Barack Decides that He Doesn’t Need All His Heartfelt Principles
Barack Obama, on public financing of his campaign, November, 2007: ““If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.”
Barack Obama, after raising $100 million dollars, today: “We’ve made the decision not to participate in the public-financing system for the general election. This means we’ll be forgoing more than $80 million in public funds during the final months of this election.”
His reasoning? John McCain is letting all those mean 527 groups spread “smears and attacks”. I want to see which group he’s talking about, keeping in mind that he’d publicly repudiated two such ads, one of which came from a local state Republican party and didn’t address Obama’s campaign at all.
That little prevarication is almost beside the point, though. The real point is obvious: Barack Obama’s all about the public campaign finance and staying within the system only if he doesn’t have a ton of money in the bank already. He’s not going to handicap his campaign based on some silly little principle or a campaign promise.
Hope and Change and all.
(via Jennifer Rubin)
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Category: The Obamessiah
Every time I hear the Obamatons complaining about the Republicans' 527s, the only one that comes to their mind is the Swift-boat group. That was 4 years ago for Pete's sake. They barely damaged Kerry – mostly it was just preaching to the choir. Seriously, how many Dems do they think switched & voted for Bush because of those ad's? Everything was still nearly half & half, just like it was in 2000.
This year is so much different….what, with the Repub's candidate being a Democrat and the Dem's candidate being a faux messiah and all.
[...] broke his promise to try really, really hard to make his campaign a publicly-funded affair, I noted that he invoked largely non-existent Republican 527 groups to justify himself. These are the bete noire of Democrats (even though they use them to the tune of hundreds of [...]