Just some more of that patented Hope and Change that the Messiah touts. Behold his parallel public financing system, in which small donors reign:

Last fall, Barack Obama quietly slipped into the Miami headquarters of a major law firm scarred by the scandals of Jack Abramoff, its once-powerful Washington lobbyist who now sits in jail.

Arriving a little after 10 a.m. on Oct. 1, Obama spent the next three hours schmoozing, speaking in a video conference to branch offices and raising money at Greenberg Traurig, a billion-dollar firm with one of the biggest lobby shops here.

Obama has now raised about $125,000 from Greenberg Traurig employees — nearly half of it at the time of the event — more than from any of the other top law and lobby firms.

Symbolically, it was a starkly contradictory event: an appearance by the candidate who crusades most adamantly against lobbyists at the onetime firm of the poster child for out-of-control influence peddling.

Public anger over the Abramoff lobbying scandal led Obama to institute the ban on lobbyist money in the first place, an aide said last year.

It should be noted that both McCain and Clinton have received money, in fact more than Obama has, from Greenberg. However: A) They don’t run on a platform of small donors, B) In the overall picture, Obama has received $13.8 million from legal firms and lobbyists, while Hillary has received $15.7 and John McCain took $4.2 million. It seems that Mr. Hope and Change has take ~3x more from lobbyists than McCain — a far different picture than the Messiah likes to paint.