Obama proposes a trade: voters for hoops

JUDAS is ALIVE, WELL, and is a US SENATOR ....see if you can smell him out in the
following very real story..............no fairy tale here....who betrayed his constituent citizens for $$$$ from the Nuclear Industry?????????????

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Nuclar Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate

By MIKE McINTIRE
Published: February 3, 2008 Read complete story at NY Times

When residents in Illinois voiced outrage two years ago upon learning that the Exelon Corporation had not disclosed radioactive leaks at one of its nuclear plants, the state’s freshman senator, Barack Obama, took up their cause.

Mr. Obama scolded Exelon and federal regulators for inaction and introduced a bill to require all plant owners to notify state and local authorities immediately of even small leaks. He has boasted of it on the campaign trail, telling a crowd in Iowa in December that it was “the only nuclear legislation that I’ve passed.”
“I just did that last year,” he said, to murmurs of approval.

A close look at the path his legislation took tells a very different story.

While he initially fought to advance his bill, even holding up a presidential nomination to try to force a hearing on it, Mr. Obama eventually rewrote it to reflect changes sought by Senate Republicans, Exelon and nuclear regulators. The new bill removed language mandating prompt reporting and simply offered guidance to regulators, whom it charged with addressing the issue of unreported leaks.

Those revisions propelled the bill through a crucial committee. But, contrary to Mr. Obama’s comments in Iowa, it ultimately died amid parliamentary wrangling in the full Senate.

The history of the bill shows Mr. Obama navigating a home-state controversy that pitted two important constituencies against each other and tested his skills as a legislative infighter. On one side were neighbors of several nuclear plants upset that low-level radioactive leaks had gone unreported for years; on the other was Exelon, the country’s largest nuclear plant operator and one of Mr. Obama’s largest sources of campaign money.

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. A spokeswoman for Exelon said Mr. Axelrod’s company had helped an Exelon subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison, with communications strategy periodically since 2002, but had no involvement in the leak controversy or other nuclear issues.

How ironic it is that Obama is choosing a light-hearted, honest way to promote the participation of young voters.

No one would be willing to play Hillary and Bill in such a pick-up game; no one know what rule changes Hillary would demand near the end of the game to make sure she wins!

This is pretty awesome. One of my big draws to Obama is his ability to inspire people to become active in the political process. I have sat on the side lines for the last 3 elections because I did not want any of the candidates. Obama has made me want to participate.

On top of it he is not telling (Obviously its implied) to vote for him. They are making their own choice to vote for him. I am glad the upcoming significantly less racist youth are willing to give this man an honest assesment of his abilities as opposed to his sex or race.

Wanna give a shout out to all those intelligent students in America that listened to Barack's message of Hope & Change starting in Iowa and across America! You've shown the world that you will stand up and be counted! You're our future! Run with it!