Ring Around the Lobby

Senator Obama has made a lot of hay over the fact that he continues to refuse money from lobbyists, that 80% of his contributions have in fact come from donators donating $200 or less, etc.. It all sounds pretty commendable, right? And it is. Well, kind of. This, I'm saying, in that it appears that the Senator has currently raised more than 18 million dollars in contributions from lawyers and/or law-firms that currently represent, you guessed it, lobbyists. And the Obama campaign has also become very adept at that little technique known as "bundling" - you know, where one donor can in fact be a magnet for a lot of other donors, all of who conveniently appear to have a common agenda or two..............................................I mean, is all of this as bad as what the McCain camp has been doing for all these months (lobbyist-wise)? Probably not. And, yet, it does kind of show us that whenever you start to peel the outer-layers off of ANY of these politicians, you eventually end up with, well, a politician. With a Barack Obama, in other words. Not that there's anything wrong with that!!