Guess who has received $227K from Exelon (nuclear industry) since '03?

[Sonoman]

Barak Obama, that's who.

edited due to the fact that - evidently - there are some here who would rather twitch than read:

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Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.

Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry's lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon's support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.

In addition, Mr. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon....

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/russ-baker/35007/america-and-nuclear-obamas-forgotten-track-record

Different dog, same handlers...

Sonoman

[geek tragedy]

1. Chicken feed. nt

[defendandprotect]

41. Not if it gets you $36 BILLION in Fed loans and loan guarantees for NUKES -- !!

[ProfessionalLeftist]

84. Exactly. n/t

[TheWraith]

89. You do know what a loan is, right?

It's money that gets paid back with interest. Loan guarantees aren't even that.

Oh, and nobody has been taking advantage of those loan guarantees.

Paranoia fail.

[Buzz Clik]

95. That would explain the nuclear plants sprining up across the nation.

[me b zola]

102. Whenever he speaks about green energy, he always includes nuclear.

:(

[Buzz Clik]

105. Up until last week, a lot of "green" people were becoming conflicted.

Especially those who are (or were) unafraid of nuclear power. Considering that nukes can be long-term power producers with low CO2 output, they were becoming convinced that the only problem was the waste. There are still those that are convinced that, if the Japanese nuke problem does not rise to the point of catastrophe, then nuke proponents will hold it up as an example and say, "See? Even under the worst of circumstances, nukes aren't any big deal." With every passing day, however, that scenario becomes less likely.

[JohnnyRingo]

103. LOL Good perspective.

[Rex]

2. A business suit is just a business suit.

[Arkana]

3. Never occurred to you that maybe it was Exelon employees that donated to his campaigns

for Senate and President?

[Tx4obama]

7. Yes, that is what I was thinking. The employees probably bundled their donations. n/t

[KittyWampus]

15. LOL! When you have a preconceived bias, never let it get in the way of truth.

[LynneSin]

85. All my donations would fall under big banking

Since I work for one of the biggest banks in the country.

[drm604]

10. Exactly.

Some of the companies I've worked for in the past probably did not support candidates that I donated to.

[Sonoman]

18. Exactly? No...

From article:

Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.

Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry's lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon's support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.

In addition, Mr. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon....

Right there in the article, it says...

Exactly.

Sonoman

[Control-Z]

24. I don't understand why you're

copying and pasting the same, exact OP again here. And the entire post in bold, no less? You do understand that when you make the whole thing bold nothing actually stands out or is highlighted?

[Sonoman]

52. I don't care if it is soft or bold.

What I care

is what has been sold.

And it looks like the whole thing has been bought and sold.

I thought it needed some shouting.

Sonoman

[Control-Z]

55. Shouting would be in CAPS.

Just sayin'

[bajamary]

92. Watch "Inside Job" & Obama's Chicago dinners

Obama has been deep in the pockets of the corporate power brokers for quite some time. Watch the Academy Award Winning documentary "Inside Job" and you'll see more "bought" connections to Obama but these are from Wall Street and Goldman Sachs, among others.

During the presidential primaries I posted on DU the close connections that Obama has with the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, the wizard Jamie Dimon. Dimon and the Obamas were frequent dinner guests of Penny Pritzker (Hyatt Hotels aka no union workers here) at her mega mansion on the northside of my fair city: CHicago. I have friends who live down the block from the Pritzkers and they would tell us that the street was frequently blocked with limos in front of Pritzker's MacMasion. We later learned that these small dinner parties also included the CEO of Excelon, and Da Mayor King Richard II and his sweet wife.

Penny Pritzker was the head of Obama's finance committee.

This was the reason I did not support Obama in the primaries but I did volunteer for Obama after the nomination.

I knew we were getting a corporate powered president but my heart keep hoping that what he said in those eloquent speeches would become a reality.

I was wrong.

So as a Progressive Democrat, I am looking for a Progressive candidate to run in the Democratic Presidential Primaries.

Any suggestions?

