Obama is Top Recipient of Political Cash from BP, Goldman Sachs, Defense Contractors, Pharma

[merkins]

I truly think there is no greater issue before us then getting money and corrupt lobbying out of government:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html">Politico reports:
BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Obama apparently also got more contributions from http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/08/07/report_exxon_execs_gave_more_t.html">Exxon and Chevron than McCain.

Obama had http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000000085&type=P&sort=A&cycle=2008">the most political contributions from Goldman Sachs in 2008 of all senators. And Goldman gave more to Obama than http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/17/AR2007041701688.html">any other presidential candidate, and was Obama's http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/20/obama.goldman.donations/index.html">second-largest contributor.

In addition, Obama was the top congressional recipient of defense industry contributions for the 2008 election cycle. See http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=D03&cycle=2008&recipdetail=S&mem=Y">this, http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=D02&recipdetail=S&sortorder=A&cycle=2008">this and http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=D01&recipdetail=S&sortorder=A&cycle=2008">this.

Obama was also the top recipient of money from the http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/04/news/companies/pharma_votes/index.htm?postversion=2008030714">healthcare giants in the presidential election.


http://www.zerohedge.com/article/top-recipient-political-cash-bp-and-goldman-sachs-barack-obama">Via