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	<title>Comments on: President Loophole</title>
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	<description>by James Richardson</description>
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		<title>By: Brian Prince</title>
		<link>http://skepticians.com/2009/02/president-barack-loophole-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-458</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Prince</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t say with any certainty that this administration has done anything worse than any of the others.

Certainly the President, having found himself in his high-back chair, now realizes the reality that is the Oval Office... and realizes that some of his sundry promises may well not be satiable -- nor will the conservative&#039;s appetite for his blood.

There&#039;s no doubt that Obama promised change... there&#039;s no doubt that he promised stricter regulations on lobbyists... and there&#039;s no doubt that -- while he didn&#039;t live up to the most lofty of his promise, he&#039;s made it more of a challenge.

Whereas Obama has authorized certain exceptions -- for previous administrations, we find that the exception(s) may well have been the lobbyists denied access instead of those to whom it was granted.

So he has over a dozen exceptions.  Any student of the law (Mr. Richardson), must be well versed in the exceptions and technicalities -- it is there, after-all... that we find our favorite hang-out:  The Loophole.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t say with any certainty that this administration has done anything worse than any of the others.</p>
<p>Certainly the President, having found himself in his high-back chair, now realizes the reality that is the Oval Office&#8230; and realizes that some of his sundry promises may well not be satiable &#8212; nor will the conservative&#8217;s appetite for his blood.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that Obama promised change&#8230; there&#8217;s no doubt that he promised stricter regulations on lobbyists&#8230; and there&#8217;s no doubt that &#8212; while he didn&#8217;t live up to the most lofty of his promise, he&#8217;s made it more of a challenge.</p>
<p>Whereas Obama has authorized certain exceptions &#8212; for previous administrations, we find that the exception(s) may well have been the lobbyists denied access instead of those to whom it was granted.</p>
<p>So he has over a dozen exceptions.  Any student of the law (Mr. Richardson), must be well versed in the exceptions and technicalities &#8212; it is there, after-all&#8230; that we find our favorite hang-out:  The Loophole.</p>
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		<title>By: President Barack “Loophole” Obama — But As For Me</title>
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		<dc:creator>President Barack “Loophole” Obama — But As For Me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] *Cross-posted at Skepticians.com* [...]</description>
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		<title>By: The Supermajority</title>
		<link>http://skepticians.com/2009/02/president-barack-loophole-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-437</link>
		<dc:creator>The Supermajority</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Obama&#8217;s Growing Army of Lobbyists...&lt;/strong&gt;


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		<title>By: President Barack &#8220;Loophole&#8221; Obama - Jrichardson&#8217;s blog - RedState</title>
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		<dc:creator>President Barack &#8220;Loophole&#8221; Obama - Jrichardson&#8217;s blog - RedState</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;From Skepticians&lt;/em&gt;: Wasting no time, President Obama began quickly overturning standing Bush executive orders in an effort to end nearly a decade of, what President Obama called on the campaign trail, “Bush cronyism.” Among his first moves were orders to freeze senior White House staffer’s pay and to toughen ethics and lobbying rules. As White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is fond of saying, Barack Obama has instituted the strictest ethics policy in the history of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Unfortunately for those voters who took Obama at his word, “strict” has an increasingly loose definition for the Obama-campaign-staffer-turned-White-House-spokesmen and his boss. ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>From Skepticians</em>: Wasting no time, President Obama began quickly overturning standing Bush executive orders in an effort to end nearly a decade of, what President Obama called on the campaign trail, “Bush cronyism.” Among his first moves were orders to freeze senior White House staffer’s pay and to toughen ethics and lobbying rules. As White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is fond of saying, Barack Obama has instituted the strictest ethics policy in the history of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Unfortunately for those voters who took Obama at his word, “strict” has an increasingly loose definition for the Obama-campaign-staffer-turned-White-House-spokesmen and his boss. &#8230;</p>
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