[bajamary]

93. Obama's Private Chicago Dinners

Obama has been deep in the pockets of the corporate power brokers for quite some time. Watch the Academy Award Winning documentary "Inside Job" and you'll see more "bought" connections to Obama but these are from Wall Street and Goldman Sachs, among others.

During the presidential primaries I posted on DU the close connections that Obama has with the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, the wizard Jamie Dimon. Dimon and the Obamas were frequent dinner guests of Penny Pritzker (Hyatt Hotels aka no union workers here) at her mega mansion on the northside of my fair city: CHicago. I have friends who live down the block from the Pritzkers and they would tell us that the street was frequently blocked with limos in front of Pritzker's MacMasion. We later learned that these small dinner parties also included the CEO of Excelon, and Da Mayor King Richard II and his sweet wife.

Penny Pritzker was the head of Obama's finance committee.

This was the reason I did not support Obama in the primaries but I did volunteer for Obama after the nomination.

I knew we were getting a corporate powered president but my heart keep hoping that what he said in those eloquent speeches would become a reality.

I was wrong.

So as a Progressive Democrat, I am looking for a Progressive candidate to run in the Democratic Presidential Primaries.

Any suggestions?

[Sonoman]

14. Did it occur to you to read the fucking article?

I didn't think so.

Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.

Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry's lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon's support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.

In addition, Mr. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon....

Well, maybe that's where I got it...

Sonoman

[KittyWampus]

16. Your headline is totally misleading. Why be a jerk?

[Sonoman]

20. Read it

from article:

Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.

Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry's lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon's support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.

In addition, Mr. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon....


I don't know any other way to interpret it.

Sonoman

[Control-Z]

25. And again. n/t

[DeSwiss]

27. What?

And totally destroy this perfect illusion with facts!?!?!

- The devil you say.......

K&R











http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27665.htm">Lifting The Veil: Obama And The Failure Of Capitalist Democracy

[defendandprotect]

57. k

[glinda]

63. K also

[ReggieVeggie]

53. all donations are by employees

I remember a fracas here at DU some time ago where people were up in arms about contributors to campaigns who worked for such and such company. It didn't matter that they wee individual donors. It just seemed to matter who they worked for.

[JDPriestly]

70. If a number of Exelon employees donated to Obama, that is an important fact.

It is especially important if the employees are top level people.

Obama is bought and sold by several industries including the nuclear industry and the financial sector.

It is a shameful fact but true.

One of the reasons I preferred Edwards to Obama during the primaries was that I disagreed with Obama on nuclear energy.

Nuclear energy is very, very dangerous. I've always know that fact. After the recent events in Japan, anyone who tries to deny that nuclear energy kills is simply wrong.

[tpsbmam]

77. I was just thinking the same thing. When donations were bundled from, e.g.,

Halliburton employees...DUers rightfully cried foul. What's good for the goose....


(Edit -- left a word out of my very brief post.)

[xchrom]

4. Recommend

[godai]

5. Exelon supplies all types of power.

http://www.exeloncorp.com/energy/generation/generation.aspx

[Sonoman]

8. Exelon is the largest operator of nuke plants in the country.

Read the article.

Sonoman

[godai]

17. 20% of U.S. nuclear. Read the link.

Exelon Nuclear represents approximately 20% of the U.S. nuclear industry’s power capacity with 10 power plants and 17 reactors—located in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey —and produces enough electricity to power 17 million average American homes annually. Approximately 93% of Exelon’s total electricity generation is nuclear power.

http://www.exeloncorp.com/energy/generation/nuclear.aspx

[Sonoman]

19. "20%" is still the largest.

I'm glad you aren't my comptroller or actuarial.

Sonoman

[defendandprotect]

40. Think it's pretty clear we won't see Obama turning from subsidizing new NUKES ...!!!

If he actually does that -- I want a RECALL -- !!

[IsItJustMe]

6. Be quite. Folks don't want to know the truth. Ignorance can be somewhat blissful.

Illinois also has more nuclear power plants than any other state. Eleven of them and counting.

[KittyWampus]

13. Talking about ignorance- you realize this simply means some Democrats working there donated to him,

right?

