This isn't new news, but here's the latest round of lefty-on-Obama criticism in Harper's magazine. The Harper's Index for the August issue begins:

Total campaign contributions Barack Obama received from BP between 2004 and 2009: $77,051

Number of politicians who accepted more in donations from BP during that period: 0

There was a minor flap about the Obama BP donations back in May. See this hilarious defense of Obama by two Media Matters spinners (summary: the money was laundered through BP employees rather than through a company PAC, so it's cool).  Sarah "Drill, Baby, Drill!" Palin even ventured that these donations may have been one reason why the president was so slow to act.

The suggestion seems improbable. Seventy-some-odd thousand dollars really was a drop in the bucket to the Obama 2008 election campaign. Still, given all the ruckus over Charlie Rangel's campaign contributions, how long do you think it will be before critics call on our president to give the money back?

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