CNN

You mean the Democrats lied?

Like that's a surprise?

I hope it's part of a consistent and continued effort to let people know who John McCain is. He is in the pocket of the big guys at Big Oil. Let's not confuse that with Obama getting contributions from the rank and file who work there.

And I got to say it....JohnBoy, please get your facts straight or go lock yourself in your house until November. McCain is not a Muslim and neither is Obama. Obama is an American running for President, he was born in Hawaii. McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone. Using your logic, who is more American?

We don't question Obama at all.

We're so sick of the warmongering wealthy republicans it isn't funny.

Where is the new high minded campaign style that Obama promised? Gone the same way as his promise to use public money. Gone the same way as his promise to bring all the troops home in eighteen months. Gone the same way as his promise to......You fill in the blank..........

Private donations from employees of oil companies is very different than accepting PAC money, corporate donations, etc. Private individuals cannot go back to Obama later and ask for favors. The media needs to tell this like it is. Everyone has an opinion and has a right to support a candidate. If they happen to work for Exxon or an oil company, so what? The important thing is that the candidate is not beholden to any special interest.

Max... if you're talking about McCain... you may not need an apostrophe before the "08" lol

Obviously, the low level employees are donating to Obama, and the upper management and CEO's are donating to McCain. That's why $1.3 million donated to McCain compared with roughly $400,000 to Obama.

More people at Exxon are sending money to Obama... looks like the employees at Exxon want some kind of change in our government. Makes you wonder why??? Maybe the Exxon employees realize how much their company is raping the American public and want a President that will make changes. WAKE UP, AMERICA!!

We are going to need those stress balls if McCain squeaks by

Perfectly highlights just how corrupt to the core the Republican party has become and how they perpetually sell-out to the Big Oil lobby aka API.

I'm a Democrat and supporter of Barack Obama...but ignorance is ignorance. While the oil companies are reaping record profits they are also one of the few corporations that can also put huge sums into R&D for alternative energy. British Petroleum and Chevron have been moving in this direction – Exxon still lags. I didn't like the McCain campaign's tire gauges and similarly don't like these Democrat based stress toys. This campaign season is a joke....with Republicans leading the way but now it seems Democrats are following the lead.

has anybody stopped to think that McCain will probably die of old age before any of his oil fields that he wants to drill ever produce any oil? may be why he stomps his feet and screams DRILL AND DRILL NOW.....he knows he will not outlive his plan!

its funny reading this all,, its been proven that mccain is for off shore drillin,, but what would that do to us? when we have plenty of oil here,, its just sealed by government officails for emergencies,, well this is what we are in,, and you dont hear any talk about these wells being sealed,, dont you question this? its bush and along with that mccain wants the same,, he makes it sounds so good, but behind the scenes it will not benifit american ,,EVER<, its a ply by mccain and his people,, the ones to go after are the exectutives at the oil companies,, this was to be looked into,, and has been for years but you dont hear any more about,it ,, wonder why??? its mccain and bush who are puchin this off shore drilling,, ask em why they wont open the oile rigs and wells here that are sealed.. be interesting to hear what they say about it,,, ummmm

AWESOME- This is just grand, send me a STRESS BALL, it might relieve the stress for a second, then when I think about ExxonMcCain-Bush-Cheney-Rove, I want to move to Saudi Arabia where I don't have to worry about Oil and at least they are in the Pockets of McBush!

mccain please pick liberman and really make rush limbaugh crawl back under the rock he came out of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain makes a big splash with his visit to an oil rig today...and his continuing ridicule of Obama's comprehensive energy policy. Odd, 'tho...that McCain's trip was delayed supposedly because "...The presumptive Republican presidential nominee's earlier trip to a rig was canceled because of weather."...when in reality the rig was dealing with an oil spill. Not exactly a confidence builder.

This is a very, very funny sticker! It makes me laugh.

TO Mike H..............from above.

Change is hard......I'll bet that there were many cave men who thought and resisted that new fangled wheel thing..............I think it still caught on.........inspite of the any sayers.

So let me get this right,you've got hillary's campaign staff acting like kindergarteners, John Edwards Doing the humpty-hump and continueing to lie about it, then you through in the discovery of your very own Karl Rove, and if that wasn't enough you have Democrats fighting amongst themselves in Tennessee. and after all that a stupid squeeze toy is the best you morons can do?

Maybe Obama should run as an Independent, cause you idiots are trying too hard to cost him the election.

Remember Republicans, Have A since Of Humor!

