Bush indulges the rich, Obama says

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), a presidential candidate, accused the Bush administration of pandering to the wealthy and creating “a second gilded age” that ignores working families.

In a speech at a Cedar Rapids school named for President Theodore Roosevelt, Obama cited Roosevelt in calling for ethical changes in government. He said he would ban aides who worked in his administration from dealing with issues involving former employers, and from lobbying for two years after they left the administration.