[IsItJustMe]

23. I may be ignorant. I am no sponge brain, but I also know that Obama has strong support with the

nuclear industry, and that means money. I also find it interesting that before this all happened, Obama along with strong Republican support, wanted to build 20 new nuclear power plants, with huge amounts of government money to support the building of those plants.

I guess my problem is that I would rather know the truth of a matter than to have the truth match up with my preconcieved notions of what it should be.

[Egnever]

31. Of course he does He favors nuclear energy, he always has

Did you expect the nuclear energy industry to shun him for that? You people and your conspiracy theories...

[IsItJustMe]

33. Good for you.

Then go out and get you some Nuckie.

[defendandprotect]

42. "Always" is a difficult word after Japan .... and hate to mention it but BP/Gulf -- !!!

[Arkana]

37. The internet forum Something Awful donated over 200K to Obama for America in 2008.

Does that put Obama in the pocket of Big Goon?

[Ikonoklast]

75. Win/ thread over.

The hysterics here are amazing, this site is rapidly turning into a nutsite worse than WND.

[Arkana]

87. Didn't you hear?

If you've ever worked for an oil or insurance company, you're not allowed to donate to political campaigns because you're TAINTED!

[Ikonoklast]

88. Lemme see here... I'm incorporated. I donated to Obama.

I'm...EVIL!!!



BWAHAHAHAA!!!!


I love the Loony Left, bereft of logic.

[plumbob]

76. You've never worked for a company that provided cash for employees

to donate to candidates the company favored, but are unable to give directly because of some pesky laws?

Better come to Texas and look at just about any major company in the oil field, whether drilling, production, transmission or equipment.

Quite common. Why do employees bundle when they could simply give as an individual? Yes, why do they?

Hmmm. One reason might be for the company to be sure nobody took any of "their" money home. Such are the joys of working in a "right to work cheap" state.

[SoCalDem]

9. Upper echelon politicians' campaign war-chests are FULL of questionable donations

BOTH parties. The few who eschew donations like that are often never elected to much..and if elected, are always vulnerable to ouster..

Our SYSTEM is what stinks..and unfortunately, the ones who manage to get into a position where they could change it....well they got there with the system we have, so they are in no hurry to rock the boat by changing it.. and the ones who lost to the system..well they have no power to do anything much about it. catch-22

[sabrina 1]

12. Well, we could have said that about Bush too, I guess.

The system does stink, we know that. We just thought we were voting to change it.

Guess not, so what do we do now?

[defendandprotect]

43. Agree -- Obama didn't say "NO" to Exelon -- or to the money he took from private h/c industry ....

and Dems have been collaborating with Repugs and GOP agenda for decades --

[KittyWampus]

11. Obama doesn't take PAC money. You mean Democrats from Exelon donated to him.

You'd think by now DU'ers would understand basics.

[Sonoman]

21. I din't name Parties.

What I intended was that Obama is bought and sold, that's all.

I don't have any faith in anyone, anymore.

Money runs it all.

Sonoman

[Fuddnik]

79. And probably Republicans at Exelon too.

And, not to mention Wall Street millions from their "employees".

Corruption is a complete bipartisan affair. Or is that buypartisan?

[ecstatic]

22. I wouldn't be surprised if employees from most companies based in Illinois

donated a lot of money to Obama. Illinois is Obama's home turf.

[catabryna]

26. Absolutely correct... this is not new information. nt

[Bluebear]

29. But pertinent in light of his "nuclear power must go foward" message this week?

[catabryna]

35. It very well could be pertinent to his current position on nuclear power...

but, I knew his position on this years ago when I donated to his U.S. senatorial campaign.

[Bluebear]

38. That's nice. Many people weren't aware though.

[catabryna]

48. I've come to realize that.

The google was a much better search engine back then.

The biggest thing for me at the time was his position on a public option and when I donated to his campaign way back when, I wrote him a letter to express my opinion about health care and enclosed a check. I had my former employer deliver it for me as he was attending a fundraiser that Obama personally appeared at.

Anyway, I'm still a bit disillusioned about the whole thing. All I can say is that, now more than ever, I really wished he'd kept his promise on that one.

