Following The Money Trail

Rather, the challenge is coming from FactCheck.org, the independent consumer advocate site run by the Annenberg Political Fact Check, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. There contention, that Obama's claims against Senator McCain and the Republican Party are nothing more than "a large exaggeration and a lame excuse" to divert attention from his apparent position change on the issue of public funding that he announced earlier this week and that money from lobbyists and P.A.C.'s constitute less than 1.7 per cent of McCain's intake and less than 1.1 per cent of the money raised by the RNC.

It's not the first time that Senator Obama has found himself the target of the Annenberg Political Fact Check. In March of last year, after the release of a new campaign ad by the Senator's campaign entitled "Nothing Changes", a commercial aimed at big oil and that made the bold claim that his campaign did not take money from oil companies, casting the dispersion that his opponents did, FactCheck.org looked into the validity of his claims. In their article Obama's Oil Spill they pointed out that no candidate could take money from oil companies, not since President Theodore signed into law South Carolina Senator Ben Tillman's campaign finance reform bill that banned direct corporate donations in 1907.