Apr

17

Grey areas

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It’s hard to know what’s true. Yesterday, I posted this email I received from Obama’s campaign…touting the largest grassroots movement in US history, and today, I read this story on Yahoo! about Obama’s contributors working for lobby firms.

So..what’s the truth here? Obama says he doesn’t take money from lobbyists. I take this to mean that he doesn’t have any PACs - fundraising, mud-slinging organizations. And that he’s not going to give any one favor for their fundraising efforts, except maybe Oprah :) I think it means that high-powered attorneys that happen to work or run law firms that also house lobbyists have taken a shine to what Barack has to say.

It’s all grey areas. (Notice the absense of a black and white joke here.)