[defendandprotect]

44. Yes, folks ... even if we blow ourselves up ... "nuclear power must go forward" -- !!! Yikes!!

[Egnever]

28. So?

He has been nuke friendly from the get go. Is it really a surprise the nuke industry would donate to him?

You act like he hasnt stated his intentions when it comes to nuclear energy from the get go.

I swear sometimes people just want to be outraged.

Did yopu not pay attention during the election? Are you going to rectify that this time?

[Oilwellian]

65. Regardless of paying attention "then"

We're paying attention "now" in light of the disaster called Japan. There are serious and valid concerns regarding the safety of our own nuclear power structure, especially when you consider the corporate corruption we're seeing on unprecedented levels.

I don't know the law in Japan, so I can't tell you if Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) can plead insanity to the homicides about to happen.

But what will Obama plead? The administration, just months ago, asked Congress to provide a $4 billion loan guarantee for two new nuclear reactors to be built and operated on the Gulf Coast of Texas - by TEPCO and local partners. As if the Gulf hasn't suffered enough. Here are the facts about TEPCO and the industry you haven't heard on CNN:

The failure of emergency systems at Japan's nuclear plants comes as no surprise to those of us who have worked in the field.

Nuclear plants the world over must be certified for what is called "SQ" or "Seismic Qualification." That is, the owners swear that all components are designed for the maximum conceivable shaking event, be it from an earthquake or an exploding Christmas card from al-Qaeda.

The most inexpensive way to meet your SQ is to lie. The industry does it all the time. The government team I worked with caught them once, in 1988, at the Shoreham plant in New York. Correcting the SQ problem at Shoreham would have cost a cool billion, so engineers were told to change the tests from "failed" to "passed."

The company that put in the false safety report? Stone & Webster, now the nuclear unit of Shaw Construction, which will work with TEPCO to build the Texas plant. Lord help us.

There's more.

Greg Palast

I try not to get "outraged" too often. It's bad for your health. So is our nuclear power industry.

[fascisthunter]

30. no denying he's on the wrong side of history

[Egnever]

32. How so?

[JDPriestly]

72. Over and over and on so many issues.

[in_cog_ni_to]

34. Ah. Yes. Exelon. That upstanding Nuclear plant that leaked Tritium Water

for YEARS into the grounds around Braidwood, Godley and Braceville Illinois and never bothered to tell anyone about it. They also had a diesel oil fuel leak, cleaned it up and dumped the clean-up into a local ditch and never told anyone. People were drinking the water, bathing in it, cooking with it until the water started turning OILY. THEN they found out about the damn oil dump. The Tritium issue came to light when a journalist questioned a resident about it. NO ONE KNEW about the leaks that had been going on for YEARS. Here's a snip from just one interview (you really should read the whole thing!). If you want to know about this HUGE Illinois story, just Google "Exelon" Braidwood, Braceville and Godley Illinois. My brother, S-I-L, 2 nieces and nephew lived in Godley when this happened. Their water was contaminated with Tritium water and diesel oil.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/jan-june06/tritium_4-17.html

<snip>
ARJUN MAKHIJANI, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research: Tritium in any amount would present a health and safety standard. Just because there is a drinking water limit of 20,000 picocuries per liter doesn't mean that 5,000 or 1,000 picocuries per liter won't hurt you. They do pose a risk, proportionately a lower risk, but it's not a zero risk.

So I think Exelon should just cool it and stop telling people that there is no harm from low levels of tritium, because it's contrary to the established science, and the official scientific guidance, and the basis of all regulations.

ELIZABETH BRACKETT: Makhijani believes tritium acts like a bullet inside the body's cells, breaking the DNA strands, leaving damaged cells that can develop into cancers. Those most vulnerable are pregnant women and children.

ARJUN MAKHIJANI: Tritium has higher risks for children, because they're growing faster and their cells are multiplying faster. So whenever you have that kind of situation, radioactivity generally will have a greater impact, and tritium especially because it crosses the placenta. <snip>

Exelon should have been told to keep their money.