Obama has been tied to magical mystery fuel, or MMF. First conceived of at Woodstock, MMF evokes all of the feel-good energy of the 1960's! MMF is 100% organic, nontoxic and can be used in any type of engine. MMF's only emissions include warm UV-free rainbows, sugar cubes and pure water!

Low-Income Republicans, Ignorant and proud of it.

"Let there be no mistake, the oil and gas industry knows that Exxon-McCain is the ticket to four more years of record profits and skyrocketing energy costs," said DNC spokesman Damien LaVera. "Our political opponents can try to muddy the waters if they want, but Big Oil Continue Steered Far More Money to the Exxon-McCain 08 campaign Then Obama for a reason. John McCain's promise of more of the same reckless giveaways and tax breaks for Big Oil and obstruction of alternatives to oil is exactly what Big Oil is looking for, which is why Exxon-McCain is their ticket this November."

Thank you Sarah!!!
Obama has raised almost 3 times as much as McCain with almost 4 times as many donors. It's just like the lobbyist faux argument. McCain takes money from actually registered lobbyist and to try to tie up Obama the media tries to say that Obama takes money from lawyers who work for firms that lobby. Thats's silly. 25% of my friends are lawyers and I know a ton of them whoo have donated to Obama. They are in no way lobbyists. I believe that there is a conspiricy by the media to kee theis race close for ratings.

FUNNIEST LINE I EVER HEARD FROM SOMEONE I BLAME TOO FOR HIGH GAS PRICES. CAME FRON AN OIL EXEC WHEN OIL HIT 70 A BBL. OL OIL EXEC SEEMED TAKEN ABACK BY ALL THE FUSS DIRECTED AT THEM. WHEN ASKED BLUNTLY HOW MUCH MORE MONEY WENT IN THEIR POCKETS AT OUR EXPENSE HE RETORTED " WHERE WERE ALL THESE PEOPLE WHEN OIL WAS 10 A BBL AND WE WERE STILL EXPECTED TO MAKE A PROFIT. CAREFUL AMERICA YOU MIGHT BE SEEN AS WHINERS WHEN ITS AS MUCH OUR LUST FOR STATUS AND BIG TIMES AS IT IS HOW THE WORLD HAS BECOME IN THE 21 CENTURY. JUST STOP BLAMING REPUBS AND GO GET YOURSELF A BIGGER SUV AND TURN THE AC DOWN A NOTCH. IT AINT ALL GOOD.

Green Party busted Obama on this one – Obama is taking BIG donations from the Big Oil and Nuclear Reactor corporations.

Do Obama fans even question His Highness anymore?

"Exxon" McCain will make the oil companies RICHER.... and people who make UNDER 150,000 a year are willing to vote for him... some people are just DUMB.

Beanies with propellers on top for personal energy generation. Part of the Obama "rainbows and unicorns" fantasy plan.

I believe there should be an apostrophe before the "08"

Don't forget: Oil drilling is not about bringing down the price of oil. It costs so much to sink a deep-water well, that drilling the OCS is only economic if oil sells for north of $100/bbl. So what, then, is it about? Ensuring the profits of big oil companies Maybe? This is what McCain has signed onto, so the sticker is appropriate. And don't believe McCain when he touts alternative energy, he is only paying it lip service.

Hmm? Looks like the DNC made a typo error. Exxon is really Obama's big oil company of choice. Should say ExxonObama08.

Of course McCain gets all the other big oil companies. Typical greedy Republican. Of course McCain knows that drilling off shore is good for Big oil, and for reducing US dependency on foreing oil, and for keeping more dollars in the US by bying more of our oil from US oil companies, and that drilling offshore will create more American jobs to man the oil rigs, and create more tax revenue for our government. McCain just wants it all doesn't he.

Whoops! Another mistake by Obama's camp.

its a dnc ad ,not an obama ad.dillweed.

It is not the amount of money that is given, it is the actions, nor non-actions that the politician takes as a result of the donation. McCain did not vote at least 8 times in favor of tax breaks for alternative energies. Obama missed only 1 vote. Republicans have killed it so far. Guess who is in the pocket of big oil.

I did notice that McCain almost word for word copied Obama on saying we need a comprehensive enery plan. That not just drilling was going to get it done. Though he did say drilling (Drill, Drill, Drill),
should be the first option.
Anyone else notice how prices are dropping and rising based on speculations, not drilling. So much for that theory!!

