You work as a lobbyist for a few months or a year and you're stuck with the label for the rest of your life. That's why I'll never be one, I wouldn't want anyone to think I had ulterior motives for making friends. Every member of congress has a few friends who work or have worked as lobbyists, McCain happens to have many since he's been in congress for so long. Biden probably has just as many lobbyist friends. Obama isn't likely to have made friends with many of them in the past four years, so maybe he's above their influence, but that also means he doesn't know how the beltway really works, either. Whether McCain or Obama get elected, former lobbyists will fill a few cabinet positions, so neither camp is above reproach on this matter.
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