Sen. Obama spoke in New Mexico last week about his commitment to equal pay:

“Mr. McCain is an honorable man, we respect his service. But when you look at our records and our plans on issues that matter to working women, the choice could not be clearer,” Obama told the audience in New Mexico, a voter-swing state. “It starts with equal pay. Sixty-two percent of working women in America earn half or more than of their family’s income. But women still earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in 2008. You’d think that Washington would be united it its determination to fight for equal pay.”

Yet on average women working on Obamas staff earned an average of $6000 less annually than their male counterparts. From Cybercast News Service:

On average, women working in Obama’s Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That’s according to data calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. Of the five people in Obama’s Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one — Obama’s administrative manager — was a woman.

The average pay for the 33 men on Obama’s staff (who earned more than $23,000, the lowest annual salary paid for non-intern employees) was $59,207. The average pay for the 31 women on Obama’s staff who earned more than $23,000 per year was $48,729.91. (The average pay for all 36 male employees on Obama’s staff was $55,962; and the average pay for all 31 female employees was $48,729. The report indicated that Obama had only one paid intern during the period, who was a male.)

This really would start being funny if it weren’t about the man running to be the next president. The lack of honesty and character from Obama is just mind numbing. What exactly are his followers seeing in him? What has he done besides spout “HOPE” and “CHANGE”. I have talked to many Obamabots and not one can name any actual legislation that he has sponsored and/or written. Last week FISA was evil incarnate, now it’s not so bad to them. Last week public financing was great, now it is broken. Get real!