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 June 5, 2008
By: WALKING THE WALK ... From the NYT: "Senator Barack Obama, as he becomes his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, is starting to exert his authority over the Democratic National Committee. A first step? New fund-raising guidelines. Good for him. Although, as this article points out, banning contributions and gifts from lobbyists won't get at some of the deeper sources of their influence, it's a very good start. (That article places a lot of emphasis on lobbyists' control of information; I think it probably underplays the importance of lobbyists contributions, bundled and otherwise, in terms of helping to free candidates from some part of the massive time sink that is fundraising.) Obama also announced that Howard Dean will stay on as DNC chair, also a good move, in my opinion, for reasons explained here. And while I'm linking: this analysis of Obama's strategy is very, very good. Comments
if nothing else, it will accentuate the problems MsCain has with his StraightTalk lobbyists, despite being Mr CampaignFinanceReform(TM). Posted by: absent observer on June 5, 2008 at 6:14 PM | PERMALINKObama won't take lobbyists money but they can work for his campaign, occupying most top positions. Only Dumbocraps fall for that hypocrasy. Posted by: ZombieNation on June 5, 2008 at 7:59 PM | PERMALINK"his party’s presumptive presidential nominee" - it may not have looked that way to you, but it did to me. I also get this when importing/exporting between email programs, cut and paste from web, etc. There's got to be a better way to handle font/"language"/encoding translation issues. Posted by: NB on June 5, 2008 at 8:04 PM | PERMALINKHelp me out here zombie, who is working for his campaign, what positions do they occupy, and who are they lobbyests for? Posted by: doug on June 5, 2008 at 9:00 PM | PERMALINKCould you please go out and buy yourself a new keyboard? Just how badly do you desire to sabotage yourself by screwing up your own posts? Posted by: rencor on June 5, 2008 at 10:38 PM | PERMALINKIf changing the way business is done is Washington can be done through internet fundraising, then lobbyists have already lost, and Obama has already won, even if Senator McCain becomes President. 
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