Jeffrey Birnbaum reports in the Washington Post:
The co-director of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in Puerto Rico is a Washington-based federal lobbyist for the government of Puerto Rico.
Ethics watchdogs said that the high-profile role of Francisco J. PavÃÂa appears to contradict the Obama campaign’s ethics guidelines, which forbid federal lobbyists from working on staff. But Obama spokesman Bill Burton said PavÃÂa is an “active volunteer” — not a paid staffer — and can hold the job without running afoul of the campaign’s rules.
Thus, the real policy is that as long as they are not double-dipping, federal lobbyists are free to direct the Obama campaign. Not surprising, given that Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod, is the lead partner in a “consulting†firm that specializes in lobbying via “astroturfing.â€Â Indeed, Obama’s policy on lobbyists has been as much style over substance as any other aspect of his campaign.
Just call it hopeyness and changitude, the island way.
Update: O!
Add this to the list of things you aren’t allowed to talk about when referencing the Obamessiah.
But he is different. He brings hope! And change! And a new way of doing things! It only looks like the same old same old. Hypocrite.
Yawn. I think it’s time to stretch, I’m feeling as tired as Karl’s propobamaganda.
Even thor does not try to defend this one. But, Baracky was born on an island. He will always have that close connection to Puerto Rico.
Don’t believe I’ve seen a
O!
today.
Wake up bitter people.
We’re not performing monkeys, hammer-boy. That’s your job.
Nah, it’s fixed now.
Well, just saw the update. Boy do I have egg on my face.
Anyone have any Tabasco?
Well I do believe that thor is in “violation” but not in a monetary way.
O! (noes)
Baracky should stop being so shady, but who the hell does Jeffrey Birnbaum think he is telling on Baracky like that? What a dick.
So it is not okay if Obama pays the lobbyist, but if they donate their time, for free, so they are being paid by outside interests to work for Obama for free, then that is just ducky.
Is that really what they are saying? And there are people out there who that makes sense to?
Jeez B Moe, you’re worser than Jeffrey Birnbaum, what with the logic and all.
See the flying of my give-fuckage below.
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Now more winged.
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Double dipping will cause you to go blind, thor.
O! (noes)
Clearly.
All day long my efforts are just efforts, wholly unsymbolized by anything. Hey I think I’ll go see what hot chocolate tastes like if you make it with green tea.
Feets
Used iced tea and choc syrup w/vanilla ice cream for float a couple a days ago. Worked pretty good.
Karl, don’ t me odia porque soy hermoso.
– Feets, I think we can all agree Obamarama is no chocolate cupcake….Well maybe symbolically….So the changiness may only be symbolic, after all you still have to do busibess in Washington, but its the thought that counts.
~Q~ (New and improved – Now with angel wings and a tail!)
#21: I agree. And he is a chocolate cupcake (but one of those $8 jobs from Cake Love or Sugar Sweet Sunshine).
Florida Ave. Cake Love?
I had some green tea ice cream at a Korean restaurant once. It was pretty good, actually.
Oh, and I think the guy’s name is actually Burton Cummings. The Guess Who was just the name of the band.
Those guys were Canadian, though, so why are they lobbying in Puerto Rico?
– Lisa, you dream girl….If they sell sugartits they have my vote…
~O~
Holy shit. Barry’s got a white preacher to distance himself from now. The clapping and cheering is telling, damning even. How long until O! renounces Trinity altogether?
– This election cycle has taken on the aura of a Monty Python dead Parrot pet store movie, or maybe a Gene Wilder flic, along the lines of space balls.
– At this rate, by novmber they may put on an election and everyone will be so burned out no one will be interested enough to vote anymore.
~McO!~ II (The sequel)
Hmm. Lessee.
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Does that work?
Regards,
Ric
Hmm. Nope. Still strips the spaces. Maybe this way:
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O/
Regards,
Ric
Rats.
#23: The one and only!! Mmmmm. Good stuff. They have them all over now.
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Air Force O!
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Less glider, more bird.
A-Go!
“Guess Who has a lobbyist running his campaign in Puerto Rico?”
McCain , again?
– I hate to break this to you sashalass, but McCain isn’t running in Puerto Rico.
– Sorry. Hate to dent your hopyness.