Barack Obama Lies Again, Backs Out Of Public Financing
Barack Obama is not who he pretends to be.
Obama originally portrayed himself as a uniter, then it was revealed that his spiritual mentor, friend, and campaign committee member Jeremiah Wright was a seething racist.
Obama said that he supports earmark reform. Then he released a huge list of earmarks that he requested, including such gifts as $1 million for his wife’s employer right after she got a $200,000 raise in salary and an $8 million request for a company linked to one of his biggest donors.
He spoke out against special interests and the wealthy while he took millions of dollars from rich liberals and corporate executives, not to mention his crooked real estate deal with Tony Rezko which provided him a direct $300,000 financial benefit.
Obama wrote letters urging grants of taxpayer dollars to his financial backers on several occasions in the past all while speaking out against the very activities he was engaging in.
Now Barack Obama is backing out of his pledge to take public financing and the spending limits they entail.
Why? Because Barack Obama is raising millions from the wealthy and special interests and he doesn’t want to have to forgoe that money. That’s why.
Barack Obama is the exact opposite of everything he has pretended to be. What’s worse, look at the reasoning he gave in his announcement.
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. 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.
Oh, and the Democratic Party isn’t going to do the same? The DFL is not going to take union member dues and use that money to run ads full of lies and smears? Absolutely they will.
It’s a shame that Barack Obama reneged on his promise to purse an agreement with his opponent to accept public financing. It’s a disgrace the way Obama is spinning the true reason for his decision by pinning the blame on Republicans.
I cannot understand how any thinking human being can support such a hypocritical, lying fraud like Barack Hussein Obama. The man is a total and complete empty suit. Without his speech writers and teleprompters he cannot even put together a coherent thought.
I would love to hear Obama explain in his own words how raising taxes on income and investment during an economic downturn and taking money out of the economy is going to create jobs.