Obama "hopes" we will have the "audacity" to switch from Sprint to Verizon

[brentspeak]

I guess this is what Obama means when he talks about "change" (and, of course, with Hillary, it's just more of the same):

http://www.columbiacitypaper.com/2008/1/26/the-forgotten-candidate

By contrast, Obama and Clinton not only have their hands out for corporate contributions, Obama has turned key positions in his campaign staff over to corporate lobbyists.

According to The Hill, the authoritative Washington political journal, Obama has had working in his campaign lobbyists for Verizon, the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, Ernst & Young, British Petroleum, and the National Foreign Trade Council, among others. Other Obama workers have been linked to large trucking companies, insurance companies, and banks. These lobbyists are supposed to take leave from their firms before coming to work for a candidate. Apparently, one of them was still on her firm’s payroll when she joined the Obama campaign, according to The Hill. (Go to TheHill.com for details.) Clinton has a similar thicket of lobbyist connections in her campaign organization. Edwards has no corporate lobbyists working for him.

There can be no real change in America until we change the power corporate money and lobbyists have over our elected leaders.

[yourout]

1. I like Obama but...........VERIZON SUCKS!!!

When my contract is up in June its.............
Fuck You very much Verizon.

[LordJFT]

6. how so? There service is much better than sprint or cingular

[yourout]

8. For starters they disable half the features of the Razor so you have to buy add-on packages for ...

anything of use.

And on top of that the coverage sucks in my area. When we had US Cellular the coverage was far superiour.

There is a sprint tower right out my back yard and the damn phone wants to be on the Verizon tower that won't keep a connection.

Even with a in-house repeater the signal sucks.

[MasonJar]

21. They are like AT&T/ Bush wiretappers...so is Cingular of course. I do not know about Sprint.

[pdxmom]

17. But I can now get my cable through them, at a much, much lower rate

than Comcast, and I get lots of stations that I wanted but didn't have before. Like C-Span 3. And MSNBC is right there in the lineup equal to CNN and Faux.

[rpannier]

2. Even if they leave their positions we know where their loyalties lay

with the corporations that they previously worked for.

The junior senator from my state disappoints me more all the time.

[bunnies]

3. ROFLMAO

Next up: Obama wears boxers not briefs. That BASTARD.

[ursi]

4. isn't it ironic that the Clintons & supporters can have HOPE but no one else can?

[brentspeak]

11. I'm an Edwards supporter

[aquart]

13. "The Clintons"?

Evading charges of blatant sexism by pretending Bill is also on the ballot. Could there be anything more demeaning to a woman candidate?

Ugly meme, honey. But at least it's not 'racism,' right?

[sunonmars]

5. yet another example of lying, what a surprise

[rpannier]

9. And the lie would be what exactly???

Having people who previously worked for and in one case still was working as a lobbyist is a fact.

Let's be honest here...They didn't leave their jobs out of frustration or unhappiness. They left them to go work for Sen Obama.

If they weren't working for Obama, they'd still be working as lobbyists for these corporations.

Their loyalties and sympathies are with corporate America, not you or me.

[sunonmars]

10. Hilarious, that was just hilarious

[brentspeak]

12. Do you understand English?

???

[sunonmars]

15. i'm laughing at the Obama hypocrisy

[brentspeak]

16. I apologize if I misunderstood

[sunonmars]

18. you are right brent, the forked tongue is incredible

[Mojambo]

7. This is why I don't really care who wins between Hillary and Obama. n/t

[ecstatic]

14. You can't help but chuckle at Obama smears

They're all so... well, funny, irrelevant, and full of faux outrage.

[brentspeak]

19. So what's the "smear"?

And who's doing the "smearing"? The person who wrote the article? Was he lying, making things up?

Also, what do you mean by "faux" outrage? I take it you're thrilled that Obama, the "change" candidate", is knee-deep in corporate lobbyists?

(Actually, judging from your usual hit-and-run posts, I don't expect any substantive answers.)

[ecstatic]

23. Sorry, but I will need a reliable source--not an Op-Ed written by an Edwardian nt

[brentspeak]

24. Here's your "reliable source".

And, again, no substantive response.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obamas-k-street-project-2007-03-28.html

[MasonJar]

20. Verizon is one of the bush-'n-league wiretap accomplices! How can

Obama promote these awful villains, who probable have an entire dossier on him?

[sunonmars]

22. anyone else convinced Obama's bought and paid for

He's gonna be a corporate president, if he wins, you watch the people in here will freak, well if it happens, they deserve it.