“Is Barack Obama breaking a promise to the American people?”

Yes. But then he broke a promise when he said he wasn’t interested in running for president too. It’s good to be the Chosen One. He can equivocate, dissemble, tell outright lies about his opponent’s positions, and deflect legitimate criticism with the risible excuse that they’re “distractions”, yet a sycophantic press lets him get away with it each and every time.

Don’t know what’s particularly Hopey/Changey about being an old school political hack, but there you go.

Funny how Bill didn’t use the word “flip-flopper.” Just as David Gregory avoided using the word “gravitas” when he said that Obama needs Sam Nunn as VP.

Let’s not forget A CENTRIST and Go_Fish:

The only reason why Obama suggested such public funding was to keep lobbyist from controlling government with their money. He wanted reform in this area of campaigning.

Get the below through your HEADS and see the GOOD in the CHANGE:

< On the other hand, Obama has traveled a ways toward democratizing the
< system by raising money from so many people – more than 3 million
< donations from 1.5 million people, 91 percent of them under $100.

NOW THAT’S REFORM, WITH WE THE PEOPLE, THROUGH OBAMA’S VISION, SEEING THAT WE CAN CAUSE THIS REFORM OURSELVES!!!

Get over it. We do not want the old ways to remain in Washington, nor do we care to hear from you blind voters who can find no fault in with your beloved Republicans who have been disastrous to this country.

Sadly, Senator Obama’s decision to forego utilizing public funding for his campaign (of course McCain & company had to give that up a while ago) has as much to do with the 527’s as anything else.

Now if all of the knee-jerk extemists on both the left and right who claim they want clean elections (a dubious claim at best in most of their cases), they should be lobbying their Congressperson for real reform of elections and the removal of special interst PAC’s & 527’s from the process. I can see Mitch McConnell now “I have the right to accept as much money as I can from my good friends in Weapons, Insurance & Oil”….

Thanks D for pointing out another of Obama’s lies - that he doesn’t take lobbyist and corporate donations.

According to his own campaign finance records, Obama has taken in $222,309 from donors from Exxon, Shell, Chevron and other oil and gas companies. Two oil company CEOs have pledged to raise at least $50,000 each as part of Obama’s fundraising team. Obama also raised over $125,000 from Greenberg Traurig, one of DC’s biggest lobbying firms. If you’re unfamiliar with Greenberg Traurig, try Googling “Jack Abramoff”. Traurig was Abramoff’s employer.

For someone who claimed to be “the only candidate who isn’t taking a dime from Washington lobbyists,” why does his fundraising team include 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government? USA Today reported months ago that this team included 10 former federal lobbyists who have pledged to raise at least $3.5 million for Obama’s campaign.

There’s nothing reformist of visionary about wallowing in the same slime he criticises others for.

Go_Fish,

You are attempting to make a mountain out tiny little anthill.

And the numbers in dollars that you mention Go_Fish are anthills. Next time try placing the total amounts Obama have raised. How you Republicans HAVE A LOVE FOR DISTORTING!

Obama didn’t lie; he changed his mind after seeing how 91% of his campaign funds came from many individual voters, we the people!

Only a FOOL is not willing to change his mind when there is an out. Obama did not take an oath as to this is what he would do. It was what he said he would challenge McCain to do in order to keep lobby money from tainting the election process.

Obama’s campaign IS NOT tainted with lobbyist money.

McCain’s campaign is already very much tainted by lobbyist money.

A change of heart or mind is not a lie when that change is in the best interest of the people that he wants to serve and who is supporting him.

We, his supporters are more important than what McCain or any of his supporters think and want. We didn’t have a lot of money, but we are many in numbers. We gave what little we had because we believe in Obama’s ability as a leader to lead this country into change.

The landscape changed for Obama because we believed in him. He is proving what a great leader he is by his believing in us to continue to stand behind him and see to it that he succeed in all that he set out to do. We have his back and he has ours.

Now, that is teamwork and how we dare anyone to criticize it.

D.-as a senator for 2 years and presidential contender for one and half years, I find it surprising that you follow this “leader”. He has proven nothing as a leader except for being able to give great speeches. You obviously have not read the facts (which have been written in these blogs with substantial back up) on his ties to lobbyists.

I’m still trying to figue out what you want to change to? How has your life been so bad that you want to change it? Do you just hate the fact that we haven’t been attacked? Do you just hate being wiretapped as you called the middle east?

If Obama wants to continue to get his money elsewhere, I don’t care but am not surprised…since this isn’t the “change” he wants to be held accountable to.

Let’s clear up a slight misconception - I’m not a Republican. Never have been and likely never will be.

Obama flat out lied. You can accept his equivocation as simply “changing his mind” if you want, but don’t insult everyone else’s intelligence by pretending we should as well.

It doesn’t matter if he accepted $1 or $1 million - if he says he doesn’t accept donations from corporate and lobbyist donors but then goes ahead and cashes their checks, he’s a liar pure and simple. Obama’s up to his eyeballs in “tainted” money. Read his campaign finance reports if you don’t believe it. So’s McCain, but at least McCain is honest enough to admit it and doesn’t pander to voters with phoney populist appeals. You have to be a mindless partisan, disengenous, or both to dismiss such obvious hypocrisy.

I would accept a change of mind as a reason to forego public campaign financing if Obama or his apostles simply came out and explained why instead of issuing a series of equivocations and childish tu quoque rationalizations. Those aren’t qualities I expect in a politician who proclaims himself to be fresh and new. Lord knows why anyone else does.

“Is Barack Obama breaking a promise to the American people?”

While it may appear to be so, I am sure we are just misinterpreting it. Any day now Obamessiah will explain it all to us. Much like he did when he explained on numerous occasions how he didnt really know any of his past associates when their actions came to light (Wright, Ayers, Rezko).

Just add the American citizen to the list of those he has thrown under the bus. That list now includes Granny, Wright, Rezko, and You, the American citizen.

Logicprevails,

What is it that you think that you Republicans have done to keep us safe from terrorist?

Why do you not see if terrorist wanted us, we could easily be gotten?

Why is it that you Republicans are blind to the fact that it was morally wrong to invade Iraq?

I also believe everything in this below article:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/Iraq_dollar_vs_euro.html

I am not too happy with the direction that the Democrats have taken us in neither. But, You ask what has Obama done? That’s the beauty of Obama, so new, so fresh with a clean heart. We know that he is a wise and intelligent man. Usually, all it takes is one good leader who is willing to do the right things and, I feel that this fit Obama’s will and desire for this country.

Corruption, greed, and racism are the main problems facing this country. I must admit that I am seeing a wave of God’s anointing in this area. Hearts are changing. That’s a very good thing in America, to see so many people recognizing these things and wanting them to change. These things are about to bring this country into its destruction. We will be destroyed if we continue down the same path. This government is corrupt from the top all the way into every facet of even our local governments. A person’s heart would have to have been hardened to not see this, or really believe that all is well in America.

Furthermore, I am familiar with the things that you have stated in different posts, and the fact that you were a senator for two years and a Presidential contender for 1-1/2 yrs. Is proof of the pretty sick direction we have been in.