Obama to Break Promise, Opt Out of Public Financing for General Election

OB is now president and i was reading through this but from keeping up with all the politics i feel OB is a dreamer not a do-er. Lets see if he is just a good talker or not

Wow that trash that I am reading in these comments. "We don't know who Barack Obama is" because three books is not enough. OMG he broke his promise to not except tax payer money to finance his campaign, the horror. "Palin is more experienced than Barack Obama." Sure so is my four year old little sister. This on cracks me up. More experienced because she was city mayor of 7,000 people? Rookie governor of Alaska population 670,000? Columbus Ohio has a greater population. You really want four more years of Bush? McCain is no maverick. If he was he would not have chosen an inexperienced hack to be his running mate. You can't see the publicity stunt? If he was a maverick he would have asked Joe Lieberman to be on his ticket or one of the countless republican women that have better qualifications than Palin.

Obama is not "sharp". He is very charismatic and "slick". So are many people who are sociopaths and serial killers. People should vote for someone who has character and experience, not just charisma. This is a Presidential election, not a high school popularity contest...we are not voting on the Homecoming King. Furthermore, people say that Palin does not have enough experience to be president. So what? She is not running for president. But, Obabma is and he has much less experience that Palin. He has only served as a senator. And, he has missed 23% of his voting opportunities in the senate meetings since 2005. Missing in action 23% of the time in just under 3 years is not a very good track record. Most people would be fired for that! Vote for someone who wants to serve others, not just himself. Vote McCain!

"Obama on the other hand is sharp as Bill Clinton ... "
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If Clinton were on a Demerol drip with a mess o' marbles in his mouth, maybe.

Seems that a lot of people supporting BO,are his campaign workers, who are assigned to rebuttle, comments on the internet made against Obomination. BO,cannot be trusted because he consistently lies and goes back on his words. He seems to do and say anything to win the election, no matter what it takes. That is called desperation. There are a lot of hard working people who do not want high taxes, because BO wants a lot of Government handouts, for people who don't want to really work hard and make it own their own, like most of us. They are young and imatured have no idea on living on their own, making their own way in this world. They feel that the GOv. and their parents owe them a living, shame on those young people who want these handouts. So they are out there clinging to their false illusion about Borak.

Barak Obama broke what is known as a campaign promise. It is a promise and when you are running for President of the most powerful country on earth, who and what you agree to support has huge implications and consequences. This wasn't some little postcard in the mail, this is a massive issue.

Wake up Democrats! You are being sold the same way Republicans were sold Bush. With pressure tactics to vote along party lines, just because. Or "he's better than the other guy".

Obama represents a dictatorship because you don't even know what you are voting for. A huge unknown. And Obama wants it that way. Because then he has unrestricted power. He doesn't have to do what he said, because A. he rarely says anything specific and B. he can just 'change his mind' and the sheep will believe the wolf. He has been given every opportunity to give specifics and has been urged with many, many questions and yet, he gives the vaguest of answers. Obama is taking a page straight out of Dubya's playbook, the page on dodging accountability.

Obama sold out his congregation, his pastor, and now Common Cause and the American People.

It's not that Obama doesn't need funding, he does he would just rather not touch the public pot because then he would be subject to disclosure laws about who gives to his campaign and how much.

It's massive spin (and totally untrue) to say he is doing it to save the American people money. At best he is gambling that he will make more money (though the money won't be clean or he could get it in addition to the public fund) by private (dirty) means than by accepting into a legit system.

The system is in place to entice candidates to run a clean campaign. If Obama had character, he would stick to his campaign promise, regardless of what McCain does. His words to McCain were simply a bluff to "appear" better than McCain. He isn't fooling me. Truth be told he is a dirty politician like the bunch, but a sociopath as well.

The Obama camp loves to make statements and say 'vote Obama, we can always go back.' Which is very misleading and false, it's a pressure tactic. Can we go back on 8 years of Bush? Never. Things are much different then they were 8 years ago. 9-11, Iraq war, huge losses of life both American and other nationalities. These people can't come back. EPA has been gutted of the knowledgeable and unbiased Scientists (i.e. the deck has been stacked with "Yes" men and Neocons). Environmental protections have been rolled back and there is drilling in Alaska's last wilderness (public owned land, mind you) in a huge unprecedented way. In a similar way to the Environmental Protection Agency, new laws, staff and Supreme Court justices actions will last long into the future and dictate policy for years to come. On every possibly front, Life in the USA has been permanently altered.

