It has been very pronounced the last few days, if you have been reading my posts.
"In a shift, Obama rejects public funding" by Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff | June 20, 2008
"John McCain confirmed later yesterday that he will take $84.1 million in taxpayer funding for the general election, and accused Obama of reneging on a pledge to do the same. "He has completely reversed himself and gone back, not on his word to me, but the commitment he made to the American people," McCain told reporters....
And your word on OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING and the BUSH TAX CUTS, sir?
Never mind TORTURE!
Yeah, that's what I thought, MSM and McCain!!
McCain's campaign called Obama "just another typical politician who will do and say whatever is most expedient" and said his "reversal of his promise to participate in the public-finance system undermines his call for a new type of politics."
A longtime advocate for campaign finance reform, McCain qualified for public matching funds during the nomination phase but withdrew from the system and accepted no money. That move is now being challenged by the Democratic National Committee, which says McCain used the matching-fund certification to help secure a bank loan that kept his then-struggling campaign afloat. The Arizona senator filed a report yesterday showing he raised $21.5 million in May, his best fund-raising month of the campaign.
Obama's campaign has repeatedly demonstrated an ability to raise millions in small-dollar donations in a matter of hours over the Internet, almost at will....
Funny how the MSM mostly denigrated and ignored Ron Paul's ability to do that.
And with all that dough, who has bought Obama off?
Public support for the system has steadily eroded - only 9 percent of taxpayers in the country voluntarily contributed $3 of their income taxes to the presidential campaign fund in 2005, the last year for which data is available. In 1980, about 29 percent checked off a contribution to the fund on their tax returns. The fund's current balance is $170.7 million, according to the Federal Election Commission....
That's because we are TIRED of PAYING FOR EVERYTHING!!!
The WAR just got $162 BILLION for crying out loud!!
How much of the tab is the American public supposed to fork over for God's sake?
Obama's campaign boasts that nearly half of its more than 3 million contributions were $25 or less, and 91 percent were $100 or less....
55 percent of the more than $265 million Obama's campaign raised through April 30 came from individuals who gave more than $200 and nearly 30 percent of the total was from contributors who gave the maximum, $2,300. Much of the big-donor money was from typical sources with interests in Washington.
And there is the CHANGE you are going to get!
While Obama will be the first major party nominee to forgo public financing in the general election campaign since the system started in 1976 after the Watergate scandal, the trend away from the campaign finance reforms has become clear in recent elections. In 2000, George W. Bush became the first nominee of either party to bypass matching funds during the nomination process, but accepted public funds in the general election. Four years later, both major party nominees, Bush and Democrat John F. Kerry, declined matching funds before their nominations, but each took taxpayer money for the general election campaign.
During the nomination process this year, none of the major Republican candidates for president took matching funds (McCain was certified to receive $5.8 million but did not take the money) and only one of the top three Democrats, John Edwards, took public funding. Clinton indicated from the outset that she would also pass up public funds if she won the Democratic nomination.
The national party committees and outside advocacy groups have exploited the seams of campaign finance laws and regulations to supplement the spending of the candidates' campaigns through so-called independent expenditures and issues ads. In 2004, the parties and independent groups spent more than $500 million to help Bush and Kerry, with the Democrat the bigger beneficiary.
Many of the most active groups this election have Democratic sympathies, but Obama has asked his supporters not to contribute to them. McCain's campaign lawyer said yesterday that McCain also discourages his backers from donating to outside groups, whose support he does not seek."Oh, and just in case you didn't get the point:
Changing viewpoints for the Ill. senator
Incredible.
So when you guys gonna call the "Straight-Talking Express" on all his back-tracking about-faces?
