"Will Someone Please Vet These Facts Before I Eat My Foot?"

How embarrassing.

Barack Obama promised the other day in Unity, New Hampshire that one of his presidency's top priorities would be to ensure that women would get "equal pay for equal work." Now the junior senator might have to issue a broad mea culpa. Or something else.

During a campaign stop in New Mexico recently, Mr. Obama told supporters

"McCain is an honorable man... but when you look at our records and our plans on issues that matter to working women, the choice could not be clearer. It starts with equal pay."

Now the Cybercast News service, citing a report from the US Senate secretary, reports that Mr. Obama actually pays his women staffers less than his male staffers, while Mr. McCain actually has more women on his staff than Mr. Obama and pays them more than his male staffers.

Check out the Cybercast report here (it includes a link to the Senate report). It should make for an interesting discussion over lunch with your coworkers. Unfortunately, the report does not spell out the other half of the equation -- "for equal work" -- so Mr. Obama should be able to rather easily save face (unless, of course, his staff finds out).

Hell hath no fury, Mr. Obama ...

Peace.

BG