Obama promised to participate in the public funding process for his campaign should he get the nomination. His purpose in making the promise was to lay claim to an “even playing field” where the campaigns would be limited to a maximum amount of spending.
But now that he realizes that by breaking that promise he can outspend McCain by a 4 to 1 margin (at least) he sees no sense in keeping such a stupid promise.
Welcome to the “new” politics. Sure smells a lot like the “old” politics to me.
ABC News: Obama: The $500 Million Dollar Man?
Sen. Barack Obama’s decision to forgo public financing for his presidential campaign clears the way for him to outspend Sen. John McCain by 3-to-1 or substantially more in the general election, a financial edge that dramatically rewrites the playbooks for both candidates.
I used to think that Bill Clinton had been the ultimate in having a public image that was completely at odds with his private personality, but Obama makes Clinton look like a piker. Obama is as calculating, as sneaky, and opportunistic, and possibly as corrupt as any politician I’ve ever seen, and he continues to dance through the media with this image of a “new” sort of politics.
Even this story says he “seems” to have broken a promise. I am pretty sure they would not have put such a weasel word in front of a McCain broken promise…
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI have consistently been befuddled by the public’s willingness to blind itself to who Obama is. I mean, it really isn’t hard to see if you look. He’s a politican. He wanted to be one from a young age and followed the path necessary to become one.
It confounds me as much as the public’s love affair with Bill and Edwin Edwards.
Just confounds me.
Cosmic: BarackO’s decision to decline public funding is a good thing for several reasons.
First of all, it exposes him as a liar as you pointed out. Not that the general public at large will ever know, or care. The minutiae of politics is only interesting to a small slice of the voting population.
Secondly, he has been pounding his theme of “change.” This is “change” alright in the way one conducts a Presidential campaign.
Thirdly, let’s say he raises $400 million more than McCain will have to spend. That is $400 million less that will be donated to Democrat congressional campaigns.
And last of all, when McCain beats Obama while being outspent 5 to 1, it will prove to the Dems how stupid they were to ever nominate an idiot like Barack Hussein Obama.
Cosmic: Oh yea, I left out the fact that it doesn’t hurt my feelings one bit that BarackO’ won’t get any of my tax money to run his circus.
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