http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/obama-to-break.html
- - - "We've made the decision not to participate in the public financing system for the general election," Obama says in the video, blaming it on the need to combat Republicans, saying "we face opponents who've become masters at gaming this broken system. John McCain's campaign and the Republican National Committee are fueled by contributions from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs. And we've already seen that he's not going to stop the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations." ... In November 2007, Obama answered "Yes" to Common Cause when asked "If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?" Obama wrote: "In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public financing system in the 2008 election. My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fundraising truce, return excess money from donors, and stay within the public financing system for the general election. My proposal followed announcements by some presidential candidates that they would forgo public financing so they could raise unlimited funds in the general election. The Federal Election Commission ruled the proposal legal, and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has already pledged to accept this fundraising pledge. If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election." Not so "aggressively," according to the McCain campaign, which argues that Obama did not discuss this or try to negotiate at all with the McCain campaign, despite writing that he would "aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election." - - - This of course despite the fact that Obama is already crushing McCain at campaign fundraising. It's actually in McCain's interest to accept public funding and restrict Obama by the limits thereof. The Republican party is broken beyond repair this year, with a broken nominee that hasn't the foggiest idea how to run a national campaign, it turns out. So the "Republican juggernaut" bugaboo should be a patent absurdity to even the wildest-eyed Dem supporter of the Obamessiah--whose backtracking on this promise they will no doubt praise as righteous and holy. And when it comes to 527's--the Left has mastered this particular form of "reform" hocus-pocus. Just ask George Soros, who has contributed a lot more the $1000 to affect the US election. Winning is apparently more important than principles, after all. So, anybody out there who thinks Obama is Hot Stuff starting to see the reality pierce through the veil yet? - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
