Yeah, Never mind about that…

April 10th, 2008 at 10:43am Geoff

As The Washington Post reported two months ago, there was a time in this campaign when Sen. Barack Obama “unequivocally” pledged that should his opponent in the general election accept public funding for his campaign he would accept it as well.

That was then, this is now. Speaking before a $2,300 per person fundraiser for his campaign today, Sen. Obama effectively reneged on that pledge. In an attempt to justify his duplicity, the senator said that “We have created a parallel public financing system where the American people decide if they want to support a campaign they can get on the Internet and finance it, and they will have as much access and influence over the course and direction of our campaign that has traditionally been reserved for the wealthy and the powerful.” As Jim Geraghty wrote today, “If this is ‘public’, then every other candidate who has ever run for office has used a ‘parallel public financing system’ too.”

In reality, anyone not swooning in Sen. Obama’s wake can recognize his lame excuse for the blatant spin and duplicity that it is, and it only goes to further betray him as the typical and calculating politician he is, not the political child in swaddling clothes he would like voters to think him to be. A promise made has become a promise discarded when it has turned out be profitable to do so, and those paying attention are only made witness to the further disparity between Barack Obama the man and Barack Obama the myth.

If anything, it is Sen. McCain who is the non-politician in this race. He is the one prepared to accept public financing in this election and he is the one who has, as K pointed out in an earlier post, abstained from false attacks like the “100 year war” kind we have heard on multiple occasions from Sen. Obama. All we have in Sen. Obama is a typical politician who is amply talented and skilled in convincing voters that he is not a typical politician. It is an eloquent and inspiring charade, but a charade nonetheless.

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