Obama breaks first major promise. . .
June 20, 2008
Our prayers may have been answered yesterday. Obama, who had previously promised to utilize public funds for his presidential campaign, has changed his mind and decided not to be covered by the rules and regulations that govern publicly financed campaigns. Obama will be the first presidential candidate since Nixon to forgo the limits and rules that accompany public campaign funding reform.
Obama now suggests, “the public financing of presidential elections as it exists today is broken, and we face opponents who’ve become masters at gaming this broken system.” Obama would have us believe that the system broke sometime in March, the last time he publicly promised to use public funds and be bound by the rules and regulations their use entails.
Why is this good news? The good news for Americans is that our next president is looking a lot more like a run-of-the-mill politician. He doesn’t necessarily believe all of the things he is saying. He likely won’t follow the energy policy that he has promoted on the campaign trail (clean coal), and will instead take more money from Excelon to support development of more nuclear power plants. So just as Bill Clinton wasn’t as bad as we feared, I suspect Obama won’t be the crazy left-wing liberal he claims to be. Just a middle of the road sell-out like McCain and the rest of the lot in Washington. Do I sound too bitter?
Programming Note: I am only writing about politicis on Fridays. So if you don’t like my political posts, tune out on Friday. Of course I may break my promise…
