Seems like every news item that comes out relating to Obama makes me proud to be a registered Democrat. While there has been a lot of rhetoric on the Hill concerning cleaning up Washington, it seems like not too much has happened. Well Senator Obama has taken a fantastic step in returning all of the campaign donations he received from lobbyists.

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has returned more than $50,000 in political contributions after discovering the donors were lobbyists.

Obama, who has pledged to change the ways of Washington, has repeatedly said he will not accept money from lobbyists or from special interest political action committees.

But as the campaign prepared to file its first quarter finance report to the Federal Election Commission, it also noted that it has given back $50,566 from 49 donors whom the campaign identified as lobbyists.

Overall, Obama raised $23.5 million for the primary and $25 million overall in the first three months of the year.

The Democratic party is showing a lot of promise for 2008. Between Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, and the potential of Al Gore running, I’d have a hard time choosing who to throw my support behind.

It makes me feel sorry for the redcoats. The flipfloppy devoid-of-integrity McCain? The 9/11 whore Giuliani? The also rather flipfloppy Mitt Romney? Who are they going to put on the ticket that won’t be an unmitigated disaster for their presidential chances? Doesn’t seem to be much in the field.