Crossing My Fingers

I've got my fingers crossed that Obama will actually do the things he promised in his campaign...like be a different type of politician. I got some encouragement from an article in the Huffington Post today. Obama has laid down the following rules for his transition team.

• Federal Lobbyists cannot contribute financially to the transition.
• Federal lobbyists are prohibited from any lobbying during their work with the transition.
• If someone has lobbied in the last 12 months, they are prohibited from working in the fields of policy on which they lobbied.
• If someone becomes a lobbyist after working on the transition, they are prohibited from lobbying the Administration for 12 months on matters on which they worked.
• A gift ban that is aggressive in reducing the influence of special interests.

I am cautiously optimistic.