Blogger Daniel Byler is doing the legwork the mainstream media can't be bothered with, even though the raw data is available, in some cases, right on Barack Obama's own website.
From "Change You Can Earmark, Part 2":
On the surface, these earmarks seem normal, but the fact that a select group of high powered donors sit on both boards and have received almost ten million dollars of taxpayer money is particularly suspicious. Even beyond this particular incident, our new research shows that two families in particular, the Crowns and the McKeevers, have very close political and financial ties to Sen. Obama. (...)
These are serious issues and the American public deserves more than sniping third party groups and evasive answers from the candidates. For that reason, we have decided to post the bulk of the raw data we collected at a publicly viewable Google document. Beyond that, we have posted a document for easy viewing that contains all of the major websites that we used. Our most helpful resources were the Center for Responsive Politics and Senator Obama’s own website.
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Nearly all of Obama''s appeal requires his supporters to take on faith that he will do things he has never done. But on the question of whether Obama will ever take a meaningful stand against corruption or waste in his own party or stand up to vested interests and ideological extremists on his own side, we already know the answer: Obama is so thoroughly marinated in extremism and corruption that it would be nearly impossibe to extricate himself and still have a meaningful identity left.
You will often hear Obama''s defenders argue that his ties to this or that extremist or corrupt figure is an isolated aberration, an example of "guilt by association"; that the various favors he dispensed with public money and private charitable foundation funds are nothing unusual in politics.
But when you look at Obama''s record and biography taken together, what you see is that the favors, the extremists and the machine ties are all inextricably intertwined, and that far from being isolated incidents, Obama''s modus operandi of mutual back-scratching with radicals and crooks extends to nearly every aspect of his life and career - his family, his faith, his home, his jobs and education, his significant election victories and legislative "accomplishments," his closest advisors and most important mentors, the money and organization that made up his campaigns.
Mark Harris:Great post!I couldn't agree more!
Mark Harris:Great post!I couldn't agree more!
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