Playing Popular Seasonal Pastime, Obama Flip Flops on Finance
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According to AP, “Though it opens him to charges of hypocrisy,” the Obama campaign is going for the big bucks and has joined those he claims have “become masters at gaming this broken system.”
Because he can, and only because he can, Obama is dropping out of the public finance system he believes in so strongly. McCain will remain in and limit his campaign expenditures whereas Obama can spend all he can raise, which has been proven to exceed that of any prior candidate for president, in any party.
But “they understand that issues of campaign finance do not rank high in most voters’ minds.”
So, it’s all good then. Accurate charges of hypocrisy will not get any traction, and traction is what counts, not promises. Read more about the turnaround in the Hartford Courant.
Comment by richard cochrane on 20 June 2008:
On no less than 31 different occasions Barack Obama has ranted and railed against unlimited campaign spending criticizing for not doing what he signed a pledge to do - accept campaign spending limits. This hypocrisy is number two THIS WEEK after kicking MUSLIM women out of his TV shot on Monday in Detroit then calling to blame it on someone else. Dual fescenninities in less than one week.