Clinton Goes After Obama Over General Election Campaign Financing Plans
Saturday: Barack Obama addresses Wisconsin Democratic Party dinner in Milwaukee.
By Major Garrett
Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Sunday accused Barack Obama of “flip-flopping” on the use of public financing in the general election campaign, claiming he has abandoned an earlier “unequivocal” pledge from a year ago to do use public funds.
Obama said last year he would accept public financing in the general election if his Republican rival agreed to as well. Obama said the pledge was necessary to minimize the role of special interest financing in presidential elections. His posture — unique among the field of Democrats at the time — won plaudits from campaign finance reform groups and some editorial pages.
This week Obama’s campaign said it was reviewing its options on the public financing question in the general.
“Senator Obama does not have a long record in public life,” Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson said. “He is asking voter to judge him on his rhetoric and promises. He pledged to take public financing. He’s going back on that pledge, he’s broken that pledge. And he has a history and pattern of saying one thing and doing another.”
Clinton deputy communications director Phil Singer called Obama’s equivocation on public financing a “broken promise” that would have “consequences in the general election.”
“The Republicans will go out of their way to question his credibility,” Singer said. “Breaking that pledge provides the Republican Party a significant piece of ammunition.”
Bill Burton, national spokesman for Obama, said in response: “We don’t need any lectures from the Clinton campaign on special interest money when her campaign has accepted more money from lobbyists than any other candidate in this cycle.”
Obama’s campaign has refused to accept any political action committee donations in his bid for the White House, but accepted them for his leadership political action committee, a fund that has doled out more than $333,000 in contributions to 46 members of Congress who are also superdelegates.
Burton said Obama will decide on the question of public financing at a later date.
“If and when we’re the nominee, we’ll pursue it (the question of public financing) then,” Burton said.
Wolfson did not say Clinton, if she became the party’s nominee, would accept the $85 million in public financing and the cap on campaign expenditures that comes with it.
“He took a different position and he won accolades for it,” Wolfson instead said of Obama’s public financing pledge. “It was beneficial to his campaign at the time he did it. There may be lots of excuses now, but the truth is he’s gone back on it.”
Singer said Obama’s “squirreling away from the pledge,” looks like “a pretty big flip-flop to me.”
Wolfson said the “pattern” of shifting Obama positions includes once embracing a single-payer health care system in a 2003 speech before the AFL-CIO and saying he once favored the repeal of the Patriot Act but voted for the redrafted bill when it came up for reauthorization.
I agree wake up people. It’s better to know the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.
Obama’s church and pasteur said 9/11 was a wake up call for Whites and Obama agreed with that!
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obamas-pastor-called-911-wake-up-call-from-people-of-color
Obama’s Flag Issues
By admin
This guy is really starting to weird me out. The more I see of him, the less American he looks. Check out the latest from the local Fox outlet here in my home city of Houston.
It will be interesting to see how he’ll (Obama) react (if at all) to the flag hanging in one of his new campaign offices in Houston, Texas.
Yep, that’s right — that is the national flag of Cuba hanging on the wall with none other than Che Guevara superimposed on it.
That a person running for president would display the flag of a foreign power, any foreign power, in his campaign offices is unthinkable. For that person to display the flag of Cuba, our long time Communist enemy, is beyond belief. To take it one step further and past the face of a (albeit dead) socialist and anti-American revolutionary is unforgivable!
Yet this is not the first such issue we have had with Obama. Remember he is already refuses to wear the common lapel pin of the US Flag, and refuses to place his hand over his heart during the American National Anthem. This guy is a nut-job at best, and it would be the height of stupidity to elect him! At best he is, as STACLU puts it, an empty suit, at worst his is an attach on the American way of life.
this is getting really good hillary and her staff just slinging things against the wall that is obama hoping something sticks and these women voting for her from wisconsin? you wouldn’t be a member of the elect hillary wisconsin campaign would you and where did you see her speak today? she cancelled all but 1 of her stops. learn people, as democrats we screamed of how unfair the 2000/2004 elections were, but now hillary followers want a win at any cost, no matter how dirty she has to get. its just sad that the democratic party would stoop to the level they fought in the past eight years.
Dear Sirs:
The question becomes, who gave how much money to the candidates? The Clintions have received so much dirty money in the past, that it ridiculous for them to even mention someone doing a “flip flop.” The Clinton house is too dirty to throw trash at anyone!
Thanks for the time.
Not to trustworthy!
http://caosblog.com/7245
http://therightperspectivepodcastblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/larry-sinclair-interview-excerpt.html
The Dem’s are pulling back their long hidden “white sheet” to reveal their true racism as the Clintons boast of their “sure win”.
Talking about the general election financing…does that mean that the Clinton’s have conceded to Obama?
I understand McCain harping and attacking Oboma, he knows he can beat Hilliary Clinton. Her negatives are just too high…people are not going to vote for her.
ALERT! Is this who you want as your NEXT PRESIDENT???
http://therightperspectivepodcastblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/larry-sinclair-interview-excerpt.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwog6E08CFU&feature=related
WAKE UP PEOPLE BEFORE IS TOOO LATE!
And Mrs. Clinton said that she would stand by the DNC decision to forbid Florida and Michigan to seat delegates, that her husband wasn’t a lieing, cheating, womanizing, child molester, that she would finish out her entire term if re elected in New York state and that she has so much experience. Could this be a case of a nasty, crass, white harpy calling the very bright and exciting kettle black? Geez, forget, Bubba and her major supporter,the governor of Pennsylvia, all ready did that.
Wow. Look at these comments. Why is everyone so eager to give Obama a pass? What could it possible be? He flat out lied, and it’s the scrutiny of the lie that draws the venom. Just wow. We are totally screwed ’till the next impeachment.
If I had to choose between Hilary and Mr. Obama I would choose Mr. Obama. Hilary is an extremely dangerous person obsessed with power and personal gain and will stop at nothing to get it. There have been strong elected women leaders in the free world with Golda Mier and Margaret Thatcher as recent examples. Hilary is not worthy to even mention their names or even that of the fascist Eva Peron. Hilary is just plain evil.