Obama Breaks His Word, Again [Bumped.]
By c17wife Posted in Archived | Obamafiles — Comments (33) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
[Promoted from blogs, with the permalink added. I look forward with some interest to seeing May's fundraising totals tomorrow, as well as June's - this announcement at least suggests that he has had excellent months for both. - Moe Lane]
This morning, Jake Tapper is reporting that Barack Obama will go back on his word and opt out of the public financing system for the general election.
Here is his rich reasoning-
"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 Republican 527s and other outside groups."
I'm just not sure what to say about this. I shouldn't be shocked, but somehow it does shock me to see how a candidate for POTUS can be so vapid, and yet still lead in every major poll currently.
Does Barack think we are stupid, or are we just stupid? Time will tell, I guess.
I am very depressed about the future and am perilously close to full blown anxiety here. It just seems so simple. How can we even be considering letting this man have the keys to the WH? How? How? How? Why? Why? Why?
Read it all here-
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/
UPDATE-You know, for someone that was supposed to bring a new tone to Washington and run a different type of campaign, he looks more and more just like the same-o same-o. Could it be that our old geezer, Washington insider is the one that is truly doing things different and better? Yep, it is. Hopefully the general public will awaken from their Obacoma before it is too late.
over on The Corner.
The title alone is priceless, fit for an ad, if you ask me.
"All Obama Promises Have Expiration Dates"
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He hasn't kept his word anywhere else.
His backers are however, going after McCain because they say he committed and then backed out.
BTW, c17wife, I'll be out your way in eight more days! Guten Tag :-)
public financing....it shall be very easy to do a commercial asking what is Obama lying about next? This is not just a flip-flop ad this would be an ad that calls him a bald faced liar to the American people!
Freedom of Religion NOT Freedom from Religion
I share it. But having witnessed the 1992 election, I'm a bit more sober about our fellow citizens.
On the other hand, I am worried with Obama up 4-5, but given history, he should be comfortably over 10 points now. I think it more likely than not that McCain will win by 5.
Barack Obama: The most inexperienced, far-left candidate the Democratic Party has ever dared to nominate to be our President.
I sat on the couch in my pajamas and cried as I watched Bubba sworn in on that dark January morning in 1993.
The stakes are so much higher now than they were then. And for all Bubba's faults, at least he wasn't a Marxist.
We must keep Obama from the WH. Amd we must ensure that he can never try to acheive his goal of POTUS ever again.
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Judging from past elections, Obama should be way up right now. At this point, Dukakis was up 17 points. Besides generic Democrat beats generic Republican by like 15 points, but Obama is only up by four points according to the latest Fox news poll--he should be up way higher considering how much free (and glowing press) that he has received. Not to mention, wasn't Hillary Clinton's endorsement supposed to give him a "unity bounce"? Obviously, what this shows, is that there is a strong resistance to him, personally, in the Democratic party, as well as in the general electorate. McCain's doing fine. Besides, Obama has already flip-flopped on so many things (NAFTA, campaign finance reform, "Iran is a tiny country"/ now it's a "grave threat"), that I think that McCain will crush him in the debates. Oh, and I'm sure that another one of Obama's unsavory friends will rear his head before the GE is all over with. In the end, I think that this election might be McCain's to lose.
BO will not have to be confronted by Tim Russert's series of clips of BO contradicting himself on issue after issue (don't forget about the undivided/divided Jerusalem). I remember watching Fred on MTP and the video clips contrasting Fred ten-plus years ago and his current views. BO will not have to worry about all these "policy changes" ruining his Sunday mornings. Face it, if the choice was spending Sunday morning with either Tim Russert or Jeremiah Wright, who would you pick?
And how does pumping more oil not add to supply? Did these Dems miss Basic Math?
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McGovern lost in a landslide cause he was too far left.
But, compare McGovern, McCain, and Obama. Obama is so extremely far left and anti-American that when you compare the three of them, McGovern actually has more similarities to McCain.
As young men, both McGovern and McCain risked their lives defending America by flying their planes through flak-filled enemy skies.
Neither McGovern nor McCain went to a church for 20 years where the preaching included "God Damn America".
I think McGovern was mistaken on many issues, but I don't question his patriotism. Well, Obama is another story - he chose to go to that church, and if a person goes to a church like that there's plenty of reason to question his patriotism.
I have had this horrible pain in my neck and back. For a while I could not figure it out. I know it is tension but things at work and home have been going well....what could it be?
It is BHO and if he wins his socialized medicine better cover my chiropractors, massage therapists and acupuncturists....
