MrBubbles said:
akuma, you can say that all you want.. hes allowing them to help to try and level the playing field... so it becomes fair. because one candidate thought he could just buy the election.
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Why is it fair? He purposefully limited himself to public financing to separate himself politically from Obama, yet he has gone behind the American public's back and essentially taken their money unethically. In reality he has stolen from the American public, both you and me.
When you claim to be a reformer, drafted one of the largest campaign finance reform bills in history, and run on reforming Washington fundraising, this is nothing short of flagrant hypocrisy.
Yes, Obama did say he was interested in public financing as well, but that was never an issue he based his campaign around. It is normal in politics for politicians to change their mind (regular people change their minds all the times, why shouldn't politicians be able to change their positions on an issue). People don't care if you haven't defined yourself on that issue, like Obama becoming more comfortable with nuclear energy and offshore drilling.
It is a completely different thing to base your campaign on an issue, but then turn your back on that issue by your actions while still claiming you support that issue.
It would be like McCain appointing a justice who said he would uphold Roe v. Wade when he ran on a campaign saying he would overturn Roe v. Wade. It would upset a lot of people who found that issue important, especially because McCain claimed during his campaign that it was an important issue to him.
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