[in_cog_ni_to]

36. I forgot about Obama's watered down bill....AFTER Exelon bought him off....

http://thebrokenelbow.com/


<snip>
In the case of one of the leading Democratic contenders, Barack Obama, the nuclear industry’s bet paid off handsomely. Exelon and the nuclear lobby, the Nuclear Energy Institute, opposed Obama’s Bill and within a few months their lobbying helped gut the legislation.

Out went that requirement to “immediately” notify the authorities of any nuclear leakage and in its place the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was asked to “consider” public notification in the light of the findings of a special task force set up to examine the tritium discharges. Predictably, that task force reported that “existing reporting requirements for abnormal spills and leaks are at a level that is risk-informed and appropriate”. The Obama Bill was also re-written – the words apparently chosen by Exelon – to make it clear that State and local authorities would not be able to exercise regulatory oversight of nuclear reactors.

The one concession made by the nuclear industry was agreement that plants would “voluntarily” report leakages from now on. But as David Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists told the New York Times: “…because it is all voluntary who’s to say where things will be in a few years from now?”<snip>

<snip>
So why did Barack Obama water down his Bill and allow the nuclear industry to remove its heart and soul? Answer: they gave him lots of money.<snip>

Read the entire thing at the link above.

[defendandprotect]

46. Hi -- Amazing -- !!! This is really what "entitlement" is about -- corporate pollution of water ..!

And, more, of course --

Didn't have time to read all the links -- but saved it ...

New Folder: Corporate CRIMES!!

:(

[in_cog_ni_to]

51. Indeed! Exelon BOUGHT Braidwood, Godley and Braceville, Illinois by

building an unbelievably amazing high school...HUGE with state of the art everything. Godley has a beautiful city park, paid for by Exelon. NOW the principal of that extraordinary Exelon High School (Reed Custer High School) is now questioning if getting cancer and dying from it is really worth it. A little late to question THAT, I'd say.

There are cancer clusters in Godley. Deformed wild animals. Deformed dogs and cats. One lady had saved a dead deformed mouse missing legs. Pets were dying from drinking their water. Babies were born deformed or sickly. The people in Godley had to drink bottled water (paid for by Exelon). There was a horse ranch nearby and Exelon had to provide for the care of those expensive horses. The stories go on and on and on and on. It's truly unbelievable what they did. THEN, the assholes (Exelon) had the nerve to hold a community meeting and catered it with a HUGE spread of free food and drink and tried schmoozing the masses. Pathetic. The people didn't fall for it though. For once.

[defendandprotect]

54. Unbelieve that this can go on -- and seemingly often; it's not rare -- and America

isn't up on its feet and bringing these corporations down?!!?

And it's not even like this is severely delayed stuff -- these people are suffering in

real time!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

58. America is busy watching American Idol. Though they ARE stiring

because of the Union busting in Wisconsin. Maybe this Japan disaster will enlighten them to the dangers of Nuclear Energy and they'll get off their behinds and do something about it. I really doubt it though. :(

[defendandprotect]

39. Shameless -- !!

[jannyk]

45. k&r! What about the non-existant 'clean coal' technology he peddles too. nt

[defendandprotect]

47. Maybe we don't need a challenger in 2012 ... maybe we need a RECALL?

[tammywammy]

49. You do realize you can't recall a President...right? n/t

[defendandprotect]

50. Not yet -- ??

:evilgrin:

[tammywammy]

56. Well, unless you think an amendment will pass, not ever. n/t

[grahamhgreen]

61. Maybe he could just give us a dollar amount that would get him to work for us?

:sarcasm:

[grahamhgreen]

59. If we give him 228k, will he give up on the nuclear folly?

[ClarkUSA]

60. Guess who got over $1,000,000 from the University of California in 2008 alone?

That's right, same guy.

Gasp!! That's why President Obama wanted to spare Pell grants in his budget plan!! U. of CA has him right where they want him: in their pocket!

