Kevin Rudd brings in Barack Obama big guns for Federal Election campaign Kevin Rudd will be taking advice from Barack Obama's strategists going into the Federal Election. THE Coalition has jumped on the Labor Party's hiring of three ex-Obama campaign staff to help Kevin Rudd win the election, saying they should have looked to employ Australians first. Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison told News Corp Australia the Prime Minister was hypocritical for making changes to secure jobs for Australians first under the 457 visa scheme in the Parliament, yet employing overseas workers to help him win the election. "Rudd's first act in the Parliament as PM was to endorse Julia Gillard's attack on skilled workers by pushing through Labor's 457 choking bill," Mr Morrison said. Now Rudd has shown the same hypocrisy by rushing to import foreign campaign consultants. It is clearly one rule for Labor and another for everyone else - do as I say not as I do. Tom McMahon, the former executive director of the Democratic National Committee, Joon Kim of the consulting firm New Partners, and British social media expert, Matthew McGregor, will be part of Kevin Rudd's election campaign team, Fairfax reports. All worked on Barack Obama's election campaign last year and were pivotal in driving his social media campaign. Julia Gillard's former communications director John McTernan, who worked for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, welcomed the hiring of Team Obama. "Team Rudd have achieved a great thing in getting Team Obama over," Mr McTernan told News Corp Australia. Tom McMahon and Mark McGregor are two of the best people in the world at what they do. This will be the social media election so Labor are right in bringing in the big guns. Mr McTernan was hired on a 457 visa which caused much controversy for Ms Gillard. It is not yet certain if Mr McMahon, Mr Kim and Mr McGregor are here on 457 visas. ALP National Secretary George Wright has not returned News Corp Australia's request for comment.