THE EXELON LIE IN IOWA

Obama said " I will never lie to you"

EXELON LIE

It should be scrutiny time for Obama, even if only as a helpful exercise in vetting him, if he is the Democrat to face John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.
Right before Super Tuesday The New York Times reported that Obama took up the cause of residents in Illinois who were outraged that Exelon Corp. did not disclose radioactive leaks at one of its nuclear plants. Obama, who introduced a bill requiring all plant owners to notify state and local authorities of small leaks, told voters on the campaign trail it was "the only nuclear legislation that I've passed."
However, as the Times reported, the bill ultimately died in the full Senate after Obama rewrote it to reflect changes sought by Exelon, Senate Republicans, and nuclear regulators. Meanwhile, Exelon contributed at least $227,000 to Obama's campaign and two top Exelon executives are among his largest fund-raisers. According to the Times, Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, also worked as a consultant for Exelon.
But Obama is promising a new kind of politics, not a tamped-down version of the Clinton brand. The Times said the Obama campaign did not directly address the question of why Obama told Iowa voters that the legislation that died had, instead, passed. That should be worthy of follow-up. Obama is pledging to hold himself to a completely different standard of political behavior