Via Hot Air, FactCheck.org looks into Barack Obama’s claim that John McCain’s campaign is “fueled” by lobbyists and special interests. They label his false claim “lame”:

To say that either the McCain campaign or the RNC are “fueled” by money from lobbyists and PACs is an overstatement, to say the least. Such funds make up less than 1.7 percent of McCain’s presidential campaign receipts and 1.1 percent of the RNC’s income.

In fact, the Barack Obama campaign has accepted contributions from employees of companies such as Goldman Sachs ($571,330), Citigroup ($358,054), Google ($309,514), Morgan Stanley ($259,876), Exelon ($236,211), Microsoft ($209,242), Latham & Watkins ($218,615), and many more.

The Obama campaign likes to get their way out of that tight spot by treating the employees as their own independent minds deciding to back him. Allah and FactCheck nailed him on that, as well:

FactCheck nailed him on that too back in March when it pointed out how, for a guy who likes to brag that he doesn’t take money from oil companies, he sure does seem to get a lot from oil company employees.

See, it’s illegal to accept money from companies directly. You can only accept them from employees, PACs, etc. That didn’t stop him from bragging about being a candidate who wasn’t breaking the law.