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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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From: Brumar891/31/2009 12:06:23 AM
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Obama's Hypocrisy showing

by Kristin ChapmanJanuary 30, 8:54 AM

CNN’s Campbell Brown produced a segment this week on her No Bias, No Bull show in which she questioned President Barack Obama’s recent hypocrisy. At issue is Obama’s public announcement that no one who has lobbied on a set of issues within the past two years can take a role in his administration dealing with the same issues.

Obama first backtracked with the nomination of William J. Lynn III, a recent lobbyist for defense contractor Raytheon, to serve as the Defense Department’s No. 2 official. And now Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has picked Mark Patterson, a recent Goldman Sachs lobbyist, to serve as his chief of staff.

My view is simple: Mr. President, if you want to hire former lobbyists because you think they are the best people to do the job, then hire former lobbyists. Just don’t hold a big news conference first to tell us how your administration is going to be so different from previous administrations in that you won’t be hiring lobbyists.

Don’t make your disdain for lobbyists and your pledges that they won’t wield influence in your administration a centerpiece of your campaign.

It’s the hypocrisy and the double-talk that makes so many of us so cynical. Do what you think is best for the country. Just be straight with us about how you’re going to do it.

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