Remember Obama's promise: "no lobbyists will work in my White House."

Now comes Tom Donilon, Obama's new National Security Adviser. Not only doesn't he have any foreign policy background prior to coming to the Obama administration, but it turns out that he also was a lobbyist.

He was a registered lobbyist from 1999 through 2005, and his sole client was Fannie Mae. ... His brother is Michael C. Donilon, a counselor to Vice President Joseph R. Biden. His wife, Cathy Russell, is Jill Biden's chief of staff. . . .