Posted by
Tonewah on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:00:00 AM
According to an article by
Dan Spencer, Opensecrets.org, the clearing house for information on political contributions, shows that Barack Obama received over $100,000 from AIG. Opensecrets.org was 'unavailable' the last time I tried to access it. It may have crashed due to the high load of traffic.
I've used Opensecrets.org to find info before, and it's usually very accurate. There are copies of tax returns filed and signed by candidates on there, if memory serves. If it's true that he took this money from AIG recently, like the 2008 election cycle, that's a pretty big mark against him. He already has the highest number of Cabinet members with Wall St. backgrounds of any President.
I don't see how being in the pocket of old big money is going to help his 'change' image.