SubscribeObama Lied, Public Campaign Financing Dies
From our friend Jake Tapper at ABC News:
Obama to Break Promise, Opt Out of Public Financing for General Election
June 19, 2008
In a web video to supporters — "the people who built this movement from the bottom up" — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, announced this morning that he will not enter into the public financing system, despite a previous pledge to do so.
"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." …
Obama said, "I’m asking you to try to do something that’s never been done before. Declare our independence from a broken system, and run the type of campaign that reflects the grassroots values that have already changed our politics and brought us this far." …
What a charade.
The "grassroots values" that have brought him so far are Mr. George Soros and bundlers like Mr. Norman Hsu.
From the Washington Post:
Hsu Steered Major Fundraiser to Obama
Campaign Acknowledges Link to Democratic Donor Who Is Now Under Arrest
By Matthew Mosk and John Solomon
Saturday, September 8, 2007; A05Before becoming a major bundler for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, disgraced Democratic donor Norman Hsu helped host a 2005 California event for Barack Obama’s political action committee and introduced the senator from Illinois to one of the biggest fundraisers for his presidential bid.
Federal Election Commission records show that Hsu gave $5,000 to Obama’s Hopefund PAC in connection with the fundraiser and that people publicly identified with Hsu and his companies gave an additional $19,500 to the PAC in 2005 and 2006…
Gorenberg, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who oversaw California fundraising for Sen. John F. Kerry’s 2004 presidential bid, and other members of Obama’s national finance committee are committed to raising at least $250,000 each for the campaign.
Hsu said in a July interview with The Washington Post that although he has become a strong backer of Clinton, he had worked on Obama’s behalf and had connected Obama with Gorenberg. "I was the person who got him involved in Obama fundraising," Hsu said…
But Mr. Obama won’t have anything to do with the "broken system" of public financing. He’s far too pure for that.
It would seem that the more Obama promises change, the more things remain the same.
Still, in addition to all the other fine qualities we are discovering in Mr. Obama, we now know he is also a baldfaced liar.
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June 19th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Isn’t this just another flip-flop of the Obamanation? So he isn’t the messiah (of course we know that if he was the messiah - he could have/would have done all this Change while in the Illinois State Senate or while a (jr.) Senator in Congress. . .But he instead voted with the Dems and/or liberal 97% of the time -
So Obamanation isn’t different, isn’t a new kind of politician, and certainly isn’t the the bringer of change. He is simply a Typical Political Person and with a lot of what I’ve read and heard since he started running - a stupid Typical Political Person.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
The scary part is not that Obama is a lying, ignorant POS. The voters usually have a knack to sorting the bs-ers out, with a few notble exceptions, “Cold Cash Jefferson, Alcee Hastings, politicians from Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont, etc. The scariest thing here is that voters seem to be so star struck Obamamamama is forgiven any transgression. He can do no wrong and the drive-by media is complicit. Grease up. He’s our next President.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
The scary part is not that Obama is a lying, ignorant POS, although he is. The voters usually have a knack to sorting the bs-ers out, with a few notable exceptions, “Cold Cash Jefferson, Alcee Hastings, politicians from Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Vermont, etc. The scariest thing here is that voters seem to be so star struck Obamamamama is forgiven any transgression. He can do no wrong and the drive-by media are complicit. Grease up. He’s our next President.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
It really is quite amusing…
Liberal Senators on Parade !!!
Hell, it seems even McCain broke his own pathetic Campaign Finance Laws.
What amount of funding has AIRBUS given to the Liberal Maverick anyhow.
Obama is a typical Liberal Populist, but McCain seems just as tired.
The Conservatives in OUR Nation best get it together, and focus on taking back the Congress into GOP hands before it is too late.
Time to make history, before the USA is turned into another Nationalized Memory.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
In other words…
“This is not the Public Presidental Campaign Finance System I knew when I made that pledge.”
I think it’s time to start a website to detail and count the number of times Obama has reneged on a friendship, relationship, or promise over the course of his public life.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Is this another first for the Obama campaign? The first candidate to break a campaign promise even before being nominated? Bretheren and sisteren, we’re witnessing History in the Making.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
“Is this another first for the Obama campaign? The first candidate to break a campaign promise even before being nominated? Bretheren and sisteren, we’re witnessing History in the Making.”
Mr. Obama is also the first candidate in history to turn down public financing for the general election. That is, since it was begat after Watergate.
Bet our media watchdogs don’t mention that.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Watch his eyes before the first camera edit and see how he is reading the teleprompter. It isn’t quite as obvious after that, but watch those eyes……
June 19th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
This charlatan couldn’t string together that many sentences without reading from a script. He’s on a roll, though, and the smear campaign began with this piece. Talk about a master of deception. With this announcement, he’s DOING to McCain the very things he’s accusing McCain of doing. Too bad there are willing dupes who choose to believe him. In many ways, he’s slicker than WJC when reading a scripted message.
June 19th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
What makes you think the MSM is biased?
The deal is, if you sign up for the Chicago Tribune at one dollar a week, you can get one of the hats or teeshirts for free. And what’s on the teeshirt? Why “Obama” of course. It wasn’t the official campaign logo but it was his name splashed across the white cotton fabric. The only reason I noticed is because the woman called out to everyone entering the store saying they could get a free “Obama” teeshirt if they signed up for the Tribune.
http://my.barackobama.com/page.....ein/gG5nST
June 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Obama seems concerned that PACs and 527s who support McCain will slam him and tell all kinds of falsehoods about him so he has to have the money to fight them.
Just take a look the money from PACs that Obama has racked up:
http://opensecrets.org/pres08/.....dN00009638
Not to mention that the Soros MoveOn.org is a 527.
Obamaliar decided to not give up his triple digit millions he has received for $80 mil in federal funding. It is just that simple.
Will this hurt him? Nope, the MSM will continue to carry Obama’s water just as they always have.
The Obama campaign has proven one thing; that Americans have been dumbed down to the point where they are willing to accept Marxism because it is given a new name, “Progressiveness”. I advise all of you to read the Communist Manifesto and tell me which one of the points Obama DOESN’T agree with.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Also more info on the Obamanation/Obamamama at this site:
http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/
(The wtf is NOT the abreviation some might think).