have worked — except that [...]

By: Obama’s Exxon hypocrisy « Crush Liberalism

Obama’s Exxon hypocrisy « Crush Liberalism — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:42:03 +0000

[...] Posted in Obama, hypocrisy, oil at 11:41 am by crushliberalism The Obamaliar is running a new ad referring to McCain as “Exxon John”. Cheeky, no? There’s just one small, itty-bitty, teensie-weensie little problem with that line of attack: it’s not McCain that’s received more money from Exxon! [...]

By: Surprise! Obama’s taken more $ from big oil than McCain « View From The Ridge

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:26:23 +0000

[...] read more | digg story [...]

By: Blacksoda

Blacksoda — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:16:19 +0000

His first act as president would be a speach announcing a massive new drilling program that he always supported. At least gas prices might come down.

By: BadgerHawk

BadgerHawk — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:10:42 +0000

Very nicely done, Jaibones.

It’s tough to argue against the facts, so we’ll just shift the goalposts and count the top 250 companies as ‘big’.

By: brtex

brtex — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:57:43 +0000

COMPNIES = COMPANIES

By: brtex

brtex — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:56:50 +0000

Number 240 out of a few hundred million, Jai? alphie on August 7, 2008 at 8:47 PM

The story is about contributions from "OIL COMPNIES" you dweeb. #240 is way down the list.

By: Ortzinator

Ortzinator — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:38:38 +0000

The commenters in the OpenSecrets link are pretty pissed.

By: BDavis

BDavis — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:23:13 +0000

OBAMA DRINKS YOUR MILKSHAKE!

By: A quick comparison of oil company employee donations to the candidates « The Daley Gator

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:01:37 +0000

[...] quick comparison of oil company employee donations to the candidates How inconvenient for Obama. Through June, Exxon employees have given Obama $42,100 to McCain’s $35,166. Chevron favors Obama [...]

By: NCC

NCC — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:55:08 +0000

This is not the Exxon that Obama thought he knew.

And he is very happy about it.

By: alphie

alphie — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:47:13 +0000

Number 240 out of a few hundred million, Jai?

By: byteshredder

byteshredder — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:27:30 +0000

Surprise: Obama’s taken more money from major oil company employees than McCain; Update: New logo added

Well that explains that. No wonder OBLAHBLAH wants us to inflate our tires. He’s been paid off to keep gas prices high!

By: rockmom

rockmom — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:18:57 +0000

Now let’s see how much Obama has taken from Big Ethanol, a/k/a Archer Daniels Midland. That company is far bigger than Hess Oil or Marathon Oil.

By: August 7th Link Roundup | THE HOT JOINTS

August 7th Link Roundup | THE HOT JOINTS — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:20:55 +0000

[...] Obama likes oil money [...]

By: Les in NC

Les in NC — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:08:02 +0000

Jaibones on August 7, 2008 at 6:52 PM

Bravo

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:55:32 +0000

Me too, Entelechy. I get stuck in this mode:

Obama > arrogant > nervy > … stupid?

His supporters > Reagan Republicans > Truthers > … stupid?

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:52:02 +0000

Seems like we’re basing this on the idea that Hess Oil, one of the biggest corporations in the world, doesn’t count as “big oil.”

alphie on August 7, 2008 at 6:10 PM

You are a special kind of stupid, aren’t you? 30 second Google Search: World’s Largest Corporations (CNN)

1. Wal-Mart
2. Exxon
3. Royal Dutch Shell
6. Chevron
10. Conoco Phillips
25. China National Petroleum
42. Pemex
47. Gazprom
49. Valero Energy
59. Statoil Hydro
63. Petrobras
90. Lukoil
108. Marathon Oil
116. Indian Oil
117. Nippon Oil
203. Rosneft Oil
240. Hess Oil

Any other stupid quips, Alf?

By: Obama’s Oil Hypocrisy « The Sisyphus Files

Obama’s Oil Hypocrisy « The Sisyphus Files — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:50:30 +0000

[...] Obama’s Oil Hypocrisy Hot Air: Surprise: Obama’s taken more money from major oil company employees than McCain [...]

By: Slublog

Slublog — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:45:15 +0000

Slublog, you bad, you, remember alphie is a Ronald Reagan Republican.
Entelechy on August 7, 2008 at 6:40 PM

Mea maxima culpa. All that talk of “truthiness” must have gotten me flummoxed.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:40:39 +0000

Slublog, you bad, you, remember alphie is a Ronald Reagan Republican.

By: Slublog

Slublog — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:38:20 +0000

Seems like we’re basing this on the idea that Hess Oil, one of the biggest corporations in the world, doesn’t count as “big oil.”
alphie on August 7, 2008 at 6:10 PM

It also seems as though Obama supporters can’t admit their guy is showing a wee bit of hypocrisy by taking oil money while criticizing McCain for…taking oil money.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:38:11 +0000

I can understand Team Obama’s frustration with the rejection, but it takes a lot of nerve — or perhaps arrogance — to ask a small businessman to run advertising that essentially says, “my suppliers are a bunch of greedy jerks.”

NRO Campaign Spot – Jim Geraghty

I’m like a one-trick pony, but I can’t help it. Jim considered the possibility that Obama is either arrogant (duh) or full of nerve. Why doesn’t anyone ever consider the obvious – that he’s an idiot?

By: Les in NC

Les in NC — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:31:58 +0000

This comment from the piece Allah cites for this stories data makes a lot of sense:

It’s not that the big producers are favoring Obama and the others McCain, it’s the big foreign producers are favoring Obama and the domestic producers are favoring McCain. Large foreign producers can just sell their oil on the international market if Obama institutes a windfall profits tax but the domestic producers who would be hurt by the tax cannot.

Buy Danish on August 7, 2008 at 5:59 PM

Ding…ding…ding… What do you think other businesses are going to do when a windfall tax is implemented? Business will go overseas and who will be left to pay the tax? Those of us with a 401K.