Even attempted changes to this lasting impact (i.e. fanatics urging you to vote Obama) are impacted by Bush's policy, because voters tend to over-react and swing for some other ideas just because they 'might be' different. Different can actually mean worse.

Obama's Rev knows him better than anyone and he said"Obama will say what a politian has to say" Enough said.

Hey! Do you think Barack would be interested in a new bumper sticker I am having made up: CHANGE....IF CONVENIENT FOR ME. Hell, I will even split the proceeds with him.

When John McCain speaks he sounds tired. Its like he has trouble getting the energy to talk. If Joe is not around he is lost in corrective speech help. Can you emagine John McCain and Joe Lieberman running the white house. Please lets not be Republican for Republican sack. Lets vote Obama this time we can always go back.

We don't have the luxury for John McCain to be sleeping in meetings like Ronald Reagan. We have to much work to do after the Bush regime of criminal treators. John McCain is unstable, and will increase the hatred for this country, if elected. I can tell you with absolute accuracy this man will lead us to a nuclear war. Why would you vote for this Bush like prisoner of war sell out. He may have some good qualities, but not president.

I see the hired Obama bloggers are out tonight all over the blogs trying to defend their flip-flopper. Obama more than once supported public financing. He even talked about it on his web site until it was erased off the other day. He has changed his mind on 3 issues just this week, public financing, NAFTA and the FISA. He starts to feel a little pressure and he throws out the race card.

McCain is currently on sleeping pills. Common side effect of sleeping pills is amnesia (short term memory loss). We have an on going sluaghter in Iraq. He remembers nothing...gosh something is going on but I do not rememeber.
Obama on the other hand is sharp as Bill Clinton, the most loved American president of modern political era. McCain is an old fart whose speech is a lullaby. McCain is trying to curb the anger by taking sleeping / anti-anxiety pills...but watch his fowl mouth starting to stink...in few short weeks after July 4th

Obama never "promised" anything.It is amazing to me how people will latch onto others words and represent them as fact. Answering "yes" on a Common Cause questionaire with a follow up elaboration of the answer with conditions does not a promise make. It became clear to Obama that McCain had every intention of gaming the system (including borrowing money by using public financing as collateral). It is about time a Democrat doesn't cave into the hypocritical rantings of the Republicans. Go get 'em Barack!

Obama did not broke a promise especially since he didn't make one. And I see nothing wrong if he doesn't want to go ahead with public financing at least thats one thing we are glad about he is looking out for our interest at heart imagine when he becomes elected..

He didn't break a promise. He answered yes to the question " "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?"

McCain did not agree to a publicly financed campaign, Barak's campaign tried to get him to do so and he would not. So Barak isn't taking public financing either, just as he said he wouldn't if his opponent didn't either. How can anyone call that a lie? He did exactly what he said he would do.

Just another warning bell that Obama is not "change" at all. He lies, changes his position and does whatever is politically expedient. If that isn't "politics as usual," I don't know what is.

Hey Maeine , You said Nobama needs to fight the 527, You mean like the stuff MOVEON.org and its TV spots going after Mccain. The teamsters are also making ads that benifit Nobama. I would say its a pretty much a special interest group.

Like they say a man is as good as his word...And Obama has shown time and times over he is not a man of his word..

Why does Obama assume that all women are pro-choice? Many are very pro-life, many women are anti-welfare, anti-gun control and pro-military. A lot of American women want closed borders and don’t like NAFTA one little bit. A lot of women want to send illegal aliens back home and certainly don’t want to provide medical care for them at taxpayer expense. I am insulted that Sen. Obama has such a simplistic opinion of my wife, daughter and other women in my family.

Sorry Senator, women are multi-faceted, and I like them that way. Each is unique. Not all women want abortions, not all men watch football, not all black people draw welfare and go to prison, not all whites belong to the KKK. Not all Californians are surfers and not all Texans own cattle and oil wells. Not all Indians live in a tee-pee full of whiskey bottles. Your stereotyping would be funny in stand up comedy, not in a serious context.