It will all be free right? I mean is he still going to take care of me...or will he only take care of liberals?
MelZ
My favorite passage on something I read this AM was that part of the reason is because the GOP was taking cash from lobbysists. Its really tough to feel for someone who takes a self imposed pledge to not do something and then uses it as an excuse to do something else.
Any chance this was the plan from day 1 after McCain secured the nomination knowing full well he was taking public financing no matter what?
"Cowards cut and run, Marines never do"
It was because the hateful GOP would try to use their hatred of Muslims to foment their hatred of Obama (the first black major party nominee).
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Obama's guiding principle: "I reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks."
in our voting public. McCain should win this by 7 points for the sheer fact that Obama is a Marxist radical. But I look at the fact that there are 230+ D's in the House and a D majority in the Senate and it worries me that so many people can be duped over and over again.
Jindal in 2012!
1976 was miserable. 1992 was pretty bad too. I remain cautiously optimistic that we can pick up a few seats in the House, lose only a handful of seats in the Senate, and win the presidency.
Barack Obama: The most inexperienced, far-left candidate the Democratic Party has ever dared to nominate to be our President.
The problem is, he's going to get off scot free for this, too. Sigh. I guess I can't friggin' say I'm surprised. If McCain had the support from his base that Obama has with the Democrat party, then I'd be first in line to tell McCain to shove it right back in Obama's face. But now McCain has justifiable reason not to fight with one hand tied behind his back, too.
esp if he is elected.
Our best hope that he not be elected is for him to keep running his leftist mouth as Americans gaze upon POSTED PUMP PRICES!
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He has an update to his post and a couple of other good ones. Political Punch is becoming a must read for me.
Oh, and Geraghty is right, Jake Tapper is most definitely an army of one over at ABC.
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I would have put more into it.
I think my head just swelled a bit.
Who'd a thunk it from...
Just a typical, small town, British-American girl...
Georgia
I find it interesting that Obama changes positions yet again. He complains about the 527s smearing him. He was supposed to be above these tactics. How about the ad from MoveOn. org running on CNN and MSNBC about the mother holding baby and telling John McCain he can't have her son for the 100 year war in Iraq. The untruthfulness of the Obama campaign is appalling. I hope the American people will wake up and decide that Obama is too dangerous for our great nation.
Any complaining about him breaking his word on public financing is easily overshadowed by the fact that he's opting out to take advantage of the fact his has a huge base of small donors giving him money.
He's already opted out of accepting donations from lobbyists. So now he's decided to also not take public financing and instead rely purely on donors.
Any other campaign cycle in the last decade the GOP would be ecstatic over this news. But this cycle because McCain's funding raising seems to be so anaemic his campaign will try to make an issue out of it.
To me it seems disingenuous on the part of GOP. What we're talking about is Obama not taking a big fat check from the government/lobbyists and instead opting to take only privately raised funds from supporters. Shouldn't that be the ideal almost "free market" way to fund a campaign?
Why is this NOT a good deal for Barack Obama and us Tax payers that he doesn't want to use Tax payers money to run for office?
If Obama declines to feed at the public trough for his campaign, why is that NOT a good thing, as long as special interests are NOT funding his campaign?
And has that NOT being the case, since a VAST majority of his campaign money comes from little folks donating a few dollars at a time on the internet?
It sounds to me like John McCain, and others who are taking Obama to task for refusing to limit himself to public money are DEATHLY AFRAID of what his fundraising PROWESS will do to them in the campaign money chase.
Give me a break, already!
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see right.
Frankly, we've known that you've been planning to do it for some time anyway.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
And you see no problem with his earlier commitment to use public funding as the way all elections should be run?
has stated many times he will not be criticized on foreign policy.,personal afiliations,and anything else that may come up in this election. Now the messiah has spoken. So what,are we just suppose to Shut-up?
we are. Because if we question him on anything, we are racist.
Jindal in 2012!
They never properly vetted him during the primaries, now they don't know what's he's accomplished ? Wasn't it obvious that his rhetoric never matched his actions?
Remember George Allen's "Macaca" moment ? Well, welcome to the "Macaca" Campaign......it's that embarrassing :(
That warrants a glorious 5. A magnificent 5. A million 5s.
And next time you post it, put your two posters and then the picture of Obama ejaculating roses. Just for me. It would go nicely with trivial objects becoming deadly projectiles.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
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No, *we* are not. The mental midgets who are actually supporting him are the stupid ones.
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* - How ironic is it that I'd borrow from an elitist to criticize the party of the Elitist candidate?
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