But Barack Obama is saying that he'll "clean up Washington".
Democrat Barack Obama, who says he swims in "the same muddy water" of lobbyists and fundraising that corrupts Washington, is pledging to reform the system if elected president.
Presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "doesn't recognize the problem," Obama told The Associated Press in an interview late Thursday.
"I have a bunch of friends who were state lobbyists. The fact of the matter is ... I played poker with them, so I don't think that lobbyists are evil," said the first-term Illinois senator. "I just think they've got an agenda and you got to be clear about that, and not pretend that they don't."
"Why else are they getting hired and making all this money unless they're actually getting something done?"
Hmm...Sounds awfully familiar. I think we all remember Nancy Pelosi saying that if elected, she'd run the "most honest and open Congress in history", and how a lot of Democrats were going to "get rid of the culture of corruption".
But yet, here we are almost a year later and you have Nancy asking for special privileges for her family, hundreds of earmarks for pet projects from John Murtha, bribery scandals with William Jefferson, PROMOTION of Jefferson by Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid undermining American troop morale, etc.
I mean come on, who's going to buy into this line of bullshit when the American people have been suckered by Democrats over and over again?
If Republican leaders were smart, they'd offer President Bush line item veto power bill to go through Congress so he could veto earmarks without interfering with larger spending bills. That would allow the country to get slowly out of debt and by the time the election rolls around, you would have significantly lower debt, which could be used as an election point.
What I'm willing to bet is, Obama will put together some kind of dog and pony show that will be filled with loopholes that Congress and Obama can readily exploit. They've already done it with the "lobbyist reform" bill that went through recently. Now instead of taking a Senator out for dinner and calling it lobbying, which is illegal now, they call it a "campaign contribution" which IS legal.
They are still doing business as usual, just calling it a different name.
The only thing Obama is running on is that he was against the war from the start, (but didn't vote on it), charisma, and an air of honesty. However, dig a bit deeper and I'll bet you'll find dishonesty in him and you can't be President on charisma alone.
Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com
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