QUOTE FROM JOHN EDWARDS CAMPAIGN
MANAGER
"Barack Obama's
kind of change is where you sit down and you cut a deal with the corporate
world," Edwards Campaign Manager David Bonior said during an interview
with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. "If you look at his record in Illinois when
he had a major — sponsored a major health bill that's what he did. He watered
down with the help of the corporate lobbyist and they got a weak product out of
that."
Scarborough asked:
"Are you saying that Barack Obama is a sellout to corporate
interests?"
Bonior replied:
"He was four years ago in Illinois. All you have to do is look at the
legislation I'm referring to."
Bonior was referring
to health care legislation that Obama was instrumental in passing when he was
an Illinois state senator five years ago, in part because he worked with
insurance companies to make additions to the bill that would ensure their
approval of the measure.
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All this while the administration was cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest - from drug companies to auto unions to doctors - in which favors worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged.
All this while the administration was cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest - from drug companies to auto unions to doctors - in which favors worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged.
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