Good job DNC way to fight back ... we have learned the high road get us know where – the repug are the master of slinging dirt but combat them with the truth and we will prevail .... Obama 08

THOSE EMPTY OIL DRUMS ARE MAKING TOO MUCH NOISE SIMILAR TO THE NOISE THAT JOHN McCAIN IS MAKING EVERYTIME HE OPENS HIS MOUTH, HEY !

WHEN YOUR NOT ACCUSTOMED TO BEING DESTRUCTIVE, IT TAKES YOU OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE (IF YOU FEEL THE NEED TO STRIKE BACK).

SENATOR OBAMA COMES WITH A POSITIVE MINDSET.

MAYBE MICHELLE OBAMA, WASN'T TOO FAR OFF TARGET!

please pick liberman

Good.

Obama 08

There he goes again. Let's see, more donations from Exxon going to Obama, yet McCain is in bed with Exxon? Fuzzy math there Obamafans?

Let's get this party started. Go Obama.

Catch up... the gauge was dumb, second inflating tires was just something Obama mentioned out of 10 other things. And the republicans make it its like the only thing on the plate... its like those people have no brains, including McCain supporters.

much better than that air guage.at least obama was truthful while mccain lied,yet again.

ok so McCain is a bought candidate, PUMA seems like a terrorist organization and Americans will be doomed if we elect another republican administration...why wont john mccain release his military records? if mccain was interested in the pain we feel at the pump, why wont he support closing the loop holes (Gramm wrote ) that would immediately lower gas prices, why does john mccain think HE can tell a woman what she can do with her body, did john mccain start the explosion aboard the USS Forrestal killing 167 men, why wont mccain admit the "cross story" was plagiary,cant mccain just come out and say-yes i changed my position on off shore drilling only after getting money from the Hess foundation, 5 million makes me rich...that is not a distortion mccain, it is what you said...AMERICA can NOT AFFORD MCCAIN

Democrats drill already. Please stop sending out 2 Billion dollars a day for oil. Pelosi please go back to Washington. Stop making rediculous arguments and then expect us to believe nonsense. Stop saying Oil companies are the way to green energy, it would be a conflict of interest to them. The whole idea started with a marketing ploy with Shell in Holland, but has it really gone anywhere. Financing and project research should be taking place at the goverment level so we can please progress on this critical issue now.

Considering Obama has raised easily over twice as much as McCain has in general, $339M to $145M, a 20% advantage at Exxon is much lower than one would expect. The fact that McCain has raised over 3 times as much from the oil industry is astounding.

A dollar donated to McCain is 8 times more likely to have come from the oil industry as a dollar donated to Obama.

Much of that advantage is due to the fact that McCain received a huge influx of cash right about the time he started pushing drilling in coastal areas and ANWR – how convenient! He has lobbyists from every major oil company on his campaign staff, several in key positions.

One of his top foreign policy advisors, Randy Scheunemann, was a registered lobbyist for the foreign government of Georgia, having taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from them. McCain's position in the recent conflict was decisively pro-Georgian. Scheunemann's firm is still lobbying the U.S. Government on behalf of Georgia.

McCain, the best government money can buy.

How can I get a set?

The donations were private and personnal choices............EXXON's political position is NOT tied into their employees preferences. This is silly CNN. Who has had the most influence from lobbyists from oil companies??? Say, over the last 30 yrs. ???

i dont get. i thought the mcacain camp was labeled as wrong and tasteless for doing this by the obama camp. So what makes this any better ... because obama did it.

The Republicans and Senator McCain have had seven and a half years to do something about energy in this country. Instead, theyve been content to increase our dependence on oil and spend our national blood and treasure on wars in oil-rich regions.

It's time for a change! It's time for President Obama!

Sounds like the DNC didn't do their homework. They could've said "ConocoPhillips/McCain" or something and they would've been alright.

And Thomas, THINK for once; this wasn't Obama's idea. It was the DNC. Why do you haters always want to blame Obama for surrogate behavior? If Biden farts, is that Obama's fault too?

That right... go get the Oil- War monger. At 72 he wants to ruin the world b4 joining his ancestors. We need peace and hope for our kids!!!

TIRE -–GAUGES--PLEASE--! ! ! !

Dare you to print it.

Sure glad Obama is a different sort of politician. Otherwise I'd have to call this a negative ad. Since Obama has taken more money from Exxon employees than McCain, isn't this just a tiny bit hypocritical. I mean I know Obama is the messiah, but still just maybe shouldn't he be honest?

