December 26, 2006
This one is from last December. Another classic classy barry comment said at least twice in Iowa. Sure wonder why it was on his mind...maybe it was the demographic he was appealing to...
From LYNN SWEET:
At a town hall, Obama slammed the Clintons for running a closed health care reform operation in 1992 and 1993. The "did it the wrong way because they went behind closed doors and tried to do it by themselves."
And then he started talking about drugs companies and how "A whole bunch of these profits are going into these tv ads where you don't even know what the ads are for. Actually, that is not true. There is one drug where you know what it is for."
A simple Viagra joke? Or a plug for Pfizer as an ode to ex Pfizer lobbyist, Moses Mercado, who joined barry's camp in August 2007? The NRA?
Washington Post MATTHEW MOSK:
The waves are being generated by Mercado's other line of work -- as a lobbyist with Ogilvy Government Relations who is registered to represent several dozen big-name clients, including the National Rifle Association, the Carlyle Group, the Blackstone Group, Monsanto, Pfizer Inc., United Health Group, Sempra Energy and Constellation Energy.
barry's comments on lobbyists:
Obama sought to make the case that the culture of influence in Washington affects the pocketbooks of Americans in myriad ways, from drug prices to student-loan interest rates -- both of which, he argued, are inflated through industry manipulation of public policy.
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