Obama's coming Lobbyist problem...

So Barack Obama has been rousing his troops lately by complaining that McCain has (GASP!) Ex-lobbyists on his campaign team. For a moment, lets ignore the fact that lobbyists are part of the democratic process and are a pretty good part of it too, so long as they play by the rules (No bribes, declare your intentions, fill out your paperwork and please, no bribes). In recent months, McCain has taken the extra step to make sure that his staff is only filled with people who didn't lobby for any intrests outside of the USA. He's a good goverment advocate and of course has been very public about the whole thing.


Still Obama feels the need to needle him on it. It's a legitimate issue if you've got no one on your team that's a lobbyist, but it's quite another when your chief adviser and campaign guru is discovered to have engaged in lobbying, without being declared a lobbyist!

See in the good goverment capital of America that is the State of Illinois, things like what David Axelrod did don't count as lobbying (though as newsweek points out when his firm did the same thing in New York, it counted as the "largest lobbying contract of the year"),

So now Barack, are lobbyists on your campaign team somehow better because they were more underhanded and didn't actually let anyone know they were lobbying? McCain's people were open about there intentions from the start, and its for that reason McCain says that he's not influenced by who they worked for in the past. But when your staff is hiding who they worked for... isn't that a little CORRUPT for the golden calf of the democratic party? Better start coming up with a nice rhetorical response to this now Barry, I have a feeling the questions aren't going to go away...