No lobbyists? Hardly...

It's been three-and-a-half years...and one of Obama's first promises continues to be exposed for the lie that it was...and still is. Remember all of Obama's sanctimonious rhetoric on how he was the only candidate in the 2008 presidential race that was above it all when it came to lobbyists? Nevermind the lobbyist ties of his fundraising team that we had found out about earlier in that year. Even earlier, in late 2007, he campaigned to fawning crowds that the lobbyists' "days of setting the agenda are over," and that "they have not funded my campaign, they will not work in my White House."The media didn't bother to cut through that bull soon enough, as year after year rolled by, growing this first lie.

Well, now it appears that the Washington Post (undoubtedly, in their attempts to appear 'fair') has alerted us to Obama's unending lobbyist trend, despite all the promises to reduced the influence of lobbyists within his administration.

Before 9 a.m., a group of lobbyists began showing up at the White House security gates with the chief executives of their companies, all of whom serve on President Obama’s jobs council, to be checked in for a roundtable with the president.

At 1 p.m., a dozen representatives from the meat industry arrived for a briefing in the New Executive Office Building. At 3 p.m., a handful of lobbyists were lining up for a ceremony honoring the 2011 World Series champions, the St. Louis Cardinals.

And at 4 p.m., a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs arrived in the Old Executive Office Building for a meeting with Alan B. Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

It was an unremarkable January day, with a steady stream of lobbyists among the thousands of daily visitors to the White House and the surrounding executive office buildings, according to a Washington Post analysis of visitor logs released by the administration. The Post matched visits with lobbying registrations and connected records in the visitor database to show who participated in the meetings, information now available in a search engine on the Post’s web site.

The visitor logs for Jan. 17 — one of the most recent days available — show that the lobbying industry Obama has vowed to constrain is a regular presence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The records also suggest that lobbyists with personal connections to the White House enjoy the easiest access.

Oops. Move along, though...the liberal media fairness machine certainly won't use this info to harm Dear Leader. And as I recalled all the occurences of Obama's deception at the beginning of this post, it's unlikely devotees would even care about this now either. However, it does provide some interesting thoughts about his run for a second term, as the Lonely Conservative asks, "I wonder how many of these lobbyists are also big contributors to Obama’s reelection campaign." And it might provide his presumptive opponent with additional ammunition as well...if he wasn't doing the same thing.