The Washington Post has an excellent piece today on Barack Obama’s bundlers — fundraisers who solicit multiple donations from a range of donors, and then combine those donations into much larger lump sums. The Post says there are 79 bundlers who raised more than $200,000 each — for a minimum of $15.8 million from the creme de la creme of Obama’s fundraisers. The Post identifies just a handful of the bundlers, but you have to be concerned that one of Obama’s chief foreign and defense policy advisers — Anthony Lake — is also a top fundraiser. Are Lake’s donors influencing policy? There’s no way to know. For perspective, it’s good to take a look at thisPost story from just about a year ago. It makes clear that long before Obama found a way to raise unprecedented sums from small donors, he had already lined up a stable of well-connected fixers with deep pockets to raise the cash he needed: