Post archive for ‘Ethics’

Underground links likely to resurface for Obama(0)

Broadway Baby was not mentioned during the Democratic infighting in Pennsylvania.
But Broadway Baby—once a chic children’s boutique in Manhattan’s Upper West Side—is the future, if Barack Obama is the presidential candidate in the fall.
This story involves two Chicagoans, former Weather Underground terrorist leaders Bernardine Dohrn and her husband, William Ayers, both Obama supporters who blessed [...]

McCain faces accusations of hypocrisy(0)

John McCain on Friday faced accusations of hypocrisy for failing to disclose his wife’s tax records, despite his promise to bring greater transparency and accountability to government.
The Arizona senator declared income of $419,731 in 2007 – a fraction of the multi-million dollar earnings reported by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rivals.
But the disclosure [...]

Outrage as ex-Clinton staffer runs debate(0)

US voters have expressed outrage over the decision to allow Bill Clinton’s former press secretary to moderate today’s debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The debate was moderated by ABC journalists George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton staffer, and Charles Gibson.
More than 7000 viewers posted comments on the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) news website criticising the [...]

Obama tied to lobbyists, but boasts of not taking money(0)

Barack Obama often boasts he is “the only candidate who isn’t taking a dime from Washington lobbyists,” yet his fundraising team includes 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government, records show.
Those lawyers, including 10 former federal lobbyists, have pledged to raise at least $3.5 million [...]

McCain recipes were plagiarized(0)

Some of the “McCain Family Recipes” - posted on John McCain’s official presidential Web site and attributed to his wife, Cindy - were copied word-for-word from the Food Network Web site, according to The Huffington Post.
“At least three of the ‘McCain Family Recipes’ appear to be lifted directly from the Food Network, while at least [...]

Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995: “Screw ‘Em”(0)

“Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.”
The statement — which author Benjamin Barber witnessed and wrote about in his book, “The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House” — was prompted by another [...]

Bill Clinton: Older voters too savvy to fall for Obama(0)

Older voters gravitate to Hillary Clinton because they’re too wise to be fooled by Barack Obama’s rhetoric, former president Bill Clinton told Pennsylvania voters today.
Link:Boston.com
OH really Bill,… you must have missed this headline..
Obama Dominates Clinton Among College Graduates
http://tinyurl.com/5eg2z9
National Democrats remain strongly divided by education as to their preferences for their [...]

Obama would “immediately review” potential of crimes in Bush White House(0)

Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race — and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations [...]

Opinion: John McCain Should Go on Vacation, Hillary Clinton is Doing His Job for Him(0)

Clinton’s cynical distortion of Obama’s remarks is in keeping with her campaign’s modus operandi. On the foreign policy front, we’ve been fed a steady diet of her RNC-patented attacks: No Democrat can be trusted with national security — except her. Obama hasn’t crossed the threshold to be commander-in-chief. Etc.
Now she’s turned to the domestic policy [...]

McCain advisers have foreign lobby ties(0)

Two of Republican presidential contender John McCain’s top advisers and fundraisers acknowledge they have had lucrative foreign lobbying contracts.
While legal, some experts say such cross-representation situations pose potential ethical problems, The Washington Times reported Friday.
Link:UPI.com