Breaking promises and not even POTUS yet
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Breaking promises and not even POTUS yet
| Wed, 10-29-2008 - 7:42am |
Commentary: Obama breaks promise on campaign finance





Campbell Brown
CNN
CNN
Editor's note: Campbell Brown anchors CNN's "Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull" at 8 p.m. ET Mondays through Fridays. She delivered this commentary during the "Cutting through the Bull" segment of Tuesday night's broadcast.

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I absolutely agree. It's your life, your health, your money do with it as you wish. That's
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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM
Well I am still mystified that anyone would give money to someone who asked all the "little guys" to send money to pay off Hillary Clinton's campaign debt.
But to each his own.
Yeah, maybe it's healthier to eat at home and no one's saying that people need giant homes.
Isn't it scary though that some people think it's ok for the government to tell you how to spend your money? Or to limit how much money someone can have? It sends chills up my spine.
An inspiration for a new government program ... new kitchens for all? If it's healthier to eat at home than it must be the government's job to see that everyone has an up to date kitchen to prepare the healthier food. Why should only the rich get those islands in the middle?
Edited 10/29/2008 1:00 pm ET by postreply
perhaps enough land for organic gardens?
and what happens to all owners and employess of the places that will close?
Or maybe we can just do away with restaurants and lattes altogether!
oh wait...what will the "elite latte sipping liberals" do? (I jest, I jest. I love lattes).
That last part's important, because it's the main basis upon which John McCain's campaign rests the (false) charge that Obama "promised to accept" public financing. Politifact continues:
And finally (after a fair amount more), Politifact concludes (relevant passages given added emphasis):
So, according to PolitiFact, Obama is NOT "breaking promises," as you (and John McCain) allege. The lack of a formal agreement between the candidates obviates Obama's adherence to the strict letter of using only the existing system of public financing. However, even beyond that, Obama's campaign is - arguably - actually still well within the spirit of the goal of public-financed campaigns. Since the real goal of both the existing system of public financing and the dreams and schemes of most public-financing die-hards who want to change or expand what already exists is simply to level the playing field and to reduce the toxic influence of large amounts of high-dollar contributions from wealthy interests with favors they want granted or at least listened to in Washington. Obama has built a grassroots volunteer and donor movement the like of which - literally - has never been seen in modern politics, here or anywhere else. And, because the average contribution to Obama's campaign is still well under $200, it's not at all incorrect to say that Obama has - quite independently of John McCain - achieved the first truly viable "publicly-funded" campaign, in the truest sense of the word: the people, the individuals who want him elected are the ones powering his campaign with such large (collective, not individual) sums of cash. Three million individual donors can tend to have that effect.
McCain LOST???
"sense of entitlement that THE LEFT is so full of???"
You're kidding, right? Who just proposed a few weeks ago that we MUST immediately give the Treasury Secretary seven hundred billion dollars, without review, so he can give it to the banks who feel entitled to remain in business despite blowing it big-time?
McCain LOST???
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