So, the DNC is trying to tie McCain to oil, Oil companies are giving more money to McCain, but some groups are trying to point to the donations from the employees of the company, rather than the companies donations, for who is the Oil companies favorite? This sounds to me like the media is playing parrot for the Republicans, rather than actually researching the story.

I want to drill now and here

so that i can become more rich like Mccainsame Bush

Always negative reporting by CNN for both candidates. Can't you report anything positive for once.

again obama is playing catch up, always second off the line. always waiting for somebody to create, be it attack ads, economic strategy, energy plan it doesn't mater, he is always playing second banana. it seems he can't come up with anything original, just a variation of his opponents work and some people think this man is intelligent. his only ability is in using other people

"But in a bit of poor political timing, a study by...." WHAT ? ? ? ?

CNN "pushes back" on this story but not on anything from the McWrinkle camp?

Remember.......when Mitt said Obama said inflating tires would ELIMINATE our dependency on foreign oil the CNN newscaster went right on as if it were the gospel truth. The interviewer did not question the truthfulness of the statement.

CNN, where is YOUR sense of humor????

What about Big Government? They make more per gallon than the oil companies do! Are Obama and the DNC linked to Big Government? I think they are!

Obama looks more and more like a copy cat? Has anyone noticed that McCain has Obama on his toes and Obama has to keep responding to McCain. Ok...Let's see if Obama can understand this, if we drill for oil we are coming up with solutions to the energy crisis. Using "tire guages" is like putting a bandaid on a cut that needs stitches.

I want one of these! Where can I get one?

DRILL--HERE--DRILL-–NOW--ALTERNATIVES--OK

Perfect.

I'll take a few.

OBAMA 08

Since Obama regularly raises twice as much money as McCain, it is not at all surprising that he has also received more money from employees of any individual company. The important statistic is what percentage of each candidate's total revenues came from a particular company or sector. By that measure, the oil industry has far greater influence over McCain than Obama.

Grampy McCain't has three causes greater than himself: OIL and WAR and LOBBYISTS.

Here we go again.. this is the quote from the article:

"But in a bit of poor political timing, a study by the Center for Responsive Politics released earlier this month as the DNC launched its effort to link McCain to Exxon found that employees and executives of that company, along with fellow oil giants Chevron and BP, had actually donated more money to presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama than to the Arizona senator’s presidential bid. The study did find that McCain received more contributions overall from the oil industry — $1.3 million compared with roughly $400,000 to Obama."

Stupid analysis by the writer. Individual employees from the companies donated more to Obama... Yet the corporations themselves have donated 3 times as much to McCain. Those are 2 VERY different things.

Big Oil just baits the hook hoping to catch any fish that will bite.

I always thought that there was a huge diffrence between recieving charitable contributions from indipendent employees, and recieving large donations from the people who set the agenda? Hey, maybe i'm wrong.

Well, I guess it's time to see if McWrinkle has a sense of humor ; – )

McWrinkle, Russia called.....they want their "Cross Story" back ! ! !

Thomas must be sniffing oil.Obama money came from people who work for the oil company,but McCains come from the executives and owners.

More worthless drivel from the DNC, dragging their candidate of change down into a sea of sameness. They could have at least picked a company whose employees and execs gave more to McCain than Obama.

I guess CNN cannot figure out the differnce between the employee and the employer. some might need to go back to schoole.

Well, that's the first sticker, or item of that matter, I've seen McCain's name on regarding this election. Nice Slogan – matches McCain all too well.

I haven't seen one thing around Austin, like support signs or stickers for McCain, only for Obama.

Austin, Texas for Obama!!

Again, as CNN consistently fails to mention, that study takes into account even the lowest-paid employee. Anybody who thinks that somebody driving a BP delivery truck making $35,000 a year is donating based on who he or she thinks will help the oil industry obviously has no grasp of reality. The fact is, when low-level employees are factored in, it shouldn't be surprising that Obama has raised more than McCain – he's raised far more from the population overall, so why should low-level oil company employees be any different?

Come on, CNN. Analyze these things before you just parrot them around.

Turn about is fair play. The kitchen is heating up.

Thank God we have a American running for President, John McCain.
Thank God McCain will not raise our taxes.
Thank God McCain will keep us safe, just like President Bush did.
Thank God McCain is not a Muslin.
Thank God McCain has Americans as his interest.
Thank God McCain is not a ROCK STAR.
Thank God the Democrats will lose in 08.

John McCain 08

Obama again comes in second... he ever have his own ideas?