Jeanne Cummings has written this Pit Boss column for the Politico. It begins: “Donning the white hats of campaign finance reformers, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama are positioning themselves as the presidential candidates least likely to be bossed around by special interests if they win the Oval Office. But the reality of presidential-level fundraising is driving both camps into the arms of the very lobbyists who are the agents of those interests.”