Saturday, June 21, 2008

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Candidate promises change and then changes its mind

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:29:54 PDT
Barack Obama broke his campaign finance pledge and announced that he will be opting out of the public financing system for the general election.

A Reformer's Progress - WSJ.com 6/20/08

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:38:46 PDT
So much moral good was expected from "campaign-finance reform" that Barack Obama's announcement yesterday that he will opt out of public financing for his Presidential run is an historic moment. Senator Obama is the first candidate since the law was passed in the 1970s not to take matching funds for the general election. Even candidate George W.