Mood:  incredulous

Ok, that's it. I accepted the argument when Mr. Obama opted out of the federal funding system - "He shouldn't have even of promised he wouldn't" sounded good. The realities of politics hitting home, and all that.

But now he's gone back on the "I wont' take a dime from lobbyists" promise, which I absolutly loved and agreed with, and the excuse is again: "He shouldn't have made that promise," there are too many good, experienced people that have been lobbyists, we need all the good people on board, and all that.

Please. There are TONS of qualified people is this country for federal jobs, even the big ones. No, maybe they don't have specific experience in one certain thing, or experience trying to talk Senators into voting for a certain agenda.

There ARE lots of people out here in the real world, however, that have experience learning about something new, taking in information from both sides of an issue, and making compromises while also making sound, eduacted descisions. You can't tell me that the best person for the job is a former lobbyist that was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to talk out of one side of their mouth.

Stop the sliding now, Mr. Obama. I really like you. I'm very hopeful for the future now that you are in office. But this needs to stop.