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If there was a scandal in the Follow the Money investigation CBS filed in partnership with the Washington Times it consisted of being crass. Sharyl Attkisson pointed to the President as the Democratic National Committee's "biggest rainmaker" for its midterm elections campaign chest. "Megadonors are scoring invitations to exclusive White House affairs, access to senior officials, even the Executive Office bowling alley." She called such incentives "controversial but not unusual." She produced a DNC memo with a list of rewards for the most productive bundlers of donations. Goodies included "quarterly meetings with senior members of the Obama Administration, twice-monthly conference calls" and an invitation to "contribute to shaping policy agendas."
This stinks of influence peddling but Attkisson did not dwell on that. Instead her problem with Barack Obama was hypocrisy. As a candidate, she claimed, he "implied things would be different," a claim that flies in the face of the facts. Candidate Obama broke all records for campaign contributions when he was running and even disavowed public financing of his candidacy. He never implied that money could be separated from politics.
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