Doing something about lobbyists in an unfulfilled Obama promise
How Obama failed to shut Washington's revolving door
He vowed to keep lobbyists out of his administration, but loopholes weakened his pledge.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/barack-obama-revolving-door-lobbying-217042#ixzz3zxb0fzZc
Some of that problem was that if he excluded everyone who had lobbied, then there was almost no one who had decent experience to fill positions in some areas.
Bernie's point about money corrupting politics is valid. Obama didn't solve it.
I do not think Wall Street money influenced Obama himself. But it significantly helped finance the wall of obstruction his legislation and efforts ran into. It softened legislation like Dodd-Frank. And they were going to obstruct anything Obama tried to do about it.
I think the world of Obama and believe overall, considering what he faced, he did a great job.
But there is a lot of work that remains to be done.
The Clintons are much more of a concern. Hillary has been called weather vane for a long history of flip-flops - she can be influenced as her untrustworthy ethical rudder is not very deep. Since they left the White House, they have collected nearly $4 billion for campaigns, the Clinton Foundation, the library and speaking fees - a lot of it from Wall Street. There's no way from all the back slapping financial donations to their causes that they can address money in politics because they're a poster example of the problem. As the Politico article covered recently, Hillary will say one thing about Wall Street in public and another behind closed doors when they're paying her $250,000 to speak. To me, that alone should disqualify her from the Oval office.
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