Posted by
Always To The Right on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:20:55 PM
Barack Obama attacked John McCain for hiring former lobbyists as part
of his campaign, even launching a new website to highlight the attack,
called McLobbyist. Perhaps Team Obama will launch a new one called JoeLobbyist that will focus on his running mate’s decision to hire an active lobbyist
for his simultaneous Senate campaign. Biden has hired William Oldaker,
a partner in his son’s lobbying firm, as his campaign’s legal counsel
Team Obama responded to the USA Today story by noting that Oldaker also
performs work as an attorney. However, that distinction gets lost in
Obama’s attacks on McCain for hiring former lobbyists who also have other expertise as campaign officials. The hypocrisy is a little much for Bill Ellison of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan watchdog group
Indeed. Either lobbyists are a problem or they’re not. If inactive
lobbyists are so detrimental that Obama feels the need to point them
out in McCain’s campaign, then an active lobbyist in Biden’s campaign
represents the same problems. If Obama has no problem with an active
lobbyist working for his running mate, then that strongly suggests that
Obama has been a hypocrite all along on lobbyists.
Will the hypocrisy never end? Maybe it will on November 4th.