:sarcasm:

[ClarkUSA]

62. Conspiracy theory FAIL -> "President Obama requests nuclear review, sees risk in Japan" (3/17/11)

Read more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x682474

[Hannah Bell]

64. k&r. also:

Rahm Emanuel was a "key player" representing Unicom Corp., the parent of Commonwealth Edison, in forging its merger with Peco Energy Co. to create utility giant Exelon Corp. in 1999 when Goldman Sachs was also advising Unicom.<9>

Exelon's Political Action Committee (PAC) is EXELONPAC.<10> The company is positioned to profit from "expensive carbon" and has been lobbying for cap and trade of carbon dioxide emissions.<11> Executives at the company have close ties to the Obama administration as advisors and fundraisers, and Obama's chief political strategist David Axelrod did consulting work for it.<11>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exelon

also:

Rowe is best known for his vocal support of the proposed cap and trade mechanism for carbon emission control.<1><2>

His company left the US Chamber of Commerce over the latter's highly public opposition to cap and trade.<3>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowe_(CEO)_Exelon

[nashville_brook]

67. that's right...i'd forgotten about that.

[ClarkUSA]

66. Funny how Pat Buchanan is pushing this same meme on McLaughlin Group right now.

[in_cog_ni_to]

74. It's not funny at all.

Government officials being in the pocket of corporations is bad. Watch the movie "the Corporation" and see what they have done and are doing. It is NOT a good thing, no matter who you are...Democrat or Repuke.

[ClarkUSA]

91. It is when you think how this meme hit DU at the same time as the RNC started pimping it.

It's bullshit smears with zero evidence. Funny how the U of CA donated much more money and no one is making up conspiracy theories about why Pres. Obama refuses to cut Pell grants.

[TBF]

68. His name is Barack Obama - fyi. nt

[NeonDog]

69. Dis-arm..

No need for Democrats to sit with the leadership of the energy industry.
This attitude will get you 8 years of Huckabee....or Palin...or WMD...ooops excuse me for exposing the reality of such BS....

[Politicalboi]

71. Wait! Wait!

What happened to "clean coal" LOL!

[L0oniX]

73. Same thing that happen to the oil in the Gulf.

[Hubert Flottz]

78. $227,000.00 is some Change you can count on.

An earthquake in "Kolley-4-knee-ya"..."it could never happen to us!" Earthquake on the Mississippi..."Not even hardly."

[idrahaje]

80. Given things Michael Moore has said about Hillary

Not very surprising anymore...


Hillary's gotten alot of money from the Health industry. And she's the one that started this. X_X

[indimuse]

81. Is this what they call *Hood-winked*..?

what a shame...

[in_cog_ni_to]

82. NOPE. *Bamboozled* n/t

[ProfessionalLeftist]

83. No kidding. I posted about this a few days ago . .

. . . didn't get much response.

[RegieRocker]

86. That is a couple of bucks in today's political field. I bet

they gave more to Johnnie boy.

[madrchsod]

90. that`s nothing new and we have more dirty coal than god...

[Buzz Clik]

94. What dastardly deed has Exelon done that we will pillory Obama for? (guilt by association)

[cottonseed]

96. Why would they not? Obama is not anti-nuke. He's in leadership.

I don't hate him as much as most here, so I really can't get too worked up over something like this.

[kudzu22]

97. Corporations give money to both sides

That way no matter who wins, they're owed some influence.

[harris8]

98. I have no idea who this is about.

Who is Barak Obama? That looks like freeper spelling of our president's name.

[yellowwood]

99. So?

Sometimes I get the idea that people post here just to bash Obama. What's their solution to all of the issues that he has to deal with? Who would want to be in his shoes?

World population will reach 7 billion this yesar. There are about twice as many people on Earth as there were about the time Obama was born. They all want energy.

Are nuclear power producers inherently evil? Or illegal? What's wrong with their contributing to Obama?

And if not nuclear power, what? Oil? No problems there, right?

[disndat]

100. Well, folks,

Would you rather have Mitt Romney for Pres, '13? He has his own money and doesn't have to take from Excelon or Wall Street.

[Drunken Irishman]

101. Who's Barak?

Never heard of him.

[JohnnyRingo]

104. So, a quarter million over 7 years has turned Obama into a total puppet?

I'll bet Big Oil would have slipped him an even million to nix the nukes if he'd only asked.
$277,000 won't even buy you a good federal judge these days.

[Quantess]

106. too late to recommend