I guess Obama lied

Our President said during the campaign that he would not hire anyone who'd worked as a lobbyist in the last two years and that he would fully vet all candidates for office to ensure there would be no corruption in his White House. Admirable, if a little naive (which I stated at the time). Nonetheless, he has sense made 2 exceptions to the lobbyist rule, which he refused to answer questions about, instead choosing to lecture the journalist who asked the question. In addition, one of his picks dropped out because he is now under investigation by a grand jury. Another, who has since been confirmed, had to pay back taxes for making "mistakes" over several years. I said at the time that someone who can't properly do their taxes should not be running the Treasury Department and I stand by that, even though he was confirmed. Now, come to find out that Tom Daschle also has trouble with his taxes. While tax issues don't really matter in running the Department of Health and Human Services, assuming they were in fact a mistake, Daschle has been working for a lobbying firm for the past 2 years in the Health Industry. While he is not a registered lobbyist, thereby avoiding the lobbyist in the last two years according to the letter of the law, this isn't really within the spirit of what Obama said during the campaign, is it? At any rate, I pointed out on this blog during the campaign that Obama tended to find himself in connection with various persons of questionable integrity and nobody seemed to care. So, should we really be surprised that he has, in fact, hired several people who were lobbyists in the last two years and that several other of his nominees have actually had legitimate legal issues? I continue to question the judgment of our current President in whom he chooses to associate with based on the people he's chosen to be cabinet members. I guess we'll just have to see.