Comments on: Candidates Vie To Be The Anti-Lobbyist

Washington Post: Attacks And Retorts From Obama, McCain Show How They Plan To Take Aim At Lobbyist Influence

[questionnews]

It looks like we are back to the same old election pattern. Two candidates who stand on soapboxes claiming that "I don''t suck as much as my opponent does!!!"

It always comes down to picking the lesser of two evils.

[bfjones666]

Alicerea1, are you seriously going to throw that cap out here quoting a KENTUCKY poll? Wow, can''t find anything from West Virginia? You know that 7% of those voters could not vote for either a black OR a woman and voted for the white guy, even though he had already quit. If you are going to state that race is the elephant in the room, note what state the room is in and the inherent attitudes of race in those states. we should also begin to poll people on their perceptions about old people. That elephant hasn''t even been polled yet.

[popstom1]

47 work for obambi

[dchu76]

McPaid, the person who is owned by lobbyist whose salaries are paid by foriegn companies/countries who have questionable ethics. Agents of foriegns countires are running the campagin of a Republican nominee. Lobbyist of Saudia Arabia are putting a manchurian candidate in the white house.

[missingamerica]

The "anti-lobbyist" push is a good thing, but I still - as I have for the last several decades - favor eliminating sending our Congresspeople and Senators to Washington for anything other than ceremonial events.

Let them teleconference from their home states and districts, and use the ''net for all its worth.

That will isolate them from the "K-street Mafia" - unless those crooks are willing to risk getting lynched for beeing seen to be hanging out in front of the local office of your''s and mine''s elected officials.

And it will certainly help our legislators to remember who elected them to represent who...

[clestes-2009]

Well, this is no contest. Fossil John has been around Washington way too long. He is thoroughly and completely corrupted by lobbyists.

Obama hasn''t had much of a chance and refused to take large donations from corporate lobbyists. His money comes from the millions of people who donate $50 (me), $75 or even $500. But certainly not the $50,000 to $500,000 a lobby can donate.

I know dinosaur McCain''s supporters will howl and say Obama is the corrupted one, not their precious John. They cannot let the something like facts get in the way of their visions!

Just ask for a list of campaign donators and the truth will be evident for all to see, but not to believe.

[fuzzybear9]

Hello CBS Vewers

do you know what makes me so angry ?

is we cann`t even dig up any dirt on these guys anymore !

you people are just no fun !

you have made Tuesday Morning blogging just another day at the keyboard.

you could at least try to pretend to be upset at the politics in this country.

like I said, your just no fun anymore.

I`m beginning not to like you CBS

sincerely really bored Bear
Fuzzy

[singingrick]

John McSame....the best President money can buy.

lol!

[singingrick]

McSame said that lobbyists have no influence in his campaign. Then it''s revealed that most of his top advisers are, in fact, lobbyists.

[perceptions5]

Mitt Romney, on the "Iran Debate": "Barack is doing his very best, along with the media that supports him, to try and change the discussion, to say ''Oh, this is about talking with the Iranians.'' This isn''t about talking with the Iranians. We talk to the Iranians now. ...

What Barack Obama has said is that he would meet without precondition with Ahmadinejad, the leader of the largest state sponsor of terror in the world, along with Castro, Assad, Kim Jong-Il. It''s a naive statement. Hillary Clinton called it for what it was when they were debating on this very issue."

....................It''s really great to see someone "report" what the issue really is.

Now if we can get the most corrupt institution in America, our mostly liberal MSM wolfpack press to present these facts the way they really are.

I guess that''s asking a lot for our "in-the-tank" for Obama wolfpack press..........................sad.

[alicerea1]

Obama''s race is the ''elephant'' in the voter booth

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama%u2019s race and inflammatory racial remarks made by his former preacher negatively affect how likely voters view the candidate, according to a new Herald-Leader/WKYT Kentucky Poll.
More than one in five likely Democratic voters surveyed said being black hurts Obama%u2019s chances of winning an election in Kentucky, compared to 4 percent who said Obama%u2019s race helps him.
Although more than half of respondents said his race isn%u2019t a factor in the election, many of those surveyed also said racially charged remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright will play an important role as they decide whom to support in the May 20 primary.
Wright%u2019s remarks are important or very important to 43 percent of those polled. Among white voters, his statements were important to 46 percent, compared to only 11 percent of black voters.
%u201CRace is still the elephant in the room, and the Rev. Wright issue hits at remaining racial prejudices and fears that people here might have,%u201D said Saundra Ardrey, head of the political science department at Western Kentucky University.

[underdogus]

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[dchu76]

McPaid, the person who is owned by lobbyist whose salaries are paid by foriegn companies/countries who have questionable ethics. Agents of foriegns countires are running the campagin of a Republican nominee. Lobbyist of Saudia Arabia are putting a manchurian candidate in the white house.